Everyone is linking the same video — Amateur by Lasse Gjertsen — and deservingly so. No better example of editing making the performance. Better seen than explained.···

Onliness, an open source record. And the music is quite good, actually.···

Dominio Público is Brazil's government-funded database of public domain content, à lá Archive.org. It seems to be under the threat of closure due to poor demand, so go get your (really) free portuguese language books, videos and images while you can. It's a pain for a Portuguese to admit, but Brazil seems way ahead in this kind of things, and it'd be a major step back if the site closes. Compare with the portuguese governmental practice of demanding a large sum of money for things such as maps or single pages of tax-funded census data. Not to mention the fact that for a long time you had to pay a large subscription fee to read the Republic Diary (where every new law, bill, regulation etc is published) on the internet.···

It seems my Fotologue.jp post spawned a little craze: Here are Ricardo and Sara's, and Carlos'. By the way, my fotologue keeps growing.···

Über-cool Japanese photo sharing website Fotologue has been translated to English and free memberships are now open to the rest of the world. I have, of course, taken the opportunity, since these galleries look far better than anything else I've seen so far. So, here's A Land of Shapes.···