May 2011
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why Oxford's bicycle infrastructure is so bad -
OxfordMailthe decline in the quality of cinema projection -
Ebert [via Pharyngula]how many historians does it take to change a light bulb? -
PVF [peer reviewed]"screenwriters are the unacknowledged legislators of mankind" -
RWrld [via RW]plagiarism is a way of pretending to be an expert -
Gelmanso it's hardly surprising climate change denialism is rife with it
my book reviews have been purged from Google in favour of a duplicate site -
example1 -
example2this is (so far) only affecting some of my reviews, fortunately
correlation madness: "is smoking weed bad?" and the US monetary base -
MacroBstupidity in the Australian debate on carbon pricing -
Crikeythe case against the em dash -
Slate [via @RipOffRed]these are one of my major vices
homes are not investments -
SMHan interview with PJ on the history of Groklaw -
OpenSourcedo bikeways increase property prices? -
Crikeybut who'd trust a real-estate agents opinion on this?
the ugly side of Apple's walled garden -
GuardianA.B. Yehoshua's novel about a long Sephardic Jewish lineage -
Mr Mani [my review]review of Changing Planet, Changing Health -
RealClimateAustralia's domestic spies get sweeping new powers -
SMH [via StephenM]open access in scholarly publishing -
Oxford [audio]the politics of means-testing welfare in Australia -
SMHwill younger Palestinians support a one state solution? -
DissentNeanderthals may have survived to 28500 BP -
SciDailyTesco sells the strangest things -
TescoI'm sure this is going to fly off the shelves if they put it next to the bodice-rippers
the challenges of regulating the cloud -
CommCham [PDF]what Australians actually earn -
ABC"the median earnings of all employees is $44,146 per year"
Ireland can still let its zombie banks die -
IrishTimesit's not safe to take newborn babies out in trendy parts of NSW -
Newswhooping cough vaccination rates have dropped too low
Sydney's cultural demographics -
JPGcapital punishment for Goldman Sachs? -
RollingStone [via RW]Vader announces killing of Obi-Wan -
GETAsian-American overachievers after school -
NYmag [via PatrickIp]it seems maritime rescue laws don't apply to refugees -
Guardianshould doing a linear regression require a permit? -
Cosmafun Shirley Jackson "domestic", The Night We All Had Grippe -
LOA [PDF]housing regulation: German, Swiss, Irish, and Australian -
PolicyExchangeglobal warming is not good for wheat yields -
SciAmproperty in the United States: a long-term change in attitudes -
Guardiantaxes on land are the "least bad" taxes? -
Guardianthe US wants to write New Zealand laws -
TechDirtvideo of tsunami hitting Sendai airport -
Infectious [via RW]Sexual Behaviour in the Online Male -
SalonUS banks try to gut consumer protection legislation -
FortuneMay Day in Egypt -
BBC [via Stable]more on the dangers of smartphones -
CNNI'm not using one (for personal info) unless its encrypted
a review of Walker and Howie's
Red Capitalism -
LongWarren Buffett calling for higher taxes on the rich -
CNN [video]time to declare victory and get out of Afghanistan? -
Guardianonly in some US states are mortgages non-recourse -
Petersburg"in Florida, lenders have up to five years to file a deficiency action"
Philip Hensher on Harper Lee -
Telegraph [via RW]Jeremy Grantham on the unsustainability of growth -
OilDrum -
GMO [PDF]"Tell a Brit you think they're in a housing bubble, and you'll have a discussion. Tell an Australian, and you'll have World War III."
not looking forward to Charles III -
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