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August 2009

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why incompetence is a plus in Italian academic recruitment - HigherEd [via CT]
struggling to survive in Great Depression Germany - Little Man, What Now? [review]
Manhattan's High Line park - NYROB - High Line
"the incongruous delight of strolling through a leafy glade three stories above the roaring traffic's boom is made more piquant by the omnipresence of buildings crowded close to both sides of the walkway"
a blog about Korean literature in translation - Spunangel
Iceland will pay back its debts at a level it can afford - OneWorld
"If limiting Iceland's debt repayments is right, the same must apply, to an even greater extent, to poorer countries"
Cisco has an unusual internal structure - Economist
"matrix" coordination and collaboration
Lev Grossman on the novel after modernism - WSJ [via @MAOrthofer]
changing Australian views on the death penalty - Crikey
Ian Plimer's "ridiculous compendium of non-science" - RealClimate
the sins of Windows 7 - windows7sins [via FSF]
Plants Don't Drink Coffee [my review]
intertwined stories about insects, rugby, love and carpentry
some Australian abortion laws are stuck in the 1960s - NewMatilda [via @NewtonMark]
Sydney employment dispute settled under Jewish law - Australian
"the case was shifted to the London Beth Din, the Court of the Chief Rabbi"
praise for Wilkie Collins' The Moonstone - Guardian [via RW]
"Reading The Moonstone now, I am impressed by its modernity, its tolerance, and its enthusiasm for weirdness within the constraints of Victorian propriety."
Iceland should default on its debts - InfoClearing
Australia's "housing shortage" is a myth - MoneyMorning
huge failure rates for the Xbox 360 - SeattlePI [via /.]
no wonder it's losing Microsoft money
a blog devoted to photos of catladders - Blogspot [via JWalk]
Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations [my review]
it's safer to steal houses than rob banks - Jenman [via @neiljenman]
photo essay: poor migrant workers in Dubai - Viceland [via @epacris71]
Sydney is 70% the area of Oxfordshire
and the Sydney Statistical Division is 450% the area!
I thought the film District 9 was rather good - Wikipedia
it's not very high brow, but it has good fun inverting a pile of sf cliches
documents in the Wyeth "ghostwriting medical science" case - PLOS
a US court has made a pile of discovery materials public
artemisinin-resistant malaria spreading in Cambodia - Independent
Afghanistan is a mess - Economist
in defence of seagulls - Guardian
Texas is facing its worst drought in fifty years - Economist
the role of debt bias and tax distortions in the crisis - IMF [PDF via @JaneHadfield]
is Afghanistan really a dangerous "safe haven"? - FP
visualising large sums of money - InfoBeautiful [via RW]
the theory of Twitter - Epeus [via @epacris71]
sex toy or baby toy? a quiz - sex-toys
how can automated censorship systems cope with this?
the UK Internet is censored by the Internet Watch Foundation NGO - Wired
depopulation and a health crisis in Russia - WorldAffairs
hydrogen sulphide emitting seaweed on Brittany's beaches - Times
why the highest mountains are in the tropics - Guardian
filesystems at Google: an interview - ACM
Joan Baez is still fighting the good fight - Kos
Nassim Taleb on debt and the government's failure to deal with it - CNBC
"I'm not comfortable treating a patient for his headaches when he has lung cancer"
an introduction to classical Chinese poetry - A Little Primer of Tu Fu [review]
common sense on Australian house prices - Crikey [via @neiljenman]
Whitlam Institute: Getting to Grips with the Economy - YouTube
with Gruen, Gittins, Fagan, Quiggin, Keen, Debelle
Suu Kyi visitor gets seven years hard labour - SMH
including "one year for a municipal charge of illegal swimming"
Gmail ads can be turned off with rudeness and woe - Register [via @R_Chirgwin]
are children really a source of happiness? - NewsWeek
an uncrippled iPhone is much more useful - Wired
Australian computer game censorship is broken - SomebodyThinkOfTheChildren
the medieval role-playing game Risen has been Refused Classification
Calcutta is forcibly purging older, polluting vehicles - BBC
Mongolian monastic treasures buried in 1938 are recovered - BBC
Wal-Mart opens a store in Amritsar, India - Time
the average new Australian mortgage is now $354k - $407k in NSW - Age
green shoots or not, I still think this is a disaster waiting to happen
the US has really, really stupid sex offender laws - Economist
review of The Myth of the Rational Market - SteveReads [via Cosma]
new comic strip: Advanced Dungeons and Discourse - DresdenCodak
the official UK citizenship test - UKCT [via Stross]
I scored 13/24 (failed) with no preparation at all, but it's a batshit stupid test
photos of Greenland - Boston [via @stilgherrian]
are some Ponzi schemes legal in Australia? - SMH
Norway rehabilitates Nobel-winning novelist who supported Hitler - Independent
an update on H1N1 in the United States - CDC
McDonalds is obscene without this kind of elaboration - EatMeDaily [via @stilgherrian]
deflation and unemployment up in the eurozone - DW
nearly half of US mortgage-holders are expected to end up underwater - Bloomberg
Against Intellectual Monopoly - UCLA [full text of book]
cucumbers are not munitions - AntiWar
but anyone killed by US or NATO airstrikes is by definition an "insurgent"
unemployment in Australia worse than flat 5.8% headline suggests - TradingRoom - ABS
the aggregate monthly hours worked has now dropped for 12 months running
Israel's religious right and the settlements - CrisisGroup
a critical look at chiropractic therapy - Skeptics [via @seancarmody]
Mongolian pasture productivity is in decline - WorldBank
driven by increasing livestock numbers and proportionately more goats
a portable bicycle lane - NS [via @epacris71]
Bertrand Russell's "In Praise of Idleness" - zpub [via FB]
insecure by design - Cworld [via OSWALD]
"Microsoft Office is a set of security holes that masquerades as an office suite"
I had a fantastic time in Queensland - Carnarvon Station - Heron Island

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