Funny website trying to reinstate New York as a Dutch colony. They even made a trailer of what this would look like.

(Via Flabber)

Cool idea: combine a photo community with a print magazine and you get a photo magazine where the community is editor.

I like the idea and have submitted a photo myself, of course a vote would be appreciated ;-)

(Via Bright)

All applications you will probably ever need to go on an USB stick... that is PortableApps.

Today I have successfully migrated the gallery script of my photo pages from version 1.5RC4 to 2.01 of Exhibition Engine (EE). See more on the EE forums for information on this magnificent gallery script.

Please give me a mail if you encounter migration errors.

With these nifty sites, Spell with Flickr and geoGreeting, you can spell with Flickr and Google Maps!

geoGreeting makes even a nice animation out of it.

(Via Lifehacker)

Photo's from the city trip to Madrid and Seville from 28 September to 4 October 2006.

These great T-shirts will get every game lover in the holiday season spirit.

(Via nu.nl and Popgadget)

Why didn't somebody think of this earlier? PlugKing is a great concept to avoid the mess of adapter plugs when you have (as I do) gadgets bought all over the world with US and UK plugs, USB chargable gadgets and mobile phones with a different plugs alltogether.

I want one of these! Alas no message on availability yet.

(Via Übergizmo)

Handy overview of all sites giving online advice for the coming Dutch elections (Dutch only).

(Cartoon source)

Great pie-chart / gaming classics joke.

(Original, found via Boing Boing)

Great animation of classic album covers battling each other.

(Via Milk and Cookies)

This is a great idea: this site combines your Last.fm account with YouTube to find the videoclips of your favorite songs.

(Via Flabber)

Half a year ago I ordered the aXbo Sleep Phase Alarm Clock, this week I finally received the package. This alarm clock is advertised as being able to sense your sleep movements and calculate the optimal wake up time from that.

Last night was the first time I tried the clock, and indeed: it works! The clock woke me with nice bird chirping, 15 minutes before the time I had entered as deadline for waking up, but indeed at exactly the time I was already almost awake. When ordering I was a little afraid that wearing the wristbands with the sensors would annoy me, but they fit will without mayor nuisance.

So hopefully no more rude awakenings from deep sleep, but a friendly wake up call at the optimum time, which also gives you some more time in the morning if you are lucky to check news.

One final cool feature: via USB connection I could this morning actually see my sleep movements graphically on my PC.

This really is a great app: with Orb.com you can place and timeshift your TV channels, recorded TV, videos, music and photos to anyplace anytime where you have access to an internetconnection.

Should have installed this application earlier while busy travelling for business: looking Dutch TV on your laptop in a NY hotelroom would be nice.

And the best news: the app is completely free. So who needs a Slingbox or Sony's Location Free?

I recently bought a new PC with these specs: