This was the view from my grandmother’s unit. More or less. I think she was a bit further to the left, kind of. Closer to King’s Park. I miss Perth. These falling leaves are beautiful but oh so cold. Catamarans Originally uploaded […]

This sounds awful: Republicans are organising troops of people to challenge the right of voters to vote in Ohio, a swing state. That’s sickening. Bitch. Ph.D., and quite a few other Democrats, have volunteered to go help out during the actual voting. […]

Theresa Senft sat on the floor during the afternoon blog sessions at AoIR in September. The room was full, conversation was vibrant, and though she said several things, the comment I remember was a counter to someone wanting to use more critical […]

Flickr keeps exploring itself – see, for instance, Andrew Losowsky’s series of photos of doorbells in Florence, each of which is being posted with a short fiction. Andrew writes about it in his blog, of course, and calls the genre flicktion. There’s […]

Remember Joe’s “War President“? The photo of Bush made as a mosaic of tiny images of all the soldiers who have died in Iraq? Engadget explains how to make your own! Using free software, on mac or PC.

William Gibson started blogging again last week! Why? Because the United States currently has, as Jack Womack so succintly puts it, a president who makes Richard Nixon look like Abraham Lincoln. And because, as the Spanish philospher Unamuno said, “At times, to […]

A new email narrative: The Daughters of Freya by Michael Betcherman and David Diamond of Emailmystery.com. Daughters of Freya is a commercial email mystery story where emails from the characters are delivered straight to your inbox. I collected a list of email […]

The average office-worker only does 1.5 hours of actual work an hour a day, not really doing any work at all until 11 am, and winding down by 3.30 pm. How to get more done? Trick your brain into thinking “work time” […]

Though del.icio.us I came across the emerging church movement(s?), which include Grace, a kind of worship that seems more reminiscent of a digital art installation than a conventional sermon.

Just back from a meeting in the program committee for Digital og sosial, and I’m full of that enthusiasm you get from knowing you’re creating something really cool with really cool people. It’s going to be a lot of fun. A lot […]