As she delicately slipped nuggets of deep-fried brain into her mouth Julie explained Bell’s Theorem to me, how a photon can be two places at the same time, or perhaps it’s not but that’s the only way we can conceptualise its breaches […]

ISEA has done a wonderful job of finding women keynote speakers: there are many to look forward to. Joanna Berzowska is speaking now. Berzowska is an expert on wearable technology and as the first speaker for the wearable theme of ISEA she’s […]

I don’t think anyone is blogging at ISEA except me and the Grandtextauto lads, who will no doubt be writing thorough trip reports now that we’ve arrived at a stable wireless net connection. [Update: and Even Westvang] There must be other bloggers […]

I’m at ISEA, attending a sea.nce. The boat rocks almost as gently strongly as the waves in the pool in the middle of the bar. Laptops are connected to find answers to our questions from the collective consciousness. There were two fortunes […]

I’ve been looking at Chinese blogs (1, 2, 3) and wondering whether they would look as utterly bloggish if they weren’t using western blogging tools and their templates. Often the timestamps and other paratexts are in English, anyway. Still, it’s fascinating just […]

No online streamed mainstream radio during the Olympic Games – due to rights restrictions. No BBC World Service, anyway, and no Radio Australia either. You can still listen to selected archives of programs, but no news. Ah well.

So LinkedIn sent me an email suggesting I tell it about more of my past jobs so I could connect with more of my ex-colleagues. I started fairly honestly, but only two other University employees are members of LinkedIn, and none of […]

According to the highly reputable and most reliable news source The Onion, the CIA wishes Bush would quit blogging: “Right now, the president insists it’s his right to have it, as long as he doesn’t work on it during White House work […]

Textually.org has a category on mobile phones, SMS and literature.

Hm. Already the blog fiction Roommate From Hell, which I mentioned yesterday, is showing signs of being translated from book to blog. Look: I must have pissed her off by walking in. We went out together a lot‚Äînot all the time or […]