Information needs to be free
Danah Boyd has had it with closed source peer reviewed journals and scholarship.
I think that this needs to change. I’d be sad to see some of the academic publishers go, but if they can’t evolve to figure out new market options, I have no interest in supporting their silencing practices. I think that scholars have a responsibility to make their work available as a public good. I believe that scholars should be valued for publishing influential material that is consumed by anyone who might find it relevant to their interests. I do not believe that scholars should be encouraged to follow stupid rules for the sake of maintaining norms. Given that we do the bulk of the labor behind journals, I think that we can do it without academic publishers (provided that we can find hosting).
open-access is the future: boycott locked-down academic journals
Tom Matrullo has been banging the same drum for a while now.
Firefly fans
Steven Brust has written a fan novel
Dangers of Cell Phones
Dr. Peter Rost alerts folks with testicles that all may not be well.
Heavy cell phone users have poor sperm quality.