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January 2009

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the SEC was told Madoff was running a Ponzi - in 2005 - unanimocracy
Israeli government report reveals extent of illegal West Bank construction
most built without, or contrary to, permits, and many on land stolen from Palestinians
a dengue outbreak in northern Queensland - Australian
(with a history of dengue in modern Australia)
Australian house prices need to halve to become affordable - NewGeography - Demographia [PDF]
and Sydney prices have to drop by 60% to return the median price/media wage ratio to its long-term average
with the UNHCR in Chad - NYer
appalling stories out of Gaza - Time
A Natural History of Conifers [review]
covering evolution, systematics, biogeography, ecology, conservation
the risks of rice-farming in Senegal - IHT
Censoring Culture: Contemporary Threats to Free Expression [review]
BBC won't air charity appeal for Gaza - Guardian
doing so might compromise the BBC's blatant bias
deflation 101 - Podbean
the Milky Way Transit Authority - Arbesman
studying women's sexuality - IHT
Norway: it isn't easy being green - Economist
Salam Pax is back in Baghdad - Guardian [via RW]
Dalrymple on the danger facing Pakistan - NYROB
albino body parts are in demand in East Africa - Economist
saving the UK banks may risk a sovereign debt crisis - FT
"Iceland’s government had to let the country’s three main banks go into administration because it [could not] bail out financial institutions with balance sheets amounting to 600-700% of annual GDP. Any attempt to commit further government resources would have precipitated a sovereign default."
censorship and moral outrage in Australia in 2008: a top 20 list - ThinkOfTheChildren
Aus government to trial mandatory food filtering - Whirlpool
how Microsoft is using the government to attack Google - Wired [via /.]
the world has a glut of unsold cars - Guardian
Madoff's effect on Minnesota - CNN
teenagers charged for sharing nude photographs of themselves - MSNBC
if Madoff were poor and black... - Womanist [via Majik]
...he'd only need to steal $100 to get 15 years in prison
the world's first robot gamelan - Lemurbots
the forgotten verses from "This Land is Your Land" - Kos
on the sanctity of donuts - Pandagon
California may stop food and rent support to blind and disabled - Kos
there are 1.5 million injured Palestinians in Gaza, but no civilians - EI
obituary for John Mortimer, defender of civil liberties and creator of Rumpole - IHT
US public libraries boom in popularity - WSJ [via ProRev]
Keen criticises Bernanke on the Great Depression - DebtDeflation
Windschuttle owns up to being "10 to 15 percent ignorant" - Deltoid
Israel bombs the UN refugee headquarters - EI
incompetence or malice? in this case I suspect malice, as Israel has never been a fan of UNRWA
how to write better spam - McSweeneys
now the Internet Watch Foundation is blocking the Wayback Archive - Register
Enhancing Child Safety + Online Technologies - Harvard
turns out the Internet isn't such a big threat to children
Bernanke on "Policy Responses to the Financial Crisis" - LSE [video and transcript]
Bush really does take orders from Olmert - Informed
The Rise and Downfall of Prussia, 1600-1947 - Iron Kingdom [review]
is Norway trying to stop Iceland joining the EU? - IceRev
the danger of groupthink by economists - NYT
how far Microsoft will go to stop Linux in schools - BoycottNovell [via /.]
the ghosts of Central Bankers past - Economist
"Zionists made me forget my Arabic": a Pakistani father's dialogue with his son - Dawn [via Chapati]
Quadrant and Windschuttle regularly publish pseudo-science - Deltoid
so their being hoaxed hardly seems that notable
"Israel is Committing War Crimes" - WSJ [via Kos]
corrupt researchers bribed by big pharma - NYROB
$4 billion handout for Australia's coal industry - SMH
with no requirement that it be used for reducing emissions!
Iceland's economy will contract as finances are stabilised - Economist
"Iceland's real GDP is forecast to contract by an eye-watering 12% in 2009"
Bank of England interest rates at lowest since 1694 - SMH
why stock brokers are useless - LastGoodIdea
how to cite toilet graffitti and alien mind transmissions - PMLA
atheist bus ads knocked back in Australia - SMH
no water + sewage in streeets -> epidemic danger - Hz
Vietnam mandates use of Linux in government - VietNet [via /.]
but is this just an attempt to get better pricing from Microsoft?
atheist bus ads in London - Guardian
the BBC's anti-Palestinian bias is clear - EI
I don't know how they get away with being so blatant about it - are journalists deliberately overdoing it to undermine management instructions?
4 million cubic metres of coal ash have spilled into the Tennessee River - Huff [via Kos]
chaos and desperation in a Gaza hospital - WP
private investors are pulling out of foreign investments - USAtoday
white phosphorus used against Gaza - Times
the economics of Christmas and gift-giving - SMH
Israel stops Red Cross team entering Gaza - M+C
Penguin returns to roots: keeping books cheaper than a packet of cigarettes - Age [via CR]
The Turnpike Road System in England 1663-1840 [review]
Lydie Salvayre's monologue novel - The Lecture [review]
a diary from Gaza - Independent
fighting to stop old-growth logging in Tasmania - Australian
hard evidence that virginity pledges don't work - Effect
"Five years after taking the pledge: 82% of pledgers denied ever having taken the pledge; pledgers and matched non-pledgers did not differ in rates of premarital sex, sexually transmitted disease, and oral and anal sex behaviors"
Ilan Pappe on Israel's self-righteous propaganda - EI
Vinnies only likes Catholic volunteers - SMH
hand-repairing a microprocessor chip - CSM
Aboriginal Art [review]
brief descriptions and analysis of 200 works, with photographs
walk writeups from two and four years ago - Corang Peak - Barrington Tops
short-circuit in reintroducing beavers to England - Guardian

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