Somehow when everyone is looking for the new, interesting and coolest things around, there stands an interesting publication that should be included in the 'different' category - The Journal of Mundane Behavior.
The JMB is a real journal hosted by the Department of Sociology and the College of Humanities and Social Sciences at California State University, Fullerton. They describe themselves as "a peer-reviewed journal that is devoted to the study of the "unmarked" -- those aspects of our everyday lives that typically go unnoticed by us, both as individuals and as academics. "
Topics in the current issue include: "Understanding Television without Television: A Study of Suspended Television Viewing" or "Status and tolerance of ill-mannered persons: A field study"
One would think that a study of mundane behavior would be like the Samuel Beckett play Waiting for Godot.
There is cetainly fascination with the mundane - now there is science.