Just saw a deviantART meet outside Brighton station. Real world interaction!

Claims Thomas More was liberal re. religion: http://is.gd/dTvqo - obv. hasn't read the Dialogue Concerning Heresies on burning at the stake.

Regulation does not 1984 make, courtesy of "spEak You're bRanes": http://is.gd/dQkvk

♺ @penguinusa: INHERENT VICE. Now in paperback http://bit.ly/cs1zcR #pynchon

♺ @dalezapata: Words from Pynchon's 'Against the Day': en déshabillé - partly dressed in a loose or careless manner< sums up AtD quite well!

EFF succeeds in obtaining three exemptions to DMCA. Jailbreaking now legal. Other fair-use provisions. http://is.gd/dKiaE

♺ @SemperAugustus: Proof that literature isn't dead: I just saw someone with a muted post horn tattoo. #Pynchon

Julian Assange on whistleblowing: http://is.gd/dK9Ni (video) #wikileaks

Seriously considering moving back to Gnome; KDE hogs all my resources and the integration is inferior.

♺ @dalezapata: Words from Thomas Pynchon's 'Against the Day': coloratura - n. runs, trills, and other florid decorations in vocal music

Blog: http://post.ly/oIjX Plagiarism by Semiotext(e) translations?

Blog: Plagiarism by Semiotext(e) translations? http://blog.martineve.com/plagiarism-by-semiotexte-translations

Incredibly kind of Sussex ITS to change all our profile links without warning; half the site links now broken.

Jonathan Waring on Žižek at LSE. Particularly enjoyed the performative we & "superstition" http://bit.ly/bpSFQW

I'd like to be able to filter out "I write like"; my David Foster Wallace and Thomas Pynchon searches would have meaning again.

♺ @alecmichod: Lehane thought Pynchon's recent foray into "genre" condescending. http://nyti.ms/9XNr0A < perhaps missing the point of IV.

Violence against women casually overlooked by society http://tinyurl.com/38hclne (via @sarahchurchwell)

♻ @bostonbyfoot: On this day in 1636 William Pynchon purchased the land now occupied by Springfield, Longmeadow, and Agawam, MA.

♻ @GdnPolitics: Will the current parliament see a serious attempt to restore the death penalty for murder? http://bit.ly/aqIGPq < worrying

psy-cephs for the win. #Paul

Gove will tear us apart #govesongs

♻ David Foster Wallace on a desert island comic: http://is.gd/dklxg (via @leonardolamha)

The Pynchon Gate; a pseudonymous mail retrieval system with a fairly great name derivation http://is.gd/dkiXF

♻ @SussexDocSchool: RT @chronicle: On not getting paid to publish: http://bit.ly/bq3U13

♻ @timeshighered: REF postponed while Willetts waits for impact 'consensus' (he might be waiting for a while...) http://bit.ly/bTCg4H

UCU estimates 22,500 university jobs to go as a result of budget cuts. http://is.gd/djC87

"After Argentina lost to Germany in the quarter-final, Argentines threatened to kill the octopus and put him in a paella" http://is.gd/djzNf

Finally written something on Adorno's dictum with which I am actually pleased.

♻ @dalezapata: Words from Thomas Pynchon's 'Against the Day': saturnalia - n. unrestrained revelry; orgy.

A Psy-Chic (day-glo) octopus, courtesy of @jon_fugler: http://bit.ly/clNVj6

♻ @i_like_tuesday: Isn't Paul the psychic octopus something out of Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon?

Started my chapter for the forthcoming Profils Américains: Thomas Pynchon (Presses Universitaires de la Méditerranée) collection.

People writing on Foucault: please stop using "radical" as if it were a punctuation mark.

♻ David Foster Wallace's Broom of the System audiobook giveaway; state-side only. http://bit.ly/dxRBej via @AddToAny

Contemporizing DeLillo's White Noise with the Oil Spill: http://is.gd/dfUi8 (via @filmdrblog)

Pynchon Week at Vocab & U. http://bit.ly/b7mZVv (via @xplanarob) < although, if you don't already know the word "array", P. might be hard!

♻ @alicebell: Nerdy bike ride from Central London to Downe House, organised by @steinsky Sun 11July http://is.gd/dcDUC #Darwin

On Pynchon and Privacy: the old recluse line rehashed and doing the rounds. http://is.gd/dcGTt

Blog: http://post.ly/lXYT Some brief thoughts on Slavoj Žižek at LSE

Kealey claims all universities should be privatised http://is.gd/db5i6

Bulwer-Lytton prize for bad writing: http://is.gd/db4Ud ; I actually enjoyed the runner up!