He likes the sun

Guy builds big solar dish, cooks stuff. [S2MM :o]

Economics. Fair use worth more than copyright (PDF) [/.]. An additional $1 in real gasoline prices would reduce obesity in the U.S. by 15% after five years (PDF) Development. VoxEU: Did cultural diversity lead to Europe developing first? Why did the Industrial Revolution come to England? Terrorism: "...the supply of terrorists is fairly elastic. Remove one perceived source of grievance, and there are still many others willing to pursue their grievances with violent means."

ViolentAcres: The Pentecostal Church and The Holy Ghost Want You To Wear Pig Panties [:o]

Rule 34: Model train crushing porn [:o NSFWFUP]

Supply of terrorists? Subgenius art condoms. [:o]

Troll of the day: Osama bin Laden, blogger with bombs. [:o]

Knopf rejected books [:(]

Prostitution and the proposal to criminalise men who pay for sex.

Only a small percentage of women involved in prostitution work on the streets. Most of this group have chaotic heroin and crack habits and are working primarily to support them. The majority of sex workers are based off the streets, in flats or saunas or as escorts. Generally they are not addicted to drugs. In some parts of the UK, up to 80% of the women working indoors are from other countries, but only a minority of them are trafficked. According to Lithuanian anti-trafficking police, even trafficked women often know that they are coming to the UK to work in the sex industry. They make the decision to come because they are living in poverty. What they do not know is that once they arrive they will be subjected to enormous cruelty by their traffickers and deprived of their liberty and earnings.

Ideologically unpalatable though it may be to some, the majority of women involved in prostitution have made a choice to sell sex, because they see no alternative way of earning what can sometimes be substantial sums of money. Undocumented migrants in particular have few options available to earn money. The twilight world of prostitution in a rich western country is one. Their goal is to lift themselves and their families out of poverty, and they see this as one of the few ways they can do it.

UK's violent crime rise is real (PDF)

At the same time as Balls was unconsciously repeating the theories of Eighties' academics, the impeccably liberal Centre for Crime and Justice Studies issued a grim report on homicide. The number of murders and the rate of murder have both doubled in the past 35 years, it said. Overwhelmingly, the victims and perpetrators lived in the modern equivalent of the slums.

Richard Garside, the centre's director, was contemptuous of the notion that inner-city residents have been duped by the media or false memories of an imaginary golden age into barricading themselves into their homes. 'Commentators who live in prosperous areas don't understand that their fears aren't panic attacks but the result of objective experience,' he said.