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March 2012

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yes, Sydney should revive the terrace! - Domain
are heads of state allowed to plagiarise? - Economist
PLSO Computational Biology starts publishing Wikipedia pages - PLOSCompBiol
bike mechanic bleg: what diagnosis for a three-speed (SA hub) that's squeaking in first gear?
Krugman versus Keen on Minsky - RWER
Irish residential property prices are still falling - PropertyWire - Independent
I hope petrol hoarding doesn't lead to any fires - Guardian
Paul Vixie on cleaning up after DNS Changer and other mass security compromises - CircleID
Breytenbach's dream fables and surreal paintings - All One Horse [my review]
solar power is eating traditional utilities' lunch, ending the mid-day price peak - RenewEconomy
political rumours abound in China - BBC
Dick Cheney should be given a presidential pardon - CT
my term for Freakonomics-style economics - "drive-by regression"
in Florida, it's legal to shoot people with the wrong skin colour wearing the wrong clothing - Atlantic
do your students indulge in parrot phrasing? - LL
when physicists get old - SMBC [via Cosma]
the white saviour industrial complex - Atlantic
an overview of its politics - Pakistan: A Hard Country [my review]
running a car in the UK has got cheaper over the last 20 years - RAC
UK tax changes look pretty regressive to me - Guardian
thinking about upgrading my netbook to an 11.6" ultrabook - Asus UX21, Samsung Series 9, Macbook Air, ... any reccommendations?
I want something robust, lightweight, with a long battery life; CPU and SSD need to be better than my Aspire One, but aren't so critical
the rise of Mormon feminists - Guardian
"on her 30th birthday she did the wildest thing she could think of: she ordered a cup of coffee... within a few months she had sex"
Australia's carbon tax needs to be high enough to stop brown coal development! - Age
Dorothy Sayers' classic mystery set in an Oxford college - Gaudy Night [my review]
Doonesbury explains the Republican abortion laws - GoComics
Taibbi looks at Bank of America - RollingStone
the Australian "State of the Climate" - CSIRO
what happened to _why: learning about Ruby - Slate [via RW]
no more printed Brittanica - Guardian
the radical roots of polyamory - Slate [via @RoseanneB]
it's like having a flat-earther present a geography show - MM
How the World's Poor Live on $2 a Day - Portfolios of the Poor [my review]
dubious books: "Be Bold With Bananas" - BookRiot
Mongolia and its mining boom - UBpost
the complexities of dragonfly mating - NatGeo
Karl Ove Knausgaard on writing about his family - Guardian
(I have a copy of A Time for Everything waiting to be read)
background on Uganda and Invisible Children - AfricanArguments
failing to reform Australia's classification/censorship system - GeordieGuy
Norforce: the largely Aboriginal army defending northern Australia - Independent
Sydney-siders should come to sunny - and mostly dry - England - SMH
Terry Tao on Elsevier and the cost of knowledge - TT
so many stupidity and obfuscation by climate change deniers - NYROB
the Gates Foundation does some dodgy things - TechRights
too late, the mainstream press calls the Canadian housing bubble - MacLeans [via MB]
historical comparisons for current ocean acidification - Wired
conflicts in a bourgeois family in 1930 Korea - Three Generations [my review]
online backups for the truly paranoid - tarsnap
graphical representation of the history of science fiction - BiblioKlept [via Cosma]
book review is decent intro to nonlinear time series - Cosma
Raspberry Pi and teaching computer science - Guardian
an interview with Chinese intellectual Ran Yunfei - NYROB
dear deer in Scotland - Monbiot
the modern history of Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia - The Caucasus: An Introduction
meetings are bad for your IQ - Guardian
but where does one find a marmoset?
a look at the UK's most visible payday lender - Guardian

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