Know it's pandering to his trolling, but Clarkson earns over £2m per year. Many of the people he'd have "executed" for striking earn 20-40k

Excuse my language there, but I think that's totally appalling.

In times of austerity, one has to spend wisely. The Met want to buy a fucking water cannon. Only £4m. http://j.mp/siCCCD

Cameron's attempt to make "leftwing" an insult... http://gu.com/p/33myj/tw

A Pynchon-themed xkcd today! cf. Gravity's Rainbow http://xkcd.com/984/

Another day featuring 6 hours of consecutive teaching. Went well, but with 1 week left of term, it's major research time! #phdchat

EU court advisor says software ideas cannot be copyrighted. Hurrah! http://bit.ly/sT8Kc5

Is it responsible to publish research on weaponising the flu virus? http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/SFPm9Zlz_3Y/paper-on-super-flu-strain-may-be-banned-from-publication

http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/SFPm9Zlz_3Y/paper-on-super-flu-strain-may-be-banned-from-publication

Umberto Eco: 'People are tired of simple things.'
http://gu.com/p/33kxc < actually, Eco is wrong. Certain monkeys also lie/deceive vocally

I am now in cable organisation heaven http://yfrog.com/nxxmcijj

"Labour the only mainstream party in the EU which believes the response is to spend more" (others are working SO well) http://j.mp/s5ugRh

Personal effectiveness: emergency measures! + Workshop 13th December http://doctoralschool.wordpress.com/2011/11/28/personal-effectiveness-emergency-measures-workshop-13th-december/

"one of those moments when someone stops the world spinning by dancing for no other reason than innocent joy." http://gu.com/p/33jp8/tw

Forthcoming workshops: academic websites & protecting your assets! http://bit.ly/s3uv7Z #academia #Teaching #website

The Copyright Industry – A Century Of Deceit http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Torrentfreak/~3/xggW6PQMX6Q/

Foucault buttons/badges http://foucaultnews.wordpress.com/2011/11/28/foucault-buttonsbadges/

http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/47jPMsROUjg/15-years-in-jail-for-clicking-like

Why Ed Miliband should speak the language of Marx | Andrew Martin http://gu.com/p/33jy7

For George Osborne, unemployment is a price worth paying | Mehdi Hasan http://gu.com/p/33kxg

John Gray and Will Self on Ballard http://www.apieceofmonologue.com/2011/11/john-gray-will-self-jg-ballard.html

http://www.apieceofmonologue.com/2011/11/joan-bakewell-interviews-j-g-ballard.html

Fantastic day. SAGE senior management are ace and I highly recommend Richter at Tate Modern

Worth reading RT @andycoverdale Good piece. Occupy London responds to the Evening Standard @OccupyLSX http://occupylsx.org/?p=1421 #aids

Exciting day today! Off to Sussex for lunch with SAGE publishing then back to London to see the Richter at Tate with fellow PhD types.

My students already think I'm crazy. What could be better to fix this than arriving with a Foucault finger puppet?

Tom McCarthy: My desktop http://gu.com/p/33j32

Redesign of Libreoffice. This is sorely needed. http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/d0od/~3/9N4czlXuLzs/

Months of Tories saying nobody will notice when public sector strike. How can strike cause so much damage then? http://j.mp/s6Ea5f

Carrier IQ Drops Empty Legal Threat, Apologizes to Security Researcher https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/11/carrier-iq-drops-empty-legal-threat-apologizes-security-researcher

Dell's Misleading Graphics Card Buying Advice http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/kl9sS05MInk/dells-misleading-graphics-card-buying-advice

The Muppets and moi http://gu.com/p/33t92/tw via @guardian < I love the muppets!

Happy birthday #phdchat!

Methinks, as Pynchon puts it in Inherent Vice, that it's "long past time to be, as Shaggy would say, like, gettin out of here, Scoob"

BBC News - Paracetamol warning: 'Slightly too much can cause overdose' http://bbc.in/v8V0ZB

Just the 62 emails while I was teaching today, then.

Enjoyed telling my Literature students about the Gulliver-inspired big and little endian in computer science today. Cc @drtomcrick @Eingang

Incredible fog on the London- Brighton line today. In other news, teaching Gulliver's Travels at @SussexUni today.

"Socialism for the rich, capitalism for the poor." Superb Monbiot piece, again.
http://gu.com/p/33gmm

Foucault is doing the laundry http://goo.gl/729nh

Gawker pursuing anti-academic agenda. Go them.

Reached the halfway point of my final thesis chapter today. #TheEndIsTrulyInSight

Amazing infographic (Money) http://goo.gl/XwnNy

Gabriel Josipovici reviews Beckett Letters 1941-1956 http://goo.gl/kupaJ

Oddly, Texas can teach the UK a thing or two on criminal justice | Ian Birrell http://gu.com/p/33g2p/tw via @guardian

Charlie Brooker | This year's Christmas adverts aren't adverts, they're 'events'. Ghastly events

http://gu.com/p/33fg9 <hilarious, as usual

Bringing that back to my usual tweets about lit., there's a Richard Fariña ref. (BDSLILLUtM) in "It's About that Time" #Alabama3

"Have you ever been to the Galapagos, you know they got lizards there that ain't got no eyes, she says, that comes as no surprise" #alabama3

Have two personal tweets. They make you more credible, you know. Anyway, new Alabama 3 album is a definite return to form!

Great discussion on Minix vs. Linux history in the comments here http://j.mp/tEQjAZ

It's not just our leaders who are in a crisis. Democracy itself is failing | Peter Beaumont

http://gu.com/p/33fyq

Archbishop Rowan Williams backs revolt against coalition's welfare cuts

http://gu.com/p/33fzh

Inbox Zero. Off for some downtime for a friend's birthday. First weekend relaxation in a long time!

Youth unemployment: aspirational talk? All the young hear is a sick joke | John Harris http://gu.com/p/33f68/tw via @guardian

.NETIDS development restarted. Participants wanted. http://bit.ly/vuAjhP #programming #security

OK, that's very good practice. BBC News linking to arXiv http://j.mp/rEYFd9

Pynchon's Inherent Vice, p. 54 has a sneaky reference to Gravity's Rainbow through ICBM programme of Wooldrige and Ramo.

BBC News - GPs should 'not sign off long-term sick' http://bbc.in/w2mh1f

If you would like to add your name to list of signatures in solidarity with Nathan Brown's letter, let me know. http://j.mp/uKxLCo

YouTube footage showing alleged violent agents provacateurs at the Nov. 9th Student protests. http://youtu.be/BJ5BM6NV1y8 #Activism2011

'Tobin tax' would hit City of London with missile, says John Major

http://gu.com/p/33fjv < my heart bleeds

Guest post on Google Scholar Citations http://bit.ly/thO455 #academia #citations

Spinning class featuring Leftfield's Afro-Left at room shaking volumes helped me kick the marking blues!

Marking complete. Hurrah! Now onto emails and other work.

That "aims of education" post brought to you by the ever-excellent @qui_oui

A warm welcome to @SussexUni/BMS researcher @DrRachStanley who is embracing Twitter and all its offerings. cc. @SussexDocSchool, @lizith

The aims of education? http://goo.gl/8QluF

I'm a sucker for formalist students. Stative verbs, zoomorphism and asyndeton oh my! (as long as it's for a purpose, obv)

Gutted I can't make this conference; looks great. "The Audience Through Time" at Queen Mary, London. http://j.mp/sHel2R

Neutrinos still faster than light in latest version of experiment http://gu.com/p/33epk/tw via @guardian

Wisdom of the Ancients http://goo.gl/a65WK

All French Nuclear Reactors Deemed Unsafe http://goo.gl/KhyGt

Twitter: your mission, should you choose to accept it, or even if not, is to get me through 8 hours straight of marking.

Lessons of the Luddites | Eliane Glaser

http://gu.com/p/33ena

Google Calendar, I hate you. "Reminder: Marking".

Saw this in 2008; superb Beckett adaptations. http://goo.gl/xuHtP

Riding wave of positivity (not that I'm usually negative) and hoping for a great research day at the @BritishLibrary

Now THAT perked me up. They're both 26 pages long, though. #phdchat #waytogoyet

1 highlight of last 24 hours was supervisor telling me to start working on a monograph proposal and emailing me successful examples #phdchat

Just caught sight of #openaccess on #phdchat; looks good -- what's the topic this week?

Resource: Teaching HTML & CSS http://goo.gl/6pSnb

Great couple of days. Supervisors love my latest work, teaching was ace and now have issue and vol for forthcoming journal article.

Join me and ask the Governor of Idaho not to execute after a 17 year hiatus. The #DeathPenalty isn’t the answer. http://pthblog.amnesty.org.uk/idaho-execution/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=deathpenalty&utm_content=dp_twitter-share

.@ButchOtter, Idaho hasn't executed anyone in 17 years. Please don't restart with #PaulRhoades on Friday, stop the execution.

Ran poorly-attended but extremely well-engaged workshops today. They demanded that I run future sessions - great!

Citogenesis http://xkcd.com/978/

Ahem. Sorry about that, regular followers.

Chocolate, strawberries with a hint of SIM card, washed down with a glass of all you can eat data. #NexusOnThree

Brrr. Notable temperature difference in Brighton. Seminars I'm teaching today on Swift's scatalogical poetry, though, which should be fun.

How can Frank Miller justify drawing a front cover for Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow, a book *about* the preterite 99%, then say this?

Occupy Wall Street: New York police begin clearing Zuccotti Park

http://gu.com/p/33c9n

Age is a continuum – not two tribes to be made equal | Mary Midgley

http://gu.com/p/33bfm

Which are literature's greatest unseen characters?

http://gu.com/p/33bpq

Looking forward to this! http://yfrog.com/khy8zpcj

Pow! Inbox: 0.

How the BBC's HD DRM plot was kept secret … and why http://gu.com/p/3356j/tw via @guardian

Why Britain needs direct action: http://j.mp/uTRCtC

The DH Delusion http://goo.gl/B2mCp

Brilliant example of academic blogging (if a grim subject!) The Bioarcheology of Crucifiction http://goo.gl/sc0Al

Crossword roundup: Eggs and chestnuts http://gu.com/p/33bh4/tw via @guardian

The University Project http://goo.gl/rR9ST

Excellent! Looks like I'm going to get to give my David Lynch/Spatio-temporal distortion lecture at Sussex again this year.

Supporting student learning with Study Direct http://goo.gl/3KlNz

New Google+ app for Android a great improvement!

International Obfuscated C Competition returns! http://bit.ly/ueh67j

Anybody who has an old iPod Nano (1st gen) sitting around can get a free replacement: http://j.mp/skMgHT

Can you spot the technique? 1.) Identify something you don't like. 2.) Claim it's harming the economy. Easy! http://j.mp/u8XcZY

Predicting US Supreme Court Justice Votes http://goo.gl/vbO85

Care may suffer, admits private company taking over NHS hospital

http://gu.com/p/33b6f

The Angel Esmeralda by Don DeLillo – review

http://gu.com/p/33887

Anybody our there using OpenScholar? Looks quite a nice project, actually. http://j.mp/9XzY1e

RE: @Goannatree I'd like to apologise as well and then get on with discussing the actual issues, but let me first ske… http://disq.us/46e7fd

Yes! "We must end for-profit publishing and allow libraries to make available the works of their scholars for all" http://j.mp/ut2kVB

RE: @Goannatree Ah yes, apologies; surely the result of reading too fast! Nevertheless, the second point stands. Furt… http://disq.us/46dekv

RE: @nickblackbourn Absolutely; in fact, I would be far happier if the "mo" were dropped -- supportive writing enviro… http://disq.us/46d3yi

RE: @Goannatree Thanks for the response, to which I have a few comebacks. First off, I'm pretty sure I never made the… http://disq.us/46d35i

Tom McCarthy on Friedrich Kittler http://goo.gl/N4kPv

Blanchot and Beckett's Letters http://goo.gl/w7KrH

Fancy learning about marketing your academic self online? Workshop for @SussexUni researchers next week: http://j.mp/uqVrf2

This morning's activities include creating two workshop Prezis while deferring marking (which is now 50% complete).

Currently wishing technicolour violence upon royal mail delivery staff who don't ring the doorbell with crucial deliveries. I WAS IN.

Linux Kernel Power Bug Is Fixed http://goo.gl/PDMh0

Foucault and Lifelong Learning, Governing the Subject http://goo.gl/GjMWT

Open Access and Social Media http://goo.gl/fDuMk

Right. I'm going to sleep more from now on. http://goo.gl/uLMep

Remembering W.G. Sebald http://goo.gl/HPOnZ

Having a day "off" at home to get this marking done. #joy #rapture

http://goo.gl/bHahs (Dan Gunn on Samuel Beckett's Letters | A Piece of Monologue: Literature, Philosophy, Criticism)

Crossword blog: meet the setter - Anax http://gu.com/p/339fx/tw via @guardian

The Orb [X], Cup of tea [X], 32x4,000 student portfolios [:X]

Patent trolls in Piney Woods make mischief for innovators everywhere http://gu.com/p/33966/tw via @guardian

Today will begin at the British Library. When they close for the queen, I will move to the Criterion Theatre to see Mark Rylance. Oh well!

Warner Bros. Admits Sending HotFile False Takedown Requests | TorrentFreak http://goo.gl/QiNQH http://goo.gl/pnLxQ

And with that, g'night.

Much of today's march was spent, by my cohort, thinking up "catchy slogans": what do we want? Renaissance humanist education values...

So, in addition to protesting for the future of UK HE, I also finished journal article revisions & did thesis research today. #phdchat

Pynchon research snippet: no source, Latin or Greek, for the Infancy Gospel of Thomas features the rabbit golems of p. 486 of Mason & Dixon.

An open letter to Simon Poutain, Commander of the Public Order Command of the Metropolitan Police Service #nov9 http://j.mp/tsm3XN

Any pool of photographs from today's protest? #nov9

#nov9 http://yfrog.com/oenkcmj

Many people here at the protest!

Oh dear. Riot vans out already? #nov9 http://yfrog.com/h260372836j

Sussex students will not be penalized if they miss seminars & lectures in order to protest today http://bit.ly/v5sd49

Ha! Mass protest reading of Bartleby the Scrivener! http://j.mp/ufJTEo

Samuel Beckett Working Group 2012 http://goo.gl/PPKaD

Samuel Beckett's Reading List (Samuel Beckett's Reading List 1941-1956 | A Piece of Monologue: Literature,... http://goo.gl/chRj7

Police send warning letters to activists ahead of student protests

http://gu.com/p/33862

Actually, that was a bit harsh. I did tell them to stay away out of courtesy if infected!

Students who are Ill today unlikely to receive much sympathy. I feel crap and I'm still here!

The hills are alive... http://yfrog.com/ockifjpj

Academics support protest http://bit.ly/tNg3ZR

The 1% are the very best destroyers of wealth the world has ever seen | George Monbiot http://gu.com/p/337tn/tw via @guardian

NHS cancer figures contradict David Cameron and Andrew Lansley's claims

http://gu.com/p/337ha

Simon F. Davies' Open Educational Resource on Literary Terms http://bit.ly/vMhJ0C #OER #Poetry #Teaching

Also love the way that, like, Pynchon's 18th-century characters, like, speak like this: "as a boy made small, as you'd say, toy Golems"

re. Pynchon's Mason & Dixon misprint/gospel error RT @yorgos_maragos: @martin_eve Same in my 1998 Vintage paperback.

Hmm. Nasty mis-print in first ed. of Pynchon's Mason & Dixon. P. 486 should read Exodus 3.14, not 4.14. Wonder if replicated subsequently?

Outrageous attempt to intimidate Wednesday's protest by threatening rubber bullets. http://j.mp/v6mlql

Call For Papers for Early Modern News conference at Sussex! http://j.mp/twOzwl

It would be a mild understatement to say that I am not a fan of Donne's Satire 4. (cc. @SFD85)

Apple Faces Temporary iPhone, iPad Ban In Germany - Slashdot http://goo.gl/tK6oY

Crossword roundup http://gu.com/p/3373v/tw via @guardian

For those who read my @commentisfree post, another commenter points out this excellent research on name changing: http://j.mp/sYPA4I

Love reading old journals: "the editors welcome submission of manuscripts [...] on 5.25" or 3.5" disks for IBM PC"

Anatomy professor Vishy Mahadevan on An Anatomie in Four Quartets by The Clod Ensemble http://gu.com/p/336cc/tw via @guardian

Academia.edu informs me that people are searching for my Wittgenstein and Pynchon paper. Would be nice if they'd hurry up and publish it!

Oh dear! Looks like @SussexUni's website is under a DDoS attack or similar :/ http://j.mp/AYNx8

SSL Certificate Authorities vs. Convergence, Perspectives - Slashdot http://goo.gl/B9lyQ

Wellcome museum crazily busy today for Mexican Day of the Dead celebrations. Queued for an hour.

Brian Lobel: BALL and Other Funny Stories About Cancer http://bit.ly/sPi5hk #live_art #performance

Michel Foucault's Age de la Folie turns 50 years old. http://goo.gl/mQP6c

Looking at the Google+ APIs and a Google Apps account.

If you are a UK-based academic & would like to co-sign a letter of support for the protest on the 9th, let me know. Full text on demand.

If Google claims that G+ is all about freedom of data etc., then why are there no RSS feeds on any of the pages, and why is Dapper blocked?

So now having no money means public sector workers can't have pensions. Reasons why there's no money are swept aside.

Felt so angry at pension debate on R4 yest. "When the gov. has no £" The gov has no £ because it went to banks to pay their huge bonuses.

Interns work – and should be paid, lawyers warn ministers http://gu.com/p/336f6/tw via @guardian < please let this turn the tide!

Please please please can someone buy me this signed copy of Gravity's Rainbow. I've spent years researching Pynchon! http://j.mp/tgpxtg

Another great response by @WilliamJMcEvoy on the state of teaching and research in UK HE: http://j.mp/vrQ6II

"Teaching and research at universities must be inseparable" @WilliamJMcEvoy quotes on @GdnHigherEd #livechat http://j.mp/vt9bLS

Just noticed @TheatreMadness who is undertaking a fascinating (to my Foucauldian wont) PhD project. Blog at http://j.mp/uRGB2J #phdchat

Advice to students contacting academics: http://j.mp/svWqod by @akiraoc

Banks will be good citizens | Bob Diamond

http://gu.com/p/335cc < nope, I still don't believe him.

Meet the Saber-Toothed Squirrel http://bit.ly/vGkA9m

MTV Generation http://xkcd.com/973/

Using Foucault (2012) http://bit.ly/u00jPG

Now off to see the ace Brian Lobel's "BALL & Other Funny Stories About Cancer" http://j.mp/pMN4av

I did this yesterday. Now have 8GB of Dropbox space, at no cost to me. http://j.mp/rEhDLu #phdchat

Note to self: never again leave work with an incomplete sentence reading: "the question that must first be broached is". #phdchat

A well reasoned response to my #AcBoWriMo post ( http://j.mp/tpAZjx ) by @lizith: http://j.mp/t8f7ul

RE: The different conceptualizations of the how AcBoWriMo works are part of why I wanted to write this piece. It's in… http://disq.us/421zqd

RE: I'm a big fan of the less catchy titles you suggest there!

I suspect you are right on many of these points. Proc… http://disq.us/421z99

. @xtophercook I had no idea @VC_UEL was into modelling online...

A dissenting voice on #AcBoWriMo http://bit.ly/tM3LTI #academia #AcBoWriMo

...and another Orton tweet: British theatre is wrong about Joe Orton | James Martin Charlton http://gu.com/p/2c5bg/tw

Joe Orton and Kenneth Halliwell: cover to cover at Islington Museum – in pictures http://gu.com/p/32hc7/tw

Report: A Bibliographic Framework for the Digital Age http://bit.ly/tn431D

David Wonderly: The Ignored Group of Ubuntu http://bit.ly/tjDuDU

Bruno Latour, could you please arrange to be less widely read in the British Library. "In use" is no use!

My jaw just dropped. Is @guardian over egging or is this catastrophic? > UK military steps up plans for Iran attack http://gu.com/p/334a5/tw

For David Cameron big bridges are sexier than real jobs | Simon Jenkins

http://gu.com/p/333np

Just sent off a large chunk of final chapter to supervisors. Now on to the next part! #phdchat

. @salma_patel more information on @sussexuni's #SussexConvo at http://j.mp/rl9dVM

Fracking tests near Blackpool 'likely cause' of tremors http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lancashire-15550458

What it's like to be young and looking for work in Britain http://gu.com/p/333nb/tw via @guardian

Don't forget that tomorrow @SussexUni are holding a debate on the Environment & Health. Get involved by using #SussexConvo

MPs deride Lansley's 'nudging' deal with food and drink firms http://gu.com/p/333qb/tw via @guardian

Julian Assange loses appeal against extradition http://gu.com/p/334va/tw via @guardian

Spelt correctly this time!

Complaint over the closure of the British Library to accomodate a visit from the queen http://j.mp/s4dPvs #academia #politics

November http://xkcd.com/972/

St Paul's and Corporation of London halt legal action against Occupy camp

http://gu.com/p/333me

US Defunds UNESCO After Palestine Vote http://bit.ly/tLV9e9

L’hıstoıre de la folıe à l’âge classıque : 50 ans http://bit.ly/uCXThf

Some bright spark at Sussex! http://yfrog.com/oev6dbj

Here we go again! http://yfrog.com/nur5wnbj

. @richmondbridge I was plagued by nightmares regarding cancelled publications all night! This was my Halloween.

Are Power Users Too Cool For Ubuntu Unity? http://bit.ly/sGDkUR

HTC Becomes Highest Shipping Smartphone Vendor In the US http://bit.ly/tCbX5e

Open Hardware Journal http://bit.ly/sQL9qL

Off to Sussex to teach 2 hours of workshop then 4 hours of seminar. Lots of Douglas Adams quotation re assessment will be used: don't panic.

The medieval, unaccountable Corporation of London is ripe for protest | George Monbiot

http://gu.com/p/333xb