December 2012
"It's an indescribable pain, which never goes away" - great article on JIA & rheumatoid arthritis in younger people http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/health-20796697#TWEET487507
Tech things I have learned in the last 12 hours http://bit.ly/X6Fajq #Linux #windows
Using bumblebee for opteron graphics on Ubuntu 12.10 on a Samsung Chronos 7 Series laptop http://bit.ly/RosDox #Linu
Tech things I have learned in the last 12 hours
It is not worth trying to restore a Windows partition using dd unless you restore it to exactly the same offset on the new drive. Even then it might not work. No amount of dicking around with bootrec fixmbr rebuildbcd etc. will solve this. A fresh Windows install that complains that it is missing…
Using bumblebee for opteron graphics on Ubuntu 12.10 on a Samsung Chronos 7 Series laptop
Getting this to work has been the bane of my morning, so here's what I did to eventually get it working:
Free Software Foundation Campaigning To Stop UEFI SecureBoot http://bit.ly/YYXqeV
Awaiting @liannedemello. We have CAKE. CAKE, I tell you.
Facebook Paid 0.3% Taxes On $1.34 Billion Profits - http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/UeF9wbvNOdg/story01.htm
If you thought that working for the New College of the Humanities might be ethically compromising... http://bit.ly/W9bBb2
Ramanujan's Deathbed Conjecture Finally Proven http://bit.ly/V89jd5
MT @ProfShakespeare 1st authorized adaptation of a Thomas Pynchon work: PT Anderson is filming "Inherent Vice": http://nytimes.com/2012/12/30/movies/awardsseason/paul-thomas-anderson-on-preparing-for-and-following-up-the-master.html?pagewanted=1&ref=movies&_r=0
Dental nurse sacked for being irresistible – all perfectly legal in Iowa http://gu.com/p/3cmcb
First draft of article analysing the Finch Report through Adorno done. Oh what fun!
Wife knows me well. She's not in any way technically inclined but asked, in an outraged tone, why I was booting Windows, rather than Linux.
Popular Wordpress Plugin Leaves Sensitive Data In the Open http://bit.ly/12PWnx5
Lax SSH Key Management A "Big Problem" http://bit.ly/Tp3I2r
My sister-in-law gave me a brain cell for Christmas
What the Waitrose MD being inexplicably interviewed on R4 is trying to say: our locations are in directly inverse proportion to Morrisons.
How the Brain Organizes Everything We See http://bit.ly/10g0LXn
UCL thinktank backed by arms firm raises concern http://gu.com/p/3ckg9
TOWIMCC: The Only Way is Muppet Christmas Carol. Best to all!
MT @profserious all open source devs are nice guys … not RT @tef: http://bit.ly/12zy7jq < oh, Linus :/
Internet Archive Needs Donations, Has Matching Donor http://bit.ly/W1DHEX
GNU Grep and Sed Maintainer Quits: RMS and FSF Harming GNU Project http://bit.ly/TOTPLq
A Foucaultian analysis of framing gun violence as a public health issue (2012) http://bit.ly/YEDL3T
"The sad story of a white family who lost all their luggage while having to see lots of Thai people dying in a tsunami" http://bit.ly/RW8uXT
"her death might have merited at least one damn bell toll" http://bit.ly/V2WTSR
First Sale Under Siege: If You Bought It, You Should Own It http://bit.ly/ZsXLHV
A nice Christmas present from @mountain_oflove has arrived! Desk mix: "Mountain of Love feat. Saul Drillaz" live http://bit.ly/VXKcIu
Guilty secret of quite liking John Fowles betrayed in last tweet.
"life...is not one riddle and one failure to guess it...but it is to be...endured. And out again, upon the unplumb'd salt, estranging sea"
Even the humorous anachronism of Ice Age: A Mammoth Christmas wasn't enough to redeem it.
I had no idea that the deadliest recorded US school shooting was 1927 when 38 elementary school children were murdered http://bit.ly/UTvkvS
Future Foucault: Afterlives of Bodies and Pleasures (2012) http://bit.ly/Ugsx1M
Catherine Malabou. The Deconstruction of Biopolitics. 2012 http://bit.ly/ZqZzkE
Django is great tech; so quick to get initial dev. underway. However, it always takes me longer to deploy than to write the damn thing.
Who was Pierre Rivière? Introduction to the special issue (2012) http://bit.ly/YuWhf2
Just decommissioned three email accounts. Extremely cathartic.
New York Times best book cover of the year: Gravity's Rainbow - http://exp.lore.com/post/38435359574/the-new-york-times-selects-the-best-book-cover via @eetempleton
Learn Linux the Hard Way http://bit.ly/UVMVnc
Orbit: Writing Around Pynchon receives funding from Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich http://bit.ly/T5vfcx
Orbit: Writing Around Pynchon receives funding from Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
It is with great pleasure that I am able to announce that Orbit: Writing Around Pynchon has entered into a partnership with Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. LMU have generously provided the funding that we need to cover our technical costs for the entire coming year. In turn, Orbit is…
Full text pre-print now available of my review of Savvas' book on Postmodern American Fiction and history: http://bit.ly/Wu7U1v
Lectureship in French Philosophy, King’s College London (2013) http://bit.ly/U1Erd7
On /That/ Statement by History Journal Editors http://bit.ly/12CuJDC #Open_Access #Publishing
On /That/ Statement by History Journal Editors
I'm quoted with a few choice words this week in the Times Higher Education for their piece on the already infamous statement by a coalition of editors of history journals, who equate CC-BY with plagiarism. Here's the quotation: Martin Eve, a lecturer in English literature at the University of…
VPN Providers Say China Blocks Encryption Using Machine Learning Algorithms http://bit.ly/ZlBr2X
Boeing Uses 20,000 Lbs. of Potatoes To Check Aircraft Wireless Network Signals http://bit.ly/VQFyfm
Sources of governmentality: Two notes on Foucault’s lecture (2012) http://bit.ly/VQo1E5
CFP: London Conference in Critical Thought (2013) http://bit.ly/REA1xi
W3C Finalizes the Definition of HTML5 http://bit.ly/V3Nf5I
L’expérience du concept : Michel Foucault, entre épistémologie et histoire (2012) http://bit.ly/VQnYs4
. RT @tmccormick .@CameronNeylon @MikeTaylor @martincoward @d_mainwaring let’s build transition. e.g. high-impact PLOH, prefund APCs
It consistently amazes me that certain sectors - business - continue to take Orwell's language as a model, rather than a warning.
Catherine Malibou: Biopolitics as a form of sovereignty (2012) http://bit.ly/YbLwxY
UK Students Protest Biometric Scanner Move http://bit.ly/TlcRc3
Fastest Godot in the West http://bit.ly/YbLwhm
Dustin Hoffman on (not) meeting Samuel Beckett http://bit.ly/ULTY1D
The feelgood factor off students looking forward to modules that you're looking forward to teaching is also mad intense!
Drawings of Roland Barthes http://bit.ly/TZoyHJ
That Guardian article on "What is Love?" really missed a trick by omitting an automatically starting, ultra-loud playback of Haddaway.
Is Technology Eroding Employment? http://bit.ly/XijD2b
CFP: Submissions Wanted for the Open Book from Open Knowledge Foundation http://bit.ly/Z3JLUT
The Beckett Circle: New Website http://bit.ly/TXpPin
Alluvium technical news: DOI numbers, CLOCKSS and MLA Bibliography http://bit.ly/SWBPzO
Alluvium technical news: DOI numbers, CLOCKSS and MLA Bibliography
Several exciting goings-on at Alluvium merit a quick post here to give a rundown of the new features available, which are mostly behind-the-scenes, but definitely do a lot for Alluvium as a publishing destination. Firstly, I've been working with Caroline to ensure that our image use is totally…
Went to Post Office to collect books. Collected books. Arrived home. Found I'd missed today's delivery of books.
The contents of Orbit: Writing Around Pynchon are now archived with the British Library, in addition to the provisions of CLOCKSS.
CFP for conference on Neo-Victorian culture, organized by @Nadine_Muller and @luciejones83. http://bit.ly/RpD6kI
I'm liking these questions from the floor. Mind you, I can hear Willetts' pre-fabricated responses in my mind before he's answered.
The #mlatshirts stream is worth a read if you're literary-studies-humour inclined!
Zero Day Hole In Samsung Smart TVs Could Have TV Watching You http://bit.ly/XTcKJs
Publication: 'Review of Theophilius Savvas, American Postmodern Fiction and the Past', Literature and History, 21, 2 (A http://bit.ly/ZaZ3G8
Linux 3.7 Released http://bit.ly/S4MGtm
Publication: 'Review of Theophilius Savvas, American Postmodern Fiction and the Past', Literature and History, 21, 2 (Autumn 2012), pp. 106-108
My review of Theophilius Savvas' American Postmodern Fiction and the Past is now out in Literature and History, 21, 2 (Autumn 2012), pp. 106-108. As the DOI link seems to be broken for now, it's also available via ingentaconnect. Update: following email confirmation from Ryan Sweet at Literature &…
If they can't understand a CC licence, they aren't qualified to make statements on this issue.
Despite being very ill, I am outraged by that statement from "leading history journal editors".
Retreating homewards feeling rather unwell.
David Davies should know that most parents "don't want Tory children". However, he should also know that it isn't the parents' choice.
In other news, these are my final two days teaching at Sussex! (!)
Over the course of a twelve week term commuting from London to teach at Sussex University, @SouthernRailUK have been on time twice.
The PSY scandal: singing about killing people v. constantly doing it http://gu.com/p/3cczn
"Perhaps my best years are gone. When there was a chance of happiness. But I wouldn't want them back." - Samuel Beckett, Krapp's Last Tape
Between Deleuze and Foucault videos available (2012) http://bit.ly/YO5gZM
Spent a long time today doubting my wiring skills for our lighting. I should have doubted the defective dimmer switch five hours ago.
"Not to use or allow others to use the Premises for any illegal or immoral purpose". Errr. Whose morality?
DNA testing frees man who lived on death row for 15 years http://gu.com/p/3ccx4/tw . "He still supports capital punishment in America". Sigh.
Fixing scanning on an HP Photosmart C6300 series in Ubuntu 12.10 http://bit.ly/TGwz0A
Fixing scanning on an HP Photosmart C6300 series in Ubuntu 12.10
If you own an HP Photosmart C6300 series and upgraded to Ubuntu 12.10, you may have noticed that you are unable to set the scan resolution (DPI) in any of your programs. gscan2pdf has the scan resolution dropdown menu greyed out and you will be unable to get xsane to present you with a list of…
Censorship is a must, says China's Nobel winner Mo Yan http://gu.com/p/3ccxc/tw
The ‘prestige’ of journals in a social media age http://bit.ly/XuKFIp
Britain's political class clings to the delusion that growth will return http://m.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/dec/05/political-class-delusion-growth-return
I have somewhere fairly nice to live in Lincoln. Hurrah!
Another homeless man has died [of hypothermia] in our town. This must never happen again http://gu.com/p/3cba6
Starbucks to pay £10m tax after customer revolt http://gu.com/p/3cbf9
Toni Morrison on Joyce and Shakespeare http://bit.ly/Vm1Be6
“@ernestopriego Project explores #openaccess books in the humanities and social sciences http://www.researchinformation.info/news/news_story.php?news_id=1051” #oapenuk
Beastly Hobgoblins of Marx has a great ring to it.
Also: a real coming of age, loss of innocence moment here. National Rail no longer classes me as a young person.
Heads to decide teachers' pay based on performance http://gu.com/p/3cam5 < I can think of NO problems with this whatsoever. Oh no.
Autumn statement: George Osborne slashes welfare and extends austerity http://gu.com/p/3cb4p < whoever chose this picture should be paid more
Off up to Lincoln today, a-hunting for somewhere to live.
Michael Gove warned by exams watchdog to rethink EBacc http://gu.com/p/3catz
Yeah, thanks John for that! (last RT)
What are the international equivalents of the UK's REF system? I suddenly realised that I'm somewhat ignorant of this...
Over 1000 Volunteers For 'Suicide' Mission To Mars http://bit.ly/VwfKee
New 25-GPU Monster Devours Strong Passwords In Minutes http://bit.ly/THfq9n
Cutting the deficit, not the NHS. Except the deficit is getting worse and NHS spending is down. http://bit.ly/SEyEN7 http://bit.ly/bl4onW
"An unembarrassed sense of what he is owed as an embattled, literary immortal-in-waiting". On Salman Rushdie http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2012/dec/20/salman-rushdie-case/?pagination=false
Open Access: HEFCE, REF2020 and the Threat to Academic Freedom - http://thedisorderofthings.com/2012/12/04/open-access-hefce-ref2020-and-the-threat-to-academic-freedom/ <agree, except uncritically conflates gold w/ APCs
Open Access: News and Reflections from the ACSS Conference http://bit.ly/Xl1Ko8
The FT finally realises that Osborne's economic policies are a failed sham http://m.ft.com/cms/s/0/2dba8ab0-2da3-11e2-9988-00144feabdc0.html
VAT loophole on digital sales 'costs UK more than Olympics' http://gu.com/p/3c9ez
Muslim women in the western media: Foucault, agency, governmentality and ethics (2012) http://bit.ly/QCMgIZ
Researcher Discloses New Batch of MySQL Vulnerabilities http://bit.ly/Ss7YOr
In fact, Adorno's conception of utopia parallels that experience. "The merely existing" blocking "thinking otherwise".
It strikes me that editing can be a much harder task than writing. When editing you have to imagine the new in spite of the already extant.
Iran Suspends Programmer's Death Sentence http://bit.ly/TEc70F
But why not?! The questionable conjunction. http://bit.ly/R0wRUf
Tax-avoiding firms should not be named and shamed, says minister http://gu.com/p/3c8p4 < a punishment reserved for benefit claimants no doubt
Hardt and Negri, write a mean neo-Marxist tract, but, can't punctuate. Correctly at, all.
My penultimate week at Sussex! Teaching The Pardoner's Tale and romantic poetry on the theme of slavery.
Hospitals 'full to bursting' as bed shortage hits danger level http://gu.com/p/3c8mt
Ballardian Man and His Symbols -' Extreme Metaphors: Interviews with J.G. Ballard, 1967-2008', edite http://bit.ly/11EvoUK
Toni Morrison's Writing Routine http://bit.ly/VdA7Xu
Form and governance: considering the drama as a ‘technology of the self’ (2012) http://bit.ly/TBAmMN
Half of GitHub Code Unsafe To Use (If You Want Open Source) http://bit.ly/SxnyJI
Bradley Manning: a tale of liberty lost in America http://gu.com/p/3c83b
Matthew Garrett Makes Available Secure Bootloader For Linux Distros http://bit.ly/Vck0tC
Man behind ‘sex for tuition fees’ website is named. A totally appalling human being, quite frankly. http://ind.pn/VeTx0y
First Direct Image of DNA Double Helix http://bit.ly/VaBZjV
Nice review of the Cambridge Companion to Thomas Pynchon by Ali Chetwynd http://bit.ly/Tykt9U
American Neoliberalism and Michel Foucault’s 1979 ‘Birth of Biopolitics’ Lectures (2012) http://bit.ly/UxOBp7