Ice cream cycles, and links

Downtown used to have 3 ice cream places. Then they turned into Pita Pit, a calzone place, and what, Panda Express? But the calzone place, by Bloomington Bagel on Dunn, has turned back into an ice cream place.

links
* Russians immigrating to China
* FAQ on Tolkien's Rings of Power

My friend has some rants on top women underreported in CS
http://lyceum-arabica.livejournal.com/167497.html
http://lyceum-arabica.livejournal.com/167266.html
http://lyceum-arabica.livejournal.com/167161.html

* Leverage (fancy-talk for "debt") as the key damage amplifier of bubbles
* Gallup's polling of liberal vs. conservative over the decade. My first thought was that the magnitude of changes is pretty small.
* Airplane safety and big numbers

latest world earthquakes
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsww/
weekly volcano report
http://www.volcano.si.edu/reports/usgs/

* More on lost Amazon civilizations
* (from shiver) Poor science of physical therapy

more links: headlines, VISA, graphics, Permian cancer, tax volunteers

Humor
* Headline writer apotheosis
* Imams issue fatwa against attacks on US or Canada. Archive of other condemnations of terror
* Key West secession
* Ongoing Silk road manga. More art porn than plot, but hey.
* Egineering and terror

News
If you haven't heard, Portugal's parliament approved gay marriage, while New Jersey's Senate rejected it.

* VISA's monopoly power and use of kickbacks to dominate the debit card market. High ime for some more regulation.

Picture news
* Social mobility graphic
* Graphic of future deficits: it's all about health care
* Map (second picture) of Senate delegations by party. It's interesting, in a way hard to pin down.
* Graphics of gay, cousin, and underage marriage laws by state
* Tesseract rotation. Another one. Roll 2d10 SAN loss.

Economics, law, crazy, and politics
* Progressives and deficits
* Real legislative transparency
* Dodd vs.Lieberman, and sacrifice for the party vs. clinging to power.
* Simple description of the NHS, as well as of some recent or upcoming changes
* America's deep history of crazy, like Alaskan mental hospitals political opponents were going to be sent to, at least in the same universe as "death panels" and "Obama's from Kenya"
* Christian terror in the US
* On Reid's statements and attitudes toward Black English
* Anti-abuse U visas

More random news
* Chinese lung cancers may be connected to coal containing silica from the Permian extinctions
* Lead poisoning and crime?
* More on the Antikythera device
* The nightmarish future of peace and prospe... well, peace, anyway, continues to advance: US violent crime rates continue drop
* A majority of Germans, as well as majorities of wealthy ones and Merkel's supporters, oppose Merkel's tax cuts
* Falsity of European economic decline
* (From 2007) Buffet: "I should pay more taxes"
* God vs. Allah in the Middle-East
* Helping the homeless vs. housing codes