After the Japanese shirtfolding technique, now comes the Japanese potato peeling technique. Looks cool, I hate potato peeling even more than shirt folding ;-)

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Another funny J-Pop videoclip.

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Everybody who wants to investigate the reasons behind the collapse of Enron can now read 300,000 e-mails online (free registration needed). Now you can see the reasons behind the collapse that was cause of the law that is nowadays giving me a full time job.

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At SnapShirts.com you can design a T-shirt with a word-cloud generated from your own weblog.

For my weblog this has resulted in this T-shirt which can be bought by everybody now (altough I can hardly imagine that anybody besides myself would want to do that ;-) ).

It seems that Google bombing is still working: the latest victim is the Dutch minister of Integration and Immigration. The result is that a Google search on the word 'vreemdelingenhaat' (xenophobia) results in the biography of this minister as first result.

Very handy tool to keep track of news all over the world.

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Now you do not even need to download a Commodore 64 emulator, you can just play those great retro games online at this site.

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Want your own favourite free suite of applications everywhere you go independent of the software installed at the PC you happen to be working at? Meet Portable Apps Suite! This gives you a complete office suite of applications running from an USB stick.

Portable Apps Suite Contains: Portable Firefox (web browser), Portable Thunderbird (email client), Portable OpenOffice.org (office suite), Portable AbiWord (word processor), Portable NVU (web editor), Portable Sunbird (calendar & task list), Portable FileZilla (FTP client), Portable Gaim (instant messenger) and will fit on a 256Mb USB thumbdrive.

This great piece of free open source software turns any internet connection into a fully secured internet connection, so now you can do your internetbanking safely in a cybercafé. The package included Portable Firefox, so you can even use the best browser around instead of the browser that happens to be installed. Finally, with the default options, all your tracks are cleared after stopping Torpark.

According to the download site: Download TorPark for your language, and put it on a USB Flash keychain. Plug it into any internet terminal whether at home, school, or public. Run Torpark.exe and it will launch a Tor circuit connection, which creates an encrypted tunnel from your computer indirectly to a Tor exit computer, giving the appearance of having the Tor exit computer's IP.

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It keeps surprising me how far the software, games, music and movie industry is willing to go in a battle they can never hope to win. While each new copy protection appears to be hacked within a matter of days, the only thing these kind of unasked copy-protecting schemes are achieving is seriously annoying or even causing damage to customers buying the legal version.

The whole Sony rootkit debacle is a good example of this, but now also the anti-software copying software made by the company StarForce is causing controversy. The company is now even threathening to sue the weblog BoingBoing for publicing criticism about this software.

For me all this controversy is reason enough to first check this list before buying a game. Better be safe than sorry and perhaps this way the entertainment industry learns that it is not smart to annoy just those consumers who ARE actually buying legal copies.

Very funny site with animations showing the way films should have ended. My personal favourites are the alternative endings for Lord of the Rings and Star Wars Episode IV.

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Very funny to see that every copy protection ever invented is bound to be hacked very soon. Now a very ingenious coder has opened up all versions of the PlayStation Portable firmware for homebrew applications, including the 2.6 firmware I am running on my PSP. Maybe I now should give homebrew a try.

Read further here for more information.

Funny quiz to find out if you are nuts about film.

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A great collection of links to crazy Japanese gameshow videos can be found at this page.

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Like Christmas songs in western stores, apparently they play New Year's Songs in Hong Kong Department stores. The Chinese songs are much funnier though...

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