November 2009
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church steeples are derived from minarets -
Chapati
is the UK really in this bad a state? -
DailyMail
a cricket photographer talks about some of his best photos -
Cricinfo [via MichaelHidden]
Irish bishops complicit in child abuse under pressure to resign -
IrishTimeswhat about prosecution as accessories to crime? heck, what about declaring the Catholic Church a "proscribed organisation"?
building a cheap ($151 w/o disk) computer or smart NAS -
my notes
how one New York slum street was gentrified -
CNN
Comp Sci systems at Uni of NSW to be taken over by the borg -
ZDnet -
Lions Book
the Chinese garlic bubble -
Economist"prices in Jinxiang, China's garlic-growing capital, have seen a fortyfold increase since March"
a memoir of Cambodia and Vietnam at war -
River of Time [my review]
a different kind of real estate crash -
Mish
the US government wants Americans to help feed their neighbours -
Reutershow about fixing the social security system?
infographic on the risks of Swine Flu vaccination -
InfoIsBeautiful [via @GeordieGuy]
the Tour du Mont Blanc -
Wikipediaanyone want to join me for this sometime in mid-2010?
a whopping big crane falls over in Basel -
20min.ch [via @marklauer]
how to make Vietnamese coffee -
INeedCoffeeI never thought I'd like something that involved condensed milk so much!
I am on holiday in Vietnam and Cambodia - updates will resume in a few days
not all libertarians are delusional about climate change -
Mises [via Quiggin]
the Goldstone Report itself -
UNHRCthe full report is a 600 page, 6.5MB PDF, but there's a 25 page executive summary
Queensland might lose $7 billion from asset sales -
Quiggin"the short-term effect is to make the public worse off by around $300 million per year"
Orissa's tribal lands have been sold to mining companies -
Guardian [via RW]
I'm now very familiar with the Valsalva Manoeuvre -
Wikipedia
London joins Iceland as a Lonely Planet "best-value" destination -
SMH"Long ludicrously expensive, London has become much more affordable for visitors from abroad, if not for its residents"
truth and reconciliation in Cambodia -
Granta
anti-atheist diatribes, Catholic and Jewish -
SMH -
Age
the Nook looks good already; opened up it would be fantastic -
Perlow
Japan is facing a fiscal crisis -
Tele
now lenders are abandoning properties in the US -
Daytonthe US housing market has clearly failed completely at efficient allocation
CSIRO censors its scientists' journal publications -
ABC
Roubini on the risks of a sudden US dollar recovery -
FT
Sweden uses dead rabbits as heating fuel -
Local
Chinese fruit bats do fellatio -
LiveSci [via @MargaretKinney]
PhD comics has a run-in with UK immigration -
PHDcomics [via @neerav]should I tell them that I'm a book reviewer, or just be a dependent spouse?
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