Newsgaming has posted a game that’s a homage to the victims in Madrid. And elsewhere.

I’m taking a break from working – and probably, blogging – for a week. See ya!

Symbolism and patterns combined really get to me. I’d already noted that March 11 was exactly 2 1/2 years after September 11, but when the front page of the paper this morning said it was also exactly 911 days after 911, I […]

I took a dozen closeups of the crocuses but they were all wrong. Giving up I stepped outside the fence, leaving them to their sunny hill, but leaving, took one last picture from the other side of the fence, through the leafless […]

There are more people dead in Madrid every time you reload a newspaper.

Norwegians with Windows98se or newer, certain other software, a broadband net connection and a library card at Deichmanske bibliotek in Oslo or at Bergen Public Library can now “borrow” music from Phonofile’s collection of music with Norwegian copyright holders. The music is […]

VirtualLit looks like a set of excellent tutorials in close reading poems and fiction. I came across it searching for definitions of connotation – I’m grading papers, you see, and grading papers you always see what you didn’t teach well enough. VirtualLit […]

From drawings of subway maps across the world all done to the same scale that Caterina linked (a mile = 2 pixels, something about that is wonderful) I came to Chicago mile x mile, photos of intersections in a grid, a photo […]

A non-blogger’s demand for equal rights.

Thomas came into my office this morning with a cheerful “Congratulations!” I love the Norwegian tradition of congratulating each other on the eighth of March. It’s only just over a hundred years since the first women were allowed to vote. Spend a […]