Bookchin and Shulgin’s DIY guide to creating net.art should work pretty well for the aspiring blogger as well. I’d particularly note the Promotional Techniques: Attend and participate in major media art festivals, conferences and exhibitions. a. Physical b. Virtual Do not under […]

Tomorrow’s class will be about citation techniques. Again. Instead of me doing the standard old-fashioned teaching routine (explain it for 45 minutes using voice and overheads, post examples for them to read and then assume the knowledge was successfully transmitted from brain […]

That thing womens’ magazines say, you know, that each night you don’t cleanse your skin adds seven years to the age of your skin? No way. If that were true, I would look several hundred years old. Now I expect I do […]

“Well-behaved women seldom make history,” Laurel Thatcher Ulrich wrote, and it’s obviously true: doing what you think people want you to do is strikingly unsatisfying. Believe me, I know what I’m talking about, I spent many years trying. So when Liz Lawley […]

Towards a standard for referencing video games in academic papers. Based on a DiGRA discussion.

Yesterday Amazon.com made the full text of 120000 books searchable. If you want to find books that mention cybertext, for instance, search books for cybertext, just as usual. The day before yesterday that search listed books with cybertext in the title. Today […]

Bulldozers are piling stones in water to make a path all the way around Store LungegÂrdsvannet, and enough of it is ready now that I could walk by the water almost all the way home. It’s raining again and my boots are […]

Had a look at the Alternate Reality Game (ARG) promoting the latest Matrix movie yet? It’s centred around the at first glance run-of-the-mill Metacortex site, perhaps continuing via their employee of the month’s personal website. At some point you’ll probably want to […]

This morning I saw large crumpled leaves still clinging to the stalk but withered by the first night frost. I wrapped an old woollen scarf three times around my neck before going outdoors. I don’t want to crumple.

A choir just started practicing in the downstairs hall! Fullbodied choral music halted only by occasional laughter. I’ve opened my office door and I guess I’ll do my grading here instead of going home as intended. At least until rehearsal’s over.