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This month: 37 entries.

http://www.economist.com/opinion/displayStory.cfm?story_
id=708500
the economics of drug distribution (amusingly academic). Many other good, related, articles: see the "In this Survey" sidebar. 21:34

http://www.economist.com/opinion/displayStory.cfm?Story_
ID=709603
pro-drug editorial: "Time for a puff of sanity" 21:19

http://gladwell.com/2001/2001_07_02_a_ddt.htm once upon a time, malaria was nearly wiped out by DDT 13:57

http://www.newyorker.com/THE_CRITICS/A_CRITIC_AT_LARGE/?
010730crat_atlarge
the inestimable Malcolm Gladwell on coffee, and drug-addled mathematicians 14:00

http://www.venge.net/wedding/gifts.html what you should bring to some guy's wedding. Interesting but ... presumptuous? 21:15

http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20010722.html what good taglines should have 22:54

http://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/15/magazine/15PHENOMENON.html undercover marketing: putting beautiful people in bars to talk up your product 11:49

http://www.linguafranca.com/print/0107/insidepublishing.html new book (in French) on the sociology of boxing. I like boxing. 10:33

http://www.spectator.co.uk/article.php3?table=old&section=current&
issue=2001-07-07&id=887
Brit visits NY: "A country that effortlessly shrugs off state murder sees smoking as an affront to civilization." 01:58

http://sweet.as/ domain names rarely make one smile 01:32

http://www.google.com/intl/xx-bork/ you can search google in many different languages... 22:26

http://news.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010713/od/cat_dc.html man attacked by cat story made vastly better by a well-timed last line 15:46

http://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/07/world/07CHIN.html could have been more sympathetic: dog-eating in China 16:36

http://www.thetube.com/content/pressreleases/0107/09.asp London Underground runs competition for schoolchildren; press release advises of the prize-winning poem: "London is packed with beautiful places / Colourful people with colourful faces ..." 16:29

http://slate.msn.com/Economics/01-07-09/Economics.asp the beauty premium: how much your beauty is worth. (Steven E. Landsburg often a wild contrarian; this one's okay.) 15:52

http://milov.nl/iambald/62.html javascript tricks: test your hexadecimal colour-guessing skills 03:09

http://www.thestranger.com/2001-07-05/books.html Martha Stewart is the Proust of our age 20:32

http://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/07/arts/07IDEA.html "Empire" is something about globalisation, etc. Is it the next New Idea? 18:52

http://slate.msn.com/GoodWord/01-07-05/GoodWord.asp strange thing about what to replace "retard" with, and whether it should even be replaced at all 16:02

http://www-scf.usc.edu/~troho/0203/annabel.html not-bad interview with Annabel Chong, porn star freak 01:48

http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/robotandbaby.html clunky, awkward sci-fi short story written by John McCarthy, the inventor of (the programming language) LISP 20:27

http://www.linguafranca.com/print/0107/cover.html who spent more than $125,000 to get their philosophy manuscript professionally reviewed? 18:20

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/doc_o_day/wiscplates6.shtml tattle-tales whine about obscene license plates 23:44

http://www.outsidemag.com/magazine/0996/9609feev.html (gripping) account of freak storm that hit Everest in 1996, killing eight climbers 00:38

http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/95sep/ulyss.htm difficult: translating *Ulysses* into Chinese 00:30