Remember the educational video on how to eat sushi in Japan? It was brilliant stuff, from the beginning with its a-bit-to-screechy instrumental sound and onwards. Turns out there are more videos in the series, here we get a basic lesson in using chopsticks. Don't be alarmed that it's all in Japanese though, give it a couple of seconds and you'll get to the good parts where everything is perfectly clear.





Nowadays I imagine almost everyone know how to use chopsticks, at least that's the way it is here in Stockholm. I always felt like I didn't really deserve all the praise when someone complemented me for being able to eat with chopsticks in Tokyo.

Sometimes you don't know whether to envy peoples optimism or just be astonished by it. How did the people behind this music video for the Korean singer Ivy think that they would get away with such an obvious copy of a scene from Square Enix' Advent Children? Footage from the movie is in the lower right corner.



It has now been banned from being aired on TV by a South Korean court according to Japan Probe. But it's still on YouTube of course, where a lot of people like me who have never even heard about Ivy are checking it out to see the resemblance. The makers of this video are probably not incredibly optimistic after all, but incredibly smart.

I found this little guy on Youtube while surfing for videos of the chinese online game My Monkey (it's a long story). At first he looks like something that could have been sold in the toy department at Tokyo Hands, or perhaps even a really good toy department in Europe.

But after a while you notice the little subtitle changes in his dance that makes him one of the best robot dancers I've seen. He isn't a toy to be sold anywhere (yet?) but a research project.





While I'm on the subject I'll take the opportunity to make a small plea. All you humans out there: please leave robot dancing up to - the robots. For everyones sake.

Yes, I know - like most people - not to listen to a single word from Peter Molyneux and his grandiose plans for whatever his next game is. Too high expectations is never a good thing. But this is just a video from Fable 2 so it's safe.

This video is also a good self-test. With it you're able to check if you do, in fact, have a heart of stone. If you don't feel sad for this dog around 2 minutes into the video, then yes you probably are really cold.




So, how does it feel?