September 2010

blocking access to child porn just keeps it online longer - AK Zensur [via @NewtonMark]

home-ownership and tax deductions: the US and Australia - Mule

China's real estate boom: demolishing new buildings - ZeroHedge

forget $2 stores, Japan has 10 yen stores! - Mish

much of the EU allows tax-deductible contributions for war crimes - EI

The Story of Smallpox - Angel of Death [my review]

why I'm keeping my hands out of the FIRE - housing bubbles in Australia and the UK

why not allow a conscience vote on marriage? - SMH

atheists know more about religion than believers do - Pew [via TTao]

I could have gone overseas to do a PhD, back in 1991 - the road not taken

Murray Bail's last novel - The Pages [my review]

Australian housing: bubble waiting for a prick - Unconventional

judge a book by page 99? - Guardian

the most hated man in Israel? - Independent

Toxie is dead - NPR [via TTao]

the pope is a public health problem - BadScience

Turkey: A Modern History [my review]

hunter-gatherer childcare a good model - SciDaily

conserving yam diversity - SciAm

Why We Need to Manage Financial Risk Differently - Plight of the Fortune Tellers [my review]

the urban transport future? CityCar - MIT

semen as wonderdrug - SciAm

photographs of harvest mice - Guardian

Oxford and Sydney - comparative utility costs

Monckton: "misleading", "profoundly wrong", and "simply false" - Guardian

propeller-drive warplanes are on the way back - Economist

Pollard for Israeli settlement concessions!? - Guardian

an Algerian detective novel - Dead Man's Share [my review]

increasing income inequality in the United States - Slate

the paradox of Cuban creativity - Science20 [via RW]

a retrospective on six years in Alice Springs - Elsewhere

blog post: thoughts on being - "Danny"

another reason for free software on mobile computers - SMH

meet the Lion Man - ratmmjess

Philip Pullman is really down on present-tense novels - Telegraph

I've finally finished my Mekong Delta + Angkor Wat travelogue - Vietnam/Cambodia 2009

termites are eusocial cockroach-bacteria symbioses - Bayes [via Cosma]

BHP boss calls for price on carbon - ABC

the law of two feet: Darwin meets Dilbert - OpenSource

the constitutional changes in Turkey - Informed

octopus sex video - Pharyngula

GPS typo-squatting - Age

Australia back to 99% and 105% housing loans... - News

ants protect acacia trees from elephants - Care [via @MargaretKinney]

UK hotels sue TripAdvisor over bad reviews - Independent

Salo now legal on DVD in Australia, but not in cinemas - SMH

many Japanese centenarians have been dead for decades - Guardian

Goldman Sachs says Australian housing is not in a speculative bubble - BusinessSpectator

it's getting harder for Australians to work in the UK - 1stContact

a trip last weekend - Uffington White Horse, Stonehenge, Avebury

racial analysis of dating profiles - OkCupid [via Janine]

six lives - Pioneers in Medicine and Their Impact on Tuberculosis [my review]

Playboy puts Madame Bovary on its front cover - Independent

the UK's tax system is a bit creaky - BBC

why is this my least popular review? - The Company of Ghosts

murder and/of/by language in Martinique - Solibo Magnificent [my review]

African invention - AfriGadget [via @karinab]

do cars have hair? - a classic car show at Blenheim Palace

Andrew Tridgell on patent defence - SWPat

I missed the Vintage Computer Festival - TNMOC

eat rabbit justice, hound - GotMedieval