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June 2009

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Labor versus the Greens in inner-city Melbourne - Age
Michael Jackson was a bookworm?! - LAT [via CR]
Dilip Hiro on events in Iran - Tom
slow but sure: Munich's move to free software - WL [via /.]
Canada's house prices are still defying gravity (like Australia's) - Macleans
a nice colour illusion - Discover [via Maltby]
yesterday I went to a presentation of colour and motion illusions by Stuart Anstis
Australia's Internet censorship will block adult games - SMH
since this covers "sites which sell physical copies of games that do not meet the MA15+ standard", pages at Amazon selling e.g. Leisure Suit Larry games will be blocked
German pensioners abduct, abuse financial advisor - SMH
if I worked in finance, I'd be wary of peasants carrying pitchforks
my first encounter with ICANN bureaucracy and acronym soup - ICANN
lessons from Denmark for the US mortgage system - HousingDoom
the key seems to be separating credit risk from interest rate risk
a pointillist study on music, mortality and memory - Hammerklavier [review]
secret Italian censorship list leaked - Wikileaks
as expected, much of it is not child porn
Iran's Guardian Council admits election fraud in 40 cities - PressTV [via Kos]
Edward Tufte sculpts steel as well as information - Aldrich [via Phil]
vignettes from Iran - Informed
it seems unlikely there is enough division within the various security forces to prevent a crackdown succeeding
A Human History of the Arctic World - The Last Imaginary Place [review]
is Facebook attacking Twitter? - TechCrunch
(this post is too long to push to twitter, because of the URL)
torture by the French in the Algerian War - WB [via CT]
this blog is now being tweeted - Twitter
Makhmalbaf speaks for Mousavi - Guardian
self-governance for Greenland - Economist
getting stuck into Strunk and White - NYT - Boston
A Mathematician's Lament - MAA [PDF via /.]
if music were taught the way mathematics is...
Flynn on intelligence - Cosma
a guide to sound in Linux - InsaneCoding [via /.]
on Value at Risk and Bayesian certainty - Cosma
women who own houses weigh more - Canada
feel-good story about befriending elephants in Africa - SMH
we don't have much idea what is happening behind the scenes in Iran - Economist
the NSW state government lurches into protectionism - CourierMail
television impairs infant language acquisition - Time [via MM]
looking back at Patricia Highsmith's Ripley novels - NYROB
Lincoln Heights 90031 would like some Uyghurs - Kos
no Lonely Planet guidebooks will be sold at Heathrow - Economist
BAA gives a bookshop monopoly to WH Smith, who give Penguin a travelguide monopoly
entire suburbs in the US may be bulldozed - Tele
"a pioneering scheme in Flint involves razing entire districts and returning the land to nature"
Indonesia still won't face legacy of 1965/66 massacres - SMH
End Software Patents is collecting info about Aus patents - swpat
to weaken dissent, the Chinese should encourage porn - Guardian
Krugman on economics, sounding almost like Keen - Economist
"most work in macroeconomics in the past 30 years has been useless at best and harmful at worst"
The Story and Science of the Reading Brain - Proust and the Squid [review]
Donald Knuth opposes algorithm and software patents - Groklaw [via OSWALD]
an analysis of the Lebanese election result - Salon
applying Hyman Minsky's ideas to the current financial crisis - Pimco [PDF]
a nice non-technical overview
a Brazilian perspective on the macroeconomic crisis - FT
uncertainty in Hong Kong - Economist
A Novel of the Indies - Faded Portraits [review]
the NSW government has been bought by property developers - SMH
at least one Pirate has been elected to the European Parliament - TorrentFreak [via /.]
the RBA on inflation (and asset bubbles) - RBA
"these models have not been useful because they generally do not handle credit well, if at all... it seems to me that they need to add a healthy dose of Post Keynesianism to their New Keynesian foundations"
can we turn economics into a science? - NewSci
Merkel versus the central banks - FT [via CT]
the Normandy landings were not so good for the locals - BBC
Japanese men are having their allowances cut - Bloomberg
"Pocket money for businessmen, especially fathers, is the first to be cut and last to be raised in Japan"
a history of Star Trek - CBR [via RW]
somehow I missed out on the whole Trek thing, even though I read pretty much every science fiction novel published between 1978 and 1985
lessons from Ecuador's bond default - Salmon
the financial crash has broken some Wisconsin schools - Alternet
science kicks back against English libel law - JackOfKent [via CT]
even bigots deserve freedom of speech - NewMatilda
and states should not legislate history
cookies work better than torture - RawStory

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