I like Technorati‘s new WTF system. WTF stands for (ahem) Where’s the Fire? So next time you see that Paris Hilton is in the top ten searches again you can click that, and not only see a gazillion blog posts about it […]

How long has it been since you actually used a paper phonebook? I’ve been throwing them out as they arrive for years – well, since I got broadband internet I suppose, actually. Now, for us Norwegians, finally, there’s a website where you […]

I should probably know this, but I don’t – perhaps you can help me? Do the LCD screens we use today still refresh 30 times a second or whatever the way projectors and old screens used to? See, Michael Joyce writes: The […]

I like the taglines for this book: “Love the skin you’re in” and “don’t get pwned”. What taglines should we choose for the anthology of critical essays on World of Warcraft Hilde and I are editing? The final essays are due in […]

I got this in email from a few people, and it seems like a good idea, if enough people do it. Will you? Participate in the biggest mobilization of Citizens Against Global Warming! The Alliance for the Planet [a group of environmental […]

So I want some blogs to recommend to my students but man, all the blogs I read are by 35 year old women who are often academics and who like gadgets and new media and books and who really probably don’t have […]

Hm. I had an email from Flickr today telling me I have to merge my “old skool” Flickr account with a Yahoo account. And to switch to Blogger.com‘s new cool system, I have to switch to logging into that using a Google […]

Today’s class will begin with a discussion of the worksheets I made up for this week. I’m interested in what the students think of them. We’ll also be looking at their blogs and we’ll talk about the assignments. The main topic for […]

I’ve been exploring Facebook recently, after Ina invited me to join, and it really does have some intriguing aspects – it seems to merge many things from many other social sites. Of course I’m the ONLY “faculty member” on it from my […]

Rune Klevjer‘s PhD thesis has been approved, and he’ll be defending it on February 9th! The afternoon before the defence, Rune will hold his “trial lecture”, and the topic is very, well, topical: “Aesthetics and Ideology in Computer Games: An Analysis of […]