- May ’68 graffiti
- Faslane 365 ended on October 1st
- The next UK Census will be in 2011. Help us stop it being run by an arms company with close links to the United States government.
- Moncure Conway’s ‘The Life of Thomas Paine: With a History of His Literary, Political, and Religious Career in America, France, and England’ (1982) in which you can read Paine’s account of narrowly escaping execution in revolutionary france (p131ff)
- Crooked Timber ‘that doesn’t mean utility functions are useless – the functional representation lets you do lots of math that is much harder if you try to work directly with preferences. But any competent economist knows that utility isn’t an explanation of observed choices, it’s a way of representing them.’
- whocalled.us – Identify unknown caller numbers
- ‘The successful campaign (2005-2007) to force the publisher of the Lancet to divest itself from the arms business’
- ‘image a world in which every person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge’ – Donate to promote wikipedia in developing-world languages
- YouTube Kid Carpet – Your Love
- ‘Then there are the people like Adam – people with years and years of clean time, who have worked hard to build meaningful lives for themselves, and then decide they can’t really cope after all’
- YouTube Tom Waits interview, 1979
- Steve Poole on the IQ and race debate ‘By the by, it seems plain to me that if you are worrying about whether Africans are on the whole dumber than Europeans, instead of, say, worrying about how to stop Africans dying from Aids or malaria etc, then you are ipso facto operating under a set of racist priorities.’
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