Complicated new laws about filesharing are coming to Norway. I hadn’t realised that downloading copyrighted music from p2p networks was legal in Norway. It won’t be any more. However we’ll still be allowed to rip mp3s from our own, or our friends’, […]

With three projectors and a mass of people having dinner, what would you show? Streaming video art? A slideshow from Flickr? A poem always moving? Something that works with little or no sound, something that can be a distraction not the main […]

Cloak Room is, apparently, India’s first SMS novel, by Ro Gue, and it’s conveniently published in parallel on a blog. Here’s the first chapter: Chptr1:DaWarOfMaoistMobsBeganInDaLateWinterOf2010, ButItWasPrecededByEventsFewPeopleKnowAbout.ItBeganWithRita, A15YearoldStudent. (Friday 5/11) The story and style tighten as the chapters progress: Chptr4:2MenEnterProfessorZaidisComprtment&StrngleHim. DeyExitWidHisBodyInsideDaCoffin.InAnotherCoach,RitaZaidiSitsAlone&Unaware. Textually.org, a […]

My green 1999 iMac’s been gathering dust for over four years. I should have sold it long ago. Now it no longer starts when I hit the power button. Maybe it’s the PRAM battery. Frankly, I don’t really care. Should I take […]

Hey! Did you see? Putin signed the Kyoto treaty yesterday! That means enough countries have ratified it for it to become binding! Pity the US pulled out, given they’re the world’s worst polluter, but it’s wonderful that the rest of the world’s […]

OK, so I’ve thought the suspicions of voting fraud were over the top, that actually it’s impressive the Democrats did as well as they did, and that it just basically sucked. But I just read a report that a voting machine in […]

Since we’ve started celebrating Halloween in Norway – sort of – why not go for Guy Fawkes day too? On November 5, 1605, Fawkes and thirteen other fed up catholics tried to blow up parliament. For centuries after, the (failed) event was […]

So have you looked at those slideshows of photos tagged with the same word at Flickr? I just gave a talk at the art academy, and while they were interested in lots of the distributed narrative projects I showed them, and took […]

Marry an American is an act of charity to rescue those poor people. I’m not aware of European or global versions yet, but we can probably sign up for the Canadian pledge if we want, and offer our own country’s clemency instead.

I spent so much time hoping Kerry would win that I forgot to consider what the world would be like with four more years of Bush. Really, I mean. Our politicians are saying general things about how they hope Bush in a […]