Just worked out my daily Oyster Card usage. Thieving illegitimate-spawn train operators.

One week until IPW 2010 #Pynchon http://is.gd/cx0vl

Psychiatrist Dan Carlat has several pages on David Foster Wallace's use of Nardil in UNHINGED http://is.gd/cwguq. (via @janiceharayda) #DFW

♻ @rgaucher: RT @manicode: Can't stop laughing at this. http://i.imgur.com/rAOVT.jpg

Inherent Vice French translation coming in September. http://bit.ly/dpAg6h #Pynchon (via @CulturExpresso)

♻ @LeftfieldTour: Its been a long journey to get to this point.To hear the set sounding so good was a great moment for me.thanks to everyone

♻ @timeshighered: RT @THEworldunirank: Arts and humanities at risk in UK universities. BBC London news: http://bit.ly/cGhs6G (at 3.55 mins)

Vince Cable lays into university VCs' pay http://is.gd/cudHw #lovehe #hateneoliberalism

♻ @johnwarrender: RT @lyndons: Visualise the oilspill: Superimpose over your city for perspective http://bit.ly/alZDpC via @silencematters

♻ @nytimesbooks: Book Review - Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself-A Road Trip With David Foster Wallace http://nyti.ms/9hmHyo

♻ @GreatDismal: Thomas #Pynchon's technical writing for Boeing http://bit.ly/9VLObv

Somewhat gloomy state-of-the-field day at Sussex. Off for yoga session now. Some birthday!

Hoping my train to manchester is swish. wifi?

♻ @rosierobot: Gravity's Grayscale- Pynchon #lesserbooks

The genome has a James Joyce quotation written throughout it ... the world's most pretentious bacterium http://is.gd/cn4sQ

♺ @MrMattRobinson: I've understood every #Pynchon novel but Lost confounded me. What does that say about me?

♺ @chriskeene: To be said like the shed guy in Fast Show: This week... I will mostly be using old style retweets << "Chris' Twitter Tips"

♺ @ucu: RT @mikebakeredhack: Full list of education quango cuts at http://bit.ly/duRz12

♻ @groth18: Fun Amis / McEwan / #Pynchon / Thatcher excerpt of Hitchens' memoirs: http://bit.ly/bmCc1V #christopherhitchens

Greatly enjoyed the (re)performing the posthuman conference. thanks Seda and Dani!

Reduce the deficit by cutting tax. Infallible logic.

Early start. Lured out by prospect of Stelarc performance at Sussex.

Tomorrow. Sussex. (re)Performing the Posthuman.

♻ @SlightFoxing: Thomas Pynchon - U #lesserbooks

♻ @johnwarrender: RT @JudeClarke: Twitpic of a Lady #lesserbooks

♻ @AJCann: Why Diaspora will fail - http://www.downloadsquad.com/2010/05/21/diaspora-social-network-fail-kickstarter-facebook/

Obama upstaged by a rodent. http://is.gd/cj4DM

"South"; incredible schema migration application for Django. http://south.aeracode.org/

#FF @Merilynjune @chriskeene @SussexDocSchool @liannedemello @ProfHacker @timeshighered

♻ @SussexDocSchool: You asked, I deliver --> http://doctoralschool.wordpress.com/thesis-faqs/ If I've missed anything, let me know!

♻ @Sherry_Chiger: New blog post: Book trailers, the #MobyAwards, Thomas #Pynchon, and The Dude from The Big Lebowski http://bit.ly/a87amx

#Pynchon, Terrorism and Cold War conference paper almost ready for Poland now.

♻ @timeshighered: The new coalition's plans for FE and HE can be found here: http://bit.ly/an2U0w

Thomas #Pynchon iWise feed: http://www.iwise.com/HlE5y

♻ @SussexDocSchool: The final Excursions post on editorial process & structure of the peer-reviewed ejournal http://tinyurl.com/excursions4

Off down to Brighton in the sunshine today.

♻ @PLongy: A reflection on the PhD job market and on educational philosophy [...] http://ow.ly/1MzHT < 95:1 applicant ratio

I had no idea the Nick Clegg was a big-time Beckett fan. Good stuff!

First draft of chapter!

♻ @branwenhide: RCUK : toolkit to help researchers understand the pathways towards economic and societal impacts http://bit.ly/d2RODZ

♻ @vitaenwhub: RT @branwenhide: RCUK: pathways to impact http://bit.ly/9BG14j

♻ @philosophybites: RT @LOGICOMIX: Happy 138th Birthday, Bertrand Russell!!

♻ @rachelwilliams2's [disturbing] profile of new schools minister Nick Gibb http://bit.ly/bjg0CY (via @alicebell)

♻ @SussexDocSchool: Excursions post on the approach to technical and design aspects of the ejournal http://tinyurl.com/excursions3 < my bit!

♻ @siansparkles: @gillpea @lomhlaba I feel I have failed, I have never read Thomas Pynchon.

♻ @joindiaspora: http://www.reclaimprivacy.org/ check your FB privacy settings, automagically! #whyisntthisbuiltintofacebook :)

Everyone's going on about Diaspora. Appleseed does the same thing and is almost ready-to-go. http://is.gd/cdmoD

66/74 pages of my own work read and self-approved. Now need to go home and do all that admin that research has been keeping me from.

♻ @DianaWeiner: Hitch 22: A Memoir, by Christopher Hitchens [...] encounters with everyone from Thomas #Pynchon to Thatcher.

♻ @USSU: View from Falmer House of the Dissertation Dash http://twitpic.com/1omcd8 < so *that's* why the BL is so quiet today!

♻ @ucu UCU warns lifting the tuition fee cap would be 'the most regressive piece of education policy since the war': http://bit.ly/bl0tQM

♻ @democracy_now: On Now: Noam Chomsky speaking live from Jordan on being denied entry into the West Bank by Israel http://bit.ly/8YlTax

New Texas education system's take on history: Guns, god, war, free market, no slavery. http://is.gd/cd14k

Noam Chomsky refused entry to West Bank because "the government of Israel doesn't like the kinds of things [he] say[s]" http://is.gd/cd0RN

♻ @SussexDocSchool: Excursions: new interdisciplinary, open-access, peer-reviewed ejournal. http://tinyurl.com/excurions2 (Part 2 of 4)

About to begin the first in-toto reading of my fist thesis chapter's first draft!

OBR; Office for Backdating Responsibility.

Black Tuesday, October 29, 1929; shares at NYSE plunge. Black Tuesday, June 22, 2010; Osborne announces £6bn of cuts.

♻ @solent_FMASopps: OPEN SOURCE ARTISTS: Piksel10
http://piksel.no
Deadline:
June 1, 2010

Definitely one I'll be checking out later this year... from the library though! http://is.gd/cbTGw The Routledge Companion to Ethics $180

"Sir Richard Branson says Manchester Airport closure plan because of ash cloud is 'beyond a joke'"; profits > safety

Best part of this article http://is.gd/c9UIe. Caption: "Councillor Steve Batkin (far right)".

The first of four installments on the forthcoming journal, Excursions! http://is.gd/c8RjH

Musical notation in JavaScript and HTML5 Canvas tag: http://is.gd/c8MS3

♻ @timeshighered: Slight changing of tune! RT @RussellGroup Do read our full report on higher education funding http://bit.ly/bBZGDo

♻ @filmdrblog: Discussing Lipsky's book about David Foster Wallace http://nymag.com/arts/books/bookclub/although-of-course/ #DFW

#FF @CarolineLucas go green! @liannedemello go political! @thoughtcat go thoughtful! @sunny_hundal go left! @Dystopia2009 go illuminati!

♻ @Dystopia2009: RT @zacodin the Star Pyramid, "built by William Drummond in 1863" http://bit.ly/9v9J4a #KLF < justified AND ancient

♻ @CarolineLucas: Debating on Radio Sussex panel on need for more women in politics. "New politics" looks suspiciously like the old politics

♻ @Dystopia2009: http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/business/dead-office-staff--costing-millions%2c-say-experts-201005132730/

Eagerly awaiting Booka Shade taking the stage. Guest list FTW.

Off to Brighton for publishing workshop with Josie Dixon.

♻ @brainpicker: 7 unusual psychological techniques that boost creativity http://is.gd/c5fBb (via @Alyssa_Milano)

♻ @ResFortnight: Research in department limbo as Cons-Lib government forms http://tiny.cc/ysbkh

♻ @GdnPolitics: RT @C4election: Do you regret, when asked what your favourite joke is, saying Nick Clegg? Cameron is asked.

♻ @liannedemello: RT @PoliceStateUK: Identity cards, National Identity Register & biometric passports cancelled http://bit.ly/c72Qzq

♻ @liannedemello: RT @chickyog New Equality Minister Theresa May voted against the repeal of section 28. < It was her or Grayling. =/

♻ @ContinuumPhilos: RT @Jankovitch: List of unsolved problems in philosophy ~ http://bit.ly/cW1Oh9

♻ @AJCann: I've been offline. Who is Minister for Foxhunting?

"the MP who launched some of the most outspoken attacks on the greed and excesses in the City is now being unleashed on the sector." #VCable

♻ @timeshighered: No official word yet on where HE is going to sit - we'll update with any gossip/news that comes in here.

♻ @philosophybites: RT @RepublicStaff: Time for the Queen to be removed from the process?

Announcement outside cabinet office in 20 mins!

I suspect that there's no point me constantly checking if a new government is in. I'll just check if Twitter's down. It'll be the same thing

♻ @SnackFace: Has anyone else read The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas #Pynchon? Peculiar...and I like it.

♻ @akripley: why didn't anyone tell me to read david foster wallace in college? why why why why why why whyyyyyy.

ISSN number assigned by the BL for our new journal; launch date fast approaching!

♻ @chamberfour: Words David Foster Wallace Circled in His Dictionary That Were Used in Infinite Jest http://bit.ly/924VL5 (via @htmlgiant)

♻ @brainpicker: Not sure how I missed this – Issue 11 of the excellent Five Dials celebrates David Foster Wallace http://is.gd/c3CRI #DFW

Blog: http://post.ly/fU5Z New David Foster Wallace book Fall 2010

David Foster Wallace, Fate, Time, and Language to be published this fall! #DFW http://bit.ly/cpJ264

♻ @ColumbiaUP: Browse of Fall 2010 catalog. Nw books from David Foster Wallace, Roland Barthes, Julia Kristeva http://bit.ly/cpJ264

Come on LibLab - end the FlipFlop!

Anybody else find Zotero's "Suppress Author" checkbox somewhat Stalinist?

♻ @timeshighered RT @AshgateUK How not to write a PhD thesis - Tara Brabazon in the @TimesHigherEd: http://wp.me/pD7XL-dH

♻ @avivao: What writer David Foster Wallace circled in his dictionary: A complete list // Fascinating! http://bit.ly/9GBZ8N

♻ @GoGoSlava: @martin_eve You can raise money for all your ideas in any non-American country on IndieGoGo

Shirley Williams warns against coalition with Cons. http://is.gd/c1plA

♻ @chalkwhale: does anyone want to start a book club reading all of david foster wallace's books...starting with Broom of the System...?

♻ @thoughtcat: RT @UKLabourParty: Please retweet if you want a #LibLab Proportional Representation Deal #dontdoitnick

♻ @othermarlo: Today is Thomas Pynchon's birthday #WASTE #pynchon

♻ @Flygirltwo: Excellent! RT @andrew_chadwick RT @wdjstraw: Fair Votes Now protest at Smith Sq & Lib-Con talks http://twitpic.com/1m2ug5

♻ @basileios: Pynchon is 73 today. happy birthday master (we are not worthy and all that). In case you check twitter: when is the next book?

Still some slots available on Humanities Publishing Workshop. See: http://is.gd/bZQLd and email James Birkett

On this day, May 8, 1937: Birth of Thomas #Pynchon.

♻ @thoughtcat: RT @UKLabourParty: Please retweet if you want a #Lab-Lib deal

♻ @GdnPolitics: Votes per seat: Con 35,021; Lab 33,338; Lib Dem 119,397 #ge2010

#FF = Failure Friday

♻ PLEASE RT @libdems Please don't form a coalition with David Cameron or you will permanently lose my vote.

Just hit the point of no return. Cons now can't form a majority government.

♻ @TooYoung2BeOld W/O a doubt, Pynchon was the most difficult for me, then Lacan...

Wait... don't answer that last tweet. It's this strange thing called non-PR.

How in the world have the Lib Dems ended up fewer seats?? I despair. Mind you, the places & people I frequent give me a skewed opinion poll.

#ukvote EN1

EN1 #ukvote

Time to vote.

Worldwide DNS appears to be holding so far...!

♻ @nikkiana: Does anyone want to read through #DFW's Infinite Jest with me? I think I might get through it if I had a reading buddy.

Very pleasing to see Emmeline Pankhurst trending for the UK. It seems there is some kind of historico-social memory in this country!

caffeine has invigorated me for an afternoon of #Pynchon thinking and writing!

♻ @hopenothate: Billy Bragg has just arrived in Barking and Dagenham and is now out campaigning. Hope you can join us.

♻ @timeshighered: Academic freedom is "not unfettered freedom to say anything": http://bit.ly/aqXgkZ < the comments put a better argument

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♻ @philosophybites: Middlesex Philosophy dept's fate sealed: Zizek has signed the petition! http://bit.ly/9Drb3u

♻ @ndrssvn: #Pynchon 2.0 http://bit.ly/cOj3fQ < interesting read, but not sure re. optimism

♻ @liannedemello: RT @thedailymash BRITAIN TO MAKE HORRIFYINGLY ILL-INFORMED CHOICE http://bit.ly/azG1Q5 < Ahahaha

♻ Today's #DFW trends: Details 1996 profile of David Foster Wallace http://is.gd/bVPxN

♻ @sunny_hundal: Best. Line. Evaaaar! RT @danhancox: vote cameron, get greece

Off to Brighton for first draft run of OJS demonstration

♻ @philosophybites: RT @readysteadybook: Happy birthday Karl Marx -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Marx

♻ @philosophybites: Bleak picture for UK Philosophy - no one knows what 'impact' means http://tinyurl.com/258g98x

♻ @MustardPepper: I am now of the opinion that David Foster Wallace is a genius. Brief Interviews with Hideous Men is amazing. #DFW

Why are the major parties so quiet on HE? http://is.gd/bUTUj Probably because they have little positive to say and their buzzword is "cut".

UCU Strike today: http://is.gd/bULEl

♻ @abanant: Nacht and English Department Host #Pynchon Symposium - The Daily Gazette http://dlvr.it/n1mv <-- writeup

♻ @wanderingwilbo: You probably would like the fact that every woman in Texas is a Thomas Pynchon fan. I barely stretch truth here. #pynchon

About time! Encourage openness and standards or perish: http://is.gd/bU20A

Is it wrong that, despite my excitement at our nearing journal launch, I cannot bring myself to love copy- and proof- editing?

♻ @Dystopia2009: RT @crc1532 A screaming comes across the sky. #sixwordstory #sixwords #Pynchon #quotes #gravitysrainbow #thomaspynchon

All today's #DFW trending focusing on Michael O'Donnell's article: http://is.gd/bTAuM

♻ @micro_research: plans for International Pynchon Week 2010 LUBLIN: http://amstud-lublin.edu.pl/pynchon/?page_id=227 #pynchon

♻ @sirdarckcat: RT @shachiel: Best way to say "I love you" ever: "You're my 42"

Jonathan Lethem to be creative writing prof at Pomona, replacing the late David Foster Wallace: http://bit.ly/d4S7Ue via @chashiineriiya

♻ @timeshighered: "The academy should not be in the business of compensating for state schools’ failures" http://bit.ly/9voTOu

2010, the year worldwide content exceeded the zettabyte barrier. http://is.gd/bTjW4

♻ @SussexDocSchool: RT @phdcomics: New comic: 'Sentences' http://www.phdcomics.com/comics.php?f=1312

♻ @DerrenBrown Blog post: Creationism Propaganda for Children Caught on Camera http://cli.gs/GJSBB

♻ @chris_coltrane: BNP may not appear as BNP on the ballot paper! Instead they could appear as any one of these: http://ow.ly/1Gsmt #ge2010

♻ @MrHock: Massive nerd that I am, I'm reading Thomas Pynchon's "Mason & Dixon" because of this song. ♫ http://blip.fm/~ppmb0

I'm a definite latecomer to the X11 forwarding game. Incredible!

"Enigmatist" authors the Guardian's 25,000th cryptic crossword: http://is.gd/bSlSx

♻ @philosophybites: Slavoj Zizek on volcanic ash and harsh measures against capitalism http://bit.ly/9HIC3R

Reeling from the beauty, poetics and coherent anti-nationalism of Elia Suleiman's The TIme That Remains. General release soon; a must see.

♻ @liannedemello: OMG @stephenfry has tweeted about the campaign I'm working for, @voteforachange. Mighty pleased!

Blog: http://post.ly/eP7I Running Zotero on Ubuntu Lucid

Phenomenal! 100% seamless upgrade to Lucid!

sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

Ready for second day's worth of Elia Suleiman-related goodness at Barbican