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February 2009

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an eight-part report on rubbish - Economist
"nude" house sales in Italy - Bloomberg
aging sellers retain the right to live in the property until they die
Bayesian learning is a special case of evolutionary search - Cosma
The Financial Crisis and the Systemic Failure of Academic Economics - DebtDeflation [PDF, via Keen]
online literacy is different to deep reading ability - Chron
Iranian short stories by Hushang Golshiri - Black Parrot, Green Crow [review]
how a Cisco IOS/BGP bug and bad router code almost took down the Net - Renesys [via /.]
should filesystems be optimised for SSDs? - Thunk
Australian banks are slowly tightening home lending standards - Australian
CBA now insists borrowers have 3% saved, on top of government grants
some orthodox Jews consider any cross symbol at all anathema - Hz
Gordon Brown proposes banning 100% mortgages - Times
at least five years too late
filesystem optimisations for using SSDs on Linux - Thunk [via /.]
Germany and France may have to bail out entire countries - Bloomberg
update on supply routes to Afghanistan - MofA [via RW]
a billion dollar house?! - DailyMail
cars now have more software than aircraft?! - IEEE [via Stross]
obviously a Linux live CD, with development enviroment and debuggers, needs to be carried next to the jack and spare tyre...
Alison Des Forges, opponent of genocide - Economist
Swiss loans to Eastern Europe are coming undone? - CreditWritedowns
Nassim Nicholas Taleb - The Black Swan [review]
the end of the line for one bookshop? - 3%
"Shaman Drum Bookshop is around one hundred steps from the central campus of the University of Michigan"
Clive Hamilton is an idiot - ThinkOfTheChildren
the only argument for Internet censorship now is outright fantasy
health care reform proposals for Australia - Age
I'm willing to pay higher taxes to fund universal dental care
the Australian government funds Asian language learning - SMH
aims to double the number of students studying Chinese, Japanese, Indonesian or Korean to matriculation
a guide to Facebook privacy - AllFacebook [via Schneier]
Hindu fundamentalists attack Valentine's Day - ABC
an overview of last Saturday's bushfires, and some personal stories - Australian [via Barista] - Age
"Incredibly, by 6pm, no one within the war room had yet received any confirmation that lives had been lost."
a two-volume biography of Charles Darwin - Voyaging and The Power of Place [review]
a nice Icelandic house design - Inhabitat
DNA, Words and Models: Statistics of Exceptional Words [review]
Given a genome or part of a genome, how can we tell if a particular DNA sequence — a word — is unusual, occurs unusually often or rarely, or is distributed unusually?
death toll from Victorian fires approaches 200 - Age
I've been too horrified by this to blog about it before
judging books by their covers - judgeabook [via Bug]
economic theory fails to model real estate bubbles - SMH
mortgage backed securities finally have their ratings cut - HousingWire
which might help banks start trading them
boron is weird - ScienceDaily [via /.]
foreclosures are the cure, not the problem - WSJ
the past, present and future of e-books - ArsTechnica
multi-player online games are being sold illegally in Australia - SMH - massively
and these would probably be Refused Classification, which means access to the game servers could be blocked under Net censorship proposals!
photos and notes from a Kosciuszko trip - Round Mountain to Jagungal
NSW country towns try to stay alive by offering $1/week rents - ABC
what the Chinese army learned in Korea - Far
some great DNA animations - infosthetics [via RW]
Steven Keen on "the Cavaliers of Credit" - DebtDeflation
"Neoclassical economics—and especially that derived from Milton Friedman's pen—is mad, bad, and dangerous to know."

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