Via BoingBoing, LOL Presidents: Via Barry, LOL Theorists: (Raymond Williams, btw) And then of course i started making meta-loltheory. Neil Postman sez:

Seriously, I challenge you to imagine you are a caricature of a businessman, and then to think of any really important knowledge not contained in one of these three books. Above my (nice big) desk in my hotel room in Boston, which will be mission central for the next 10 days or so. And by […]

Autumn in Brisbane: Spring in Boston: That’s just so wrong. Apparently there may be sleet, which I’ve never really experienced. I know that posties go through it to deliver mail, but that’s about it. So that’s exciting, anyway.

Some erudite cultural analysis of the relationship between mobile phone brand and social identity, thanks to Nielsen Media Research via the Lazy Research Desk at The Age: Sony Ericsson handsets are favoured by ambitious young men trying to make their mark; LGs are tops with mums; while Samsungs are wielded by young women focused on […]

Keyword search someone used to arrive at the previous entry: “what is the purpose of an axel in a machine?” Well, Axel, what do you have to say for yourself?