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In the name of design I started my practical (home) exam in Mulitmedia-journalism a Tuesday morning in December. Inspired over the years by a number of slick and shining splash-screens, I knew that I wanted to design a cool hoover (vacuum cleaner) illustration. Our assignment was to design a website and fill with content for [...]

A couple of my Norwegian friends did at some point need a dictionary to figure out a couple of my written words here. So I was pleasantly affirmed with the results of the blog readability test: My pages have a level of education required to understand my “blog” comparing to Junior High. Take the test [...]

When you don’t actively use the knots you may have learned years ago in school, on field trips or summer camps, you might forget them. If you are like most people you do fine with the basic overhand knot. Del.icio.us bumped up this knot link: How to Tie the 10 Most Useful Knots. So perhaps [...]

In December I wrote Study Effectively with Noise and Stu.dicio.us. However compared to actual studying for a quiz, test or exam it might not help you all that much. Quizlet on the other hand seems like a good cramming solution, finding its niche in the good tradition of “virtual” flash cards. Quizlets mission is to [...]

Semester exams are in progress, and you might be studying, retreating to place of peace and calmness. Noise in general is disturbing and for optimal studying you might even put ear muffles on, to block out disturbing noises. In a Wired interview with Professor Bart Kosko from the University of Southern California, Kosko explains that [...]