[BLOG] Some Monday links

[rfmcdonald]

• Bruce Sterling, at Beyond the Beyond, posts an interview with Eleanor Saitta, one of the backers of an Icelandic data haven.


• James Bow interviews Liberal Party of Ontario leadership candidatye Sandra Pupatello.


• Crooked Timber's Corey Robin notes a nihilistic, Rimbaudian strain in American conservatism.


• Language Log's Mark Liberman takes issue with one translator's idea of American English.


• At Lawyers, Guns, and Money, Dave Brockington argues that the much lower availability of guns explains why the United Kingdom, a country with higher rates of reported violent crime than the United States, has a much lower murder rate.


• Diane Duane at Out of Ambit mourns the non-occurrence of the 2012 apocalypse.


• Is Doctor Who an anthropologist? The case is made at Savage Minds.


• The Signal explains why digital preservation matters.


• Window on Eurasia notes the sloppy application of statistics on religious affiliation by the Russian Orthodox Church, common to other churches. (Are 81% of Russians Orthodox, or merely the 5% who regularly attend services?)