Danny's Pathologically Polymathic: November 2008

the world's coolest data center? - Pingdom [via Stross]

it only costs $100 to have a woman killed in Basra - Guardian

Outlaws of the Marsh [review]

Krugman and Soros on "what needs to be done" - NYROB - NYROB

Apple's latest MacBooks are DRMed - Macworld

they won't play protected media to non-HDCP external displays

a Tolkienesque remapping of Australia - Strange

an analysis of the AFACT v iiNet copyright suit - NicSuzor

this case is going to be a very important test of the Australian Copyright Act

Soul of the Desert [review]

botanical and zoological paintings from the Australian deserts

IMF and other Nordic countries bail out Iceland - CNN

international expert attacks Australian Net censorship plan - ARNnet [via EFA]

pirates seize supertanker holding 2 million barrels of oil - Guardian

you can't hide something like this, but I guess no one is going to want to blow it up either...

the new Chinese practice of "human flesh search" - ChinaBeat [via referers]

TWiki is dead, long live NextWiki! - WikiRing [via LWN]

the subprime disaster is not the fault of the poor - Slate [via Laird]

the conservative attempts to blame lending to African Americans and minorities for a multi-trillion dollar disaster are obviously wrong, but this is a particularly nice counter to them

carpooling is illegal in Ontario?! - PickupPal

Development Economics [review]

"A parallel would be an analysis of 'non-productive' church-going in the United States as a coordination failure in achieving atheism"

South Korea owns up to its brutal past - SMH

the author of Liar's Poker on the current crash - Portfolio

the Free Software Foundation helps Wikipedia change license - LWN

the cost of shipping bulk cargo has dropped over 90% in two months - Independent

"there are perfectly creditworthy shippers and receivers unable to open perfectly standard letters of credit"

from the issue of July 8th 1916 - Economist

the Open University has abandoned its founding principles - Inquirer

forget about open standards, just support the most common proprietary software

does Australia have the riskiest economy in the world? - SMH

and can Nigeria really have the lowest risk economy?

an airport in the Thames estuary to replace Heathrow? - Times

The Road to Surfdom has closed - RtoS

coincidentally, I've just started reading Hayek's The Road to Serfdom

Much Sounding of Bugles: The Siege of Chitral, 1895 [review]

debating the merits of election cartograms - Cartogrammar

Kipling Stories [review]

the US murders another Afghan wedding party - AJ

some great US political illustrations - Drawger [via Kos]

Hong Kong braces as property follows the stock market down - MW

essays by Eric Hobsbawm - Uncommon People: Resistance, Rebellion, and Jazz [review]

The Anatomy of Fascism [review]

Björk on Iceland's economy and alumnium smelters - Times [via RW]

the US kills thirty people in airstrikes on Pakistan - News

New Zealand the best model for legalising prostitution? - Economist