Happy Birthday, womanonfire & orlandobr ! And aside from that, on June 5th at iMal, there will be a concert of (among others) Christina Vantzou, one half of The Dead Texan (the other half being Adam Wiltzie from Stars of the Lid ). The other artists playing will be Christopher Willits (who obviously worked with Sakamoto and Matmos) and some Quix. Here's a video of a Willits'...

I'd like to thank orlandobr for linking to Douglas MacMillan's article in Business Week , "Facebook, meet the locals" , a piece that examines the ways in which different online social networks meet different receiptions and exist in different forms in different cultures. Victor Donselaar, a Dutchman living in Helsinki, Finland, finds the social network Facebook useful for staying in touch...