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November 2002

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Nobel-winning Icelandic novelist Halldor Laxness - brief bio - Independent People [review]
what features of a web page make you reach for the "back" button? - WMW thread
the ecology and evolution of Komodo dragons - Jared Diamond - Komodo Dragon Central
opinion piece against censorship of Holocaust deniers - Australian Jewish News - background
the wonders of oral rehydration therapy - Oblomovka - UNICEF - technical details
one of the first things that goes into my medical kit when I'm travelling
the Henry Kissinger appointment - Hitchens [Slate] - The Nation [via Rotten]
backlash against Australian anti-terror laws - SMH
"Almost all the 404 submissions to a Senate inquiry into the new ASIO legislation oppose the provisions"
unifying quantum mechanics and general relativity - Scientific American [via /.]
Google has updated its guidelines - new webmaster advice [via WMW]
"text links ... static text link ... text instead of images ... text browser"
11'09"01 - 11 short films about September 11, from around the world - my review - IMDB
I wonder how this will be received if it screens in the United States
a 150 page introduction - Mysticism in Java: Ideology in Indonesia [review]
historical overview - "Israelis and Palestinians: What Went Wrong?" - NYROB
a reviewer since 1993, Glen Engel-Cox is now blogging - immediacy - First Impressions [reviews]
in Australia, this Friday (Nov 29th) is National Headscarf Day - organiser's page
against proprietary software in Kerala schools - a user group's letter [via /.]
a book on Australian ants, online - CSIRO
I'm reading Holldobler and Wilson's magnum opus The Ants
a healthy 80 year old woman kills herself - SMH
"Lisette Nigot was not ill. She was not in pain. But she was 79 and, quite simply, did not want to live to 80."
Iran to review death sentence on university lecturer - BBC
but is it really necessary for every sentence in this story to be a separate paragraph?
Archaeoraptor fossil a 'Piltdown Turkey' - Independent [via Ancient World Web]
a rather precarious server room layout - Kuro5hin - 300k photo
NATO finds a use for French - keeping the Ukraine in its place - SMH/NYT/Guardian
my first television watching for years: Foyle's War - brief Guardian comments - IMDB
a series about a police officer in wartime Britain: often predictable and formulaic, but kind of fun
when bibliophilia becomes expensive - Spectator [via ALD]
I own a lot of books, but I'm not a collector in this sense at all
US senator Byrd trying to emulate Helvidius Priscus? - StarTribune/NYT [via Google]
Uncommon Sense and the Design of Computers - Bill Buxton [via RW, 12000 words + pictures]
Holland under the Nazis - USC lecture transcript
interesting commentary on British televised autopsy - Sue Bailey
after backlash, John Howard belatedly speaks up for basic democratic freedoms - SMH
do only "extremist" Christians wear crosses, Mr Nile?
Spain condemns Franco regime - SMH [no mention anywhere else?] - Blood of Spain [review]
Australian governments fail to consider open source software - The Age
as with Pauline Hansen, our Prime Minister shows his racism through his silence - SMH
"Mr Howard had neither ruled in its support nor ruled it out" (of a call for a ban on Islamic headdress)
Microsoft study of Hotmail system praises Unix! - Register [via /.]
the economic consequences of war with Iraq - NYROB
Brazil, the election of Lula, and "the lack of coherence in Washington's response" - NYROB
$100 million bequest to poetry magazine - CR
Michael Moore interview - Guardian [via RW]
Madhya Pradesh using Linux - EconomicTimesIndia [via /.]
"when we are putting public information out in the open, then it should not be through proprietary software"
Harry Mulisch's powerful novel about trauma and memory - The Assault [review]
review of Indian "Simputer" aimed at villagers - Scientific American [via /.]
note to author: computers are a tool for helping people get clean drinking water and access to healthcare
the journey of a child of Holocaust survivors - Sara Roy [via EI]
better than usual Linux on desktops article - Business 2.0 [via link]
stripped down service terminals (not appearing in web server logs) and sophisticated technical workers
an Englishwoman suffers culture shock in France - Spectator - my sister's stories about France
Bobby Fischer's FBI files released - Philadelphia Inquirer [via /.]
ex chess champion turned loony anti-Semite - but his mother sounds more interesting!
fun popular book on the evolution of growth and development - Shapes of Time [review]
my labour for today? updating my RedHat Linux network install - Tony Nugent's HOWTO
Ellsberg memoir of the leaking of the Pentagon Papers - Boston Globe review
some figures on the bookshop business in Australia - SMH - my bookshop directory
Hebron "massacre" was of armed troops - ElectronicIntifada - Christian Science Monitor
how is this different to (say) the Resistance ambushing German troops in occupied France in WWII?
what were your ancestors really like? - talk.origins [post-of-the-month for July]
"humans are bad at giving birth" - talk.origins [post-of-the-month for May]
analysis of privacy issues with Windows XP - Michael Jennings [via link]
"Windows XP connects to Microsoft's computers in at least 18 ways."
an index of famous curves - History of Mathematics archive
hardly any updates to his web site since he married... - Cosma Shalizi
a Geek Volunteer Overseas reports after two months in Kenya - Kuro5hin
a picture tour that actually works! - the fabulous ruins of Detroit [via K5]
in El Salvador, dressy teenage girls join gangs and kill - Observer [via Rotten]
Corby Kummer on Slow Food - the Atlantic [via RW]
long 4-part story on southern African food crisis - Christian Science Monitor [via K5]
a kids.us domain is not necessarily a bad idea... - AJC - Slashdot
Oxford academic "disinvited" from Harvard because of anti-Israeli stance - Independent [via CR]
an entertaining idea for specialist publishing - Juvenilia Press - SMH
copy protected audio CDs arrive in Australia - SMH
Iranian students continuing protests - Radio Free Europe
something has to give eventually, I just hope it happens without a civil war
analysis of smear campaign against academic freedom in Middle East studies - the Nation [via EI]
if this were anti-Jewish instead of anti-Muslim, it would be condemned as racist by all and sundry
Gates gives $100m to fight HIV, $400m to fight Linux - Register
restrictions on selling "obscene" CDs to teenagers in Australia? - Jon Casimir [SMH]
was there a United Monarchy? and other questions - lively Finkelstein interview [via RW]
"I do not think that there is in the Hebrew Bible written material that can be proven to be earlier than the ninth or eighth century, except for vague memories, myths and folk tales."
detailed study of Google's censorship in .de/.fr - Harvard Law School
terrorising primary school children through testing - Susan Ohanian [via RW]
long (and image-heavy) history of Bill Gates and Microsoft to 1993 - Houston Uni lecture [via RW]
grandmothers: maternal good, paternal bad for infant survival in C18/19 Germany - paper [via /.]
Free Software, Linux versus Microsoft in India - Business World India [via /.]
sounds like fun French historical, The Siege of Isfahan - Independent review
but Jenny wasn't impressed by his previous Prix Goncourt winning novel
motion supporting peace in Israel/Palestine howled down in Oz parliament - SMH
newbie finds Redhat 8.0 install easier than Windows XP install - Joe Barr [via LWN]
entertaining comic novel about post-communist Albania - Spring Flowers, Spring Frost [review]
Australian police want to censor protest sites - CourierMail - but whose violence?
"Jesus" ossuary genuine, but inscription faked? - Rochelle I Altman [via RW]
careful breakdown of Google PageRank, toolbar and directory - Chris Raimondi
my two home pages had toolbar PR 8 for a while, but are now PR 7 (NerdRank 68)
nice summary of Carlos Castaneda's frauds - Lindskoog excerpt
some details on Palladium "trusted computing" - Register [via RW]
interesting looking book on medieval economics - Guardian [via RW]
Council of Europe outlaws hate speech - Wired - ok /. comments - Oz background
interview with Frederick Crews on Postmodern Pooh - Spiked [via RW] - my review
excellent intro to Neanderthals and human evolution - The Neanderthal's Necklace [review]
privacy concerns over high-res urban photography? - SMH
memoirs of Sandinista poet and revolutionary Giaconda Belli - NYROB
analysis of Turkish military trial of Armenian genocide perpetrators - Genocide Study Project
a great film about personal identity and communal conflict - My Mother India [film review]
violence beneath the calm in Bali? 1906 and 1965/66 remembered - SMH - 1965/66 killings
more on the consequences of the Turkish election - Washington Post
new to me: Mormon massacre of settlers in 1857 - NYROB
only one eighth of books reviewed are by women - CR self-criticism
I'm doing a bit better: 27 of the last 100 books I've reviewed have been by women
two more Proust reviews - Times (Alain de Botton) - Guardian (Paul Davis) [via CR]
civil disobedience against Australian film censorship - my report
Tony Pitman sells seven banned videos outside the Office of Film and Literature Classification
Extremadura (Spain) is moving to free software - Washington Post front page [via /.]
Islamist party big winner in Turkish elections - Washington Post [via Google]
Harold Bloom's megalomania dissected - Guardian [via RW]
interesting survey of Iraqi mass media - CounterPunch [via RW]
Bush dodges issue with "embryo rights" - MSNBC [via Google]
Israel, the United States, and a Palestinean state - Guardian
Linux or Microsoft Windows for Namibian schools - Register [via /.]
Labor resignation moves Israeli government to the right - Washington Post

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