My Books

comment spam

There’s an evil bug in Safari or MoveableType that makes comment spam kind of jump into the actual post itself when you delete it. I’d started ignoring this, since it doesn’t seem to affect the actual post if you don’t save after […]

literary games

Good heavens. “I love you”, machine-translated from English to French to English to German to English to Italian to English to Portuguese to English to Spanish to English, becomes “Master to him”, now would you have guessed that? Lost in translation has […]

click here to pat back

So do you think women tend to need more pats on the back than men do? Perhaps we read pats on backs differently, I mean maybe we don’t even get it when men mean to encourage us? Or maybe they don’t bother […]

sunset

I thought I might climb Ulriken this afternoon until I remembered it’s getting darker: though the sun is shining gloriously now, it will set in less than an hour. Being stuck up a mountain in the dark is not advisable.

futureme.org

To do today: Send your future self an email. Yes, you could simply tell your computer to do it, but what if you change email clients or computers or your mind? Let futureme.org take care of it instead! Look, it’s easy, you […]

republishability

It was only looking through James’s books on Jenny Holzer, after we’d been to see her installation Running Words at Telenor’s new building, that I realised that she reuses her words all the time. “MEN DON’T PROTECT YOU ANYMORE”, for instance, is […]

nobodyhere.com

Lisbeth reminded me of nobodyhere.com, which has so many strange little things, presented fascinatingly. I love this hand that opens, when clicked, to show reminders scribbled on the palm. Simple yet effective.

jenny holzer at telenor

There’s a Jenny Holzer installation at the new Telenor building at Fornebu, a 30 kroner bus ride from Oslo, and on Saturday afternoon James and I went out to see it. Running Letters consists of words that scroll from right to left […]

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