For those who enjoyed my Coldharbour Mill tweets yesterday...

... very expensive way to browse the web on the sofa...

I've asked this before, but still not had a good answer. What are tablets for? Not big enough to work on, too big for total portability.

on DFW interview vid: RT @BenoitLelievre: @martin_eve http://www.deadendfollies.com/2011/04/david-foster-wallaces-complete-zdf.html I posted the complete thing if you're interested

David Foster Wallace on Literature http://bit.ly/qZiWIL

Guest post at PhD2Published http://bit.ly/p45TPO #academia #PhDchat #Publishing

My guest post response to George Monbiot's academic publishing article on @PhD2Published http://j.mp/pEkfcj #phdchat

Pakistan Bans Encryption http://bit.ly/omkWfy

Another Coldharbour Mill video (last one!): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTtLXu0snro

"Autosubversive practices in academic publishing" http://bit.ly/oSeA7Y

If you think it's bad, you must publish in OA journals. Simple as that. Preferably ones not run by commercial publishers.

Next year, I'm giving the opening plenary at the UKSG conference on exactly this theme. Through a zombie metaphor.

You know what? I, and others, have been harping on about academic publishers for years. It's REF and arbitrary prestige that are the problem

Visited the fantastic Coldharbour Mill on a steam-up day on the 100th birthday for the machines http://bit.ly/oKjLyH

The Lairds of Learning http://bit.ly/pEGuVL

Will Self Interviews David Lynch http://bit.ly/pWPhCb

Hideously uniformed commentary on Radio 4 paper review. No mention of Apple's lock-in techniques, just emphasis on Jobs as "visionary".

Nice Pynchon reference on page 42 of this week's @timeshighered

HEFCE board appointments: learning through Argos http://bit.ly/qpWfWU #academia #Funding #HEFCE

HEFCE: "Don't learn about it, Argos it!"

Need a cheap smartphone? I'm selling my HTC Wildfire... http://j.mp/qbFO1C

Great stuff on the @GdnHigherEd chat today; lots of useful info on merits of PGCertHE. #phdchat researchers might want to see pg 2.

Satchmo payment modules http://bit.ly/qiUnnA #django #programming #satchmo

Haha, from the event picture, this George Eliot conference is going to ROCK! http://j.mp/pNetXw

Audio files of lectures by Foucault http://bit.ly/qVJWIs

Taking time out from academic projects to build a web shop for a client. Currently wrestling with incomplete Google Checkout mod in Satchmo.

Pan Pan Theatre presents Samuel Beckett's All That Fall http://bit.ly/qSPEgA

Classy http://bit.ly/p7VKL5

My thoughts on @GdnHigherEd's "should a thesis be read?": Yes, but not as a thesis, and not somewhere closed off http://j.mp/pDUFFV #phdchat

As it isn't April 1st, I'll take this as true, despite Steve. Rob Malda resigns from Slashdot. http://j.mp/mQ2bQZ

... but I wouldn't dream of prefacing it with "you sciency types probably won't get it".

The only part of xkcd that I dislike is the snide jibe: "may not suitable for liberal arts majors". Necessary? We have in-jokes too...

Linux Turns 20 years Old Today http://bit.ly/oIHVP4

Dutch Court Says Android 2.3 Violates Apple Patents http://bit.ly/qPG7Lv

Apache Warns Web Server Admins of DoS Attack Tool http://bit.ly/n5jcXF

Did anybody go on the #vitae "Careers in Academia" workshop last year? Would like to hear thoughts on the day... #phdchat

If you haven't seen it yet, Google Chrome's inbuilt javascript debugger is fantastic.

Great post from @mark_carrigan: initial thoughts on "prestige" and academic publishing. http://j.mp/ov503b #phdchat

Great chat on Open Access with @mark_carrigan; re-energized me on this topic.

Aspiring academics! LinkedIn just emailed me exciting job opportunities! Like an unpaid internship at L'Oreal. Because I'm worth it.

Critique and Experience in Foucault by Lemke (2011) http://bit.ly/n1bd8y

WebAPI: Mozilla Proposes Open App Interface For Smartphones http://bit.ly/qMWoDV

Is there a way to view an image's alt tag in Android browser? xkcd just isn't the same...

E-petition on direct.gov against #atos declaring seriously ill people "fit for work" http://j.mp/oniQgR

Interesting reading for all university teachers. The mindset list: class of 2015. http://j.mp/nFov98 (via @KatieMcGettigan)

Just made my first Groupon order. Boiler service for £39, not £110. Ha! North London to Enfield only, though. http://j.mp/r5YD7V

Radical Foucault – An International Conference (2011) http://bit.ly/nU67fz

Just written an awesome patch for Satchmo that allows images specific to product variations. Pull request sent :)

University 'market' is a con. http://j.mp/p9S7qb

Catherine Hakim's dubious thesis on "erotic capital" gets called out by the Guardian http://j.mp/n8BBKK

I can well believe many of @InjusticeFacts' tweets but, as with all journalism, I wish they'd cite the academic sources for their claims.

Pleased to see the @britishlibrary now has Pynchon Notes in its catalogue; for years, it wasn't listed.

Rivane Neuenschwander adapts Beckett's First Love as an art installation http://j.mp/px0WWX

Lars Wirzenius gives a personal account of Linux at 20. http://j.mp/nXBJit (cc. @drtomcrick)

Postgraduate Publishing http://bit.ly/o1nRW9 #academia #PhDchat #Publishing

Hurrah! I can return to a semblance of life. Article on Pynchon, Wallace and "metamodernism" now submitted.

I've said it before but: I hate how the last 1% of writing a journal article takes 10%+ of the time.

Franciscan friars pray that bible thief receives "a strong bout of the shits" http://j.mp/mRjCbF

Morning all; wish I wasn't awake, but will use the time to finish this article!

There's a $3400 bounty for Cyanogen Mod 7+ on the Samsung Galaxy S II. Wow. http://j.mp/iijXEV

If anybody wants a pre-rooted HTC Wildfire running Cyanogen Mod 7... http://j.mp/qbFO1C [Ebay]

Any new Sussex English students out there? If you're lucky, you'll get me for your first year compulsory module :)

Day #1 on the Samsung Galaxy S II very pleasing. Weird recovery setup embedded in kernel. Battery life vs Desire HD is great.

Extremely interesting online conference, hosted by Sussex Centre for the Individual and Society: Anti-Democratic thought. http://j.mp/n2rNS3

Whenever I cite Beckett, I get the irresistible urge to simply put "yes" in Zotero's "Abstract" field.

Hurrah! Article now within word limit and really evolving on iterative editing. #phdchat

Thanks to all who rtd and especially to @FHeimburger and @CareerAndrea who answered my Q. and will be thanked in the published article!

Any native, or fluent, German speakers? I have an urgent grammar question...

China Praises UK Internet Censorship Plan http://bit.ly/rubkag

Blimey. Four massive riot vans just drove past me in Enfield.

I don't know, I'll never know: in the silence you don't know. You must go on. I can't go on. I'll go on. Actually, I do know; I'm going home

Feminista conference covered by The Guardian http://j.mp/r1HsGI 'When people ask why you're a feminist, you should respond: why aren't you?'

Wow. Google buys Motorola. http://j.mp/qGKsIh

I'd managed to miss this. Tom McCarthy on DFW's The Pale King and its debt to Pynchon: http://j.mp/he0Xnb

A counter to Florian Mueller's ill informed commentary on Android and GPL violations: http://j.mp/n246m2

A good breakdown of Brian McHale's theory of modernist (epistemology) vs. postmodernist (ontology) dominant shift: http://j.mp/o9veSY

Thoughts from a Kindle dissenter: http://j.mp/pMHl55

Intel are selling crippled CPUs and then charging users for software to "upgrade" them. http://j.mp/p4TQA0

GNU/Linux users can generate an XKCD style (http://xkcd.com/936/) password with: shuf -n4 /usr/share/dict/words | tr -d '\n'

Ah, partition fixed; simple / permissions problem.

Hmm. Seem to have totally booked my Ubuntu partition.

The Five Levels of ISP Evil http://bit.ly/oSXfnt

Very exciting putting the first Orbit submissions through blind review! https://www.pynchon.net

What If Tim Berners-Lee Had Patented the Web? http://bit.ly/qCbzY2

Right, Twitter, HTC Sensation or Samsung Galaxy S II? Quick!

An open letter to Ed Milliband: http://j.mp/qoVYJp #riots

The economy tanks, Osborne is "vindicated". http://j.mp/qps54l

Argh. 1000 words to cut from this article now. #phdchat

Very promising, but preliminary, auto-immunological cancer treatment: http://j.mp/pWXx3C Media version: http://j.mp/rlnxJg

#phdchat @jennifermjones' experience of discussing EdTech on @GdnHigherEd's live chat last Friday http://j.mp/mUSp9E

Oooh! Have people seen this? Google supporting SSL. https://encrypted.google.com

Julian Andres Klode: World, Space, and Licenses http://bit.ly/qlOFkl

Important to note: @PaulLewis subsequently downplayed tweet: "there is no evidence of racial disturbance here [Enfield]" http://j.mp/rsEbVH

The impact of blogging on academic paper views http://j.mp/qxxFWs #phdchat via @mrgunn

Look, Google/YouTube, read this: http://j.mp/qFHlGD -- you are responsible for the racist bile that fills your comments. Sort it out.

Iran "ready to send Human Rights examiners to UK" http://j.mp/pw3BEY

Nice thoughts on how Android "fails better" (how Beckettian) from @doctorow http://j.mp/pfLrTM

Is twitter via API extremely slow for anybody else?

A good 1000 words written on commissioned article today. Going home to avoid rush and riots where reading will continue. #phdchat

The @BritishLibrary is closing all reading rooms at 5pm today so staff and readers can get home safely.

Thomas Pynchon spotify playlist, via @dzhimbo http://j.mp/pIjlyl

Andre Noel: .exe file on Linux http://bit.ly/olLpLr

APA style guide blog: how to cite a Kindle. http://j.mp/1QC53O

Homomorphic encryption PoC constructed http://j.mp/oE7w3o

Some nice thoughts on DFW's The Pale King, its epigraph and notions of selfhood: http://j.mp/lp8z12

I blame… http://bit.ly/q1mCUO

A riot is a spontaneous outpouring of discontent and violence that is not overtly political, but could nonetheless have political causes.

There's a clear distinction between a riot and a protest: those who protest have hope of changing the system.

Hmm, "hobo themed" wedding. Yours for only £9000. http://j.mp/pZsk6j

Taken the plunge and moved my landline to @bebroadband; they've been such a good ISP and cheaper than BT for phone :)

Somalia donations massively short of projections - people are dying here. http://bit.ly/oJ82D8

Encrypted Partition Recovery on Ubuntu 10.10 http://bit.ly/rm9j1E #Encryption #Linux #Recovery

Exciting submissions coming in for new journal, Orbit: Writing Around Pynchon! https://www.pynchon.net

On Heseltine's much-needed N. London tour RT @dzhimbo I can see his magnificent mane in the wind as he dons his Greenham Common flak jacket

Want to know what Google knows about you? http://j.mp/woORM

Spending a Sunday morning writing about DFW, Infinite Jest and swerves between cynicism and naivety.

Xavier Marco del Pont will speak on potboilers and Pynchon on the 30th Sept. in London at the "bad writing" symposium! http://j.mp/p1TPKw

I only do #ff once in a blue moon, so listen up. I feel like retweeting most of @qui_oui's posts, so save me the effort and just follow her!

Addiction, introversion and why I’m not going to rehab. http://bit.ly/nHftZj

Sanity in a Guardian comment thread! http://j.mp/oHMLqN

Although site keeps crashing, e-petition to retain the ban on death penalty already has more signatories than #guido's http://j.mp/nv9Gl4

Conference Paper: "Autosubversive Practices in Academic Publishing", UKSG, 2012-03-26 http://bit.ly/nIqZQG #academia #PhDchat

Why did Van Halen always demand no brown M&Ms backstage? As a real life checksum! http://j.mp/o5SJ6o

Adventures with Irigaray, Part 2: It's Academia, But Not As We Know It...: http://wp.me/pNwt4-zn

Beckett Digital Manuscript Project http://bit.ly/ohgKM7

Conference Paper: 'It sure's hell looked like war': http://bit.ly/nNjYSR #academia #Conference #Thomas_Pynchon

"America was the edge of the World. [...] Europe had found the site for its Kingdom of Death" - Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow

3 of you, "not hot" thesis voters, deserve a good hard viva of your own :P

Here's my thesis! Hot, or not? http://j.mp/qBAKuN #phdchat

So, what's the Google+ equivalent to a hashtag? How can I find posts on a specific topic?

Britain or America for the PhD in English? Part 2 http://bit.ly/pPELgp #academia #PhD #PhDchat

Remember the scene in Infinite Jest where Poor Tony steals the artificial heart? The real world is just as amazing. http://j.mp/rdedKU

Foucault, Oxford bibliographies online (2011) http://bit.ly/oKChu6

Samuel Beckett and German Culture Conference http://bit.ly/qHaFXz