Justin Fung a.k.a. gershom's journal

Links of the Day, October 21

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News

• A nuclear fuel agreement is reached in Iran.
• Human Rights Watch says dozens of ethnic Uighurs have disappeared since being detained after riots in China.
• The really, really smart people at Apple release a brand new iMac, complete with the really, really pretty Magic Mouse (below). They really know how to make attractive products over there.

Health care

• According to CBO estimates, the House's desired bill--which includes a public option, hurray!--will cost $871 billion, and will cut the deficit.

Green

• Conservative values to achieve liberal goals?

Miscellaneous

• Freakonomics authors Stephen Dubner and Steven Levitt get climate change wrong.
• Marginal Revolution points out some successful government bureacracies.
• Illustrator Marc Johns' "If Paper Towels Could Talk." Hilarious.
• If you don't like reading about giant spiders, don't click on this link.