My camera insists that it knows what the world should look like. It likes strong colours and sharp contrasts. If I point it at the dark grey almost black night sky it normalises the pixels to the blue it’s been programmed to […]

I got my topic for the trial lecture I’ve got to give the day before my defence: îUser-avatar relations in cybertextsî. So now I have a fortnight to write a traditional 45 minute lecture of the sort you read slowly from a […]

Gonzalo’s posted a great trip report from DiGRA, last week’s games research conference which had 500 attendees! Interesting reading, and obviously a conference that it would have been fun to have attended. [update Monday: Andrew’s posted a report on the conference on […]

“Literature may be the only art form that is conceived as platform-independent”, Lars writes, disagreeing with Geoff, who thinks that every form of literature requires interpretation.

One of the reasons I love living in Bergen: I walk for fifteen minutes from my home and I’m crossing a stream on my way up a mountain. Half an hour up I gaze across mountains stacked like dominos.

Oh dear. This excerpt from Oblivio goes with the conversation overheard about breakups and Friendster (sadly the full story is deleted), and with my own (thankfully extinguished) obsessive blogchecking. E said that her instant messaging program lets her know when Jís computer […]

The lunar eclipse tonight (or in English) is being webcast (of course) and there’s a camera right here in Bergen aimed at the moon. It’ll go live at 00:45, but the actual eclipse is from 02:06-02:35, Norway time. The moon will look […]

My camera takes photos of what it sees, not what I see. I hold it up to my eye but its bulk juts out too far and it will focus only on my fringe or the mountain. It won’t show both at […]

Sigh. I’m up to day 7 of Planet Jemma, which is supposed to be an interactive, serial web drama that’ll encourage teenaged girls to study physics. Instead it seems to be a relentless attempt to convince its audience that boys studying physics […]

Play computer games at work and become a more productive worker.