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June 2012

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the great German novel, in Spanish? - Traveller of the Century [my review]
civil partnerships should be available to all couples - HeresyCorner
Dutch cyclists do wear helmets sometimes - WarOnTheMotorist
no science, so resorting to harassment - PopSci
(the comments illustrate the kookiness that is climate change denial)
unhinged right-wing responses to Obama's healthcare bill surviving - Alternet
moving to Canada?!
alternatively, we could imprison children who don't read enough... - Telegraph
Muhammed Mursi is the new president of Egypt, but may have to deal with a pluralist parliament - Informed
the Bodleian (Oxford) has a nice exhibition on Dickens - Bodleian
just one room, and free, so good for a passing visit
Dawkins vs Wilson - Huffington
Wilson is wrong about kin-selection, but Dawkins is just as wrong about group-selection
gay marriage will cause sea level rise - Guardian
one of the UK's biggest banks has 4-day ongoing IT failure - Guardian
Parallel Text German Short Stories [my review]
some paths lead to a British exit from the European Union - Economist
I've acquired a new camera, a little Canon Ixus 220 HS - Oxford Blog
census finds 300,000 fewer Australians than expected - Age
an overview of the UK's economic problems - HindeCapital [PDF]
how much book shelving can one fit into a house? - Dornob [via Rumble]
free Bach: Open Goldberg Variations - OpenSource
a nice overview of Arctic sea ice decline - Tamino
Bush I was more of an environmentalist than Obama - Monbiot
shadow banking explained - StubbornMule
cutting funding for cycling is economic insanity - Conversation
dietary changes have made us fat - Guardian
there's a business in selling dramatic but fabricated weather predictions to UK newspapers - Guardian
the macroeconomics of Chinese kleptocracy - BronteCapital
interior minister: "Israel belongs to the white man" - EI
papal sanctions still sell books! - Boston [via Heidi]
25 Celsius (77 F) is hot for Greenland - TP/Wunder
Abstract Models for Literary History - Graphs, Maps, Trees [my review]
the insanity of US sex offender registries - Reason
Obama has redefined "militant" to mean "any adult male killed in a missile strike" - Salon
anyone attending the funeral of a militant clearly deserves to be murdered
poor British nationals should avoid falling for non-EU citizens - CT
depraved penguins were censored from Scott's Antarctic expedition report - Guardian
Egyptian mob attacks march against sexual harassment - CBC
the US is still deleveraging - MarketWatch
the history of UK cycling policy, in one chart - WarOnTheMotorist
a nice general history - The Book in the Renaissance [my review]
human emissions will create a greenhouse but not a hothouse world - GSA
Malcolm Fraser gives the Gough Whitlam Oration - Age
policemen seem to talk sense on drugs only when they retire - SMH
India is building an all-citizens biometric ID system - BBC
the US is more of a welfare state than people think - Boing
25% of food-stamp recipients don't think (admit?) they're using a government social program
my gamelan group is performing at St Johns on Saturday June 16th, at 7pm
there are some actual conservatives left in the US - Salon
Indian vigilantes for love - BBC [via r]
too many social networks: Facebook, Google+, Twitter, and now I'm looking at Reddit again
life was simpler when it was just email, Usenet, IRC and static web sites
terrorist or freedom fighter? Tarek Mehanna's final speech - Salon [via CLaird]
an unknown radiation burst created a carbon-14 spike around 775AD - Nature [via r]
Ireland's debt crisis isn't over - Spiegel
Fedora 18 bootloaders will be signed with a Microsoft key... - Dreamwidth [via OSWALD]
do the advantages of secure boot outweight the risks?
the Germans take renewable energy seriously - Guardian
Ivan Bunin's novel of rural Russia in 1905 - The Village [my review]
condensed matter physics and econometrics - arxiv
Philip Kitcher on science, history and the humanities - TNR [via LL]
computational complexity and Soviet central planning - Cosma
(I picked up a copy of Red Plenty just the other day)
prime central London property is a safe haven - Guardian
especially for cashed up Eastern European and Middle Eastern buyers
Citigroup still pushing known-to-be-defective mortgages in 2011 - Bloomberg
a history of predictive text swearing - YouTube [video via FB]
is dethroning doctors the future of medicine? - Economist

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