Oh dear. I was hoping for something more, well, horrific, really. This just isn’t very frightening, is it? Take the Affliction Test Today!A Rum and Monkey disease.

Thormod, one of my students, posted a cryptic link to this in his blog, writing nothing but “I think Jill will like this”. He’s quite right. I do. What is it? It’s The Uninvited. What’s that? Hang on, I think you’ll enjoy […]

This guy is taking photos of himself every half hour for three weeks. There’s something fascinating about his almost-identical expression in every photo, the ever-changing backgrounds that are somehow almost the same despite their wild differences and the repetetiveness of it all. […]

These bags have funny care labels.

Did you know an individual can sign up as a potential expert advisor to the EU’s research programs? You register your field, what you’d be willing to do (review proposals, monitor existing programs, etc) and if they need someone in your area […]

I’m impatient and lift the lid of the coffee pot to see if it’s nearly ready. As I watch, deep brown caramel trickles out, thickly splashing the clean inside of the pot. Frothy coffee streams out, more and more forcefully until the […]

The government’s strategies for cultural politics for the next decade or so include a focus on electronic art. Trond has admirably summarised and quoted the most important bits.

Oh look, a dispersed art project from 1994, Hej gud, where the idea was to get people together through usenet groups to light fires across the world, spelling out the words “hej gud” (hello god), readable only by God. And people in […]

Torill went to an exhibition of video game art, and found that the impossibility of audience interaction led to “an odd discomfort, like watching machines masturbate.” I’ve had just that feeling at some electronic art exhibitions, though I’d never realised that that […]

I need a search engine I can sing a theme to and it’ll tell me the name of the song!