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links from brussels

George Monbiot on UK business subsidies
Academic success depends more on self-discipline than IQ (Research Digest blogspot)
100 sposobów na zglebienie tajemnic umyslu (Polish Mind Hacks)
Hayek’s “The Road to Serfdom”…in cartoons!
Infiltration.org – ‘The zine about going places you’re not supposed to go, like tunnels, abandoned buildings, rooftops, hotel pools and more’
‘ “First they came for the Jews and I did not speak out because I was not a Jew.” What sort of a person will dare to speak out? Probably not a perfect one. Maybe even an idiot.’ – Article by Michael Leunig in the Melbourne Age (cartoon he refers to is here)
V.S. Naipaul, “B. Wordsworth” (1959) (from ‘Miguel Street’)
So it’s only natural that an intellectual journey around the Fifth Amendment should include a side trip into the economics of faking orgasm. (Steven E. Landsburg has written better columns, but not as quotable as this one)
ranprieur.com
The Tribe of Anthropik is a small, loosely-defined group with ambitions of forming a functional hunter-gatherer tribe in the future – The Thirty Theses of Civilisation and its collapse

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link roundup 28 dec 05

Great news everyone! Christopher Hitchens says we can debate the Iraq war!
Kurt Vonnegut’s new book (check out David Kleist’s review)
‘Life was genuinely exciting for Neil until it was brought to his attention that the intense emotions of his early years were no work of private magic but the trite and cliched experiences of millions of cosmetically-different others spread across axes of both time and place and in addition simply the product of hormonal imbalances’ (upsideclown.com)
mix and match your own justifications for the restriction of civil liberties (Crooked Timber)
‘When you drive, society becomes an obstacle. …The more you drive, the more bloody-minded and individualistic you become’ George Monbiot thinks there is an inherant connection between driving and the right-wing
Pinters Nobel Prize acceptance speech
Everything You Need to Know About Writing Successfully – in Ten Minutes, by Stephen King
‘Running the Risk’ – Will Jennings shows how risk has become an integral element of the Olympic experience
‘Persuasive guessing has been at the core of leadership for so long–for all of human experience so far–that it is wholly unsurprising that most of the leaders of this planet, in spite of all the information that is suddenly ours, want the guessing to go on, because now it is their turn to guess and be listened to.’ (Vonnegut on In These Times)
Zoe Williams on Oxbridge: ‘the sine qua non of these universities’ alumni is that they are pushy bleeders with a groundless sense of entitlement’
‘The Media Lounge are a group of audio-visual creatives blessed with prodigious editing skills and painfully short attention spans.’
‘We know that the most dangerous human trait is an absence of self-doubt’ George Monbiot in a column on a study which found higher (christian) religiousity was associated with higher societal dysfunction.

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Links: dec 9th 2005

Happy Your Girlfriend Sells Batteries On The Subway Day! (on the fantastic girlsarepretty.com).
Meet the new plan (on the fantastic fafblog)>
Wikipedia: The map is not the territory
‘no one is watching, no one is guiding, no one is judging’ Polly Toynbee bashes narnia on behalf of atheists everywhere
Singing: ‘Universal participation in that grand incineration’ (asteroid could end life on earth in 2036) We’ll all go together when we go
Principles of software quality (are the same as inspired unix apparently)
Redevelopment means luxury flats and stepping on local people in london too
A true-blue green Guardian profile of Zac Goldsmith, (prospective tory?)
Gold Price in US Dollars four years before and four years after George Bush’s ‘Axis of Evil’ speech
Strassmann, B.I. (1999). Menstrual synchrony pheromones: cause for doubt. Human Reproduction, Vol. 14, No. 3, 579-580.
Lunar influences on the reproductive cycle in women

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links: nov 28th 2005

‘It’s an awesome achievement for one family to produce two of the four most unpopular presidents in modern times. If there were a Mount Rushmore for rejection, the Bushes would have half the place to themselves’
The Thatcher Era – the essential statistics (frivolous web app)
Matt on the new puritans (interconnected.org)
Tufte ‘The Cognitive Style of Powerpoint
www.sheffield-aikido.co.uk – My club, a traditional aikido club in Sheffield, based at Sheffield Hallam University
Observer profile of Lord Winston
mikedewar.org has been updated – check out the cycle catharsis section, make a submission
Gordon Burn on the tricky relationship between writers and alcohol (The Guardian). Thinking about George Best. Why not drink yourself to death? Apart from the obvious selfishness, if you’re a nihilist, why not?
‘How I was brought up and my imaginary friend means more to me than anything you can ever say or do.’ Penn Jillette on some of the attitudes that atheism helps you avoid
Viral advert for Carling Draught. Very funny
The dwarf-elf/ninja-pirate personality style axes. I’m fairly convinced that i’m an elf-pirate myself

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links: still not tired of measuring and truth

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Post date November 20, 2005
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R.P.Worden (1995). A Speed Limit For Evolution. Journal of Theoretical Biology, 176, 137 – 152.
‘The New World Order’, Tom Judt in the New York Review of Books depressing essay on the UN, international order and the militarisation of US government
US army uses chemical weapons on civilians in Iraq (Official report here, see p26)
Zigmunt Bauman on life in the liquid modern age (The Guardian)
Mark Ravenhill on writing for TV (The Guardian)
What God really said to Moses (Filthy Radical Show on evolution vs creation, genius!)
How blogging will change politics (The Guardian)
‘In the long run, the utility of all non-Free software approaches zero’ (diveintomark on moveabletype)
‘What routine torture tells people is that they have to be afraid of the police. The effect does not require for most people to be tortured, or even most of those arrested. For fear to work, it’s only necessary to understand that no one is safe. But it does require that some people be tortured, or else the lesson gets forgotten.’
‘So how do we know homeopathy doesn

Links 1st of November 2005

Post author By tom
Post date November 1, 2005

Use Oyster cards to track your movements? Of course we could…
ecotalk.org.uk ‘This is a place where you can download or stream mp3 recordings of ecology related speeches and seminars.’
Inteview with Vonnegut in the Washington Post
‘Take away the right to say fuck and you take away the right to say fuck the government.’ and other quotes by Lenny Bruce
The ideas interview: Faisal Devji – John Sutherland meets a historian who argues that violence is less important to al-Qaida than ethics (The Guardian)
Suma is the largest equal pay organisation in the country
Oona king on New Orleans, and racism in america
‘A leading architect of the intelligent-design movement defended his ideas in a federal courtroom on Tuesday and acknowledged that under his definition of a scientific theory, astrology would fit as neatly as intelligent design.’ (NY Times)
Googling for the origins of the phrase “carve nature at the joints” turns up this lucid, engaging, insightful discussion of Emergence by Shalizi
West Sees Glittering Prizes Ahead in Giant Oilfields (Times headline, July 11, 2002)
‘The Postmodern Bible will be multimedia and multi-temporal. It will allow multiple paths and multiple uses. Each reader will make what they want of it and take what they need from it.’
The only debate on intelligent design worth having
Bright Eyes – ‘When the president talks to god’
How much is your blog worth? (a hypothetical $21,452.52 in this case)
‘It is not too late to save the intellectual heart of the nation, but harsh and decisive action is needed now.’
To make strange, to defamiliarise, or Ostranenie, in Russian
To speak ‘truth to power’ is a Quaker phrase (excerpts here). Not everyone is a fan
Zoe Williams is funny clever and political (Like normal, in the guardian)
Matt Webb on attenuation/attention (astounding)

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Earthworm Gardens

Ladies and Gentlemen, may I introduce Earthworm Gardens at www.earthwormgardens.co.uk. My good friend Graeme Dow is starting a business to help you with all your gardening and landscaping needs. He’s based in the Bristol area and specialises in creative, organic and permaculture work. Hurrah!

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Links for 5th of October 2005

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Post date October 5, 2005
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measurement units for the 21st century: the Walt Scale of Crass Commercialization.
The ‘Active Learning for Active Citizenship South Yorkshire website is a dynamic site designed to be used by active citizens and learners. And, since none of us ever stop learning, that means you!’
Shop for ‘Buy Nothing Day’ merchandise
subverts: billboard talk back
The hidden tribes of the British Library (The Guardian)
Myra Moss
Compassion or solidarity? The purposes of documentary photography (CT)
Wikipedia: Heteronormativity
John Stewart on CNN’s Crossfire
Where does your electricity come from? (UK domestic suppliers)
‘this may well be the tweeest song and video ever. it’s more twee than belle and sebastian having a special birthday picnic. but it’s great.’ (thanks andy)
Is the Threat of Terrorism, Bio-Chemical Attacks, Hazardous Materials, Hurricanes, Floods, Tornadoes, Landslides, and Earthquakes keeping you awake at night?
‘If you give people power, they will use it’ Great Economist article on the debarcle of the ejection of Walter Wolfgang from the Labour conference (sorry ‘Premium content’)
The police abuse terror and harassment laws to penalise dissent while we insist civil liberties are our gift to the world ‘No act has been passed over the past 20 years with the aim of preventing antisocial behaviour, disorderly conduct, trespass, harassment and terrorism that has not also been deployed to criminalise a peaceful public engagement in politics.’ (Monbiot, The Guardian)

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Links for 25th of September 2005

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Post date September 25, 2005

Good lives: The people making a difference new series in the Guardian
cathrynbardsley.co.uk – Updated photo galleries
‘You don’t have naming rights’ (leunig)
League of stressful life events
Awesomely designed web gallery of awesome Burning Man 2005 art
‘I hated going to weddings. All the grandmas would poke me saying “You’re next”. They stopped that when I started doing it to them at funerals.’ (bash.org)
Funny – from Get Your War On
beautifully worked out illustrations of the gestalt grouping principles
regender the web
Interesting discussion of feminism and privilaged women (crookedtimber)
Mind Games: Psychological Warfare Between Therapists and Scientists – excellent article about the differences between psychological science and psychotherapy
Article from the washington post on how low support for war in Iraq is if compared to other concerns
‘Of course the people don’t want war…’ etc
‘Storytelling is built into the fabric of the brain and if it’s not our own story we are attending to we readily latch on to others.’ (Paul Broks in The Times)

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links for 17th september 2005

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Post date September 17, 2005
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US strategy of preemptive use of nuclear weapons Of course, if you nuke the ‘WMDs’ then not finding them after inspection doesn’t look so suspicious…
‘You are now chatting with god’
Robin Cook’s resignation speech
‘George Bush Doesn’t Care About Black People’ Kanye West goes off-script on NBC
George Bush Doesn’t Care About Black People.mp3
it’s Pirate Jesus!
it’s Giant Squid!
songmeanings.net – where i learnt that ‘Old Soul Song’ by Bright Eyes is about the anti-war demo in New York on 15th of February 2003
‘Anyone here think they know what a tough guy is?’
Gloria Steinem is excellent in the Guardian
Adblock is so cool. Removing all the adverts from my browsing restores a sense of calm i didn’t know i’d lost

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links for sept 11th 2005

Post author By tom
Post date September 11, 2005

Theatre of the Emerging American Moment. Clunky write-up, great plays.
The sociology of disasters (discussion on CT about New Orleans)
Yeppies, the generation Y equivalent of the yuppiese ‘less single-mindedly materialistic than their predecessors, but their style is every bit as consumerist.’
What benefits has medical research on animals had? (The Guardian. Includes a list)
Dawkins on intelligent design ‘in a class on 20th-century European history, who would demand equal time for the theory that the Holocaust never happened?’
World’s top 100 Universities (I work at number 65)
What kind of man would go to occupied Baghdad to set up a newspaper?
Mix drinks. Make cocktails. Be Careful
oldversion.com ‘because newer is not always better’
Ben Goldacre’s Guardian ‘Bad Science’ column now has it’s own website
Okay, so the revolution will be televised

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Links for 21st of August 2005

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Post date August 31, 2005

A good summary of why latex is better than word for academics (or anyone producing large documents with figures or equations in).
Andrew Robert’s Latex tutorials
‘Someone who enjoys their job will spread happiness around. The more successful you are, the more testosterone you produce. And if you are good at what you do, it?s more likely to be “Hey ? let?s party”‘
Newsfromnowhere.org.uk – radical and community bookshop. Does online ordering. Like amazon, but wearing black.
New GO SHEFFO website. Still the coolest fanzine in the world, and now with a more usable website
In 1649 To St George’s Hill A ragged band they called the Diggers Came to show the people’ s will
Guardian profile of Robert Trivers by Andrew Brown
Free party in Utah shut down by the army – these guys were so busted. SWAT, helicopters, assault rifles, tear gas, beatings.
The Central Limit Theorum (with cool applets)
Things I hate in other people’s seminars – ‘the speakers clearly considered their presentation as therapy for themselves rather than a communications exercise with the audience’.

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Links for 19th of August 2005

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Post date August 20, 2005

‘Beyond Belief’ Justin Cartwright is violently secular in the Guardian
George Monbiot finds the belief that we are incipient compost strangely comforting (and also discusses new evidence for the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis)
She Falls – the strangest thing (via kev)
Political comedy makes a comeback at Edinburgh festival
‘Well, sir.. the day afor yestidday, I spent the whole day gatherin’ up them ballots. Them folks who had given the matter a little thought handed the ballots back all crumpled up. Them folks who had given the matter a lot of thought told me they lost theirs. Them folks what had talked it over with their wimmen-folk sicked their dogs on me.’
‘at that moment everybody was nobody’ (Have A Cup of Tea)
The only black organization that exposes and opposes lesbian feminism witchcraft!! (‘teaching the black man how to claim, tame, train and dominate the black woman to make her his queen once again’)
‘Always wanted to live in a country people flee for fear of religious persecution? Then congratulations, we finally made it. Great news for me, of course – writers get hit just after the minorities’ (AL Kennedy in the Guardian)
Lab grown meat product will be bland and tasteless, like real chicken nuggets
What is the science behind advertiser’s ‘scientific’ claims?
Sam Woolf’s chicken video is here

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links for 3rd of august

Post author By tom
Post date August 3, 2005

‘Was it fair of me to get laughs out of the suggestion that Jeffrey Archer was a dreadfully vulgar, lying egomaniac who wrote crappy books and deserved prison? OK, bad example.’
Guardian review of ‘Festival’ (which is a great film)
Intelligent discussion of surveillance technology and civil liberties at CT
The Straight Dope on subliminal pictures in advertising
Snopes on the subliminal popcorn sales myth
Proof that CAAT really scare the arms industry (and that some people on message boards are idiots, but that’s incidental)
Intelligent and well designed criticism of intelligent design (Cosma Shalizi)
‘Giblets you have shattered my reasoned and ordered worldview into a thousand splintering pieces with your hammer of unyielding truth!’ (more on intelligent design)
Matt is dazzling & gnostic once more: on games
Like a daily self-improvement plan, but designed by Chuck Palahniuk: one, two

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links for 21st of July 2005

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Post date July 21, 2005

The center of gravity, the decisive terrain in this war is the vast majority of people who are not directly involved but whose support, willing or coerced, is necessary to insurgent operations around the world” The War on Terror is like The War on Subs would have been in WWII
Networked Europe (those two via, via, Interconnected)
Who killed Richard Cullen? Jon Ronson on the man who killed himself over ?130,000 of credit card debt
How do the police keep going in hectic times like this? Listen to Chief Commissioner of the Metropolitan police, Sir Ian Blair, speaking on radio 4 (MP3, 460 KB, funny, silly, sorry).
Desktop Search Comparison – Google vs. Copernic
Possibly the coolest conference in the world
Guardian article about Russian politics and democratic deficit
Gloomy Sunday – the notorious ‘Hungarian Suicide Song’ – was written in 1933 and banned from the playlists of major radio broadcasters around the world for being too depressing (and reading the lyrics I can see why)
When i was a child, i was constantly terrified that my life was just a story being read by King Babar to his children
Cosma Shalizi on some new methods for adumbrating epistemic communities
Stunning photoblog
The 14 identifying characteristics of fascism (any similarlity to governments near you is disturbing)

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Links for 16th of July 2005

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Post date July 16, 2005
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‘This is not a love song’: I can stop thinking about you. /
You don’t drive me crazy. / I guess we had fun / but the details are hazy.
Why the Bombings Mean That We Must Support My Politics
‘Very few people here believe they hate us for our freedoms. We think they hate us because our armies are in their countries.’ (Andrew Brown on salon.com)
Bruce Mau: An Incomplete Manifesto for Growth
An addictive waste of time
the best card trick in the world (involves information theory)
Fox News: ‘the BBC almost operates as a foreign registered agent of Hezbollah and some of the other jihadist groups’ Roger Mosey, head of BBC Television News: ‘If I may leave our customary impartiality aside for a moment, the comments made on Fox News are beneath contempt.’
an alternative to national service – the Crap Year
What Bin Laden wants and why he wants it (he says)
Was it the “very diversity, that melting pot aspect of London” that Islamist extremists found so offensive that they wanted to kill innocent civilians in Britain’s capital, Marr wondered. “No, it’s not that,” replied Gardner briskly, who is better acquainted with al-Qaida thinking than most. “What they find offensive are the policies of western governments and specifically the presence of western troops in Muslim lands, notably Iraq and Afghanistan.

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Links for 7th of July 2005

The Very Model of a Modern Labour Minister
If not the King, then at least the Prince of Lies
Classic paper in psychiatry:
Rosenhan, D. (1975) On being sane in insane places. Science, 179, 250-8.
US Military: Guantanamo quite nice after all, ping-pong and ice-cream (for one in five)
Pedagogy, Lobachevsky & Mathematics
George Bush’s Inbox circa September 2003
Our kev in The Times on ‘real poverty’
Best practice for analysing large data sets
Filezilla open source FTP package
Priest who crucified a nun to death: ‘i don’t understand why journalists are making such a fuss’

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links for the 21st of June 2005

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Post date June 21, 2005
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links for 16th of June 2005

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Post date June 16, 2005
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Measuring Shared Information and Coordinated Activity in Neuronal Networks
I wish i’d been to college here the story of how a novel got conceived (in a pub), written (at work), finished (to impress a girl) and published (blind luck?)
‘Our relationship was the greatest achievement of my life’ But did Simone de Beauvoir’s scandalous open ‘marriage’ to Sartre make her happy, asks Lisa Appignanesi (the Guardian)
Polly Toynbee on the dangers of confusing religion and race (remember sloan wilson, remember tetlock)
what would a child’s drawing look like if it was re-drawn by an artist?
Dan’t letter in the Guardian about Clone Town Britain
…a queer pink light…’
What happens when the police go on strike
‘It could be the ultimate accessory for the 4×4-driving city dweller: spray-on mud’

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Links for 13th of June 05

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Post date June 13, 2005

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Post author By tom
Post date June 3, 2005

Just thinking that they’ve not had much sleep could interfere with the daytime functioning of imsomniacs, regardless of whether they actually had enough sleep or not.
The 56a is an unfunded 100% DIY-run space in London. (Elephant & Castle)
Nature Neuroscience review of Complex Worlds From Simpler Nervous Systems’ (subscribers only, sorry)
What would Black Sabbath sound like if they did Smiths covers? I’m glad you asked that…
On how journalists write about webloggers… (plasticbag). ‘(Of course the article isn’t actually aimed at people starting a weblog at all, but at people who want to observe it from the sidelines with a cup of tea and a raised eyebrow while slowly dying inside.)’
how to become an early riser (I tend to do this naturally)
Matt Webb writes about the books he owns and loves
rodcorp: how we work
US military intelligence has secret scholarship programme for anthropology undergraduates, risking academic reputations for impartiality and thus endangering anthrologists worldwide

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Links for 31st of May 05

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Post date May 31, 2005

postsecret.blogspot.com
Warning! Chemical Periodicity is a theory. The theory keeps changing. The theory is under dispute. Teach alternatative theories to children
How does Europe Make Its Mind Up? Connections, cliques, and compatibility between countries in the Eurovision Song Contest…And the CT commentary on it
Zanshin: White Wind Zen Community, Aikiweb wiki
The talkorigins index of arguments used by creationists (impressively comprehensive)
explandanda.com on evolutionary explanations of behaviour
Converting out of Latex using regexps
‘In an emergency, disobey authority’ (Wired)
‘our Standard Hat, while still quite ironic, poses fewer fractal recursion issues.’ (via Merlin Mann)
White Rose ePrints when this gets going it will be a Very Good Thing – access for all to scientific papers from the Universities of Sheffield, Leeds and York

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Links for 23rd of May 2005

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Post date May 23, 2005

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Links for 19th of May 2005

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Post date May 19, 2005

a psychologist’s perspective on landmark forum / est training
The Skeptic’s dictionary on the Landmark Forum and comments from someone who attended and Landmark Forum Large Group Seminar
Welcome to the homoerotic haven that is MatBattle.com – the world’s first exclusively gay Brazilian jiu-jitsu and judo website. including Ask Aaron The Internet’s very first gay Brazilian jiu-jitsu and judo Agony Uncle! Awesome!
funny, uncharitable review of the new star wars movie (Peter Bradshaw in the Guardian)
Like a rolling stone? (another piece of dylan mythos)
50 things every foodie should do before they die
Syllabus for Economics 308: Agent-Based Computational Economics (ACE)
Photographer Ken Jarecke talks about his 1991 shot of an incinerated Iraqi soldier, which was at first regarded by many editors as too disturbing to print, but later became one of the most famous images of the first Gulf War
Hilbert’s Paradox of the Grand Hotel (wikipedia)
All this effort, all these virtual worlds, all this structured play. All this effort
Overheard on the tube: I’ve been reading Camus. He’s a kind of soft cheese.
24 eyes, four parallel brains and 60 arseholes Andrew Brown thinks he has discovered a golden physiological ratio common to successful, albeit primitive, forms of organisation
Give us more promiscuity Celebrity Love Island and Feminist Politics (Zoe Williams, The Guardian)

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Links for 11th of May 2005

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Post date May 11, 2005

Choose which linux distribution to go for by which has the coolest logo
myTunes redux let’s you take other people’s shared tunes over iTunes (for PCs)
Interview with Chuck Palahniuk (The Guardian)
LanceArthur is just waiting round to die
‘My six year old just loves idiolising war’
‘All of a sudden I began to experience the left from the outside. And the first thing that struck me was its capacity for smug certainty and uniformity of response.’ (David Aaronovitch in The Guardian)
‘genetic sexual attraction’ ie what can happen when close relatives meet as adults for the first time (The Guardian)
Animation of the change in world income distribution 1970-2000 – OMG this is too cool! [if you like statistics]
Two cool t-shirts from threadless.com One, two
‘Two photographs of the same person, from different periods of time (child and adult) are spliced together. In this fusion a jump-of-time is established at the tear’
Peter Ackroyd’s provides commentary for themed walks through london (the mob, fire & destiny, water & darkness) (BBC)
Half-day workshop on the legal and ethical implications of information integration and the semantic web

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Links for 5th of May 2005

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Post date May 5, 2005

Economics and Literature ‘contractual incompleteness’ and why the peasents are always lazy at crookedtimber.org
Icosystem uses The Game to provide a practical demonstration of the following points: * Simple rules of individual behavior can lead to surprisingly coherent system level results. * Small changes in rules or in the way they are applied can have significant impact on the system level results. * Intuition can be a particularly poor guide to prediction of the behavior of complex systems above a few levels of complexity (here we have only 3). * Simulation is a powerful tool for understanding the dynamics of complex systems.
Answers in Genesis or Answers in Science?
International Tree Climbing Day 2005 damn, missed it, but one to look out for next year
The politics of choice (the Guardian)
trackback is dead (he’s right, unfortunately)
Official secrets leaked by bad PDF know-how (how is amusing, what is terrifying)
John Vidal remembers Bob Hunter, greenpeace member 000
look! a list of Sheffield bloggers
A video of a high-rise in Norfolk Park, Sheffield, being demolished by a bird flying into it (look top left) (via incurable hippie)

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Links for the 26th of April 2005

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Post date April 27, 2005
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declining oil production may start next year (‘Just kiss your lifestyle goodbye’) (The Guardian)
‘The monstrous worship of facts’ (Dylan Evans in The Guardian)
‘a map of the market- cool!’
maps.google.co.uk Google Maps, but for the UK!
OMG you can search google mapsfor any term and it tries to find a match for you. cool!
Toby is the cutest little bunny on the planet. Unfortunately, he will DIE on June 30th, 2005 if you don.t help.
www.living-without-fear.com Land of the free, or land of fear?
Highly Nonrandom Features of Synaptic Connectivity in Local Cortical Circuits
beautiful beautiful picture of a pyramidal cell, with dendritic spines clearly visible
The excellent neurohistology cyberclass (which includes just how long can a neuron axon be?, scale diagram)
GoogleSightseeing.com Why bother to see ~~the world~~ america for real?

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Links for 21st of April 2005

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Post date April 21, 2005

A 62 million year cycle in biodiversity? I can see why some astronomical or geophysical event would cause periodic sudden loss of diversity, but not why diversity would rise and fall gradually in a 62 million year cycle.
www.notapathetic.com – tell the world why you’re not voting
Subverts of tory election posters
wikipedia: Simone de Beauvoir
Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Simone de Beauvoir
The Catholic Encyclopedia: Immamence (and as a side note, Beauvoir’s The Second Sex was banned by the Vatican on publication)
neurocomputing.org:Neural Connections of the Frog Tectum
Java Applet demonstration of the dot product
Exxon Mobil: Manipulating Public Debate at Your University Big Oil propaganda on US Campuses..
Fifth-Grade Science Paper Doesn’t Stand Up To Peer Review (The Onion, hilarious)

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Links for 18th of April 2005

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Post date April 18, 2005
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Links for 7th of April 2005

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Post date April 7, 2005
2 Comments on Links for 7th of April 2005

Sheffield Indymedia report on the Sharrow Latern Carnival
Latern Carnival pictures from the Sheffield Social Forum wiki
The Largest picture i could find of the Girbaud’s ‘Tribute To Women’
Black Rock City (Burning Map Festival) on Google Maps (way cool)
How to do Research At the MIT AI Lab 15 years old, and not my field, but definitely worth a read for any young researchers, especially the section on ’emotional factors’ in research.
nef election manifesto: 20 ways to connect politicians with people and the planet…
thepsychologist.org.uk The Psychologist Magazine’s new look website, including discussion forums
‘What I said that set off the crazies was that there is no such thing as “trickle-down” economics. Supposedly those who believe in trickle-down economics want to give benefits to the rich, on the assumption that these benefits will trickle down to the poor. As someone who spent the first decade of his career researching, teaching and writing about the history of economic thought, I can say that no economist of the past two centuries had any such theory.’ (Capitalism Magazine, of all places)
cogscilibrarian.blogspot.com
Flying? Calculate your CO2 emissions and pay for Climate Care to offset them (or at least the guilt) by funding rainforest restoration UK to Italy return ~ ?5, UK to LA return ~ ?15, btw