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Daily Links for June 10th

What World MPs Really Make - An infographic that details how much money the world's most effective politicians earn.
Philly LandStat - The LandStat application supports the analysis and display of aggregated data for land records information based on official documents tracked by the Department of Records through its PhilaDOX system. It includes data on Mortgages, Deeds, Sheriff's Deeds (an indicator of foreclosures), Real Estate Transfer Tax (RTT), Condominium Declarations, and Property types (residential, commercial, mixed use, etc.).
Accidental Guerrilla; Part 2, Strategy « Alternate Seat of TYR - Specifically, auto-immune war is a strategy, but its tactical implementation is the creation of false positive responses. Security obsession gums up the economy with inefficiencies. Terrorism terrorises the public; security theatre keeps them that way. As Kilcullen points out, every day, millions of travellers are systematically reminded of terrorism by government security precautions. Profiling measures subject entire communities to indignity and waste endless hours of police time. Vast sums of money are spent on counterproductive equipment programs and unlikely techno-fixes. National identity cards and monster databases are the specific symptoms of this pathology in the UK, just as idiotic militarism is in the US.
Set in Our Ways: Why Change Is So Hard: Scientific American - Millions of us dream of transforming our lives, but few of us are able to make major changes after our 20s. Here's why…
Billshrink: iPhone 3G S vs Palm Pre vs T-Mobile G1 - An infographic showing a comparison of the three competing smart phones.
Socrata | Making Data Social - Discover useful, unique and unusual datasets created by the community.
More Czars Than the Romanovs | TPM Photo Features - More Czars Than the Romanovs
Did Cooking Make Us Human? § SEEDMAGAZINE.COM - Richard Wrangham argues in his new book that cooked food yields more calories than raw and is the key to our evolution. Did cooking also enable pair bonding and the concept of ownership?