Rubenerd

Links I saved onto Instapaper this month:

• The vast differences between the NBN and the Coalition’s alternative
  Australian Broadcasting Corporation

• Congressman demands answers from Google about Play Store and Wallet privacy concerns
  The Verge

• Japan PM Abe heads for Obama talks
  BBC World

• Oracle updates NetBeans for HTML5
  Infoworld

• Bankruptcy filing may be bad option for Detroit
  Reuters

• Treacherous Waters - By Ross A. Klein
  Foreign Policy

• International law allows cruise workers to be paid $2 an hour – and they may go nearly a year without a day off
  Salon.com

• Australia Proves Republicans Wrong With a Growing Economy and a High Minimum Wage
  PoliticusUSA

• The Internet’s Weakest Links
  BBC Future

• Stupid, Stupid xBox!!
  iLike.code )

• 1,000 paper cranes + message of #goodbyenukes delivered to President Laura Chinchilla of Costa Rica.
  IPPNW

• Xbox co-founder: The last five years have been painful to watch
  The Guardian

• What is ADN File Manager?
  App.net )

• The NRA vs. America
  Rolling Stone Mobile

• Patrick Radden Keefe: A Mass Shooter’s Tragic Past
  New Yorker

• Believe the Hype about the ‘World’s Most Expensive City’
  The Atlantic Cities

• How Capital Cities Distort Reality
  The Atlantic Cities

• Friedman: India vs China vs Egypt
  New York Times

• John Lindsay, Ed Koch and the end of liberalism
  Salon.com

• Disgruntled employee spends three years destroying work computers with Cillit Bang
  The Telegraph

• Why we stopped using Drupal for our platform
  Varunarora

• The ALP needs to make it impossible for voters not to notice that “Tony Abbott is trying to pull a fast one”
  Anonymous Lefty

• Meet the NRA’s Top 10 Enemies
  AlterNet

• Austerity doesn’t work: Cuts in government spending are strangling the recovery
  Salon.com

• China’s Smaller Cities Are Home to Growing Middle Class - Michael J. Silverstein
  Harvard Business Review

• Dana Milbank: Tea party is losing a few of its revelers
  The Washington Post