Rubenerd

Links I saved onto Instapaper this month:

• Natick student computers fried after officials try uninstalling filter-circumventing application
  Boston.com

• North Korea Declares War Against United States
  Addicting Info

• “Few credible people now claim that Scotland would do anything other than prosper as an independent nation”
  Scotsman.com

• Climate Change Is Making Canada Look More Like the United States
  The Atlantic Cities

• Invention of the Day: A Bladeless Windmill
  The Atlantic Cities

• Has Spain Just Slammed On The Brakes For Europe’s Unitary Patent Plans?
  Techdirt

• North Korea at “No.1 Combat Readiness Status”
  The Diplomat

• Karl Marx’s Revenge: Class Struggle Grows Around the World
  TIME.com

• Teritiary Education Minister Chris Bowen, a Kevin Rudd supporter, resigns from Julia Gillard’s cabinet
  SBS

• Computer Science in Vietnam
  Neil Fraser

• More traffic is really the last thing we need: two sides to the debate on Badgerys Creek Airport
  Sydney Morning Herald

• Japan seizes nuclear-related materials from N Korea cargo
  Japan Today

• China criticises US anti-missile N Korea plan
  TODAYonline

• An interview with Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong
  The Washington Post

• Men drop rope from helicopter to help their friends escape from maximum-security prison in Quebec
  Canoe.ca

• SimCity Hack Lets Users Destroy Anyone’s Online City Thanks To Always-On DRM
  Cinemablend

• Britain’s Cameron says pope is wrong on the Falklands
  Reuters

• “China will be the next Tunisia” - dissident Hu Jia tells @BBCNewshour
  SoundCloud

• What Bill Gates Got Wrong About Why Nations Fail - By Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson
  Foreign Policy

• VIDEO: The Economic Impact of a War Between China and Japan
  Fair Observer

• WordPress 3.6 – What To Look Forward To?
  WPMU

• America’s Dangerous Drift, “Could this be worse than decline?
  The Diplomat

• North Korea threatens ‘pre-emptive’ nuclear strike
  ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

• Toxic Sinkhole Threatens Southeastern Louisiana
  Forbes

• The guilty truth: There’s too much content
  CNET

• Our Work Here is Done
  The Web Standards Project

• Hypercritical: Fear of a WebKit Planet
  Hypercritical

• Washington State lawmaker defends bike tax, says bicycling is not good for the environment
  Seattle Bike Blog

• New Internet Porn Scam
  Schneier on Security

• Beijing urges Hong Kong delegates to play positive role in city’s development
  South China Morning Post

• Dennis Rodman says his new pal Kim Jong-un doesn’t want war with the US, just a phone call from Barack Obama
  ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

• Why Apple Needs to Fix Its Podcast Problem
  Cult of Mac

• Australia 108 Skyscraper & the Melbourne economy
  Decoding the new economy

• Closed Campgrounds Not Scare Tactic in No-Leeway Law
  Bloomberg

• Seth MacFarlane and the Oscars’ Hostile, Ugly, Sexist Night
  The New Yorker

• NBN contracts reveal the state of Telstra’s ducts
  The Register