"Scientists: If you get handed the keys to the Library of Wisdom, then choose to lock the place up and hand over the keys to Elsevier et. al., don't complain about the occult bookstore across the street."
ACM is being dragged, kicking and screaming, into the open access world.
Mika's art project is getting tons of press! Although my name is on it, Mika did all of the work and then (weirdly) put my name on it. In any case, congrats Mika!
Very cool oped by Posner on the state of the patent system. He thinks its totally broken but, because he's Richard Posner, he has some ideas of what to do about it.
A huge argument against a position I have never heard but, we are told, has been very effective. I think this is kind of card to unparse becase VC are essentially arguing for the status quo. Like, VCs haven't successfully had bike lines removed anywhere, have they? If so, I think he's giving a kind of fringe theory more credit than it really deserves.
Google accidentally collects terrabytes of payload data from open wireless networks. Whoops!
