I just came across some information about Second Life – a virtual environment with inworld building that I hadn’t heard about earlier. It has a reputation system (and a monetary system) and seems somewhere in between massively multiplayer games and environments such as Active Worlds. Graphicwise it has a cartoonish (and rather nice) feeling to [...]

Here are some new “installations” in HUMlab. The space is coming together very well I think – and it has a good feeling to it.

Some of Linda Bergkvist’s work (our illustrator/artist)

Our “game corner”

And an overview of the lab
I am really happy about the space. In my mind, it is a matter of balance, translucence, wholeness [...]

This is a great resource for people (like myself) interested in IBM Thinkpads: http://forum.thinkpads.com/. I am looking into buying a T42P – hence my interest. Some of the questions I have are: when 2Mhz model, 14 or 15 inch (I think I will go for the smaller version even though 1600×1200 and about 2,6kg would [...]

I just ordered a new voice recorder/mp3 player/mirror – a jos mp-130. It seems really cool – slim, built-in USB and good design. I have a thing for hardware and software that would possibly help me organize things (PDAs, bibliopgraphic software, voice recorders, anoto pens etc.) and I hope that this piece of technology will [...]

Even though I come from this part of the country I rediscover the magic of long summer days every year. The contrast is so great (to dark winter days) and having almost full daylight late in the evening is spectacular. It is about 10:20 pm now and it is totally light out there. The sun [...]

Today I bought four types of sugar – rather a lot for a diabetic. Sugar cubes, caster sugar, light brown muscovado sugar and raw cane sugar. One reasons for this sugar shopping frenzy is that I am trying to find the (Swedish-market) equivalent of the brown sugar that I get with my oatmeal in many [...]

VINNOVA has published a new report on the so-called experience industry (very broadly defined) called “Svensk forskning – rik p

New report in Swedish on learning and information technology looking especially at information retrieval at school libraries. Title: “Textflytt och s

I have just finished reading Ian Parker’s New Yorker aticle (May 28, 2001) on PowerPoint (after having found the reference through Wendell Piez’s ALLC/ACH abstract. Title: “Absolute Powerpoint: Can a software package edit our thoughts”.
A very good read I think – reminds me of Howard Rheingold’s way of tracing development over time and connecting [...]