Pathologically Polymathic (Blog)
Web pages I've been reading (and some web pages I've created)
Last update: 4 December 2011 (RSS, twitter)
democracy is dictatorship, freedom is totalitarian -
EI
not much transparency in Stockholm rental market -
TheLocal
the climate change deniers are really scraping the barrel -
Guardianthis guy sounds even kookier than Monckton
whenever I think Richard Stallman is paranoid, reality corrects me -
EnGadget
yet another translation of Madame Bovary -
Guardian [via Jenny]
dependencies between Linux packages look like predator-prey interactions -
Arstechnica [via OSWALD]
book publishers are cutting their own throats with DRM -
Stross
the UK government is taking from the poor to give to the rich -
Independent
testing the tennis-racket theorem -
TTao -
YT
markets allocate resources efficiently,
based on purchasing power -
Cosma
don't mention the R word -
BBC
a novel about Iran in World War II -
Savushun [my review]
IT is part of everything an organisation does, and shouldn't be a separate fiefdom -
Register
the UK education secretary is 400 years behind the times -
Guardian
Kindle libraries can disappear without warning -
Consumerist
now no one wants German bunds either... this is going to get ugly -
Bloomberg
"Environmental Accounting for Pollution in the United States Economy" -
AmEconRev [free]with empirical estimates of the economic impacts of air pollution damages by industry
US prosecutions for bank fraud have
dropped since 2007 -
EconView [via @phaseit]
wind farms will reach grid parity by 2016, even without carbon costs -
BNEF"the best wind farms in the world already produce power as economically as coal, gas and nuclear generators"
how cyclepaths can kill cyclists -
Voleospeed [via CyclOx]"it is not necessary for us to dangerously experiment with cyclists on busy roundabouts in the UK. The solutions are known."
Spain's property crash threatens its banks -
Bloomberg
having lodgers is much more common in the UK than in Australia -
SMH"more than three-quarters of Australian households now have one or more spare bedrooms"
Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters -
IPCC-WG2only the summary is available so far, and the graphics in that aren't properly integrated
Iceland in recession -
Guardian"sales of condoms have fallen 25%, most probably because a packet of Durex costs twice as much as it used to"
dams and mining can cause earthquakes -
PopSci [via @PhaseIt] -
EnvEarthSci [free]"Evidence for anthropogenic surface loading as trigger mechanism of the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake"
private jets allowed to bypass customs, immigration -
Guardian
bipedal striking and mating conflict - yet another "just so" story -
PLOSone(I really should write a review of Stoczkowski's Explaining Human Origins)
Minsky's Financial Instability Hypothesis and Holling's Pathology of Natural Resource Management -
MacroResilience [via Patrick]
Bangkok gets the attention, but Cambodia is flooding too -
ABC [via CLP]
satellite simulation improves climate/weather model evaluation -
AmMetSoc [PDF via Skeptical]"simulating the observations of multiple satellite instruments enables quantitative evaluation of clouds, humidity, and precipitation processes in diverse numerical models"
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