A German study of 2000 SMSes that were stored on informants phones neatly divvies up the kinds of messages people actually send each other, and, interesting, shows that “SMS language” is actually more frequently found in German newspapers than in real SMSes. […]

Good food writing is delicious, and Chocolate and Zucchini is a blog as good as my favouritely chatty cookbooks. I might even make some of the dishes, or (swoon) visit some of the Parisian restaurants. (via Megnut)

I am so ready for the holidays.

After fifty years of stress research, almost exclusively on men, the standard doctrine has been that when under pressure, humans snap to fight or flight reactions. We hide away or we get angry, is the idea. Recently it occurred to stress researchers […]

The question now, of course, is whether the roof will continue to cave in, in which case it needs reinforcements, or whether it has simply decided it wants to be more pitturesque than we’d planned, and should be permitted to stay that […]

I love French. Perhaps in part because I don’t master it, not a bit, though I love reading and speaking it, creatively more than correctly, I fear. Some French words are wonderful. For instance, while in English, I rather boringly gave a […]

Ever thought of writing reviews of weblogs as a class assignment? Scott Rettberg‘s New Media Studies class (which I visited a week or two ago, lovely bunch of students) have written a collection of reviews of weblogs as their final class project, […]

Congratulations to Anders Fagerjord, who promises stories, pictures and poems from his PhD defence yesterday, just as soon as he’s not quite so tired anymore. Hooray! Anders’s PhD is on Rhetorical Convergence: Earlier Media Influence on Web Media Form and judging by […]

Skirt-twirling – the way a skirt will rotate around your waist to right or left as you walk – is one of those annoyances I had never thought to discuss with anyone. Grumpygirl has though. She not only did an office survey […]

She’s instantly awake: “Mummy, there’s snow!” Polite and considerate snow, nothing like the nonstop eye-stinging car-skidding snow in New England last weekend. This snow came at night, when the roads were empty. It brushed a gentle few centimetres on trees and grass, […]