Handy instructional video about how to eat at a sushi bar in Japan.

(Via Flabber.nl)

At Sellaband there is now a great competition going on that gets everybody in the Christmas spirit: the Christmas song competition. Check out the Sellaband Christmas Playlist for excellent Christmas music.

An overview of all the entries can also be found here.

Nice anthology of the most infuential online videos of all time. Of course with every top 10 you have lots of reasons to disagree (for example, the Numa Numa song is not in, neither the two most frequently visited videos on my weblog: Chinese/Japanese T-shirt folding and the Egg song), but the list brought lots of good memories anyway.

And yeez, was Jennicam really already 11 years ago? Remember it very well, I am getting old.

(Via Boing Boing)

With this game you can find out what you know about the worlds geography.

(Via Flabber)

What a great way to package the CD of the C64 Orchestra I blogged about earlier: the CD package is formed after the C64 keyboard.

My copy should already be on its way.

(Via Bright)

Our photo gallery of our last holiday to Kuala Lumpur, Java and Bali, from 10-26 October 2007 is now online.

I blogged earlier about Sellaband and Julia Marcell, but last Friday Julia Marcell reached the 50k at Sellaband in a record three months and three days since signing up, enabling her to record a CD! Especially the last race to the 50k was quite spectacular: over 10k in one day.

So the good news is that we will soon get a complete Julia Marcell album, the bad news is that you can not buy parts in her success anymore (of course you can but the CD when it is finished).

Congratulations Julia and can't wait to receive the limited edition CDs!

The new Pet Shop Boys video is using a very innovative way to get its message across: they use sublimal QR codes that, if you freeze the video and scan with your QR code scanner on your cellphone, leads you to websites about civil liberties. Which this they want to make a statement against the '"if you've done nothing wrong, you have nothing to fear" slogan much used to defend privacy threatening measures.

I checked it with the barcode reader on my Nokia N95 and it actually works.

(Via Engadget.com)

Good to know my iPod still has some 460 days or so left, but shocking my iPod battery only has 47% capacity left.

Want to check your own iPod? You can do that here.

(VIa Bright.nl)

Funny. Firaxis games asked some well-known web cartoonists to make Civilization cartoons, the results can be found here.

My latest discovery on Sellaband is a band named Bim. Check them out here on Sellaband and on their own site.

Sellaband now also has widgets so I can now show you samples of the music I invested in here on my site.

Never visited most of these airports, looks exciting to land at one of these.

(Via Flabber)

I blogged before on the great new music industry concept of Sellaband, now I have found an artist of which I really am very enthusiastic: Julia Marcell.

Compared by others to Tori Amos, Kate Bush, Regina Spektor and such, she has produced some very beautiful songs that not only I am enthousiastic about, but are also taking Sellaband at a storm: Julia managed to reach US$ 18k in investments in only one month, making her the fastest rising artist on Sellaband.

Visit her profile and listen to her music and buy some parts if you like it to get her to make a full length CD.

Whow! This truly is a revolution: there is a new Civilization game coming and this time it comes not to the PC, but to consoles and handhelds.

I have countlessly played basically all versions of Civilization (own Civ I, II, III, IV, Call to Power, Call to Power II, Alpha Centauri and basically all extension packs published), Civ II I almost played full time for a year during my studies.

So I am eagerly awaiting playing the next episode, and am excited I can next year play Civ on my Playstation 3 and in the train with my Playstation Portable as well.

(Click read more for trailer, via QJ.net)

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Well, if you have time too much you can always do your animation this way: by HTML coding it.

(Via Flabber)

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