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Aaaand another, briefer book recommendation, this time fiction: Obsetrix by Naomi Kritzer.

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Fatma is a nurse who's supporting a group of displaced people who are fleeing a militia that attacked them and burnt down their villages.

The debate over immigration is often presented as being between people who want to let in 'some' immigrants, and people who want to let in as few as possible.

In this article, I'm going to explain why I think that ride-sharing & self-driving cars without 100% electrification and car-to-car coordination & fleet orchestration may be a recipe for gridlock and an impact in the wrong direction on climate change.

“This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but people loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil.

This book is billed as being for people who want to align their heads with the directions their hearts have already taken on the issue of same-sex marriage and the acceptance of non-straight people in general.

I just finished reading God, Gender and the Bible by Deborah F.

Reading a story aloud every evening for months on end does strange things to your brain.

Heartbleed is no doubt the worst security bug to hit the Internet in a very, very long time, and this comes hot on the heels of serious SSL certificate checking bugs in iOS and OpenSSL.

So I was given this book as a present by my brother – thanks!

I'm sure there's a better way of doing this with only one scale operation, but I don't know the maths.

I recently read that David Cameron said that he wanted to see a 100th Armistice commemoration "that, like the Diamond Jubilee celebrations, says something about who we are as a people".

Paranoia appears to be the order of the day, given what we know about the NSA and GCHQ thanks to Edward Snowden.

So after spelunking through the Spring source, I found out that it was my fault, of course.

Patterns of Refactored Agency: Not that I agree with all of it, but it's a very interesting to apply the refactorings to various aspects of life and see what happens: "I’ve found it to be a good general-purpose cognitive tool to try to see the world with…

Napster, Udacity, and the Academy Clay Shirky: "It’s been interesting watching [napsterisation] unfold in music, books, newspapers, TV, but nothing has ever been as interesting to me as watching it happen in my own backyard.

New Left Review - Rob Lucas: The Critical Net Critic: In this argument, what Carr termed ‘intellectual technologies’ in particular—map, clock, typewriter—both augmented our mental abilities and transformed them.

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With a full title of "Exit, Voice and Loyalty: Responses to Decline in Firms, Organisations and States", this is a fairly old (1970) but nevertheless current and interesting book.

When half a million Americans died and nobody noticed | News | The Week UK: "Typical was the headline on a short article that ran in the 19 April 2005 edition of USA Today: 'USA Records Largest Drop in Annual Deaths in at Least 60 Years.'

I read about The 9/11 Wars by Jason Burke on Tim Bray's blog and thought "that sounds interesting", and so it is.

20120513:See update below Future tense, IX: Out of the wilderness by Charles Murray - The New Criterion: "Upon reading Daniel Boorstin’s The Discoverers many years ago, I became fascinated with the ebbs and flows of human achievement, and especially those…

LOS ANGELES REVIEW OF BOOKS | The Exegete: "There are, in fact, numerous ways to find a trail through this wilderness of crazed speculation.