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June 2010

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predictable nonsense about Gillard's "lifestyle" - ABC
Gillard improves on Hawke's agnosticism - ABC
"while she greatly respects other people's religious views, she does not believe in God"
Dalrymple on Afghanistan - NewStatesman
"It is difficult to imagine the current military adventure ending quite as badly as the First Afghan War"
Barbara Nadel's Istanbul murder mystery - Deep Waters [my review]
I really like the Times but, as with the NYT, registration lost me - ArsTechnica
Mark Newton's excellent submission to JS Committee on CyberSafety - gov.au [PDF]
the end of the tuna - NYT [via @MargaretKinney]
adventures with Polynesian insect pests - Far
Philosophy and the Practice of Bayesian Statistics - Cosma
Bayes theorem doesn't get around the problem of induction
time for China's workers to get higher wages - CAing
conflicts over the Nile's water - Guardian
US prison inmates were claiming homebuyer tax credits - CNBC
new law would ban loveless marriages - Onion [video via Mertz]
pressure on food companies over palm oil suppliers - Economist
Gillard to become prime minister? - ABC
freedom matters: moving from Mac to Linux - Salon
cease-and-desist letter for sale of unicorn meat - ThinkGeek [via LisaN]
a plethora of esoteric ETFs - Bloomberg
sperm whale faeces feed phytoplankton, removing CO2 - Independent
Iceland rewrites media laws to support Wikileaks - Independent
Turkish censors take on Google and YouTube - Register [via @NewtonMark]
Ashkenazi-Sephardi and orthodox-secular conflicts in Jerusalem - Independent
Penrith by-election result suggests the NSW government is toast - ABC
life in the UK on ten pounds a week - Guardian
I've written up the Phnom Penh part of my trip last year to - Vietnam and Cambodia
ethnic violence in Kyrgyzstan - Independent
Paul Romer and using "charter cities" to drive development - Atlantic
Grantham says an Australian house price crash is inevitable - Herald Sun
"prices would need to come down by 42 per cent to return to the long-term trend"
healthcare in Rwanda - NYT
Salo unbanned again, but wowsers call for its rebanning - SMH
an obituary for economist Wynne Godley - Guardian [via DebtDeflation]
allowing gay marriage is easier than adopting Christianity - Reuters
background on Neshat's film Women Without Men - Guardian
see also my review of the Parsipur novel
suicide bombers don't learn from experience - Atlantic
on attribution and models - RealClimate
The Spirit Level: Why Equality is Better for Everyone [my review]
Saudi Arabia will open airspace for Israeli bombers to reach Iran - Times
porn prevents sex crimes - Scientist [via @msnaughty]
"What does correlate highly with sex offense is a strict, repressive religious upbringing."
a disturbed Hungarian family - Tranquility [my review]
analysis of Green chances of taking Melbourne in the next Aus election - ABC
they took Brighton Pavilion in the UK even with FPTP!
Japan wants government bonds to have sex appeal - Bloomberg [via turtles]
Erdogan leads Turkey as new power in the Middle East - Independent
foxes are much less dangerous than dogs - Guardian
most identity thefts are committed by parents - CNN
Turkish Reflections: The Biography of a Place [my review]
declaration on cetacean rights - OxfordAnimalEthics
archaeologists dig up modern art - Telegraph
photos of the Hunza valley landslide/lake - Boston [via Chapati]
culture as a weapon system (for the US in Iraq) - MERIP [via Chapati]
I'm not looking forward to 12+ hours getting home tomorrow
the largest part of it spent getting from Luton to Oxford - the UK bus system just isn't as good as Turkey's
the Israeli blockade of Gaza is arbitrary and petty - Economist
coriander, ginger and nutmeg are prohibited; aniseed, cinnamon nad black pepper are allowed
empathy has drastically declined in US college students, since 2000 - PscyhToday

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