July 2009
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clueless nonsense about Australia, Afghanistan, Indonesia and Islam -
Australianwhy don't we connect Russia and the US as "Christian" and conclude that Japan lives in "a Christian geography"?
megacity engineering special issue -
IEEE Spectrum [via @marklauer]New Delhi's power problems -
Frontline"the controversial privatisation of Delhi's power distribution network is now in its eighth year"
Microsoft contributes GPLed drivers to Linux kernel -
Cnet [via /.]only so Windows can host Linux virtual machines better, but still!
Cadbury hides chocolate block reduction from 250 to 200gm -
YouTube [via @seancarmody]and the cocoa content has been reduced from 26% to 21% as well!
much of Australia forced pubs to close at 6pm between the wars -
AusScreenand this lasted till the mid-1960s in Victoria and South Australia!
Ireland has criminalised blasphemy -
Spiked [via @stephenfry]debt man walking: the world of real US borrowers -
NewObs"In the past month I have suggested chapter seven bankruptcy to four clients. This is the start-over bankruptcy."
500 underpowered vehicles set off for Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia -
Independentcompany media release denies flesh-eating robot claims -
Wired [via MLite]a firsthand account of the crowd at Rafsanjani's Friday sermon -
Informedthe Mexican army brutally silences its critics -
MJphotos from Afghanistan -
Boston [via @stilgherrian]shaped by English literature in a small town in India -
Independent [via CR]stories of 20th century authors and rare books -
Tolkien's Gown [review]The Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary -
DailyMail [via RW]NSW government backs racist councils -
SMHwill use its compulsory acquisition powers to stop an Islamic school
Daniel Dennett on "evolutionary Christology" -
Pharyngula"when Christians ingest the Body of Christ without digesting it, they are re-enacting the miracle of endosymbiosis that paved the way for multi-cellularity"
Tsunami Watch Number 1 for Australia -
BOM [via @MarkNewton]Australia's power infrastructure is a looming disaster -
BSfinding an appropriate fire regime for Mongolia's forests -
WorldBankBrazilian president shows support for free software -
WorldLabel [via OSWALD]how Khomeini destroyed the Shi'ite religious institution -
Informedbaby photos get wallets returned -
Times [via @robbieg8s]asking the Australian Tax Office to support cross-platform tax filing -
PetitionOnlinewebcomics about an alternate universe Lovelace and Babbage -
2Dgoggles [via MLite]UK tourist site advertises a position as a witch -
BBC [via MLite]pre-SF: Charlie Stross' career in IT -
AntiPopethis is just demented: Swoopo, "the crack cocaine of auction sites" -
BigMoneyinflation or deflation? a debate -
AutoEarth"lower prices do not equate to greater affordability in a deflation, except for the lucky few who still have any money"
trading in life-insurance policies -
Economistthey just need to bundle these into securities with ratings...
the housing bubble bursts in a Guinea village -
WSJ [video]Bundanoon moves to ban bottled water -
SMHbrief portrait of Robert Shiller -
CNNthe complexities of infant diets -
MMshould California make its IOUs into currency? -
BilboI wonder if individual EU states might go this way too
Uighur-Han tensions in Xinjiang -
Guardian [via Crikey]Auschwitz as symbol of the Holocaust excludes the largest group of victims -
NYROB"The geographic, moral, and political center of the Europe of mass killing is the Europe of the East, above all Belarus, Ukraine, Poland, and the Baltic States"
Indonesia's president a favourite for reelection -
Economistwould the Economist refer to the US as "the world's biggest Christian majority democracy" in a story that had nothing to do with religion?
US house prices now down 33% from peak; still falling -
CNBCbut we have kangaroos, so that can't happen in Australia
Alain de Botton responds to a bad review -
Ed [via T] -
TeleTehran returns to normal, at least on the surface -
Informedthe life and work of Iris Murdoch -
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