links for 2007-11-28

• Archinect : Features : Delirious Moscow
  (tags: architecture art russia toread)
• LRB · Andrew O’Hagan: Short Cuts
  (tags: mobile blackberry psychology toread)
• Strange island: Pacific tribesmen come to study Britain - Independent Online Edition
  A mirror crackd: slightly distasteful meta-anthropology in which, in the manner on Umberto Eco, Pacific islanders visit Britain and their anthropologic studies are immediately recuperated by a film crew.
  (tags: tv anthropology cargocult religion)
• After Our Time
  "Discussion, debate and commentary about Radio 4’s In Our Time"
  (tags: bbc radio4 inourtime via:russelldavies)
• A city built on chaos | Weekend | Guardian Unlimited
  "Barely a quarter of central London's streets are used for traffic circulation - as opposed to 90% of New York's"
  (tags: maps london cities toread)
• Guardian Unlimited | A decade of John Howard has left a country of timidity, fear and shame
  (tags: australia politics psychology via:cityofsound)
• The stories behind some of literature's best-known novels - Independent Online Edition
  (tags: books howwework toread)
• Robert Amsterdam | Russia Blog
  (tags: blogs russia politics)
• Blogzilla: Biometrics are not a panacea for data loss
  (tags: privacy security id biometrics politics via:preoccupations)
• New York murder rate at record low - Telegraph
  NYC: 428 murders (mostly intra-family, friends, gangs) in 8.2m pop, 38k police strength; but still more than twice rate of London: 168 murders in 7.5m pop, 31k police strength. NYC to be congratulated on trends, but gun control clearly useful.
  (tags: criminaljustice police london newyork)