Jacob Christensen

If this story reported by Kieran Healy is even remotely correct, then SPSS’s legal department may be in for a serious reality check.

The Blue Monster of Scatterplot has some advice for people who do not want their articles to appear in academic journals:

1. Cite Wikipedia (or any other encyclopedia) in your literature review or to provide historical background
2. Starting your paper by referring to the dictionary definition of something

A nice piece of advice but I am troubled by one thing: Blue Monster calls his advice “love letters from the editor”. Love letters?

I’ll have to send you a love letter! Straight from my heart, fucker! You know what a love letter is? It’s a bullet from a fucking gun, fucker! You receive a love letter from me, and you’re fucked forever! You understand, fuck? I’ll send you straight to hell, fucker!…

Academic publishing just took a sinister turn.

And so Berlingske Tidende’s business section tells us that the Danes are really, really happy with their lives.

There is one shadow in this happy message, though: Danes are very dependent on the support and recognition of others. This immediately begs the question – is the Danish happiness based on some kind of genetic mutation or is lack of support and recognition for groups of immigrant youths (or as they are called in Danish terminology: “youths of a different ethnic background”) the simple explanation behind the present riots?

Oh, and if you can’t get enough of the Danish joie de vivre, here’s 2900 Happiness, Danish TV3′s answer to the O.C. and Desperate Housewives.

PS: If you want an impression of where there has been troubles, Ekstra Bladet’s Nationen has used Google Maps to track riots, fires, etc. Hat tip Lars K. Jensen via Jaiku.

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