October 2008
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prayer for a bull market -
Wonkettewasn't there something about a golden calf?
California house prices may have dropped 60% in two years -
GEAdebating OpenStreetMap licensing -
LWNa photo-essay on inflation in Zimbabwe -
WordmessMicrosoft's "bait and switch" with aged care providers -
AusITdiscount software to get them hooked, then make them pay full commercial rates
Australian Net censorship would use a secret blacklist -
ARNnetand there are already calls for gambling, anorexia, and euthanasia information to be blocked
the US needs some wealth redistribution -
KosAlan Greenspan was a disciple of Ayn Rand -
Koswhy did I never hear about this before?
Australia should not copy the UK's education policies -
SMHproperty spruikers should be regulated like financial planners -
News.com.au3.0 and the state of OpenOffice.org development -
LWNthere's finally a native OS X version!
an excellent attack on the Australian Net censorship plan -
Mark Newton [PDF] -
AgeAl-Qaeda is backing McCain -
WP [via Kos]A McCain presidency would clearly be better for Al-Qaeda, but you'd think they'd be smart enough not to say that
the IMF comes to Iceland's rescue -
FTLinux in schools around the world -
HeHe2 [via OSWALD]Muhammad b. Qasim and the Arab conquest of Sindh -
Chapatieconomics in science fiction -
NYT [vi MLite]Switzerland's banks are too big -
Spiegelthe country is too small to cope if UBS fails
how a flash filesystem works: designing UBIFS -
InfraDead [PDF]a lot of extra complexity is involved in dealing with the physics of flash writes
Supply, Demand, and English Food -
Krugman [via MR]the US stock market does much better under Democratic administrations -
NYTremembering the Bangladesh genocide -
Time [via Chapati]Iceland is in big trouble -
Bloombergwith no foreign exchange to pay for imports, there's a run on the supermarkets
nice overview of life origin theories -
Originsthe Nobel Committee joins the chorus of the shrill -
Guardian -
NYTpreparing for the US national debt to reach a quadrillion -
CNNthe forest crisis is worse than the bank crisis -
BBC"the annual cost of forest loss is between $2 trillion and $5 trillion"
overview of the Endnote/Zotero lawsuit -
Naturethis is a SLAPP lawsuit if ever I saw one
morals compaigners want to censor "S" from billboards -
SMHit's too close to the word "sex"
brief overview of Sydney's religious stratification -
SMHwe're in the inner-West "no religion" area
in Scranton, the Catholic Church says voting for Obama is a sin -
NP [via Kos]a bank war between Iceland and the UK -
Telethis could be as bad as the Cod Wars of the early 1970s
Jean-Mari Gustave le Clézeio?! -
CRnationalised British bank is now too popular -
ABC [via CT]"Northern Rock is being forced to turn away customers after being deluged with people seeking the safety of a state-run bank"
West Bank settlers make Godwin's law hard to avoid -
CP [via RW]"right-wing rabbis have been quoted in the local media referring to Palestinians as subhuman or as animals, arguing that as non-Jews their lives are of inferior value"
cleaning up in the aftermath of California foreclosures -
CalculatedRisk [video]food in the UK is all about class -
Guardianbooting Linux - to login screen with cpu and disk idle - in 5 seconds -
LWNmeet Sarah Palin, neurosurgeon -
NewsWeekan interview with Bill Henson -
SMHHolocaust denier faces extradition to Germany -
SMHfor continued publication of the Adelaide Institute web site
Israel bans literature exchange with Arab enemies -
WiredDispatchthe effects of Bush's presidency were predicted -
Onionbut in this case reality has one-upped satire
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