I slip my grandmother’s ring onto the middle finger of my right hand. It’s looser than I remember it. My cheeks have lost their fullness, too. I look in the mirror and think that this is what I look like as a […]

Thomas Brevik is Bergen’s most interesting librarian, and one of the people who convinced me that a librarian who’s enthusiastic about technology is a person you definitely want to know. He’s been blogging for ages, but has now got his own domain, […]

Eirik Newth’s latest column over at Kulturnett uses jill/txt as an example to explain the social aspects of blogging – comments, trackbacks and so on. He writes: [B]logger som jill/txt fungerer mer som knutepunkter i et nettverk av medskapende lesere enn som […]

Denmark’s ex-Prime Minister has really gotten into weblogging! I was going to just quote some of his latest post, which is of course written in Danish, but I think for the benefit of mankind I’ll translate it into English instead: I’ve been […]

Se, han danser med en annen, skrev Tove Ditlevsen. Og allikevel gÂr jeg ikke. For lidelsen er en lenke som bringer den magiske vellyst lykken aldri kan skjenke. SÂnn er det, ogsÂ. Elske sitt glad og elske sitt lei seg. Ekel¯f: Du […]

Here’s an annotated bibliography on internet addiction with half real entries and half fakes. It was prepared by Trudi Jacobsen and Laura Cohen to teach students how to evaluate the reliability of online sources and comes with a description of how they […]

Liz has a nice followup to my post about kinds of honesty in which she neatly collects links to the discussion – I’ve been shockingly lax about that, I just read things and was appalled and didn’t actually link to them. Jonathon […]

Ah, this is a good one from Mark: Tragedy requires that the characters be blind (as we ourselves, at times, are blind), and if you let a sane and sensible reader into the room, everything is bound to collapse. Take Hamlet: it’s […]

I just finished reading Vigdis Hjorth’s novel, Om bare. Having studied literature at the University of Bergen I’d heard all about the novel, which the literary crowd at the university and CafÈ Opera agreed was a malicious act of vengeance against Hjorth’s […]

Just like Halley I’ve asked my gynaecologist whether it all looked, well, normal. You know that fear that you’re freakish, because as Halley points out, once a girl’s own pubes grow hairy they’re the only example of the species she’s likely to […]