August 2010

Switzerland: A Village History [my review]

Australians are living in a housing bubble - Unconventional

why not have Europe join Switzerland? - Strange

trapped Chilean miners resemble a spacecraft or submarine crew - Guardian

an introduction to bootstrapping - AmSci

the ABC's Four Corners is a mouthpiece for the Cato Institute - ABC

Science Fiction and the Quest for Transcendence - The World Beyond the Hill [my review]

the case for Australian National Broadband Network as infrastructure - ABC

an attack on NICE and NHS cost-effectiveness - LibCon

boycotting Israel is starting to bite - AIC

we christen our new car with a trip to the Cotswolds - Guiting Power walk

NSW has the lowest Green vote of the Australian states/territories - ABC

medieval IP protection: book curses - GotMedieval

converted to Islam by a teenage French Jewish nudist - Independent

the myth of the bond bubble - PragCap

1929, the Great Depression, and the Bankers Who Broke the World - Lords of Finance [my review]

meet chlorophyll f - SciAm

Iceland plans "human" pylons - Telegraph

Zionist propagandists offer Wikipedia training courses - Guardian

the Anglo-Saxon chain of being - Oxford Blog

seven possible explanations for inflation-linked bond yields being negative - BondVigilantes

Richard Stallman likes parrots - ComputerWorld

a visit to a Chinese ghost town - WorldBank

an "Internet" access plan with 2MB and $5000/GB for overruns - macinations

boats and the Australian election - BatteriesRedux

I enjoyed the "Klee meets Picasso" exhibition in Bern - Zentrum Paul Klee

the Marmot Burrow - UCLA

a special report on the human genome - Economist