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December 2011

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a bleak view of the UK's debt profile - DebtDeflation
German: A Linguistic Introduction [my review]
notable translations published in 2011 - AkhondOfSwat
how to avoid potluck invitations - BugGirl
the latest flight security risk: frosted cup-cakes - AeroNews via [via@StephenMa]
documenting Numbani, a language of Papua New Guinea - Far
the Archive Team: emergency salvage archaeology online - TechReview [via @phaseit]
Japanese banks to enter Australian mortgage market? - AFR
ineffective research group dynamics contribute to unrealistc presentations of data - PLOSmed
Tasmanian millipede species maintain strict borders - ScienceNews [via @phaseit]
car clubs doing better than electric cars - PedestrianLiberation
Bangkok takes stock as the floodwaters recede - Guardian
an account of a brief visit to Seoul - WanderingDanny
twin-engined passenger jets will be allowed to fly across the North Pole - Independent
auto-industry workers earn twice as much in Germany as in the US - RemappingDebate [via RW]
truth and falsehood no longer have any meaning for most Australian conservatives - Quiggin
2011 reminds Hobsbawm of 1848 - BBC
but even Hobsbawm isn't that old, surely!
downturn in land sales bites Chinese local governments - Caixin [via MB]
the story of a Guantanamo inmate - LRB
Austrian banks face off against Hungarian debtors - Bloomberg
China will be deleveraging too - Telegraph
social unrest in southern China: the siege of Wukan - ChinaGeeks - Telegraph
Ferenc Karinthy's novel of linguistic alienation - Metropole [my review]
Apple may regret having started a patent war... - ZDnet
"A German court has issued a preliminary injunction that blocks European sales of all Apple's 3G-enabled devices"
illustrating just how little the UK spends on cycling - WotM
Iceland makes steady progress towards EU accession - BW
How Humans Are Changing the Next 100,000 Years of Earth's Climate - The Long Thaw [my review]
GNU grep slows down more than a hundredfold on unicode - dtrace [via @phaseit]
William Patry's How to Fix Copyright - BB - Amazon
Australia: total land value to GDP, over time - The Depression
Benish prepares to face Assad's tanks - Guardian
Antal Szerb's slight but charming entertainment - Oliver VII [my review]
Britain vetos EU treaty, rest of Europe will go ahead anyway - Guardian
doctors die with less treatment than most - Zocalo [via @RoryBowden]
labour unrest in China as growth slows - Spiegel
adventures with choropleth maps - vis4 [via @Phaseit]
food stamp usage in the US continues to climb - Mish
20mph should be the default speed limit - Brake
'medieval' outside Europe - Oxford Blog
thoughts on open access to research - Oxford Blog
"fossil fuel CO2 emissions increased by 5.9% in 2010" - GCP
on track for the worst-case IPCC emissions scenario, or worse
downloading for personal use is legal in Switzerland? - TorrentFreak
Biostatistics Ryan Gosling - Tumblr [via Cosma]
I don't even know who Ryan Gosling is, but some of these are quite funny
"Used Book", a sonnet - TheWaters [via RW]
the real global warming signal - Tamino
yes, aerosols, El Nino and solar output do matter
prescient: "Asset prices, financial and monetary stability" - BIS [via MB]
are the Muppets communists? - Huffington
cycling is on the rise in the UK - Sustrans
let's put £15 billion into initiatives like this instead of one high speed rail link
William S. Cleveland - The Elements of Graphing Data [my review]
school tests are mostly stupid - WP
a school board member sits the 10th grade exams himself...
tips on teaching mathematical intuition - BetterExplained
democracy is dictatorship, freedom is totalitarian - EI
not much transparency in Stockholm's rental market - TheLocal
the climate change deniers are really scraping the barrel - Guardian
this guy sounds even kookier than Monckton
whenever I think Richard Stallman is paranoid, reality corrects me - EnGadget
yet another translation of Madame Bovary - Guardian [via Jenny]
a review of Radelet's Emerging Africa - ForeignAffairs
dependencies between Linux packages look like predator-prey interactions - Arstechnica [via OSWALD]
book publishers are cutting their own throats with DRM - Stross
the UK government is taking from the poor to give to the rich - Independent

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