Our World of Warcraft anthology workshop starts in an hour!! I’ve been reading all the papers and it’s just such fun seeing them all. I keep going oh! I recognise that, but I never thought about it that way before! We’ll be […]

Oh no. I was feeling unconvinced about my book chapter (where I was trying to compare World of Warcraft to Web 2.0, oh dear, oh dear) and then a few paragraphs sort of came out that I found a lot more interesting […]

I was looking for something else, of course, but stumbled upon an article by Mieke Bal about the common academic rhetorical strategy of trashing an argument or a whole school of thought (sorry, Jstor subscription required): Trashing is a dismissal based on […]

Ooooh! Look at these biscuits!!! I’m definitely having a go at them for Halloween! Found at Diane‘s, originally from eGullet forums. Diane’s pasted the recipe so it looks easier to follow.

“Because you know, if I got up an hour earlier in the morning, Iíd totally have that book written by now.” —New Kid on the Hallway. Ah well. I’m off to buy pumpkins and then I’ll totally write that book. Um, chapter, […]

I found something new: a YouTube for powerpoints. Look, I can embed the slides from a talk I gave, oh years ago, into this blog post, and you can page through it really quickly without downloading anything. Oh and yes, when the […]

There’s a wonderful little segment about our World of Warcraft researcher’s guild (a European research network that happens to meet in the world we study) on tonight’s pop science show Schrˆdingers katt – the segment’s already online at NRK’s site. It stars […]

Scribbling woman put the Eliot quote I found last week into context – to wit, she’s actually read the whole essay, and knows her stuff. Reading her comments, I find myself wondering (again? like others? un-originally) whether we’re moving back into a […]

A while ago I wrote a catalogue piece about electronic art in public spaces, and one of the pieces presented was Nathalie Barret’s Ad sonore, an interactive sound installation in the new university building for “bio-basale fag” here in Bergen. Here’s my […]

I was shocked to wake up this morning to news that Vegemite has been banned by the United States! Apparently, they can’t accept the folate in the good stuff, because folate is only permitted in cereals and breads. Actually, that sounds like […]