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May 2010

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how about a complete EU economic blockade of Israel? - Independent
the Sydney Morning Herald is a tabloid - SMH
the Air India crash is 5th, behind "footy star's mum fights for survival", a boat accident, car crashes, and dental care problems
in Selcuk, on Sunday we head for Egirdir - Ali's Pension
Hugh Hendry is shorting China - BusinessInsider
Thailand is on the verge of civil war - BBC
I'm off travelling, so updates may be infrequent
live updates from Bangkok - Guardian
the book I just read on the Iranian Revolution focused on how and when protest movements become viable
how "transfer pricing" is used to avoid taxes - Bloomberg
following the money from the US to Ireland to the Netherlands to the Bahamas
using mobile phones to authenticate malaria medicines - Bloomberg
now the Israeli police state cracks down on clowns - EI
ancient histories, normal and invented - Israel's History and the History of Israel [my review]
Chinese real estate hot spots make Sydney seem cheap - BusinessInsider
"the average price-to-income ratio in Beijing has reached 27:1"
"what do you do?" - Oxford Blog
am I unemployed, retired, the unmarried partner of a tier two skilled migrant worker, or a book reviewer?
US Real Misery Index reaches new highs - Huffington
eating slugs is wrong - Yahoo
"a 21-year-old caught rat lungworm disease after he ate a slug as a dare"
an American perspective on French notions of the erotic - SusieBright
the 1890s depression was worse for Australia than the 1930s - RBA [PDF]
Cameron PM before any coalition deal arranged?! - Times
facing a decade of fiscal austerity? - WSJ
the Israel boycott campaign succeeds if it raises awareness of the issue - MondoWeiss
how the European credit rescue will work - Economist
Liberal Democrats open talks with Labour, who are seeking a new leader after Brown announces his resignation - Guardian
Jakob Nielsen on usability issues with the iPad - useit
60 Minutes on strategic defaults - Cwritedowns
I don't see why this is "bad for growth" - the people walking away will probably be spending the money they save, after all
last year I spent a day in Emerald, in central Queensland - Emerald travelogue
loony Lord Monkcton testifies to a US senate committee - Deltoid
the Republicans still spurn the reality based community
my Oxford blog - eating out in Oxford
some Tory MPs are more than "slightly potty" - Independent
the standards for miracles are slipping - Times
"The final irony is that Newman himself was utterly opposed to the idea of his own beatification."
The Unthinkable Revolution in Iran [my review]
remembering Gandamak and the First Anglo-Afghan War - NYT
hand sovereignty to Brussels or Berlin, disenfranchise the poor, or abandon the euro? - MPettis
socialists may get a seat in the North Rhine-Westphalia parliament - DW
Japanese wives reduce their husband's winter bonuses - Bloomberg
some good news from the election: the BNP loses all seats on Barking council - BBC [via @karinab]
will it be Tory+LibDems or Labour+LibDems+regionals? - Times - BBC
Cameron is offering a lot, but not real electoral reform
looks like no Tory majority - BBC
Swiss regulators try to head off "too big to fail" - Bloomberg
cotton fields in Saudi Arabia - ArabNews
C compilers disprove Fermat's Last Theorem - Regehr [via @NewtonMark]
(optimisation complicates termination analysis)
I can't help pro-science MP Evan Harris hold off the Tories - BadScience
in the electorate next door, the Lib Dems are running a Flaubert expert
insider trading on the London Stock Exchange - Guardian
how vote counting works in the UK - ABC
what the Tories would do to the UK's poor, disabled, and marginalised - Independent
New Labour is the parasite Toxoplasma gonii - Guardian
PIIGS - who owes what to who - NYT
the French really don't want anything bad to happen to Italy
I would so buy an Ace Double version of the Bible - Wikipedia
"cut to 20,000-word halves with the Old Testament retitled as 'Master of Chaos' and the New Testament as 'The Thing With Three Souls'."
colour survey results - xkcd
Deepwater Horizon leak demonstrates oil "externalities" - Economist
The Birth of Naval Architecture in the Scientific Revolution, 1600-1800 - Ships and Science [my review]
redrawing the map of Europe - Economist
Mearsheimer on possible futures for Israel - JerusalemFund - video
the Israeli blockade leaves Gaza in a dire state - Red Cross
An Introduction to Derivative Pricing - Financial Calculus [my review]
puritan and quaker ethics compared - Cozy
a look at the ethics of Goldman Sachs' different operations - CreditWritedowns
Nate Silver applies US-style modelling to the UK election - 538
I buy a bicycle and it is stolen the same day - Oxford Blog
no surprise: the Guardian backs the Liberal Democrats - Guardian
up to a third of albatross pairs are both female - Independent

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