Null Device Potpourri

Every so often, when I get around to checking in at The Null Device, I am amply rewarded. Recent interesting goodies include:

Looking Back: Dancing plagues and mass hysteria (The Psychologist.)
Open Access Publisher Accepts Nonsense Manuscript for Dollars (Scholarly Kitchen) The author, spammed with invitations to publish for pay, used a piece of software that generates grammatically correct but ‘context-free’ papers.
The story of a Texas town that banned the word ‘hello’ because it contains the word ‘hell’ (mndaily.com)
a piece on the imminent demise of last.fm. The co-founders have ditched the firm now that it has been bought out by CBS. (The Register)

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