Tuesday, September 05, 2006

More Adams rubbish

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Hero to pols who were left right out | Phillip Adams | The Australian Phillip Adams has yet another reality challenged column in the Austral...
Monday, September 04, 2006

Steve Irwin and the speed of Wiki

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Steve Irwin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Steve Irwin's unusual death was reported here (Brisbane) at around 2.30pm. It looks like...
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Mao's reputation continues its dive

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China | Big bad wolf | Economist.com This is a short review of a new book that continues the revisionism of Mao's reputation (in a dow...

Medical marijuana wars

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TCS Daily - The Straight Dope on 'Medical Marijuana' Also from TCS, an article about the "medical marijuana" wars in the U...

IEDs in Iraq

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TCS Daily - Roadside Bombs: The Hydra Effect This article at Tech Central goes into technical detail about how roadside bombs in Iraq are ma...

An odd comparison

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Martyrs' widows wait outside doors to paradise - World - theage.com.au This short story about how Hezbollah looks after the widows of &q...
Sunday, September 03, 2006

About Iran and Iraq

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Crime boss brokered nuclear-delivery missile sale to Iran - Sunday Times - Times Online Further to the concerns about Iran: THE British gove...
Friday, September 01, 2006

Modern annoyances

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Here's a few things I have been saving up to complain about: * It seems impossible to buy a simple set of plain Lego blocks anymore. (Du...

Reasons to worry about Iran

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Lateline - ABC The link is to a transcript of an interview on last night's Lateline that was about particular intelligence from 2004 tha...
Thursday, August 31, 2006

Move on, nothing to see here

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Former weapons inspector disappointed with handling of concerns. 31/08/2006. ABC News Online ABC's 7.30 Report and Lateline tonight both...

Researchers with too much time on their hands

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ScienceDaily: Brain Scan Of Nuns Finds No Single 'God Spot' In The Brain, Study Finds I'm sure I've commented before about t...
Wednesday, August 30, 2006

A bad sign for Democrats

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The Democrats and religious voters. By Amy Sullivan - Slate Magazine Just recently I posted about how the Catholic vote for Bush in 2004 was...

Newsweek on the new childlessness

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Why More Married Couples Are Going Childless - Newsweek: International Editions - MSNBC.com Maybe it doesn't add much to what Mark Steyn...

So that's why we elect people to parliament

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MP attacked on suicide speech | Herald Sun It's obvious, isn't it. We elect politicians so they can promote methods of suicide from...

Communist monk victory

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The Japan Times Online - Monk with JCP fliers ruled not trespassing This story highlights some odd things about Japan: * Buddhist monks can...
Tuesday, August 29, 2006

Japan needs babies

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Rural Japan | Where have all the young men gone? | Economist.com For more on the almost certain demographic decline of Japan, have a read of...

Ghosts in the Salon

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Ghost world | Salon Books Its politics are always predictable, but some of the reviews and cultural articles in Salon can be OK. This articl...

Nuttiest theory ever?

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CIA behind Bali attack: Bashir | NEWS.com.au Indonesian Muslim cleric Bashir comes up with his very own theory as to what exactly blew up th...
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About Lindzen

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Seed: The Contrarian An interesting story on Richard Lindzen, the global warming skeptic. (Although to what degree this remains a fair titl...

Cars for the future

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The Race to 100 MPG - Popular Science See the article above for a few ideas about how to make cars that can do 100 miles per gallon (to go b...