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September 2010

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blocking access to child porn just keeps it online longer - AK Zensur [via @NewtonMark]
home-ownership and tax deductions: the US and Australia - Mule
China's real estate boom: demolishing new buildings - ZeroHedge
forget $2 stores, Japan has 10 yen stores! - Mish
much of the EU allows tax-deductible contributions for war crimes - EI
The Story of Smallpox - Angel of Death [my review]
why I'm keeping my hands out of the FIRE - housing bubbles in Australia and the UK
why not allow a conscience vote on marriage? - SMH
atheists know more about religion than believers do - Pew [via TTao]
I could have gone overseas to do a PhD, back in 1991 - the road not taken
Murray Bail's last novel - The Pages [my review]
Australian housing: bubble waiting for a prick - Unconventional
judge a book by page 99? - Guardian
the most hated man in Israel? - Independent
Toxie is dead - NPR [via TTao]
Planet Money's pet toxic asset has carked it
the pope is a public health problem - BadScience
Turkey: A Modern History [my review]
hunter-gatherer childcare a good model - SciDaily
conserving yam diversity - SciAm
Why We Need to Manage Financial Risk Differently - Plight of the Fortune Tellers [my review]
the urban transport future? CityCar - MIT
semen as wonderdrug - SciAm
photographs of harvest mice - Guardian
Oxford and Sydney - comparative utility costs
Monckton: "misleading", "profoundly wrong", and "simply false" - Guardian
propeller-drive warplanes are on the way back - Economist
Pollard for Israeli settlement concessions!? - Guardian
an Algerian detective novel - Dead Man's Share [my review]
increasing income inequality in the United States - Slate
the paradox of Cuban creativity - Science20 [via RW]
a retrospective on six years in Alice Springs - Elsewhere
blog post: thoughts on being - "Danny"
another reason for free software on mobile computers - SMH
meet the Lion Man - ratmmjess
Philip Pullman is really down on present-tense novels - Telegraph
I've finally finished my Mekong Delta + Angkor Wat travelogue - Vietnam/Cambodia 2009
termites are eusocial cockroach-bacteria symbioses - Bayes [via Cosma]
BHP boss calls for price on carbon - ABC
the law of two feet: Darwin meets Dilbert - OpenSource
the constitutional changes in Turkey - Informed
octopus sex video - Pharyngula
GPS typo-squatting - Age
Australia back to 99% and 105% housing loans... - News
this is not going to end well
ants protect acacia trees from elephants - Care [via @MargaretKinney]
UK hotels sue TripAdvisor over bad reviews - Independent
Salo now legal on DVD in Australia, but not in cinemas - SMH
many Japanese centenarians have been dead for decades - Guardian
Goldman Sachs says Australian housing is not in a speculative bubble - BusinessSpectator
it's only 25-35% overvalued...
it's getting harder for Australians to work in the UK - 1stContact
a trip last weekend - Uffington White Horse, Stonehenge, Avebury
racial analysis of dating profiles - OkCupid [via Janine]
six lives - Pioneers in Medicine and Their Impact on Tuberculosis [my review]
Playboy puts Madame Bovary on its front cover - Independent
the UK's tax system is a bit creaky - BBC
why is this my least popular review? - The Company of Ghosts
my reviews of now totally antiquated computer books attract more readers
murder and/of/by language in Martinique - Solibo Magnificent [my review]
African invention - AfriGadget [via @karinab]
do cars have hair? - a classic car show at Blenheim Palace
Andrew Tridgell on patent defence - SWPat
I missed the Vintage Computer Festival - TNMOC
eat rabbit justice, hound - GotMedieval

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