July 2008
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a survey of work on language/culture/species evolution parallels -
PLOS
post-war Hungary tops hyperinflation table with 19 digit note -
Economist
Jorn defends/explains linkblogging -
RW2
Russia flexes its muscles across North Africa and the Middle East -
National
the 25 top-selling notebooks: 8 Linux, 6 XP, 6 Vista, 5 OS X -
Amazonsome of these Linux ultralights are tempting me... maybe an Acer Aspire One
background to a fanzine:
Interstellar Ramjet Scoop -
Barista
Hillsong evangelicals preach Barbiedom to public school girls -
SMH"Through skin care, natural make-up, hair care, nail care girls discover their value and created uniqueness"
Rio Tinto's iron ore negotiations with China -
SMH"Rio Tinto, with BHP behind it, has succeeded in fracturing the iron ore benchmark price system that has underpinned the development of the great steel mills of NE Asia and the mines of NW Australia."
why would anyone eat at McDonalds in Scandinavia? -
Economistactually, I don't know why anyone would eat at McDonalds anywhere
starving bears eat workers in Kamchatka -
Guardianpoachers have killed the salmon they usually feed on
NZ court renames child called "Talula Does the Hula From Hawaii" -
Guardian
managing climate change risk -
Age
bulldozers are weapons -
WP -
DemNowand (selective) collective punishment is all the rage
photos from Beerenberg, the world's northernmost volcano -
PBase [via DPR]
a new blog about leeches -
Bdellanea [via SUBW]
a real bug in qmail -
Guninski [from 2005]
why you should avoid the iPhone -
FSF
7:6 vote keeps Pier Paolo Pasolini's
Salo banned in Australia -
SMHnewspaper headline: "Sadistic sex movie ban" - OFLC officer: "Bowdler"
the NoToPope protest was good fun, with >1000 people -
NoToPopewe had everyone along, from a Buddhist priest to a member of the Worker-Communist Party of Iran (whether the WPI or the WPI-H I don't know)
I couldn't get over how so many pilgrims were carrying national flags, often literally wrapped in them - but then I remembered that these are ultra-conservative
"neocat" Catholics, many of whom will also be neo-fascists
tourists are part of the travel photography experience -
PhilG
the Ganges is a sewer -
EconomistIndia only treats 13% of its urban sewage
debate about Dan Kaminsky's DNS bug -
Matasano
fractal-looking boundaries in Baarle-Hertog -
BLDG [via Majik]
can Google choose what format to give Viacom its YouTube data in? -
TechCrunch
Red Hat is determined to make SELinux work -
LWN
an analysis of the Israel-Hizballah prisoner swap -
EI
the spammers are winning: CAPTCHAs no longer work -
CW [via /.]
interesting sounding movie,
The Fall -
Ebert
the US government cuts the value of a life by 11%, to $6.9m -
MSNBC [via MLite]that's an American life, of course, Iraqis are worth a few thousand dollars at most
rehabilitating the town of Vichy... -
Guardian... with an international conference on the "integration" of immigrants
using music as torture may incur royalty fees -
Guardiandoes the copyright industry have enough clout to get Guantanamo Bay closed?
2.66 metre cube micro-homes -
mch [via ProRev]
the Australian newspaper is still printing lies about climate change -
Deltoid
sold state drive write limits -
eeeuser [via LWN]"With the Eee PC SSD, a typical user (6 hours/day, 10% write rate) will write for 36 minutes per day resulting in a useful lifespan of ~25 years in my worst case below"
nasty attacks on free software package managers -
Arizona [via /.]a repository can not return a security update, then attack the systems that are known to need it
another university moves to Google email + apps -
ZDnetif Google can spend 5c to take $1 in revenue off Microsoft, it's probably worth it to them
collaborative gene annotation on Wikipedia -
PLOS
now Kevin Rudd tries to deny 11-year Olympia Nelson the right to speak -
ABC [via EFA]having middle-aged men denying young girls the right to speak is a recipe for more child abuse, not less
has Al-Jazeera softened on the Saudis? -
NonArabjust follow the advertising money
the use of rape in the ethnic cleansing of Palestine in 1948 -
NonArab
child model dissed by Kevin Rudd strikes back -
SkyNews -
ArtMonthly"I'm really, really offended by what Kevin Rudd had to say about this picture ... It is one of my favourites, if not my favourite photo, my mum has ever taken of me and she has taken so many photos of me."
UK supermarkets sell products from illegal West Bank settlements -
Guardian
is Sadr going to copy the IRA's strategy? -
Alternet
how Israel's apartheid laws cripple one family -
National
Miklos Szentkuthy sounds fascinating -
HLO [via CR] -
HungQuarter [interview]a Hungarian Proust or Joyce, as yet untranslated into German or English?
a brief comparison of three Aeneid translations -
Tele [via CR]my Latin was once good enough to read three books (II, IV, and XII), but not good enough to really appreciate them
a prize-winning journalist gets tortured in Gaza -
IPS
there's no proof that summer is warmer than winter -
Deltoidor so claims one global warming denialist
horses, cows, and dogs are the most dangerous animals in Australia -
SMH"Two people were killed when their cars struck emus, another person died after a vehicle struck a sheep, and an elderly person died after tripping over a pet cat."
Chinese tourists are about to start visiting Taiwan -
Reuters -
ET
lectures on open source development and digital information -
Berkeley [mp3s, via OSWALD]technical, economic, social and legal perspectives
Hushang Golshiri's novel about the Quajari lords of Isfahan -
The Prince [review]
a guide to the Tour de France -
PodiumCafe [via Kos]
gay rights have a long way to go in India -
Guardian
a history of women's history -
EMW
no one cares about black female soldiers -
Jezebel [via Ginmar]
150 years ago today, natural selection was announced -
Guardianneither Wallace nor Darwin were present, but Hooker and Lyell read their works at the Linnean Society
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