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September 2012

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Arctic sea ice loss and its implications - SciAm
the B♭ 55 octaves below a piano - Wiki [via Reddit]
I wish I were a confident enough cyclist to attempt these trips - CycleRoutesOxford
things are getting ugly in Spain - Guardian - SteveDrant
tobacco could kill a billion people this century - JSS
UK road tax was abolished in 1937 - IPayRoadTax
Greek neo-Nazis taking on a police role - Guardian
London cycling injuries result from bad driving, not bad cycling - LCC
Alfred Russel Wallace's works and specimens, digitised - WallaceOnline
less than 2% of drone victims are known militants - Independent
insecure PIN numbers - DataGenetics [via @lizbatty]
a really nice text on computational complexity - The Nature of Computation [my review]
Sikorski on why Britain is better off in the EU - Polemb [PDF via @dlknowles] - Econ
Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them - The Possessed [my review]
deposit flight is undermining the euro - Bloomberg [via Stable]
with enough money, terrorists become freedom fighters - Guardian
why we need registration and open publication of all clinical trials - Guardian
Chinese social protest under cover of anti-Japanese slogans - LL
"Though we nourish corrupt officials and are mortgage slaves, we will definitely never give up the Diaoyu Islands"
is poverty a kind of robbery? - NYT
a Russian translation of my review of Aboriginal Art - stoodio
a tale of two cites: East and West Berlin - ABC [via DL]
the latest cartoon probably dropped nerd productivity world-wide - xkcd - easier navigation
and will spark a repetitive strain injury epidemic
a young Chinese woman is driven to murder - The Butcher's Wife [my review]
a course on quantum techniques for stochastic mechanics - Baez
extraordinarily bleak view of US economy - ZeroHedge
Berlin imagined - George Szirtes
helping run a Chicken Beauty Contest at the Binsey Fete - Wandering Danny
a week in Thailand - Wandering Danny
the UK rail system is expensive and inefficient - RippedOff
two women who talk to one another about something other than a man - BechdelTest
my other film test: no guns or other firearms
the state of Nevada is underwater - Bloomberg
"the total value of single-family homes is less than the amount owed on them"
Great German Short Stories of the 20th Century [my review]
geophysics is not a practical constraint on wind power - NatureCC
a surprisingly engaging alternative ending to Lord of the Rings - JJR
an old online friend died in May - John J Reilly - obituary
strange linguistic workarounds to Chinese Internet censorship - LL
the epidemiology of the decline in the Australian suicide rate - PLOSone [via @lizbatty]
better car emission standards, ineffective hanging attempts, less access to firearms
Bible: The Story of the King James Version [my review]
child porn laws really are that stupid - Falkvinge
in Bavaria, a nine-year-old can do a 600 km cycle trip - AboutCycling
fears of cycling - AboutCycling [via Cyclox]
a "strongest takes all" jungle can be Pareto-optimal! - Cosma
all is not well with the Chinese economy - BusinessSpectator [via MB]
German Literature: A Very Short Introduction [my review]

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