RSSLinks for 5-Sept-07
Sep 05
- Coveredinbees.org Climate protest vs fuel protest
- ‘Blocking ads is theft’
- MP3 of brilliant talk by Richard Smith drawing parallels between closed-access academic publishing and the slave-trade
- BMJ 1997;314:497 (15 February) Why the impact factor of journals should not be used for evaluating research Per O Seglen (no correlation between journal impact factor and citation rate of individual articles)
- George monbiot on how nonliberalism became a dominant myth of our time and why we need more state intervention
- xkcd: ‘You know how some people consider “may you have an interesting life” to be a curse’?
- On the internet, nobody knows you’re a dog redux: it’s easy to be somebody when you are somebody else
- Mindhacks.com Interview about the politicisation of Russian psychiatry
- Sliding blocks flash game
- Joe Queenan’s Guardian review of Knocked Up: ‘This is a film for teenage boys who dream of growing up to be teenage men.’
- Review of new Dylan biopic
Sep 06, 2007 @ 10:47:25
The piece on Adblock is really interesting. And very frightening. Again, it goes to show the horrible misuse of intellectual rights (not “property”). They were supposed to encourage artistic and technological progress, and their main aim now is to make new technologies illegal !