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June 2011

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the Cambridge Union debates the merits of pornography - CUS [video]
modelling social influence is hard - Cosma
the sociology of British cycling - BikeHub
campaign for 30km/hr residential speed limits Europe-wide - Road [via CyclOx]
the speedup of America - MotherJones
no plans to scrap the Australian 5c coin - ABC
the UK really should get rid of its 1p and 2p coins
iPhones are made in China, but value comes from Japan, Germany, etc. - Atlantic [via @phaseit]
one of Australia's best anti-censorship campaigners is back in action - SomebodyThinkOfTheChildren
some examples of student debt insanity in the US - CNN
Digital Atlas of Indonesian History [my review]
Daily Mail tries to silence critic with libel law - LibCon
lost children after World War II - TNR
Oxford to get integrated bus ticketing and timetable! - OxTimes
my Oxford blog - cycling and speed limits
bacterial genetic diversity: an evolutionarily stable three-way - Wired
Australia to remove cigarette-packet advertising - NewSci
Monckton is a fruitloop; anyone taking him seriously loses any credibility themselves - Age
a German perspective on the euro crisis - Spiegel
the US is full of hidden aliens - Guardian
how to get health care in the US? rob a bank - Guardian
cycling on the rise in London, Top Gear bigots notwithstanding - CycLondon [via Grist]
how English is influencing writers in other languages - NYROB
inalienable/unalienable - LL
Turkey warns Syria - Hz
first ever direct English translation of Lem's Solaris - Guardian [via @maudnewton]
is Turkey back-sliding on women's rights? - Atlantic [via MR]
Buddhism in the Modern World: Adaptations of an Ancient Tradition [my review]
Jerusalem court sentences dog to death by stoning - Yahoo [via @johannhari101]
in Australia, "X-Rated adult pornography is a non-core police activity" - Yahoo [via @NewtonMark]
anarcho-surrealist comedians are running Reykjavik - Guardian
a film about primary education in Kenya - Guardian
"former Mau Mau freedom fighter Kimani N'gan'ga Maruge was 84 when he first went to school"
the US has "comprehensively insane" sex offender laws - MLite
Australian solar power stations - ABC
a week in the life of Terry Pratchett - Independent
photographer - Caroline M. Skilbred
I only knew her briefly, on the My Four Thirds web site, but she gave friendly and helpful advice
making bricks using bacteria - Grist
Israel's security requires the arrest of young children in the middle of the night? - EI
a tv show before the books are finished? - A Song of Ice and Fire [my review] - YT [trailer]
more on death threats against Australian climate scientists - CanberraTimes
and the opposition "science spokesperson" is happily denying reality
loony denial of the Rwandan genocide - Pambazuka [via Monbiot]
more on the electric BMW C1 - GizMag
I wonder what the range of this is?
this is what inner-city personal transport should be - BMW C1 [via @shermozle]
(or keep the inner city for pedestrians and cyclists and use these everywhere else urban)
photos of Australian coal train crash - Sentimental
a report on the rioting in Athens - BBC
"the Greek state is beginning to lose its grip"
geothermal energy is big business in Indonesia - Bloomberg [via Grist]
a tv show before the books are finished? - A Song of Ice and Fire [my review] - YT [trailer]
but from the trailer it actually looks quite decent
my Oxford blog - between the bicycle and the electric car
Indochina: An Ambiguous Colonization 1858-1954 [my review]
lists of goods provide insight into early modern European history - Boston [via Stable]
even in Germany cycling infrastructure is underfunded - Spiegel [via CyclOx]
I just tried to give money to two Australian charities: both had non-functional online donation forms!
aggregate debt and its second derivative - DebtDeflation
more thoughts on Google's search algorithm challenges - my Oxford blog
the Python packaging system (Linux and OSX/Windows) - AOSAbook [via @Phaseit]
average crime novel victim count is 8?! - Guardian
a median would be a lot more interesting here
a big election win for Erdogan in Turkey - Guardian
but Kurdish and Syrian problems loom
Japanese memories of the Indonesian Revolution - Far
Helen Garner's novel of death and dying - The Spare Room [my review]
P.D. James' brief overview of the genre - Talking About Detective Fiction [my review]
Google no longer likes my book reviews :-( - my Oxford blog
a obituary for travel writer Patrick Leigh Fermor - Guardian [via @phaseit]
the challenges of GPU computing - HPCwire [via @phaseit]
the productivity commission on carbon abatement - Crikey
"direct action programs are a grotesque waste of taxpayers’ money compared to an ETS"
analog literals in C++ - Eelis
a tale of two cooks in Cameroon - Far
an academic study of Scientology - VV
some great Iceland photos - CreativeOverflow
brings back memories of my 2003 Iceland trip
in the US they feed arsenic to chickens - Grist
Richard Dreyfuss dramatises the iTunes EULA - CNet
crossing the Himalaya - sea level to Everest in 8 hours - PlanetEarth [via @MargieKinney]
how Settlers of Catan went mainstream - Atlantic
I thought it was pretty popular back in 2000!
using "apps" to teach history - Guardian [via RW]
Malcolm Turnbull on a kamikaze mission? - ABC [via @robbieg8s]
or at least buying way-out-of-the-money call options...
the Internet Archive is storing physical books as well - Archive
antibiotic resistance in Clostridium difficile - ASM
"In the pre-antibiotic era, C. diff infections were unknown"
photos of new species from Madagascar - Guardian
a mystery set in a Welsh mining village in 1926 - Strike for a Kingdom [my review]
single-home levee - PopSci [via MR]
how pharmaceutical advertising corrupts medical journals - AmericanScholar [via @RatbagsDotCom]
nuclear power is not cheap - Grist
insurance - or covering the costs of occasional Chernobyl/Fukushima events - is a killer
Larry Flynt is one screwed-up guy - Independent
a bearish view of UK property - WSJ
German and British differences in smalltalk and politness - BBC
Tony Abbott explains why a carbon tax is better - YT [via Tampion]
more inequality in the US graphics - anticap [via Stable]
delusionists comparing themselves to Galileo are delusional - SMH
Anwar al-Awlaki and Ohio versus Brandenburg - Greenwald
a geologist on "the Anthropocene" - Spiegel [via Ethos]

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