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February 2010

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now the tobacco industry is intimidating historians - Nation [via Chapati]
update on Simon Singh v Chiropractic Association libel case - JofK
today Oxford was overcast and sleeting
(after a cold but bright and sunny weekend)
vandalising the UK economy? a chartalist perspective - Bilbo [via @stubbornmule]
I'm shutting down Australian operations for three years
my next update should be from the United Kingdom
statistical analysis of age preferences in dating - okcupid [via @TwistedSifter]
Midnight Convoy and Other Stories [my review]
tales of alfalfa, the 1948 war, and moments of inspiration
now using netbook hooked up to monitor, external drive, mouse, keyboard, etc.
surprisingly usable - if I replaced the ultra-crappy 8GB SSD with a big fast SSD, this would actually be fine for most of what I do
going off-line to transfer my computer to my mother
if all goes well I should be back sometime this evening using my little netbook as a replacement
an iPhone app for debating climate delusionists - SkepticalScience [via Deltoid]
Trick or Treatment? Alternative Medicine on Trial [my review]
The Rest is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century [my review]
a history of modern classical music
Vietnam 1946: How the War Began [my review]
a political study of French-Vietnamese relations
A Fractal View of Risk, Ruin, and Reward - The (Mis)behavior of Markets [my review]
how trackable is your browser? - EFF
Vietnam: A Portrait of its People at War [my review]
Faber, Taleb, Hendry discuss investment and risk for 2010 - YouTube
this cartoon makes me think of Lord Monckton - xkcd
An Inspector Chen Mystery - A Case of Two Cities [my review]
I don't want a mobile phone, but a small tablet computer? - TemporaryLand - SmartPhoneDaily
Illustrated Poetry of the First World War - A Corner of A Foreign Field [my review]
one reason why the NYT's Middle Eastern coverage is so biased - FAIR
Hugh Hendry on China's economy - Telegraph
an Englishwoman visits Ottoman Turkey - The Turkish Embassy Letters [my review]
"Between 1716 and 1718, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu accompanied her husband during his appointment as ambassador to the Ottoman Empire."
Monckton debating Lambert? delusional fantasy versus rigorous analysis - Deltoid
but Lambert has to deal with Alan Jones as the moderator and an audience full of nut-cases
a mystery set in rural post-war Germany - The Murder Farm [my review]
the social and psychological effects of unemployment - Atlantic
a sea slug which steals chloroplasts - CreatureCast
how the climate change deniers are funded - Independent
human use of insects - Fireflies, Honey, and Silk [my review]
a fifth poverty trap for Africa: the rich set the rules - Owen [via @Michael_Keizer]
China's reckless use of antibiotics threatens the whole world - Telegraph
UK academics stop courses on terrorism - Guardian [via @NewtonMark]
the texts they need to use have been made illegal to possess
having trouble finding proponents of Net censorship - iq2oz
they have three anti-censorship speakers for a debate and no advocates
a brief bio of activist priest Ivan Illich - AmericanConservative
I've finished "Wordpressing" my - Australian Bookshop Directory
if anyone has any contributions that would be great!
a social history of post-war Britain - Austerity Britain, 1945-1951 [my review]
a US corporation runs for Congress - MillerMcCune
if corporations have rights as persons, why shouldn't they vote and stand for office?
more anti-science from the Australian - and the SMH joins in - ClimateShifts - Loonpond [via Deltoid]
Aus ISP iiNet wins copyright infringement case - EFA
straight UK couple wants a civil partnership - Guardian [via CT]
claims restriction to gay couples violates European human rights convention
Lake Chad declared wetland of significance under Ramsar Convention - WWF [via @MargaretKinney]
Lancet retracts Wakefield vaccine-autism paper - BMJ
to be decided: whether Wakefield and coauthors were guilty of professional misconduct and should be struck of the medical register
a backgrounder on Internet censorship - Civil Liberties Australia
teaching Islam at German universities is important - DW [via Chapati]
but non-believers will probably teach it better in most cases
UN finds evidence Israel lied to discredit the Goldstone Report - Guardian
the iPad is a threat to creativity - DiveIntoMark [via RW] - AlexPayne
phylogenetics, bubbling mud, Mt Doom - a New Zealand North Island travelogue
our goods are in transit to the UK on the Maersk Gironde - VesselTracker
a call for moderation in child sex offence legislation - StubbornMule
"counterterror" in Afghanistan - TomsDispatch
the Dzud is hurting Mongolia - ReliefWeb
the UK is about to get a new high street bank - Guardian

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