April 2007
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increasing attacks on the British in Basra -
LA"patriotism" to be from Australia's anti-terrorism censorship -
SMHthe legislation must be pretty broad if "patriotic battle movies" have to be specifically exempted!
banks aren't happy about smart BIOSes with network stacks -
ZGP [via ELER]"when we buy a consumer machine, we either demand full, buildable, source code to their BIOS, or that they ship LinuxBIOS"
India's Supreme Court orders charges against historian dropped -
IndTimes -
PakNewsChina starts to worry about carbon emissions -
CSM"China's goal is nearly in line with a target set by Greenpeace ... regional governments have simply ignored Beijing's environmental edicts"
photos from the Hubble telescope -
comthe US may make it legal to sell cocoa-free "chocolate" -
DMWOC [via MLite]military contractors run amok in Iraq -
WPimperialism debated: the British Empire in India -
NYROBdo book reviews actually help us find good books? -
Guardian"it is only the authors who are everywhere praised and talked-about that I don't seem to read"
"persistence hunting" and human evolution -
Baristaadaptations to allow us to run-down prey in midday heat
the roller-coaster of US house prices, inflation-adjusted -
GoogleVideoa Baloch insurgency extends across the Iran-Pakistan border -
Yahoohundreds of casualties as artillery pounds Mogadishu -
Independentbehind Nokia's Linux Internet Tablet -
LinuxDev [via OSWALD]US film stars launch libel actions in Europe -
Guardianin 1934 France, Shakespeare's Coriolanus was controversial -
Barista"the Comédie Française production was perceived as an attack on democratic institutions"
increased wind-shear may decrease Atlantic hurricanes -
NewSci [via ProRev]epigenesis and chance in the genetics of brain wiring -
PLOShow the US administration perverted media coverage of Iraq -
E+P [via ProRev]materials microscopy as art -
Wired"porous silicon reproduction of William Blake's Ancient of Days, drawn with a helium beam and etched with hydrofluoric acid"
Iowa users will get a refund from Microsoft -
Register"consumers who purchased Microsoft's software between 1994 and 2006: $16 for each copy of Windows or MS-DOS, $25 for Excel, $29 for Office, ..."
fighting to save Indonesia's Muhammadiyah from extremists -
WSJan ICANN member on why she voted for .xxx -
SCrawford"Australia's letter, and concerns expressed in the past by Brazil and other countries about xxx, are explicitly content-based and thus inappropriate"
improving environmental education -
PLOSStray Shopping Carts of Eastern North America: A Guide to Field Identification -
ABC -
Amazon
an update on Pakistan's tribal areas -
Economistwhy Australians need a charter of rights -
SMH [via EFA]Israel copies Kafka's
The Trial -
EIno one is allowed to talk about the charges against Azmi Bishara, even if anyone knew what they were
some statistics on literature in translation -
NYT [PDF via CR]photographs from Antarctica -
LLUS "abstinence education" is totally ineffective -
Guardianso that's $1 billion thrown away
World Bank director orders contraception removed from Madagascar report -
GuardianSpaniards refight civil war in obituaries for their grandparents -
Guardianthe Korean government is spending to promote open source -
Hankooki [via OSWALD]"the Information Ministry designated Kwangju City as a Linux city and the Gangwon Provincial University as a Linux university"
getting serious about treehouses -
IHTchanges in care for the elderly in Europe -
IHT"by 2050, people over 65 are forecast to make up one-third of the EU population"
no more "fried crap" in Bejing -
GuardianGoogle Books and copyright -
Guardian [via Kit]Imre Kertesz's metafictional literary mystery -
Liquidation [review]an extract from Ahmadou Kourouma's
Allah is Not Obliged -
WWB [via Moor] -
Amazonseventeen German airmen died in Iceland in WWII -
BBCa proposal to classify happiness as a psychiatric disorder -
JMedEthics"It is proposed that happiness be classified as a psychiatric disorder and be included in future editions of the major diagnostic manuals under the new name: major affective disorder, pleasant type."
retired US generals turn down "war tsar" position -
Guardianno one wants to work with an incompetent administration
Norway: 30 or so murders a year, over 95% solved -
Aften [via CR]dieting leads to weight gain -
MedNewsSangin is relieved, but Helmand province's future remains uncertain -
Guardiancybernetic senses -
Wired [via JWZ]"For six weird weeks in the fall of 2004, Udo Wachter had an unerring sense of direction"
a Silicon Valley engineer works for mothers in rural Mongolia -
com.comethics books are stolen more often than other philosophy books -
Splintered"perhaps they're being burnt by students struggling to keep warm in winter"
Madrid's red priests defy the Church -
Guardianclimate change denialists lose argument with a six year old -
DeltoidTim Blair, Steven Den Beste and friends fail basic chemistry
the politics of mining in Mongolia -
SMHpeople are still dying of hunger in India -
FLnenpimania - getting the best mileage out of cars -
Bloomberg [via /.]Paul "Independence of the Continuum Hypothesis" Cohen has died -
MSpeakthe Queen of Australia cares more about human rights than the government? -
SMHIBM is a genuinely global company -
Economistunderstanding Middle-Eastern leaders -
Badger [via RtoS]novel approaches to wind power -
Economist [via /.]economic growth is negatively correlated with investment returns?! -
EffFrontan Indian perspective on US affirmative action -
Frontline [via Cosma]the insanity that is the US prison system -
NYROBLancet Iraq study "probably an underestimation of mortality" -
Guardian [via Murray]according to the UK Ministry of Defence's own scientists!
why commercial ebooks haven't worked yet -
StrossAustrian court may grant a chimpanzee legal standing -
Guardiancan anyone really argue that vivisection of chimpanzees is no different to pulling the wings off flies?
the Iranians have much to learn from the West -
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