Halloween linkage

How big publishers are likely to co-opt the open access movement (G+)

Famous puzzle becomes amusing short story

Test how not-ready-for-prime-time your browser's MathML implementation is (G+)

It's hard to convince men of gender bias in STEM

Daniel Widrig's geometric sculpture

Maria Chudnovsky's search for a combinatorial perfect graph coloring algorithm (G+)

Thank you LaTeX stack exchange for having useful answers to everyday questions, this time about a bad interaction between hyperref, natbib, and dois in bibtex data

Another article about Neil Sloane and the OEIS

Wikipedia cites open-access journals more frequently than closed-access ones

GF(2)-polynomial multiplication instructions lead to a fast XOR-universal hash function

Three times the House Science Committee abused its subpoena power to hassle scientists it disagreed with (G+)

Simple 4-polytopes without good separators

Hollow heaps, a supposedly-simpler replacement for Fibonacci heaps (G+)

SWAT (the Scandinavian Symposium and Workshops on Algorithm Theory) goes open-access with LIPIcs

Polyhedral approximations of gyroids and the Laves graph