A two-minute time-waster: Flash game presents you with a set of images, and asks you to guess what word was typed into Google to find these particular pictures. I was surprised that I guessed it within 20 seconds every time. Except one. […]

Ooh, Steven Johnson turns the traditional “we must read books” argument upside down in his forthcoming book, All Bad Things Are Good For You. Here’s an excerpt from his blog: Many children enjoy reading books, of course, and no doubt some of […]

Norway has had an impressive contract between publishers and bookshops, ensuring that bookshops must stock at least one copy of every book published in the last year (or is it two years?) and fixing the price of books, so that a book […]

I’m going to have to redesign. If you click on the monthly archives, you only get the last ten days or whatever from that month. I can’t find my own old posts! Yikes! I think it’s that I’m using a slightly adapted […]

This is just sad. Reboot is a conference to be held in Copenhagen in June, and so far there are 23 male presenters and one woman presenter. The organiser claims innocence: i hadnít even thought of it this year. Take that as […]

I made one of those pictures of myself where you chose from lots of options. I’m in Southpark. Except once I’d put in the freckles and umbrella I couldn’t get rid of them. Yes, I get freckles in summer and use an […]

I should vote for the Liberal Democrats, an internet quiz says. If I lived in Britain and was eligible to vote in the upcoming elections, that is. The problem with a site like whoshouldyouvotefor.com is of course that it pretends and maybe […]

Look at this: a bibliography of articles, mostly research papers, all on weblogs. There are 180 papers on the list! That research area sure took off fast!

The boat hotel has wireless! I didn’t even think to ask, because, you know, they’re a boat. No wireless in the cabins, but trot on off to the lovely breakfast rooms and ask the friendly staff for the password and off you […]

Yesterday Norway officially made the UN’s womens’ convention (is that the correct English) part of Norwegian law, along with other anti-discrimination law, and there’s a new ombudsman for discrimination. Discrimination has been illegal in Norway for ages, but it’s now all neatly […]