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  1. Learning to hate EndNote.
  2. Binging on books by Australian politicians. Just finished Abbott's; now on to Costello's.
  3. George Monbiot, you are a pillock. Please stop writing things.
  4. Anyone who thinks those fucking emails damage climate science (I'm looking at YOU Monbiot you twat) needs a refresher course in STS NOW.
  5. Oh fuck off Monbiot you more-harm-than-good twat.
  6. The hacked climate science emails reveal that climate scientist is a really boring job.
  7. Shorter New Statesman Zizek: "Big capital favours freer movement of labour, therefore we shouldn't be so tolerant of immigrants."
  8. Cops beating up and arresting anti-fascist protesters; BBC promoting fascist. Good work all round.
  9. OMFG - just did some photocopying for Gustav Metzger. !!!
  10. BBC Charter: "4. The Public Purposes of the BBC are as follows— (a) sustaining citizenship and civil society..."
  11. More reasons why #superfreakonomics = detestable & politically harmful bullshit: http://tinyurl.com/yzy9trj #climatechange
  12. (And that, children, is why God gave us peer review.)
  13. Not generally a fan of Brad DeLong, but he's doing first rate work here: http://tinyurl.com/ykwporn #superfreakonomics #climate #bullshit
  14. oh and on that topic: http://climatecamp.org.uk/ http://tinyurl.com/yk3a9gt http://tinyurl.com/yfprddq
  15. pdf of superfreak climate chapter available via DeLong: http://tinyurl.com/ykbdq5c Unbelievably, it's even worse than blog reports suggest.
  16. Further reading-comprehension issues: "Based on their writings... Levitt and Dubner strike me as open-minded political pragmatists"
  17. Brad DeLong is doing it right: http://tinyurl.com/ykgum5q #superfreakonomics
  18. dsquared: "I will... never be able to look at Freakonomics again without thinking of the authors, affectionately, as "Dumb and Dubner"."
  19. Wow those freakonomics guys are stupid, ignorant and unpleasant fuckers.
  20. Also: http://tinyurl.com/m4nexg "Strathclyde... was asked for assistance in dealing with the controversy, and recommended Fraser" #trafigura