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They're too busy adding value. - Bill Hooker

Yeah, if only. Disgusted that publishers whine about LaTeX - dealing with *documents* is their %$^ing job - Rajarshi Guha

Indeed, one might say rather the opposite... - Cameron Neylon

Maybe they were trying to email that guy Cameron Nylon.... #fictionalpersona - Graham Steel

:-) - Winckel

:-) - Stephan Planken from iPhone

When the history of the Research Works Act, and the reaction against it, is written that history will point at the factors that allowed smart people with significant marketing experience to walk with their eyes wide open into the teeth of a storm that thousands of people would have predicted with complete confidence. That ... - Cameron Neylon

The funders will have a strong impact in the biomedical publishing world with all of the NIH funding, but I am not sure how this will play out in chemistry or small lab physics or math(s) or small lab biology or... - Joe Boone

No way! - Amir

They've given themselves the right to link everything across all services. - Winckel

Good luck! (Organic) Chemistry is not particularly know for caring about any of this (nor semantics, nor computing)... but I second Rich' pointer to the Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry. And there is Chemistry Central too. What other gold OA options are there for chemists? There is Molecules as ChemComm replacement... others? - Egon Willighagen

Let me know if you seek someone for an editorial board... (btw, taking about edit boards, I was thinking of a ORC write up of this R package http://cran.r-project.org/web... ... would that fit the journal? I would need to write proper testing, which I have not getting around to... eta would probably be summer) - Egon Willighagen

@Raj would you be able to share some code? I would love to see how these were made... - Jan Wessnitzer

I use it from python via rpy2 - it is really nice - Markus Sitzmann

Said Jon Claerbout. - Graham Steel

I originally thought it was Cameron but he suggested on Twitter a week or so ago to check out http://www.stanford.edu/~vcs... . I didn't get a chance to do a detailed search through all the links, though. - Graham Steel

"The mathematician and second world war codebreaker Alan Turing is to be celebrated on a special stamp as an online petition calls for a posthumous pardon to quash his conviction for gross indecency. The computer pioneer is one of 10 prominent people chosen for the Royal Mail's Britons of Distinction stamps, to be launched in February, which includes the allied war heroine Odette Hallowes of the Special Operations Executive, composer Frederick Delius and architect Sir Basil Spence, to mark the golden jubilee of Coventry Cathedral. Turing worked as part of the team that cracked the Enigma code at Bletchley Park, and went on to help create the world's first modern computer. This year marks the centenary of his birth. He was convicted of gross indecency in 1952, when homosexual acts were illegal in the UK, and sentenced to chemical castration. He killed himself two years later by taking cyanide. The e-petition says his treatment and death "remains a shame on the UK government and UK... more... - Winckel from Bookmarklet

such a waste of talent!!!! - Nemo

I look forward to the celebrations to be held at the University of Edinburgh http://www.mathcomp.leeds.ac.uk/turing2... http://www.t100.org.uk/ - Jan Wessnitzer

Today is Public Domain Day, as on January 1 each year, works whose copyright has expired enter the Public Domain and can thus be used, reused and shared without any copyright restrictions. The details still differ a bit across jurisdictions, … Continue reading → - Daniel Mietchen