I'm actually posting this video to keep it close to hand. Brings back memories (the video dates from 1995) from the time I sat through all the rubbish on MTV just to discover, from time to time, a golden nugget like this one. Since we have YouTube, obviously, MTV has lost all relevance, sitting there orphaned and deserted at the very long end of our television channel numbers. May it rot in hell with its infamous 5 minute commercial breaks, every 5 minutes.

Not directed by the fabulous Chris Cunningham, this video, but still highly original. I was (still am) fascinated by the Carebear-style creatures and their strange contrast of frolic and aggressive/obscene behaviour. If you don't know Aphex Twin: first be very ashamed ;-) then start in this place. Here and here you see both masters (Cunningham and Richard David James aka Aphex Twin) at work.

The future of mobile, according to the Nokia Research Center (and the Cambridge Nanoscience Centre). Thanks Ike !

It's a subtle change, but a change anyway. New vs Old, especially for Eddy ;-) Doesn't blend as well with the homepage, so I expect a change there too.

Not the Australian soap, but an excellent band with a great record. Gilt Complex isn't even by far the best song on the album. Go discover it!

Very exciting news! A little bird told me that, as from tomorrow, Yahoo's brand new Fire Eagle service will be open for business. In private beta that is, so if you want to play along, request an invitation through the website: http://fireeagle.yahoo.net/.

Fire Eagle is (from the website): "...the secure and stylish way to share your location with sites and services online while giving you unprecedented control over your data and privacy. We're here to make the whole web respond to your location and help you to discover more about the world around you."

I hope the experience will be as promising as this sounds. It certainly could be a great tool for both users and application developers. Application builders can quickly integrate location-awareness into their applications. Users can experiment with location-based computing in an empowered sort of way. They are in charge and determine which application may know their exact location. And the empowerment can even go further: e.g. some areas can be excluded, so that updates are not given when the user is in that particular area.

Enjoy Yeasayer, a great new band, performing their song 2080 from debut album All Hour Cymbals live on Conan O'Brien's 30 Rock Tour. Yeasayer is coming to Brussels next wednesday and we've got tickets :-) Unfortunately, the concert is sold out. More videos here.

In my view, 2008 has been a great musical year so far. Besides Yeasayer I also adored Black Mountain's In the Future. Do you know of other 2008 killer albums I need to be made aware of?

Update 23-2-08: the video has already been removed from Youtube, after only a few days. Big media will never ever get it. Somebody, send a meteorite to these dinosaur bastards, please... I replaced the video with another neat live performance.

Plug for my friends at Chips : their book, "The User is the Content", the result from an expertmeeting in Antwerp last April on the subject of user-generated content is out for sale from Lulu.

From the description:" 'The User is the Content - 10 scenarios for the future' is the result of the expertmeeting on The User is the Content, 26 and 27 April 2007 in Antwerp, as part of the Mind Europe Series of The Flemish-Dutch House deBuren. It contains 10 future scenarios written by 10 experts looking at cyberspace and user generated content in 2020. The experts are: Jan Bierhoff, Paul Gerhardt, Loïc Le Meur, Stuart Nolan, Ana Pejcinova, Dick Rijken, Evi Werkers, Clo Willaerts, Bob Young and John Buckman."

Definitely recommended!

For those of you interested in my shared items, here's the link to that page. For the new version of this site, I'm working on a Google Reader parsing engine that will help to inject this "shared" content into my site more gracefully.

You have not logged into MySpace since January 1, 2007. That makes us sad!

You're also holding a very valuable piece of MySpace real estate, which is the username/URL you chose. That makes MySpace users sad! Why? Because you've got a URL someone may want, and you're not really using it! Since it doesn't look like you're an active user on this account, we will be resetting your username/URL so that someone else can use it. To prevent this from happening, simply login to MySpace before Oct 31, 2007.

NOTE: We are only resetting the URLs of inactive accounts. We will not delete your account. We are simply trying to free up the username/URLs for people who actually want to use them. Thanks!