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April 2009

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the science of influenza - FluWikie [via Effect]
applying information theory to the Indus Valley symbols - Cosma
house with 23 metre dolmen for sale - Guardian
banks in the US are razing houses to avoid maintainance costs - GlobEcon
Stendhal's 1830 novel - The Red and the Black [review]
the Italian approach to Iraqi reconstruction - Guardian
Ian Plimer has become an anti-science idiot - Deltoid
books are coming back in Iraq - CSM
"there's a saying in the Arab world: Cairo writes, Beirut publishes, Iraq reads"
William Black on fraud and the GFC - PBS
the Taliban in the Swat valley - Guardian
Blackwell's deploys in-bookshop "print on demand" - Guardian
Iceland has a new prime minister - SMH
The Middle Path: Avoiding Environmental Catastrophe [review]
$60,000 a month to mothball a 747 - WSJ
Sydney has its share of religious bigots - SMH
the IMF calls for bank nationalisations!?! - Australian
but Australian banks may be among the few survivors of a financial disaster
why is Edward Fitzgerald's Rubaiyat forgotten? - Tele [via CR]
the BBC's coverage of Israel is clearly biased - Independent
the appalling state of Gaza's economy - DemocracyNow
the Fed reconsiders Minksy! - FRBSF
"It may be that credit booms hold more dangerous systemic risks than other asset bubbles."
long but informative article on SSDs - AnandTech
if lost in the bush, don't expect help from 000 - SMH
homelessness in Japan - Bloomberg
the Financial War against Iceland continues - MarketOracle
when children left in cars die - WP [via Schneier]
propserity without growth? - Econospeak
meet charlatan nutritionist Mathias Roth - BadScience [via Deltoid]
one of the men behind South Africa's medical genocide of AIDS victims
how easy is it to kill an aircraft carrier? - Exiled - Stross
should mothers explain vibrators to their teenage daughters? - Jezebel [via RW]
Pope: saving the world from homosexuality as important as saving rainforests - Tele - SMH
If he ranted about "saving the world from Judaism" he'd be prosecuted, or at least abused by all and sundry, but how is this different?
could Special Drawing Rights replace the US dollar as a reserve currency? - IMF
Bills of Rights in Australia: History, Politics and Law [review]
Dubai doesn't sound like somewhere I'd be comfortable - Independent
Diaspora Jews need to let go of idealised Israel - SMH
more on the hidden costs of closed source - BrendanScott
Taleb on Black Swan-proofing the world - FT
Paul McGeough talks about Hamas - Gleebooks [video]
meet Barry the giant sea worm - AOL
Victoria's heatwave killed more people than its bushfires - Age
Switzerland starts deflating - Tele
Medieval Islamic Medicine [review]
does stress perpetuate poverty? - Economist
a history of the Settlers of Catan boardgame - Wired [via RW]
this is one of the all time great games
Margaret Atwood on debt - NYROB
meet Germany's Constitutional Court - Economist
Sydney's old night soil laneways up for sale - WhereILive
8 square metres in Surry Hills went for $41,000...
Aboriginal rock art in Royal National Park - Les Bursill
we did a tour with Les, which was great

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