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<body><outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://stephenlaw.blogspot.com/2008/02/intellectual-black-hole.html&quot;&gt;Stephen Law&lt;/a&gt; shows through analogy the absolute vapidity of a lot of theological discourse." created="Thu, 07 Feb 2008 12:36:43 GMT"/><outline text="Wikipedia is &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.mediawatchwatch.org.uk/?p=928&quot;&gt;refusing to bow to faith-based pressure&lt;/a&gt; to remove images of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.zombietime.com/mohammed_image_archive/&quot; rev=&quot;vote-for&quot;&gt;Prophet Mohammed&lt;/a&gt;. As MediaWatchWatch says: &lt;q&gt;they are showing more guts and principle than 99.9% of the mainstream media&lt;/q&gt;." created="Thu, 07 Feb 2008 11:56:38 GMT"/><outline text="Indian guru &lt;a href=&quot;http://uk.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUKL0611095720080206&quot;&gt;Maharishi Mahesh Yogi has died&lt;/a&gt;. Transcendental Meditation, the organisation that the Maharishi founded, believed &lt;a href=&quot;http://skepdic.com/tm.html&quot; rev=&quot;vote-for&quot;&gt;quite a lot of strange things&lt;/a&gt; including the infamous Washington, D.C. event where believers in TM all descended on the city intent on cleaning up crime through meditation. It failed, of course, but that doesn't stop TM advocates (and their political arm the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.natural-law.org&quot; rev=&quot;vote-against&quot;&gt;Natural Law Party&lt;/a&gt;) from saying otherwise." created="Thu, 07 Feb 2008 11:51:47 GMT"/><outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://daringfireball.net/2008/02/yahoo_translation&quot;&gt;John Gruber&lt;/a&gt; deconstructs the Yahoo! memo. All I can say is that it's &quot;embrace and extend&quot; all over again. Microsoft is still pissed that the Internet will always win out." created="Thu, 07 Feb 2008 11:45:21 GMT"/>
<outline text="Looking enviously at the open road" created="Thu, 07 Feb 2008 11:34:36 GMT"><outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2008/02/06/openaccess_is_t.html&quot; rev=&quot;vote-for&quot;&gt;danah boyd&lt;/a&gt; says she is going to be boycotting academic journals that aren't open access and wants other academics to do likewise. I've always thought it insane that we as the public are subsidising universities to produce research that is almost totally inaccessible. Glad to see that danah is pushing for this.&#13;" created="Thu, 07 Feb 2008 11:34:36 GMT"/><outline text="&#13;" created="Thu, 07 Feb 2008 11:34:36 GMT"/><outline text="I hope that universities and funding bodies start insisting that the move is made towards complete open access. I actually think that open access and web access are of primary importance into inculcating undergraduate students into the mechanics of academia. Plagiarism and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/showpost.php?p=10983006&amp;amp;postcount=63&quot;&gt;paid essay sites&lt;/a&gt; are increasing in popularity among students, and academics are having spasms over Wikipedia (perhaps for good reason) - perhaps what we should do is actually inculcate academic values in students by trusting them enough to read current research publications from when they first enter the university. Of course, for that to happen, it'd help if they could actually &lt;em&gt;read&lt;/em&gt; the research over this zany Interweb thing, rather than have to jump through the utterly pointless hoops placed there to shore up the failing business model of journal publishers.&#13;" created="Thu, 07 Feb 2008 11:34:36 GMT"/><outline text="&#13;" created="Thu, 07 Feb 2008 11:34:36 GMT"/><outline text="A publicly-funded university system should exist to enlighten, not to make money for publishers." created="Thu, 07 Feb 2008 11:34:36 GMT"/></outline></body>
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