August 2007
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Phoenix is an urban heat island -
CSM [via ProRev]
Microsoft attempts to buy Swedish recognition of OOXML -
Cworld [via /.]
a New Orleans doctor describes working during the flood -
MSNBC [via Majik]and getting arrested for her efforts
RFC 2822 and Australian telecommunications interception law -
LawFont [via EFA]
Geoffrey Robertson on why Australia needs a Bill of Rights -
SMH
a different approach to Afghanistan's narcotics problem -
IGCA [via Informed]
the stupid "Australian values" citizenship test -
Barista"Not only would most Federal politicians fail it without study, they would also find that study onerous. By my reckoning, at least ten percent of adult native English speakers would not be able to read the draft document, let alone answer it."
US district court rules Artistic License is a contract -
LawLifeSilicon [via OSWALD]potentially major implications for free software licenses
a history of Islam in Korea -
AsiaQ [via Far]
visualising development statistics: a video -
TED [via Far]
China's pollution nightmare -
IHTChina's greenhouse emissions are much more of a threat to the world than the PLA
Italians still remember Sacco and Vanzetti -
IHT
Benazir Bhutto
and Nawaz Sharif back in Pakistan?! -
ICGA
locking up asylum seekers: $500,000 per person -
SMH -
OxfamAustralia spent over $1 billion processing just 1700 refugees
there's a .cat domain?! -
www.cat [via CT]a three-letter TLD for Catalan sites
is depression a medical condition? -
3q
Bush is more like Chamberlain than Churchill -
CIF
unrest in Myanmar -
Economist"the generals may have made the fuel-price rises provocatively steep to set off unrest that would 'justify' preventing, once again, any serious political change"
more adventures in water privatisation: Dar es Salaam -
Guardian [via Accra]
the price of maize in Ghana: ICT in the developing world -
Accra
Anti-Defamation League finally accepts Armenian genocide -
Boston
now the Australian government wants to stop consumer boycotts -
SMH
first, the bank forecloses on your house... -
LeterFromHere [via SideS]... then you have to pay tax on the debt cancellation!
more on ad banner blindness -
Useitand unethical ways of getting around it
fibre via the sewer becomes a reality -
ITnews [via Link]I dunno if I'd want the job of terminating the fibres, though...
commonly typoed Australian tourist destinations -
SMH
Australia tries to ban praise of terrorism -
Age [via EFA]
essays on the 18th+19th century social history of Cornwall -
Cornish Cases [review]
can the British do better than the Russians in Afghanistan? -
Guardian
Beijing trials tough restrictions on private cars -
SMH"cars whose licence plates ended in even numbers were barred from driving yesterday"
a quiz about Indian independence -
EconomistI scored 9/12
TV censorship in Venezuela? -
Znet [via ProRev]
Sydney man charged over movie bootlegging -
DefendingScoundrelsapparently possession of a mobile phone with intent to use it to infringe copyright is a criminal offence punishable by 5 years imprisonment
the government must not be allowed to provide health care to children -
Krugman [via Cosma]... because it might do a good job of it
India can continue making generic drugs -
IHT [via OSWALD]
Daniel Dennett on computer chess -
TechRev [via /.]
adventures in US health care -
SameFacts [via Cosma]
Afghanistan: half-full or half-empty? -
ICGA [via Informed]
butlers afloat: the super-rich go to sea -
Guardian [via CT]"rising demand for skilled crew to work on billionaires' luxury vessels"
China is becoming a high-tech police state -
com [via EFA]
under siege in Basra -
Times [via AntiWar]
the US is locking up more people for longer -
Boston [via CT]"mass incarceration has now become a principal vehicle for the reproduction of racial hierarchy"
SCO goes down -
Groklaw"the court concludes that Novell is the owner of the UNIX and UnixWare copyrights"
they may finally have found HMAS Sydney -
SMH
Indonesia is burning textbooks about the 1965 coup -
SMH [via CR]
Juan Goytisolo's novel of youth between Franco and exile -
Marks of Identity [review]
Howard's latest Internet censorship vote-catcher -
Australian [via EFA]
Angus and Robertson tries to stiff small publishers -
SMHI'd boycott A&R;, but I never buy books from them anyway
now Baghdad's water supply is failing... -
Seattle [via ProRev]it's hitting 120F/49C and there's no power to run air-conditioning
China's military might is limited -
Economist
Baby Einstein videos
delay infant development -
Time"with every hour per day spent watching baby videos, infants learned six to eight fewer words"
Hamas has brought the rule of law back to Gaza -
Time
the British are leaving Basra in a mess -
MSNBC
testing fuel cells for ships -
PCworld [via Kaarne]
universities don't seem to contribute much to Linux these days -
LWNmore commercialisation? more narrowly-focused students?
it's the US who is arming Iraqi insurgents -
WP200,000 smallarms went missing in 2004 and 2005
the Oyu Tolgoi mine budget is twice Mongolia's government budget -
SMHand with money to be had, corruption runs rampant
the British Council pulls out of Europe -
Guardianand will deploy its libraries to the Muslim world instead
1400 dead, 20 million displaced in Bay of Bengal monsoon flooding -
Tele -
Guardian
there are still 25,000 Jews in Iran -
ICH [via Loewen]
pulling up surplus French vineyards -
IHT"annual consumption of wine in France fell 11% from 2001 to 2005"
Australian High Court allows government exceptional "defence powers" -
Aus [via EFA]dissenting Justice Kirby is not happy
fancy a job as an abstinence trainer? -
Nation [via RW]
adventures in leader election: the Doge of Venice -
HPmy honours thesis was on distributed leader election
how much does the Internet weigh? -
Discover
Israel's elite death squads -
AA
Albania tops income per tourist table?! -
Economist
another attempt at an electric car -
CNN [via /.]
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