Have you heard about Blackle? I hadn’t, a friend told me about it yesterday. It’s a black, energy-saving version of Google. Apparently, a black screen uses less energy than a white, and every time you use Blackle instead of Google, you help the environment. At least, that’s the theory:
In January 2007 a blog post [...]

I made a course blog for the Theories of Gender and Culture course - it’s still under construction, but here it is. Update: the blog has now gone into stealth mode - only registered students can read and contribute.
I had a really good meeting with our technology-and-education person Yolande Spoelder yesterday. She made me think [...]

An article from The Observer on The Guardian website confirms what we perhaps all knew already: “Employees are becoming tired, frustrated and unproductive after constantly monitoring the electronic messages that keep interrupting them as they try to concentrate at work.” The research that this article is based on was carried out among academics and people [...]

Eek! What happened to my Library thing? Do you all see huge images of covers, too? I didn’t change a thing, and the script in my theme is still set to display “small” covers… I hope this will go away by itself in the course of the night.
Update: it did.

Lots of nice things today: Scribblingwoman is back at Scribblingwoman2! And she has this cool snapshot function on her new blog. I just had to download the plugin too.
If it so happens that you find yourself annoyed by these things creeping out of the woodwork every time you mouse over a link, I think you [...]

Our house is now officially decluttered. It took two weeks, but bit by bit, room by room (well, we have only two rooms, really — but I did the bathroom, too) and closet by closet, we have thrown out all the unnecessary “stuff” that accumulated during the last two semesters and cluttered our home. I [...]

Via The Long Eighteenth: Tenured Radical’s Six Pieces of Random Advice for the Novice Teacher. A great post to get back into teaching mode, with lots more pieces of useful random advice in the comments.