Kildare Street: an Irish version of they work for you
Kildare Street: an Irish version of they work for you
Brazilians phreaking US military satellites
Arrest of Jersey State Senator. I know none of the background to this, but it sounds spectacularly hideous.
Rowenna Davis gets it right. Again. (This time, inheritance tax)
Cheekly: Russia is using the Georgian protests as an excuse to move more troops into Abkhazia [RFE/RL]
Scraps of Moscow on Moldova
Tyler Cowen: 'the United States is...a countercyclical asset'. Good article
Good: Rue89 pick up experimental chimp's investigation into AstraZeneca editing Wikipedia to pimp their drugs. Bad: they don't bother naming or linking to him.
Unsure what to make of the protests in Moldova. The communists won, in a fairish election, in line with earlier predictions? Sounds like the opposition ought to put up with it -- though I'd be pretty pissed off if I were one of them.
Helena Cobban on Waltz with Bashir
Shoe attack on Indian minister. The tactic is catching.
What is a Weapon of Mass Destruction? In US law, apparently anything down to a grenade can be classed as WMD.
Is Pornography the New Tobacco? Nice analogy, hope it doesn't hold.
John Swenson-Wright on North Korean missile tests.
Brian Eno: "Pop music is like the daily paper". Word.
Sex offenders will be made to take lie detector tests as part of their probation conditions on release from prison, the Ministry of Justice said yesterday [IIndependent]. Do these things have any kind of accuracy?