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Last update: 19 March 2012 (RSS, twitter)

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

I'm feeling increasingly unwanted by the UK government - Guardian

Lost Books of Medieval China [my review]

talking to a financial advisor induces a rant - Oxford Blog

the rich and privileged are more likely to cheat, steal and lie - PNAS

but which way does the causality run here?

code is vital for reproducibility in scientific publication - Nature [via OSWALD]

"with some exceptions, anything less than the release of source programs is intolerable for results that depend on computation"

on translating Harry Potter into ancient Greek - Loxias

what happened to hypertext fiction? - NoCat [via @AndrewPam]

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