September 2011
Night all!
If you'd like to see a fantastic performer in a candid, but very funny, piece: BALL & Other Funny Stories About Cancer http://j.mp/pMN4av
Security Flaw Bypasses AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Screen Lock http://bit.ly/nzmswP
Brilliant article in the TES for all teaching types (it's secondary, but still great): http://j.mp/oZNefT
The excellent @avoiding_bears answered my naive early-modern lit Qs, while we should all welcome @WilliamJMcEvoy to Twitter.
I don't do FFs, but I've had some great chats with @qui_oui, @jovanevery, @ernestopriego, @theNHJ, @ElizaTalks, @BenoitLelievre today.
For those curious about my "sig." question see next RTs.
Q for early modernists. If a critic refers to a "sig." in reference to typesetting and/or transcription, what's he on about?
I can't see how the US having the death penalty is of relevance to Amanda Knox's appeal or why the prosecution are allowed to raise this.
I plunged in and read the first 50 pages of 2666; liking it so far, despite my critical suspicion of books featuring critics.
Very off-topic, but WHY THE HELL DIDN'T SOMEONE SHOW ME THIS BEFORE? How to peel garlic in 10 seconds. http://j.mp/nIMpdd
Facebook refuses to take down rape "joke" pages. http://j.mp/qZtEq2
Jacqueline Rose's review of Darian Leader's "What is Madness"; an interesting read http://j.mp/nG1TyH
On "efficiency" in HE. My thoughts/concerns/anger: http://www.guardian.co.uk/discussion/comment-permalink/12629118
University of Essex staff present £10 million bill for pension losses to vicechancellor http://bit.ly/odSllv
Adorno, Benjamin and Wittgenstein (!): knowledge is not property http://bit.ly/pnDIr9 #academia #patents #Philosophy
Adorno, Benjamin and Wittgenstein (!): knowledge is not property
Increasingly in the course of my academic work, I come to appreciate the fact that thought leads many people, independently, down the same path. For instance, my work flow commonly takes the form of blasting down a paragraph or more, then spending an extensive period of time reading all the…
How Google Drove Samsung Away http://bit.ly/oVfXWH
Whoops. Forgot that I'm attending (not speaking at) a conference tomorrow!
Waiting for @natasha_lees by Samuel Beckett.
Mozilla considering fixing exploit by blocking Java. Serious problem for current Zotero, but not for standalone http://j.mp/oaKSWh #phdchat
Sorry, but this trader's banking confession was no prank | The Yes Men | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk http://bit.ly/qFXJMW
Key thinkers – Michel Foucault. Interview with Stephen Shapiro (2011) http://bit.ly/pfRCdX
HIV Vaccine Trial Shows 90% Immune Response http://bit.ly/rh3usC
My #OJS plugin now generates funky title pages from XML galleys! http://yfrog.com/nuhcdup #openaccess
LibreOffice Hits First Anniversary, Boasts 15 million Linux Users http://bit.ly/qLPacS
What distinguishes long distance writing frm ordinary writing? If imagined audience is native English speaker, is there any impact? #phdchat
Those who followed #TroyDavis last week: his case wasn't isolated. Reggie Clemons; no evidence, dubious eyewitnesses http://j.mp/ozy3gq
I feel it necessary to bring this to your attention. http://j.mp/o7pMxS #occupyLSX
NSAID diclofenac found to substantially increase cardiac risk http://j.mp/n2ldbk http://j.mp/pBL4Qy #rheum
NSAID diclofenac found to substantially increase cardiac risk http://j.mp/n2ldbk http://j.mp/pBL4Qy
Miliband must stop spreading myths about benefit claimants http://j.mp/o7SPMZ
"Dear Important Novelists" - a piece on @berfrois http://j.mp/qziJ7C
Libraries Release Most-Censored Books List http://bit.ly/orpFtD
Conflict Between Occupy Wall Street Protestors and NYPD Escalating http://bit.ly/qYrgVg
Facebook Fixes Post Log-Out Cookie Behavior http://bit.ly/ohAx88
John Wilbanks on the "unknown unknowns" of the shift to Open Access http://j.mp/qXWTED
Really good progress reworking my XSL-FO journal stylesheets; it's going to produce a really swanky document! #OJS #openaccess
Email: "I recently visited
your website, 'www.sussex.ac.uk'" - sounds legit :/
BBC: trader was not a hoaxer http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-15078419
Academia, EdTech, Blogging and Twitter: Enough with the Meta, Already? http://bit.ly/nSubts #academia #meta #Social_Media
MT @crabbitcopy Insane but true. Borrowing £100 at Wonga's rate racks up more than the US national debt in 7 years. http://bit.ly/nO1YxC
Raphaël Hertzog: Contribute to Debian while promoting the Debian Administrator’s Handbook http://bit.ly/nY59m9
Academia, EdTech, Blogging and Twitter: Enough with the Meta, Already?
I have some qualms, which have been growing recently, about the vast number of meta- posts that have accumulated on the use of social media in academia. I need to state this is not a critique of any one of those individual pieces, or the people who made them. I agree with their content. Indeed, in…
Mmm, have had a wonderfully productive morning on thesis and materialism/idealism in Pynchon. #phdchat
Why teaching isn't like selling. http://j.mp/p0tI45
Bah. Forgot my British Library reader pass for first time in 3 years of daily visits. Note to self: it's expensive. Don't do it again.
That video. Just. Wow. Watch it. Known it for a long time, but it's brutality unmasked.
They're also getting an intellectual history background on renaissance humanism.
Hoping to get my first year week 1 class engaged w/ relevance (& problems of) lit via Taylor's "A comparison betwixt a whore and a book".
Right, I must return to Shapiro: 1599, A year in the life of Shakespeare, about which I have mixed feelings.
Not advocating against good EdTech usage, but this whole "students don't turn up because we don't use tech" is rubbish.
OS X Lion exposes password hashes and allows change of password by any user. http://j.mp/p3bwJZ
Thanks all; fixed the certificate problem now!
Response on academia.edu to request for essays on nostalgia: "There used to be such good books on nostalgia." The old ones are the best ;)
Could someone just have a quick look at https://www.pynchon.net and confirm it loads fine, without any certificate errors, please?
Banned books week: http://www.bannedbooksweek.org/
Ubuntu 11.10 beta 2 is actually feeling pretty stable (and speedy) on XFCE.
Writing a plugin for Open Journal Systems: Part 2 http://bit.ly/qnCEkQ #OJS #Open_Access
Heated debate underway on P. list on whether there's an asymmetry of respect between Pynchon and McEwan.
It's great that the NLM publish their transform stylesheets, but it's not great that they don't work with fop. Fixing now :)
AIDS Vaccine Breakthrough http://bit.ly/piIRQW
Writing a plugin for Open Journal Systems: Part 2
The quest to build a system that allows publishing in PDF and XHTML from a single XML galley within OJS continues and I've made quite substantial progress. As before, the code for this article is available on my GitHub. Instead of working from the very basic stub, I instead used the existing…
Sigh. As libXSLT has no XSLT 2.0 support, looks like Saxon & Java are going to be additional dependencies for my XML->PDF OJS plugin.
64bit GNU/Linux and Webcams (Logitech Quickcam Express) http://bit.ly/rdBfd2 #Linux
64bit GNU/Linux and Webcams (Logitech Quickcam Express)
I've just been playing around with my webcam, which I haven't hooked up in ages, and was unable to get it working under my 64bit Fedora installation. Having done a bit of reading, and having found that some applications can use the camera, I worked out the solution. 32bit applications need to have…
"I'll be home soon, I believe that!" My letter from #TroyDavis http://j.mp/pIu3kH
Bolaño's 2666 is glaring at me, accusingly.
Tom McCarthy on the International Necronautical Society (INS) http://bit.ly/ozGluO
PLAYterm: a New Way To Improve Command Line Skills http://bit.ly/p7r5OY
What's that? Term's about to start? Here, have a really sore throat and impending miserable cold!
Hoping to get some time tomorrow to write some more of my Open Journal Systems plugin.
Ok, after @VC_UEL's comments on academic consumerism as corrosive and in need of challenging, I want to work at UEL.
Mass Observation Anniversaries Conference 4-6 July 2012 http://bit.ly/ogc6LY
"Ministers promise to take 'all steps necessary' to preserve stability of financial system" < 1) what stability are they preserving? 2) Why?
A critique of Facebook actually worth reading by @qwghlm http://bit.ly/oIQW5t
Neutrinos http://xkcd.com/955/
UK's NHS Will Drop Delayed E-Records Project http://bit.ly/qVyZip
Why do Windows functions all begin with a pointless MOV EDI, EDI instruction? http://bit.ly/pFOskw
Live chat (Friday): Should the higher education sector regard students as consumers? http://bit.ly/rm0vFR Not really a debate here? No.
Words in memory of Troy Davis http://bit.ly/ouvrnh #DeathPenalty #TroyDavis
Words in memory of Troy Davis http://bit.ly/ouvrnh #Death_Penalty #Troy_Davis
Words in memory of Troy Davis
It is with a heavy and despairing heart that I write this post. It is not particularly well-structured owing to the emotive nature of the content. The state of Georgia have now executed Troy Davis, a black man whose life didn't turn out the way America promised. In 1991, Davis was convicted of…
On dealing with PhD blues: some days are bad, others are good. They're often next to one another. I haven't found a reason for this #phdchat
Haven't contributed to #phdchat for a while, but I have a good, on-topic reason today; combating PhD blues by going to the gym! #serioustip
My friend Ruth is in her PhD viva right now. Scary!
How Microsoft Can Lock Linux Off Windows 8 PCs http://bit.ly/qXrZrV
For those interested, Friday's PoC SSL/TLS is probably based on this 2006 paper: http://j.mp/qRmj8w
Where do you look for PhD funding? http://bit.ly/onBS7U
Foucault’s Critical (Yet Ambivalent) Affirmation: Three Figures of Rights (2011) http://bit.ly/piJADV
What a nice day of meetings (not sarcastic) and now off to dine with lovely @liannedemello.
Supporting workflows in Social Science research by @berniefolan, based on a discussion in which I was involved. http://j.mp/oyheij #phdchat
Just had a great meeting with @catherinepope planning researcher skills workshops at Sussex for the next term.
I seriously can't believe the board denied #TroyDavis clemency. If they wouldn't in this case, they wouldn't in any.
Campus internet at Sussex is great, while there are few students around using it!
Hmmm. Nasty plaintext recovery attack against TLS <= 1.0 http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/09/19/beast_exploits_paypal_ssl/
Hate turning down opportunities, but I'm going to pass on the PGCertHE for now. Need to teach and finish my PhD this year. #phdchat
RMS: 'Is Android Really Free Software?' http://bit.ly/r8WpPE
Qubes Beta 2 Released! http://bit.ly/mRNbdB
Is there really "no money left" for public services? http://j.mp/nJOKi6
Pirate Party Enters Berlin Parliament After Historical Election Win http://bit.ly/o4Sg6T
Three myths about the crisis: how the Left is fetishising the masquerade that hides class struggle. http://j.mp/oa2nib
Foucault’s Room (2011) http://bit.ly/nc86WY
Ah, my fix for Google Checkout in Satchmo was pulled :) http://j.mp/nc8UdA
Apparently, 9/11 killed pomo: http://j.mp/qKd3Nm With more hostility to grand narratives, though, perhaps response would've been different.
Writing a plugin for Open Journal Systems: Part 1 http://bit.ly/nKI71c #OJS #Open_Access #programming
Writing a plugin for Open Journal Systems: Part 1
As promised when I described the problem I was having with the xmlGalley plugin in OJS, I'm going to begin describing the path I am taking to fixing this, and hope that the knowledge will provide some shortcuts for others wishing to develop plugins, amid the sparse documentation on this aspect. As…
Celebrate Software Freedom Today http://bit.ly/r5Tu4r
Oh yes, please hook up my financial details to an always-on internet device! Where do I sign? </sarcasm> http://j.mp/qvhfWd
The all-powerful conspiracy which hides the fact that men are oppressed by women. Or not… http://bit.ly/qFKFaH
Best practice for storing a non-specific date in a relational DB? (eg. "Fall 1997") @drtomcrick @Eingang
WIsh I could be at the rally for #TroyDavis. Instead am at home, feeling very poorly. #toomuchdoubt
Look, the system clearly doesn't work if we have to prop it up again and again, against its own neoliberal rhetoric http://j.mp/oPELCG
Police pay Nottingham student £20k for false arrest. His "crime", downloading the al-Quaeda manual from the library http://j.mp/oTjNlX
Hmmm, wait. The Google+ API states read-only.
Yes! Google+ has just opened its API! https://developers.google.com/+/
The scores of mentally ill, juvenile and innocent people the sickening Perry has had executed http://j.mp/pAyldE
Windows 8 Won't Support Plug-Ins; the End of Flash? http://bit.ly/n1C6zs
Psychological Life as Enterprise (2011) http://bit.ly/oAGunN
Many great submissions rolling in for Orbit: Writing around Pynchon :)
An extremely concise summary of the Apple vs. Samsung lawsuit: http://j.mp/qdccx6
Johann Hari: a personal apology and acts of contrition. http://j.mp/nFnM1e
Serco Group – “the biggest company you’ve never heard of” http://bit.ly/nR20jz
Simon Critchley's How to Read Series http://bit.ly/r6lTOq
On Samuel Beckett's Molloy http://bit.ly/nuMIs3
Publishing articles in PDF via XML/XSLT using Open Journal Systems 2.3.6 http://bit.ly/paMisp #OJS #plugin #Publishing
This is probably the most alarming, and potentially devastating, epidemic waiting to happen: http://j.mp/q8O52P
Publishing articles in PDF via XML/XSLT using Open Journal Systems 2.3.6
This is a post detailing my experiments with Open Journal Systems 2.3.6 and the current state of producing galleys for an article from a single XML file. As shall be seen in the conclusion, no currently functional plugin allows this feature. This will, therefore, be the first of several posts that…
Another grim US death sentence case: jury told man should be executed because he was black. http://j.mp/nb7Ozi
Intel Mandates Universities Receiving Funds Not File Patents http://bit.ly/quj7b4
How funny! My students have obviously been ordering their texts from Amazon judging by the "frequently bought with" list of obscure works.
Hmmm. Open Journal Systems' plugin architecture lets plugins halt calls to others on a hook. What kind of design is that? http://j.mp/rpwcGX
My favourite task management system, @producteev, are offering premium accounts free of charge to educational users -- they're great!
Ah, MS is about to inflict the same catastrophe upon its users as GNOME. A UI that gets in your way. http://j.mp/n0Lblv http://j.mp/odmaO9
This whole Kindle rental thing is disturbing. We used to be able to borrow books for free. Remember libraries?
Forthcoming researcher development workshops http://bit.ly/nRuHHJ
"When it comes to murder, deja vu is unacceptable" http://j.mp/qu6z0P #edmonton #enfield
An object is born http://bit.ly/rcuWYk
Roald Dahl day eh? Read "My Uncle Oswald"? The tale of woman-on-man drug date rape with eugenecist undertones. Funny, though.
Review: John Baxter's J. G. Ballard Biography http://bit.ly/pcYvWz
Georges Perec: Poet, Playwright, Artist http://bit.ly/p70OPx
$300M To Save 6 Milliseconds http://bit.ly/rlwXKR
Management defended the broadcasts, saying "fuck" a "commonly used word in Scotland...not considered offensive locally" http://j.mp/qd4Awd
The thing I don't get about android and kernel.org is why they don't switch to a diff host. Git is fully distributed...
Love BB; had the opportunity to work with her, briefly, @ QM RT @GuardianBooks Bobby Baker wins Mind Book of the Year http://gu.com/p/3xzpa/tf
UK: Open Standards Must Be Restriction Free http://bit.ly/pbaafi
This is why theory is legitimate and ... hated: without it, there would be no changing the practice that constantly calls for change--Adorno
Adobe's awesome new HTML5/CSS3 demo site http://bit.ly/puQvdZ
Witty New Logo Proposed for Linux 3.1 http://bit.ly/qUvlZ1
Finally switched over to XFCE. GNOME, get out of my way. KDE, stop hogging my resources.
Turnitin's Different Messages To Students, Teachers http://bit.ly/pRSQ3V
Unity Got You Down? How To Use The Classic GNOME Desktop in Ubuntu 11.04 [Video] http://bit.ly/npVQhq
CFP Reminder: Orbit: Writing around Pynchon [ 2011-11-01 ] [ https://www.pynchon.net ] #openaccess #academia #phdchat
Human Nature: Justice vs Power. The Chomsky-Foucault debate (2011) http://bit.ly/qbbfRd
It's phenomenal how much Internet Explorer holds back web development. CSS3 Flexbox. Guess which browser has no support. http://j.mp/jBUrnE
Justice Scalia, of US Supreme Court, holds that execution of innocents is constitutionally sound: http://j.mp/nDIcPs http://j.mp/raoRyq
Tom McCarthy in Praise of Freud http://bit.ly/nP0hsn
. @chriskeene if Google+ had a file share feature, now that'd be a killer feature.
File Transfer http://xkcd.com/949/
Google Gravity http://bit.ly/qNCKJv
Troy Davis: Innocence and Execution; If This is a Man http://bit.ly/ovDRIP #Death_Penalty #toomuchdoubt
The luck of the draw? Graduate students and competitive funding http://bit.ly/oVZ9LH
Troy Davis: Innocence and Execution; If This is a Man
The Troy Davis case, perhaps the most controversial of all death penalty impositions in the United States, is growing perilously close to a climax resulting in the death of a man who, even if not innocent, has been subject to a deeply flawed legal process. An execution date has been set for the…
You've got to come back with me, Marty! http://www.nicekicks.com/2011/09/is-nike-taking-us-back-to-the-future/
Anti Evil Maid http://bit.ly/nrjWHM
Beyond Subjection: Notes on the later Foucault and education (2011) http://bit.ly/nhjC8k
20 Most Iconic Book Cover Designs? http://bit.ly/otecBa
Is it worth presenting at postgraduate conferences? http://bit.ly/nDjnAE #academia #PhDchat
Is it worth presenting at postgraduate conferences?
I've just been asked on Twitter as to whether it's worth presenting at postgraduate conferences and thought I'd share my thoughts in a short post. Answer: it depends what you want to get from a conference. If you are looking to meet intellectually stimulating people, get experience presenting and…
Aaron Toponce: Use Your SSH Client To Help Prevent Stupid Mistakes http://pthree.org/?p=2007
Nice coffee with break w/ @drtomcrick, lamenting REF, talking interdisciplinarity & how on earth people can be disinterested in programming
Adorno terminology: intentio recta and intention obliqua http://bit.ly/r1l9hK #academia #definition #latin
UK Government Breaks Open Source Promises http://bit.ly/nmzyIk
Adorno terminology: intentio recta and intention obliqua
Reading Negative Dialectics, I was unable to track down a succinct, suitable definition of the terms "intentio recta" and "intentio obliqua", first appearing on page 69 of the Ashton translation. It turns out the phrases are derived from the work of Nicolai Hartmann who introduced the terms to…
Friedrich Nietzsche: A Perspectivist Thinker http://bit.ly/r6cVDQ
Knowledge and Thought in Heidegger and Foucault (2011) http://bit.ly/r2MOef
Linux Kernel Moves To Github http://bit.ly/nHuOVu
"Compared to Pynchon's novel, Joyce's Ulysses [...] is play for a child" - Leo Bersani
Right. Back to Negative Dialectics.
Alan Bell: Open Source Sells Planes http://bit.ly/pkRLez
40mg http://bit.ly/qyI5hf
Today marks the start of the final stage of my PhD research. Writing last chapter, then intro, conclusion & edit. Finish line=July. #phdchat
Investing http://xkcd.com/947/
... apparently lots of discussion on this. http://j.mp/nmp4lV It is a generic Roland synth sound, but HR, alongside Prodigy, popularized.
Managed to avoid Lady GaGa thus far. Just been introduced. 1st thought; "Bad Romance" uses same "hoover" sound as Human Resource - Dominator
Postmodernism: Style and Subversion 1970 - 1990 http://bit.ly/nDveD2
Helpful comment on my blog http://j.mp/nELH3w points out Zotero 2.1.9 will work in FF7 as per beta compatibility page http://j.mp/o2mctN
BBC running a piece on Marx. http://j.mp/nzHzcb CLEAR EVIDENCE OF THEIR LEFT-WING BIAS!!1! </sarcasm>
Linked Lists are patented, every piece of code is in violation http://bit.ly/qM1chP
Susie Orbach on how abortion isn't measured by the market http://bit.ly/q2Niq7
OK, this is the Foucault T-Shirt I want: http://bit.ly/q7N2g4
Foucault teeshirts (2011) http://bit.ly/r30f2w
Lovely #phdchat meet up with @sarahthesheepu @JeffreyKeefer @OwhyOwhy and @MisaimedBrain.
Here's @JeffreyKeefer, @sarahthesheepu and @MisaimedBrain at the #phdchat tweetup http://yfrog.com/g0a2jwj
Is it bad etiquette to tweet during a tweetup meal? @JeffreyKeefer has just arrived. #phdchat
Also tested my backup solution today. Wiped laptop, installed new Ubuntu beta. 4 hours later, all data and settings restored. #couldyoucope?
Just on my way to the #phdchat meetup!
Installing Zotero on Ubuntu Oneiric (11.10/Beta) http://bit.ly/o4lboO #Technology #zotero
Installing Zotero on Ubuntu Oneiric (11.10/Beta)
Following on from my previous guide to using Zotero in Ubuntu Natty, I am pleased to present, here, the guide for Ubuntu 11.10: The Oneiric Ocelot. The most crucial new addition is that, at the time of writing (September 2011), Zotero was unable to load in Firefox 7.0 beta. Update: As of 9th of…
Excellent piece on Radio 4 at the moment. Every panelist agreeing that the bankers got off scot-free and need regulation. Never forget this.
Germany Lifts ‘Doom’ Ban After 17 Years – Toast Demons To Celebrate http://bit.ly/pqBwYa
Immanent critique of closed access publication http://bit.ly/qQcI6u #academia #Open_Access #Publishing
The Fridge: Ubuntu 11.10 Beta 1 (Oneiric Ocelot) Released. http://bit.ly/nwAmWB
Immanent critique of closed access publication
As I ramp up my efforts to bring the critique of closed access journals to the fore I expect at some point to encounter the charge of hypocrisy; I publish in closed journals. Having just seen a post on twitter criticizing research on Open Access published in a closed destination, I wanted here to…
Sorry for that slightly egotistical, self-publicising retweet. Couldn't resist.
I've finally decided that GNOME 3 just isn't working out for me. Slow and coercive. Let me work how I want and don't get in the way.
Erica Heller, Yossarian Slept Here http://bit.ly/olD44y
Security breach on http://kernel.org/ (the Linux Kernel)