August 2008
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Gustav pounds western Cuba -
ChinaDaily -
Wunder"Gustav is likely to be one of the five most damaging hurricanes in Cuban history. Fortunately, Cuba has a top-notch hurricane civil defense operation, and I'm confident they have gotten all of the population at risk out of harm's way."
Dubravka Ugresic on Radovan Karadzic -
SignSight [via CR]"I am not a monster, I am a writer!"
understanding coal is critical to understanding renewable energy -
YouTubecarbon sequestration projects are pretty much all vapourware
the world's first ever email spam was in 1978 -
Templetonsgeting digital media to last 25 years is a real problem -
SlashdotMohamed Choukri's novel -
For Bread Alone [review]a striking account of an underclass childhood and youth in Morocco
people are way too worried about terrorism -
SMHand the cost of most anti-terrorism measures vastly exceeds the benefits
the US health insurance system is totally broken -
Toledo [via Kos]no pull back on Israeli settlements in the West Bank -
Nationalthe Taliban maintain law and order right up to the outskirts of Kabul -
Guardianmy prediction: NATO and the US are going to end up leaving with a whimper
there's a dark chocolate boom in Australia -
SMHFrance is reviving old railway lines -
Guardianhands-free phones are not safe while driving -
SalonColorado's experience with renewable power -
WP [via Crikey]a nice introduction to using git for version control -
Stanfordmould is destroying old audio and video tapes -
GlobeMailGeorge Bush denies John McCain was tortured in Vietnam -
Sullivan [via Kos]a fight over Franz Kafka's papers -
IHTand a debate about how Jewish he was
there are ghostsigners as well as ghostwriters -
Guardianas predicted, Georgia's military infrastructure has been destroyed -
Guardian"The American 'train and equip' mission for the Georgian military is six years old. It has been destroyed in as many days."
Bjørn Lomborg's willful idiocy -
ThingsBreak [via Deltoid]elderly women in posh suburb fed 000s of rats -
LAweekly [via Barista]anti-virus software on voting machines?! -
xkcdwomen's gymnastics is child abuse -
NYT [via Kos]and one hell of a lot worse than being photographed naked for Art Monthly
GDP is not a good measure of national wealth -
Harpersa $1 house in Detroit takes 19 days to sell -
DetroitNewsa 15 minute lecture on Alfred Russel Wallace -
ABC [audio + transcript]an introduction to the BTC oil pipeline -
TimesBush administration plans to cripple Endangered Species Act -
CSMgovernment agencies would no longer need to seek scientific advice on projects
an illustrated explanation of the Kaminsky DNS exploit -
UnixWiz [via LWN]includes a good general introduction to DNS
an insider on how financial risk management failed -
EconomistJohn McCain is a warmonger -
YouTube [via Kos](this video uses a figure for Iraqi civilian casualties that's an order of magnitude too low)
US-style lending arrives in Turkey -
IHTthe Svalbard surface temperature record -
Wikipharmaceutical companies demand to be allowed to secretly bribe doctors -
Boston [via ProRev]"Masschussetts legislation would require them to report any payment or gift of more than $50 made to a healthcare professional"
ACM SIGOPS Review issue on Linux kernel -
ACM [via /.]1500 protesters faced nearly 1500 police at Kingsnorth power station -
Guardianit seems the Georgian gamble has failed -
FOE"the Russian military is sometimes disorganized and incompetent, but you can't consistently count on it"
E.M. Forster as middlebrow critic -
NYROBGeorgia and Russia are (unofficially) at war -
APGeorgia has launched "a major military offensive to retake the breakaway province of South Ossetia"
computer Go system beats 8-dan pro -
usgo [via /.]but it had a nine-stone handicap (and used 800 processors, 15 Teraflops)
London's Oyster travel card has been cracked -
Schneier -
Guardian"it's kindergarten cryptography. Anyone with any security experience would be embarrassed to put his name to the design"
CNN poll: 43% think the US should appropriate Iraq's oil -
Moneyand a further 33% think the US should steal some of it
an insight into domestic Iranian politics -
ICGAthe Majles confirms three of Ahmadinejad's ministerial appointments
on female prostitutes in science fiction -
AaruTuesday [via Stross]"If (# of Female Prostitutes) > (# of All Other Women), then [WTF?]"
Olympus/Panasonic announce a mirrorless interchangeable lens camera mount -
DPRthe EVIL camera has finally arrived!
author sells shares in book to public -
Telegraph [via CR]"investors can pay $2,000 in return for a 10 per cent share of the royalties of Tao Lin's as-yet-unfinished second novel"
America doesn't want to know anything about Iraq war films -
Barista -
Guardianthe Mahabharata could be turned into a never-ending soap opera -
Jabbersoftware bloat: Adobe Reader will get you addicted to coffee -
MicroPledge [via JWalk]360 year chart of inflation-adjusted house prices in Amsterdam -
NRCSolzhenitsyn has died -
SMHI've only read
August 1914, but there's a copy of
The First Circle in my "to read" pile
a gloomy perspective on Australian housing -
Bloomberg"Prices in the property market will fall 30% by 2010... Australia is headed for a once-in-100-year real-estate slump"
debating book imports in Australia again -
Australian [via CR]Cheney wanted to Tonkin Gulf the Straits of Hormuz -
ThinkProgressa tale of two Marys: how the NRA infiltrated the gun control movement -
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