August 2014
So the "paradise" arc in this #DoctorWho series is the place where those who sacrificed themselves for the Doctor end up, right?
Feynman Lectures Released Free Online http://zpr.io/fDsF
So, who else will be at #DHCongress later this week?
"The idea of the 'slow' humanities is vital to good thinking" / "Revisions to this article are due in 2 weeks"
Wi-Fi Router Attack Only Requires a Single PIN Guess http://zpr.io/fD6f
Hidden Obstacles For Google's Self-Driving Cars http://zpr.io/f82x
Foucault’s Last Decade – Update 12 http://zpr.io/f8xv
I find the CrossRef DOI submission queue fascinating. The sheer scale of some scientific publishers is phenomenal.
Research ‘Ignite’ CFP – Being Human in a Digital Age http://zpr.io/f9Cx
But hey, I'm sure that Ayn Rand was right all along. Race to the bottom!
Furthermore, doesn't seem to understand that her position as faculty is grossly compromised through the drive towards casualisation.
Author truly believes that she has made it through pure hard graft and that it's nothing to do with situation or luck.
That Chronicle article about adjuncts "whining" b/c they can't get jobs is the most blinkered, self-centred thing I've read in months.
I'm loving @svejky's James Wood rant. Tune in!
The Ice Bucket challenge and the "waste of water" critique http://bit.ly/XSZZBq #ALS #Charity
Climate Damage 'Irreversible' According Leaked Climate Report http://zpr.io/fuwS
David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest re-created in Lego http://bit.ly/1AUn7gP
Meet the new bosses, same as the old bosses - on tech cartels by @PlashingVole http://plashingvole.blogspot.co.uk/2014/08/meet-new-bosses-same-as-old-bosses.html?m=1
International Pynchon Week 2015: Call for papers http://bit.ly/1pcpxVk
Foucault’s Lectures on the Punitive Society VIII.1 http://zpr.io/fyWS
Using Microsoft Word with git http://zpr.io/fAVw
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles http://zpr.io/fAd4
For a Sunday afternoon album, I'm enjoying Fanfara Tirana & Transglobal Underground's Kabatronics. http://bit.ly/XJB97g
BBC & FACT Shut Down Doctor Who Fansite http://zpr.io/fh2u
Loop http://zpr.io/fmwn
Michel Foucault, Technology, and Actor-Network Theory (2013) http://zpr.io/fmwP
Latest Wikipedia Uproar Over 'Superprotection' http://zpr.io/fmwU
Columbian student faces jail time for sharing scholarly thesis http://zpr.io/fmDQ
Editors’ Choice: Emulation as a Service (EaaS) at Yale University Library http://zpr.io/fmtE
Good hard day of OLH work with more library sign ups. Now getting down to Ben Marcus's The Flame Alphabet to unwind
Study: Ad-Free Internet Would Cost Everyone $230-a-Year http://zpr.io/fmPa
Anatomy of a Serial-Plagiarism Charge http://zpr.io/fM5r
Google Receives Takedown Request Every 8 Milliseconds http://zpr.io/fM7G
. @cogentoa soliciting hard w/ no initial APC. Can't see what APC will be eventually on site. If @ other T&F levels, unaffordable for hums.
Byron the bulb: how the velocity of journalism is changing http://google.com/newsstand/s/CBIw7cfCxho
Schmitt and Foucault on the Question of Sovereignty under Military Occupation (2014) http://zpr.io/fXbU
Google Scholar Alerts notifies me of a citation to me http://zpr.io/fXZb
Introducing Rakali http://zpr.io/fXRv
Michel Foucault, Wrong-Doing, Truth-Telling: The Function of Avowal in Justice (2014) http://zpr.io/fXnQ
Foucault, Fanon, Intellectuals, Revolutions (2014) http://zpr.io/fNyj
EE now lets people pay to skip the wait when calling customer service http://google.com/newsstand/s/CBIwzqmvsR8 < your call is valuable to us (it isn't)
‘Justifications of Power&#039;: Neoliberalism and the Role of Empire (2014) http://zpr.io/faQd
I wrote on the rhetoric of "fighting" illness and disability in 2011, http://bit.ly/lJn1Ga
March of the Penguins http://zpr.io/faZz
The Dangers of Liberalism: Foucault and Postcoloniality in France (2014) http://zpr.io/fTQQ
Certification Allows US Trade Negotiators to Rewrite TPP Copyright Rules http://zpr.io/fTQW
. @petermurrayrust and @McDawg aren't happy w/ "Access to Research" scheme (which looks like an attempt to avoid OA) http://bit.ly/1lXWwqr
Publication: Historicizing the Iraq War in Don DeLillo’s Point Omega http://bit.ly/1uv9hko
Use URL Shorteners to Bypass Twitter Restriction on Links in DMs http://zpr.io/fTUV
UK gov seems intent on destroying NHS but here's an American doctor's experience of taking her son to an NHS hospital http://bit.ly/1pNQ5tO
Maryam Mirzakhani Is the First Woman Fields Medalist http://zpr.io/fYNN
CFP: Resisting Force and Discourse (2014) http://zpr.io/fYnw
How the Past Defines the Present. Understanding the Path Dependancy of Academic Publishing http://zpr.io/fYnD
A Weakened California Open Access Bill Makes Its Way Forward http://zpr.io/fYn8
Revisiting Foucault: The Biopolitics Lectures and Beyond (2014) http://zpr.io/fYnb
What is a DOI? http://zpr.io/fYnu
Simon Jenkins on computer science http://zpr.io/fYnK
Researchers cure arthritis in mice http://zpr.io/fYny
Larry Rosen: A Case Study In Understanding (and Enforcing) the GPL http://zpr.io/fYnA
Paul Rabinow on Foucault & the Contemporary - http://foucaultnews.com/2014/08/11/paul-rabinow-on-foucault-the-contemporary/
OnePlus asks women to participate in degrading contest to get a smartphone http://mobile.theverge.com/2014/8/12/5994877/oneplus-holding-sexist-ladies-first-contest-for-smartphone-invites < was considering this as a phone. Not now
You can read Thomas Docherty's critique of UK HE policy online for free: http://bit.ly/1sQBTCA #gratisOA
One uni scored 100% in the National Student Survey, which sounds like a dodgy election: "Eve begins his 14th term with 100% of the vote".
Take the Power Back (from the marmots)
But don't worry! The Daily Telegraph would far prefer to sensationally slam Wikipedia http://bit.ly/1pXg67m
Also: Wikipedia del debate didn't claim that the monkey held copyright. It asked whether post-processing was a copyrightable transformation.
A monkey does not own copyright to the selfie. Non-humans do not trigger copyright protections. It's public domain, if anything.
Correction to article: SAGE Open /does/ have a waiver policy. I did not know this. Thanks @DrossUK2011
Am I right in thinking that Germany has no overarching governmental open access policy? #justchecking
Errr.
A German court has agreed to end the bribery trial of Formula 1 boss Bernie Ecclestone in exchange for a $100m (£60m) payment from him.
International F. Scott Fitzgerald Conference http://zpr.io/f7Hj
Publication: All That Glisters: Investigating Collective Funding Mechanisms for Gold Open Access in Humanities http://bit.ly/1y0Fnlu
Review of "The True Account of Captain Love and the Five Joaquins" by John Clegg, illustrated by Emma Wright http://sabotagereviews.com/2014/08/04/the-true-account-of-captain-love-and-the-five-joaquins-by-john-clegg-illustrated-by-emma-wright/
Thesis Defense http://zpr.io/fGL4
Fragment Identifiers and DOIs http://zpr.io/fGsU
10 Questions for Gerhard Richter http://zpr.io/fGjQ
Comparison: Linux Text Editors http://zpr.io/ffWL
Evening Standard bellows indignantly about "putting price" on protecting the Queen. Was this free before then? #facepalm
Punish Music Pirates With Finger Amputations, Artist Says http://zpr.io/ffaS
UK Government Report Recommends Ending Online Anonymity http://zpr.io/ffaC