I can’t read Finnish, so I don’t know what the letters spell, but I quite enjoy watching them tickling their author’s body as he leaps out of the sauna in Timo Harju’s Voi minun yst?§v?§ni, which is presented alongside the work of […]

This poor monk is so struggling with the confounding new technology of the book. Apparently it’s even amusing if you don’t understand Norwegian – and weirdly I got it off non-Norwegian-speakers. Helpdesk, Windows Media Player, 4 MB. (Via Matt)

Implementation, the world’s first serialised sticker novel, is completed! I just read the final installment, smug in the knowledge that those of you in the US will have to wait. Access is restricted for US citizens: you can’t read it till you’ve […]

My girlfriend asked me round tomorrow night, to watch “the election”. But they won’t even start counting votes till dawn, I objected. Remember the time difference? Oh, something will be happening, she said. We’re staying up all night anyway. Of course I’ll […]

Is there a reason why “red” in the US means the conservative party, and “blue” means the more socially aware party, the party more closely aligned with people who aren’t wealthy already? See, I tend to start with the assumption that the […]

Such a relief to have my blog back, after a weekend of downtime. The university doesn’t really want to pay anyone to come reboot our department server after hours. We’re lucky to have it at all – most IT stuff is centralised […]

Have you seen Eminem’s Mosh yet? Yeah, I know, I’m slow, I only just did. It’s a pretty cool piece of rhetoric, a hugely compressed and intensified Fahrenheit 911, basically a very political music video raging at Bush, listing his errors, showing […]

On Tuesday Nov 2 Prodromos Tsiavos from International Commons will be talking at Landmark in Bergen. International Commons is the organisation working on creating international licences like the Creative Commons licences, making it easier for creators of digital content to share their […]

The first second Norwegian politician’s blog is born! [after Helga Pedersen‘s, see Lars’s comment to this post.] At least I think it’s the first second. Kristin Halvorsen is the leader of SV, the Socialist Left Party, who got 12,5% of the votes […]

Cute, isn’t it? Where are visitors to this page? (Auto-update daily since 27-Jan-04) I find myself wondering who’s in which city – Bergen and Oslo are easy, and Copenhagen and Helsinki, and I think I can place Philadelphia, New York and Boston […]