July 2011

InfoVis vs statistical graphics - StatCompGraph [PDF (start on page4) via Gelman]

how the Dutch and British cycling cultures diverged - Voleospeed [via CyclOx]

a guide to Australia's far left - Slackbastard

the RSPB and its nature reserves - Independent

the English Defence League make the BNP look like nice people - Guardian

monogamy as vegetarianism - Stranger [via Hornblower]

the best science the climate change deniers can come up with is woefully bad - RealClimate

the UK is a long way behind Australia when it comes to pensions/superannuation - Independent

The Shannon Scheme and the Electrification of the Irish Free State [my review]

"Tea Party Hobbits? No, sirs, we don't think so. Those motherfuckers are Orcs all the way." - Reject

even John McCain thinks the House Republicans have lost the plot - WP - LAtimes [via StephenMa]

Colbert on Norwegian Muslish Gunman's Islam-Esque Atrocity - YT [via JamesGifford]

more stupid than insensitive: McArdle on the Chinese rail crash - ChinaHearsay

visualising the evidence for dietary supplements - IiB

right-wing extremists doing contortions - EI - Guardian

Thomas Bartlett - Ireland: A History [my review]

British Columbia's carbon tax is working just fine - Economist

Royal Society papers now in Pirate Bay torrent - GigaOm [via Suzor] - PirateBay

defusing unexploded WWII ordnance in Germany - Bloomberg [vi MR]

Australian banks make their wills - ABC

lamb and beef are the most carbon-intensive foods - EWG [via RW]

the complications of "between a man and a woman" - LinuxMafia [via JLera]

if the British government were serious about cutting carbon emissions... - Monbiot

Khan Academy and teaching innovation - Wired [via RW]

the genetics of early Southeast Asia - DiscoverMag [via CLaird]

an update on my life in Oxford - Town, gown, or tourist?

the strange life of aristocrats in Heian Japan - EastAsianHistory

an Irish novel of a family and its frictions - Amongst Women [my review]

a craze for dogs in Iran - WSJ [via MR]

gun madness in New South Wales - SMH

Swiss party wants to ban Powerpoint - Euronext

Bruce Schneier as always talks sense on terrorism - Wired [via RW]

East Timorese flee Northern Island violence - Guardian

News International ex-CEO Brooks arrested - Guardian

a return to phenotypic screening for drug discovery? - Pipeline

burying the Union dead in the South - Far

cyclists in LA to race a plane flight - LAT [via Mertz]

Fisk: the Arab Spring becomes an Arab Summer - Independent

dividing Jerusalem - NYROB

Rana Mitter on some recent books on China - Guardian

the AAA bubble - FT [via MR]

Otto von Hapsburg has died - Economist

Paul Keating on the carbon tax - YT

Irish Flour Milling: A History 600-2000 [my review]

when pi billion dollars isn't enough - Reuters [via WMW]

isn't News International spying on the prime minister espionage? - Guardian

giant viruses in the tree of life - Loom

imposing an Israeli curriculum on schools in occupied East Jerusalem - EI

Niki: The Story of a Dog [my review]

amazing close-ups of sand grains - DailyMail [via Su]

videos from my gamelan group's concert in Durham last week - OGS

mathematics will only get you so far in politics - TTao

Australians care more about cows than about people?! - Conversation

no improvement with Google

improving the historical sea surface temperature record - RC

Facebook's MySQL problems - GigaOM

Cosma reviews Easley + Kleinberg's Networks, Crowds, and Markets - AmSci - Amazon

just got back from a week in Ireland

the rise of the jellyfish? - Monbiot

go Renault! - BrandRepublic