In which the issue of contextual value is barely touched upon.

[sensaes]

For those of you who were party to the discussion of "hidden" research elsewhere (paid, validated, and/or commissioned-and-subsequently-sunk), this entry by FSP on citation numbers will either make you giggle or despair:

http://science-professor.blogspot.com/2010/02/waste-of-time.html

True, she doesn't make the explicit "Google results based on links to sites" comparison that I threw into the ring, but the same context-free popularity contest thinking which I was bemoaning as critically flawed seems to drive her perspective. And yes, purveyors of qualitative vs. quantitative arguments and methodologies will also have a field day with it.

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Unrelated bonus items: Because most sensible people now aren't contemplating acquiring a first generation iPad - even for bistro blogging or café attention-whoring - given its many shortcomings, discussion of the unwieldy and cumbersome fingerprint magnets has pretty much dried up.

Except...

It doesn't even have an e-book reader pre-installed straight out of the box:

http://www.ereads.com/2010/02/e-books-on-your-ipad-sure-as-long-as.html

*Staggered.*

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This is...extraordinary:

You can watch this video on www.livejournal.com

West of the Moon (trailer) from Mothership on Vimeo.

More here: http://mothership.net