Mattresses safer place to put money than Greek banks: guardian.co.uk/business/2012/…

@yaroslav_f I remember standing with you in bright sunshine in SF, you saying why did I want to leave that for NYC. And you were right.

UK 90 mile high speed rail line to take 14 years. China will create nearly 100 times that (8000 miles) in 3 years. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-spee…

There is no link between rising immigration and rising unemployment, independent economists have found ind.pn/wb86VT

Interesting extra from a oobject list, I'm not using, vertical screw coffin, to save space: longstreet.typepad.com/thesciencebook…

N.B. Fitch ratings agency is French owned.

This infuriating but important article is as much about the writer growing old as America - but both are: vanityfair.com/style/2012/01/… v: @jkottke

WTF. Texas policed schools: "gave close to 300,000 "Class C misdemeanour" tickets to children as young as six" guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jan…

I wish there was an international measure of information density in documentaries. This BBC Higgs Horizon thing is thin.

Hunt for Big Bozo produces conclusive result: huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/09/pop…

Behold @anothersam 's Helvarial: strangeharvest.com/wp11/?p=3245

Strait-laced google.com/search?q=strai… is spelled incorrectly 4 times more often: google.com/search?q=strai…

Film's older than you think, 3 versions of Great Expectations are older than the actual book was when they were made: bit.ly/TQofB

Widening public/private sector pension diff in the uk means that you have to be a millionaire to get same pension as a junior teacher. #nuts

Less 'Cumbersome' than the original. @kottke @benhammersley Benedict Hammersbatch!

Nothing destroys the comforting belief in good and evil more than thought that victims of abuse become abusers: bit.ly/xT7622

Incredible, if true. Report suggest wind turbines increase carbon emissions: bit.ly/AsFkCo

Has anyone shown that Shannon's communication model maps directly to Darwinian natural selection one?

Whenever I see @benhammersley in my timeline, I'm thinking #sherlock

@krucoff , darn I feel bad now, that was such a pleasant response!