Thursday, August 03, 2006

Back in Jakarta

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lgf: Death Cult Parade in Jakarta If you missed this LGF post, you really ought to see it.

More bad news from Asia

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Southern Thailand beset by bombings, arson | csmonitor.com Some other bloggers have noted that while terrorism in Southern Thailand is repor...

Women and men hit hard in Aceh

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The Jakarta Post - Women, the poor singled out by Aceh sharia enforcers: ICG This is a short article on the tough application of sharia law ...
Wednesday, August 02, 2006

Back to Hollywood for a minute

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TIME.com: Where Have All the Cary Grants Gone? -- Aug. 7, 2006 -- Page 1 I think this essay is correct in identifying a trend in Hollywood o...

More than an apology needed

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ABC sorry for bias on children's show | Media | The Australian The bias and plain errors in the original ABC story were so obvious it re...
Tuesday, August 01, 2006

Why is John Howard popular with younger voters?

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There have been quite a few images in the Australian media recently of John Howard being accosted by enthusiatic young supporters. Matt P...
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Under the rocks and stones/there is water underground

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Looking for lunar caves as a possible place to set up a permanent colony on the Moon got brief mention here recently . One or two space sci...

About Mel

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Unfortunately (as I don't want reader's thinking I just made this up), I have never mentioned before on this blog something that I h...

Another good Neo Neocon post

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neo-neocon: And what does Ariel Sharon have to say about it all? This one deals with Ariel Sharon's views on the basic issue behing the...

No need to actually read him now

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The New Yorker: The Critics: Books Don't know much about Samuel Beckett and his works? Me neither, but I know more now having read the ...
Monday, July 31, 2006

Weather talk

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Reuters AlertNet - US hurricane expert stirs global warming debate Seems it's still not clear whether hurricanes are worse than before. ...

The strange world of the placebo

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Nothing can cure you - Health - Times Online The link is to an interesting story on the placebo effect, and in particular how it is a large ...
Saturday, July 29, 2006

Brisbane rainbow

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Friday, July 28, 2006

On the Shia/Sunni divide

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The Tablet The link is to a pretty good article in The Tablet talking about the Shia in the Middle East, and what the future may hold. As a...

The superconducting future

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Science & Technology at Scientific American.com: A Power Grid for the Hydrogen Economy This is a very futuristic sounding idea for a sup...

The Economist discusses "proportionality"

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The ethics of war | Mind those proportions | Economist.com It's of some interest.

Have spacesuit will travel

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New Scientist SPACE - Future spacesuits could heal themselves The spacesuit would be self-healing because its innermost layer, which provide...

Insects displaying common sense

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ScienceDaily: Male Praying Mantids Prefer Not To Be Victims Of Sexual Cannibalism Gotta love a headline like that. From the article: Lelit...

My suggestion for the Iranian problem

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With regards to Iran and its nuclear program, I wonder whether the use of an electro magnetic pulse via either a nuclear explosion or a conv...
Thursday, July 27, 2006

A way to escape the end of the universe?

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[hep-th/0607137] Some notes on the Big Trip There's some unusual stuff to be found at arXiv. Can't say that I had heard of the "...