October 2009
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UK War on Drugs: why employ experts if you don't want their advice? -
IndependentZola's novels are more dangerous than video games -
SMH [via @GeordieGuy]Philip Roth on the future of the novel -
Guardian -
YouTubea cult, limited to "maybe more people than now read Latin poetry"
The Horribly Slow Murderer with the Extremely Inefficient Weapon -
YouTube [via @zeldman]an interview with neurobiologist Lesley Rogers -
Science [via Jesana Stone]I got to play with the new Kindle, thanks to @seancarmody -
Amazonan impressive device, but not open enough for me - at a minimum I'd need to be able to get PDFs on and off it without involving Amazon or proprietary software
parody of a museum exhibition: Lord It's the Samurai -
AA [via Frog in a Well]the Wilderness Society is a charity, but Aid/Watch isn't? -
Crikeytraditional Geocities design, done in CSS -
CSS Zen [via @zeldman]a fishtank has a much smaller eco-footprint than a dog -
Stuff [via /.]the BBC bowdlerizes Humpty Dumpty -
ABC [via @NewtonMark]the original score to 4'33" has been lost -
Wikithey're really going to shut-down Geocities -
ArchiveTeamyou'd think advertising would cover the costs of running it, maybe read-only
Brooksley Born tried to regulate derivatives -
PBS [video]how children lost the freedom to roam -
DailyMail [via @epacris71]American enterprise in Afghanistan in the 1950s -
BBC [via Chapati]starlings on Otmoor -
YouTube [via @epacris71]turning empty airplane seats into economy class "beds" -
SMHI'd pay $150 extra for this on a long-haul flight, for sure
Hungary creates ombudsman for future generations -
IdentityCampaigning [via @miriamlyons]and "any Ecuadorian citizen now has the right to bring a lawsuit on behalf of nature"
economic terrorism: destroying Palestinian olive trees -
Economistelectric cars are really coming, at least in Europe -
EconomistAustralian classification board wants to censor iPhone apps?! -
ITnews [via @NewtonMark]feminism has brought us a long way since 1963! -
NAA [via @seancarmody]will Australia's National Broadband Network increase Internet costs? -
BS [via @stilherrian]population growth is not the the problem -
Monbiot [via @marklauer]"It's time we had the guts to name the problem. It's not sex; it's money. It's not the poor; it's the rich."
gearing in the name of God -
SMHSydney's Anglicans lose $160 million; Archbishop won't own up to greed
blood sample from leech used to identify criminal -
ABC [via Link]for-profit education has not been a success -
CTand the idea that a university is just like any other business is just wrong
push or pull for asylum seekers coming to Australia? -
Crikey [via @seancarmody]better regulation of UK mortgages -
Telegraphbut "125pc mortgages" still aren't banned
Detroit's contribution to Allied victory in WWII -
Life [via @stilgherrian]the geography of US job gains/losses -
Tips [animation]there are a million empty homes in the UK -
Guardianthere are credit cards in the US with 80% interest rates! -
SanDiegoone way to get people to use the stairs instead of the escalator -
YouTubepink baby clothes and gender construction -
ModernMamais the financial sector a cancer on the real economy? -
HuffingtonPosttranslator Natasha Wimmer discusses Roberto Bolano -
CAtranslation [audio]Australia Post won't sell Nabokov, Nin, or Foucault?! -
Crikeyhundreds of other "mainstream shops" sell them without any problems
T-Mobile Sidekick users lose their personal data -
SFgatean illustration of the danger of having information locked in a proprietary system
Trafigura should be deregistered, its assets confiscated, and its directors prosecuted -
Guardianthe restoration of the Baphuon temple at Angkor -
CambodiaOnline(I've just been to a talk by architect Pascal Royere on this.)
it is possible to obfuscate Python if you try -
Pythonhow Japan's health care funding works -
PBS"cash waiting on the sidelines" is a bad argument for equities -
StubbornMulethe Australian government is still propping up the RMBS market -
Newsdesperately trying to stop a house price crash
no-money-down mortgages back in the UK?! -
Bloombergartificially sustaining debt levels and house prices can only last so long
Nepalese Maoists disapprove of Nobel Prize going to Mueller -
EconomicTimes [via CR]NSW Computer Crime unit recommends using a Linux liveCD for banking -
ITnews [via Link]FBI director won't bank online -
PCWorld [via /.]is the US dollar really going to implode? -
GEA"Somewhere, something is going to blow sky high, but from where I sit, it's as likely to be in the Yen, the Swiss Franc, the British Pound, or something no one is watching at all"
a floating house for New Orleans -
SFgatethe metro proposal for Sydney is just stupid -
EcoTransitIceland is still whaling?! -
Telegraphit seems like a bad time to annoy the rest of the world...
is California a failed state? -
Guardianthe war on cancer is not going well -
Fortune(this is from 2004, but not much has changed)
a history of English marriage (book review) -
TelegraphForestry Tasmania has gone feral -
SMH90+% of Australians support abortion, 57% on demand -
SMHthe complexity of the US mortgage system: MERS v Kansas -
CalculatedRiskan authorised sequel to the Winnie-the-Pooh books -
Guardianin Detroit, some families can't afford to bury the dead -
CNNand the county's budget to bury unclaimed bodies has run out
"we are certainly in a deflationary state" -
GlobeMailI've just ordered a $151 computer
Foxconn RS-233 case+PSU + Foxconn 45CS motherboard w/CPU + Kingston 1GB memory
UK cottage comes with two nuclear power plants -
RentedSpaces [via Patrick]Interdisciplinary Initiative to Reduce Pan-European Cormorant-Fisheries Conflicts -
INTERCAFEtyphoon Ketsana hammers Philippines, Vietnam -
MSNBCVatican says only 2%-5% of Catholic clergy sexually abuse children -
Guardianand most of them are teenagers, so it's not so bad (!!!)
how should savings be taxed? -
AusTreasury [via @JaneHadfield]photos of the world's oldest organisms -
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