- A transcript of Prime Minister Gillard's speech to the UN General Assembly. More on this later in the day.
- Self-driving cars again: one observer predicts a huge boost in productivity. 'It would be, from an economist's point of view, the Pennsylvania oil fields of man-hours...' (H/t WRM.)
- Scathing: for one foreigner in Korea, Gangnam Style exposes 'the shallow, elitist, materialist understanding of success that is so depressingly common in Korea'.
- A profile of the man whose company built a 30-storey building in 15 days, and who plans to build the world's tallest skyscraper in seven months.
- A new US/Brunei-funded program trying to make good on ASEAN's 2009 declaration that English is its official language. (H/t Bosco.)
- A new study on the innocent victims of America's drone war (accompanying video below). More analysis and links on The Dish.