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The state of economics: Krugman is wrong
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from Peter Radford Paul Krugman this morning hammers away at hedge fund
managers who, by and large, are complaining about Fed monetary policy, and
especial...
What's Cooking at Our House: Dosas and Pizza
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*On the home menu: dosas and pizza.*
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*There are many kinds of flat breads and crepes in the various world
cuisines; we recently made two: pizza and do...
Google Glass, Google Class
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Something I picked up recently in San Francisco. OK I don’t own it, but got
to play with one waiting in a queue and talking to a developer waiting to
get i...
The Search For Budget-Conscious Life
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Lisa and I had dinner with Gregory Benford and his wife when I visited
U.C. Irvine a couple of weekends ago, and he raised an interesting point.
So far, ...
Green Junk – In praise of waste
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This post has two purposes. First, for those who don’t follow my Twitter
feed (hey, why don’t you?), I’d like to highlight some terrific work from
Geoff Ru...
Fitness and Charities
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Over the past couple of years I've enjoyed taking up running as physical
exercise. I used to run a bit when I was younger, but not like I am now. I
try to ...
Just read this and this
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My run of bad blogging might come to an end soon, but in the meantime read this
superb take-down by the Unrepentant Jacobin of the unspeakably awful Glenn
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Moral Panic and the Vilification of Graham Ovenden
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I hadn’t planned to write about the recent court case involving Graham
Ovenden but as more and more was revealed I realised that it was essential
to much t...
Upcoming Speaking Events in London and Galway
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Transformative Geographies: Critical Reflections on Environment,
Sustainability and Governmentality 45th Conference of Irish Geographers
16th-18th May 2013...
Upcoming Speaking Events in London and Galway
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Transformative Geographies: Critical Reflections on Environment,
Sustainability and Governmentality 45th Conference of Irish Geographers
16th-18th May 2013...
Blog Break
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This blog is going to go silent for the summer, as I turn my attention to
completing the 2nd edition of *The Honest Broker*.
I'll keep up my blogging at ...
Sliding Into Apathy
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April got away from me. It was the first month since starting this blog
that I failed to post anything at all. Maybe I am suffering some form of
social med...
Blogging Hiatus
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I’ve decided to put the blog on a brief hiatus for the exam period. Thanks
as always to all my readers and especially to the excellent set of
commenters I’...
Obama’s Catfood Reform
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More at The Real News Edited transcript Michael Hudson: Obama’s “bargain”
on social security reform will push more retirees into poverty in exchange
for a ...
I've been unfair on Hydrogen
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In *Sustainable Energy - without the hot air* I spent a couple of pages
discussing hydrogen transportation, under the title "Hydrogen cars – blimp
your rid...
Reviving programming as literacy
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I came across this interview with Lesley Chilcott, the producer of “An
Inconvenient Truth” and “Waiting For Superman.” Kind of extending her
emphasis on im...
FreeDV Robustness Part 3
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Since the last post I have explored some improvements to PAPR, and tested
the 1600/2000 modes introduced in the last post in real time. These tests
have ...
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*Neue MEGA zum KAPITAL *
taz 4.Feb 2013, p. 16: Marx, der Mathematiker (Artikel zur Veranstaltung
der Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung >“Das Kapital“ von Karl M...
Draft 2b: Tourism and recreation
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This is the second version of the second-order draft. Compared to the first
version, 50 papers published since the first-order draft were reviewed and,
wh...
Goulburn River High Country Rail Trail
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An Australian cycling/camping trip using public transport and combining the Goulburn
River High Country Rail Trail with a return via the Acheron Way and the...
Capital Volume 3, Chapter 14: Counteracting Factors
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Marx opens the chapter with the following comment: If we consider the
enormous development in the productive powers of social labour over the
last thirty y...
Another Device with Pixel Qi screens starts to ship
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Another product with a Pixel Qi screen has started to ship – We confirm
here the Trimble Yuma 2 has our 7″ screen in it and it looks gorgeous.
Great touch ...
Cards, corals and kids
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For almost a year, we have been meeting with a local group of parents and
kids to work on an arts and sciences projects about coral reefs. We have 5
days l...
games.on.net and 3FL to Join Forces, Fight Evil
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Gamers in Australia have long had to divide their time between two quality
institutions: Internode’s games.on.net service, and iiNet’s 3FL service,
resulti...
XO-3 OLPC Tablet
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http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9223242/OLPC_s_XO_3_tablet_to_debut_at_CES
News of a cheap robust tablet peaks my curiosity. Recently I was talking ...
New Delicious blog
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We’ve introduced a new Delicious blog where we’ll be posting major updates
going forward, including the site redesign that rolled out today.
Fierce Planet
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Those who used to read the Rough Theory blog may remember my good friend
and colleague L Magee, who used to post there occasionally. Magee is
currently loo...
of learning and pedantry
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Ages ago, i borrowed a little article, , not properly bound ...that i
happened to run into the Melb Uni library. 5 pages ..informally bound ... a
preprint ...
University protests and freedom of speech
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On November 12, 2010 a group of protesters, largely from the group
Anti-Racist Action, prevented Christie Blatchford from speaking at the
University of Wat...
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