I returned from an hour of silent twilight on Ulriken to the stifling intensity of the city. There was talking everywhere, a shop, a siren, lasers piercing the sky, a tractor beside a half-dug ditch, a woman with a dog asking directions. […]

Oh look, two of Shelley Jackson’s words are commenting over on Caterina.net. Heather is “required” and Jon is the fifth “the” in the fourth paragraph.

I’m reading Mrs Dalloway (it’s wonderful) and as in every British novel set in upper class 19th or early 20th century Britain they keep talking about how much people have a year. To keep his Indian divorcee, her children, and himself, Peter […]

Jesper handed in his dissertation two days ago! Congratulations!

I’ve been watching a video documentation of Two Origins by Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: it’s a projection of two texts against the city hall at the Place du Capitole in Toulouse, in 2002, and each text is projected from a different angle, so they’re […]

It’s cold and dark and they say that soon it will snow. I lit pages of French newsprint to start a fire and fed the flames with logs and letters stored long ago, destined then to burn today.

She finds the sky boring, all stark empty blues and whites and greys. She needs colour, multitude, intensity, glow, she says: she’ll do anything to be in that fire. She doesn’t want to see beyond it. Sometimes the sky glows red too, […]

Here’s a spatially organised chart of ways blogs can be used in teaching. (via Jon)

George Bush has got his own official blog. He doesn’t post himself, of course, someone called “GeorgeWBush.com” does the posting. (via Jon, who also links to other US presidential candidates with blogs)

Anders has made an intro to web design for the media department in Oslo that’s excellent: no coding (plenty of that elsewhere) but instead a discussion of rhetoric, goals, organisation, architecture, colours, links and so on. There are lots of images, links […]