Due to popular request, this journal will remain the home of oursin, because, hey, why not a name for which the explanation is 'uh, complicated'? (And erinax does, on reflection, rather suggest something that comes with dosage instructions and warnings about potential side-effects).

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Some of you may have seen this already: Ben Goldacre takes a hefty ( Read more... )

This sounds like excellent nostalgic fun: Great British Comics by Paul Gravett & Peter Stanbury, reviewed by Michel Faber:
A scholarly history is traced in eight substantial chapters, each exploring the evolution of the medium through a different lens: class relations in "For Richer, For Poorer", femininity in "Jolly Hockey Sticks To Sheroes", and ( Read more... )

Libraries redux: this time, university libraries vs e-braries. Points particularly to ponder:
"The short history of electronic technology is littered with obsolescence. I used to store everything on five and a half inch floppy discs. You would be hard pressed to find something to read them now. And where could you get a computer to read information ( Read more... )