Once upon a time, I was actually a vegetarian for ten years. Now, my favorite dishes seems to be on the classic theme “meat and potatoes”. Steak and baked potato is the king of dishes, of course, but for lunch it’s not completely wrong with fried pork, potato dumplings and lingonberry jam. I wonder if this has to do with some strange longing for simplicity. After years of despise for old Swedish homely cooking, eating food from around the world, often with complex taste and texture, I’m coming home to the basic tastes I grew up with.

The ebook service Ebrary has made quite a few improvements lately. No longer do you have to install ebrary reader – which only works with some browsers – to use the service to its full potential. Earlier, thery were also loads of strange quirks in the interface. It’s only a few left now, such as

1. They could have wasted a lot of empty space in the upper part of the screen, to make room for more hight in the reading area.
2. Well, they should really rethink the ugly design Why not try a contemporary look…

The screenshot below shows Ebrary at the full hight of a 24 inch screen. A 15 inch laptop also works quite well…

ps. Ebrary is a paid service you might have access to if you are a student or staff at a University or other form of higher education.

Jag läser myckert hellre tidskrifter på skärm (24 tum) än på papper. Zinios läsare är riktigt bra och upplevelsen blir fantastisk. Och kolla priset på vissa tidskrifter som American Photo!!! Eller Science som går för 20% av papperstidningen.

Yesterday, we walked for five hours in a coast scenery filled with dashing white and pink flowers – called macchia. This photo isn’t from that scenery by the way, I forgot to take mobile photos This is from the Sunday walk.

I’m testing an iPhone app called iBlogger to write this post. The photo is also from the iPhone, but somewhat enhanced with an app called photo fx. Landscape photography doesn’t work that well on these small screens though An the camera, well…

The location utility is a nice addition to the blogging experience.

Today I used the hashtag technoscience in two tweets, and I hope there will be more… I seem to be the first…! I have a hard time understanding why critcal discourse have so difficult to break into the fun-and-play prison of Twitter. Twitter seems like a great tool too build complex webs of thougt through myriads of small ideas.

It would be fun (and useful) if someone joined the twitter hash based “group” #technoscience

Länk till den omtalade sidan

Se i fullskärm genom att gå till blip.tv-sidan, och välj fullskärm i den spelaren.

Det här är första delen av min videoblogg/podcast. Det är audiovisuella anteckningar för essä-skrivandet. Videobloggen/podcasten är på svenska, till skillnad från texterna. Egentligen är det den andra, men den första blev inte så lyckad vare sig tekniskt eller innehållsmässigt, men den finns på Blip.tv-sidan. Jag kommer att göra lite sådana här idé-videos framöver för att avlasta händerna i skrivandet, och liksom få det idémässiga grovjobbet gjort i audiovisuell tappning.

Försök ha förbarmande över teknik och utförande. Jag ska försöka slipa på allt sådant med tiden. Videobloggens hem är på Blip.tv. Den kommer också att finnas på iTunes, både i ipod-video-format och ren ljudfil.

Ordflödets hemma-arena är på Blip.tv, men även här:

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WWW:Wake is Robert J. Sawyer’s latest novel (April 7, 2009). It’s deals with the same theme as many of his novels: human & nonhuman consciousness, and how evolutionary leaps can make great changes in a very short period of time. I was fascinated by his books in the Neanderthal Parallax, which described an alternative civilization build by a slightly alternative mindset, and WWW:Wake is hardly less fascinating. It’s about a blind girl getting sight with the help of signal processing technology. The information processing unit, the “eye-pod”, is also connected to the web for updating and research practices. The stream of visual information awakens a web based consciousness…

It doesn’t feel altogether realistic in my mind, but I don’t give much for my own skill in measuring the value of an idea representation to something so complex and hypothetical as the ideas in this book. I my experience, realism is hardly realistic. Consciousness in every form is for me completely unrealistic. It is truly hard to imagine how a wonderful thing like consciousness can occur in a life form. WWW:Wake his is a good story, and it leaves you with something to think about.