Danny's Pathologically Polymathic: November 2010

will Ireland sign up for bailout^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hdebt-servitude? - gonzalolira

my Oxford blog - so far, I'm enjoying the cold winter

Australia's last big property bubble ended in 1891 - DailyReckoning

the reviews on these $6,800 cables are a hoot - Amazon

the 20th translation of Madame Bovary into English - Guardian - Amazon - UK

how useful is finance? how much of the economy should it be? - NYer

some amazing electron microscope photos - MelodyMaker [via RW]

The Block: losing $60,000 and 8 weeks doing house renovations - Mule

thoughts on a gadget - the iPod Touch and mobile computing

has Ta Prohm really been renamed "Angelina Jolie Temple"? - Guardian - Ta Prohm

photos from a trip last month - an Edinburgh visit

toy ads and learning gender - FeministFrequency [via RoseanneB]

a narrowly financial view of economic risk is flawed - EconSpeak

An Introduction to Auction Theory [my review]

a depressing story about academic cheating - Chronicle - Schneier

"As long as the academic credential is worth more to a student than the knowledge gained in getting that credential, there will be an incentive to cheat."

Wolfgang Koeppen's novel of obsessive love - A Sad Affair [my review]

the origin of domestication of African rice - AncientFoods

climate change delusionism in Australia - ABC

Beijing air pollution has become "crazy bad" - Guardian

mortgage securitization made simple - Blogspot [image]

more on the twitter "bomb threat" case - TheLawyer

the Victorian Liberals preference Labour ahead of the Greens - NewMatilda

a review of The Social Network - Jabberwock

I enjoyed this film a lot more than I expected to

Bill Gates turns his attention to global warming - RollingStone

UK civil liberties are in a parlous state - Guardian

Antal Szerb's classic novel - Journey by Moonlight [my review]

the climate satellite A-Train - AIP [via RealClimate]

Celestial Encounters: The Origins of Chaos and Stability [my review]

Santa Claus is economically inefficient - PUP

obituary for Indian poet publisher Purushottama Lal - Economist

an alternative history thriller set in an industrialised Renaissance Florence - Pasquale's Angel [my review]

insects are food - Guardian

photos from Merapi's eruption - Boston

Leon is visiting Yokohama, Kyoto, Osaka and Tokyo - Rakugoleon

getting the cars out of Sydney - SMH

it'll need a big culture-change to make it cycle-friendly, though

a novel about the interrogation of an Old Bolshevik - Darkness at Noon [my review]

unanimous Australian High Court backs rights of refugees - SMH

"all seven judges agreed in a single judgment that the government was wrong to deny asylum seekers who tried to come to Australia by boat access to our legal system"

whales can get sunburnt - Science

Indian ID system clashes with Kerala's free software mandate - Hindu [via OSWALD]

7000 year old DNA suggests farmers moved into Europe - PLOS

defamation law is a key plank in Thailand's authoritarianism - BangkokPost [via CR]

teething problems with MeeGo - VisionMobile [via LWN]

a bleak view of Ireland's finances - IrishTimes

Australia allows teenagers to play games adult-rated elsewhere - ABC [via EFA]

people start to flee Yogyakarta - Guardian

Australian property investors are buying in the US - HeraldSun

the Beetles wanted to make a Lord of the Rings movie - BlastR

the UK has had fantastic autumn colours this year - Independent

EU-India FTA/ACTA treaties could kill AIDS sufferers - AJ

will China suffer "Japan syndrome"? - Foreign Policy