Category: Online Stuff

All posts about Online Stuff and Internet Encounters

Rymdreglage’s 8-bit Lego Trip

Lego is still cool, and so are stopmotion movies. Rymdreglage, a Swedish band, invested more than 1500 hours in combining both by making a movie clip for their 8-bit Trip song:


Funny detail, since this great movie got so much attention, their website is down:

Hello, this Is Rymdreglages new fancy website. But why this extraordinary with text and everything? Well after five years you people out there found us, at last, and start to visit this page. This site was obviously not made for that and reached the maximum limit of bit flow in one hour or something.

But it wasn´t much to see anyway. If you want to listen to the rest of our 44 songs and not only 8-bit trip (well 2 of the 44 is on youtube) you just have to be a little patient. Hopefully they will be on Spotify and Itunes and other modern places on what we call ajnternejt in a few days.

So thank you very much for visit our youtube chanel and keep on enjoying this site. If you stare at this text with crossed eyes for an hour or two you maybe able to reach a higher level but I am not sure.
2009-08-24 (just four month left to Christmas) /Rymdreglage.

In the meantime you can still find Rymdreglage on MySpace.

Facebook manners and you: please behave on Facebook…

Alice, Timmy, Donna and Facebook relationship etiquette.

Have good Facebook manners and the electric friendship generator will be more fun for everyone…


The Rules:

  1. Don’t change your relationship status without consulting the other person
  2. Don’t post embarrassing photographs of other people
  3. Be discreet when posting messages on another person’s wall
  4. Don’t steal other people’s friends
  5. Don’t start hate groups

Strange new Twitter layout

A few days ago, Twitter showed me some strange layout. Beneath the “What are you doing?” box, there was a second box that provided a possibility to send a direct message (or DM in Twitteronian) to one of your contacts. I tried it, it didn’t work, and when I reloaded the page it was gone. Never seen it again since…

Luckily I managed to take a screenshot:

New Twitter layout test?

I guess Twitter is testing some sort of new layout. Anyone who has seen the same thing?

Facebook, don’t be evil!

“Don’t be evil“, the informal corporate Google motto, doesn’t seem to count for social networking website Facebook. While (online) privacy is becoming a bigger concern day after day, Facebook changed their Terms of Use in favor of, yes you guessed it, Facebook.

Facebook new Terms of Use

Most people don’t seem to know (or recognize) they give up the rights to everything they post on Facebook:

“You hereby grant Facebook an irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, transferable, fully paid, worldwide license (with the right to sublicense) to (a) use, copy, publish, stream, store, retain, publicly perform or display, transmit, scan, reformat, modify, edit, frame, translate, excerpt, adapt, create derivative works and distribute (through multiple tiers), any User Content you (i) Post on or in connection with the Facebook Service or the promotion thereof subject only to your privacy settings or (ii) enable a user to Post, including by offering a Share Link on your website and (b) to use your name, likeness and image for any purpose, including commercial or advertising, each of (a) and (b) on or in connection with the Facebook Service or the promotion thereof.“

But nothing new so far. The really new thing in the Facebook Terms of Use is that deleting your content or even your account is no longer preventing Facebook from using it. These lines were removed during the last revision:

“You may remove your User Content from the Site at any time. If you choose to remove your User Content, the license granted above will automatically expire, however you acknowledge that the Company may retain archived copies of your User Content.“

In other words, everything you post, share and upload to Facebook will be Facebook property… FOREVER…

Puts things in a whole different perspective, doesn’t it? If you don’t like the new Terms of Use, join the People Against the new Terms of Service (TOS) group on, indeed, Facebook…

WordPress launches WordPress TV

Automattic, the company behind the blogging platforms wordpress.com and wordpress.org launched a new service today: wordpress.tv.

WordPress TV is meant to become “your visual resource for all things WordPress“. The new platform will share all videos on WordPress insights, skills, hacks and knowledge. Focus lies on both the blogging software wordpress.org and the free bloghost wordpress.com. But there’s also room for interviews, presentations and reports from WordPress related events. From the WordPress.tv blog:

Our goal with WordPress.tv is simple: To make it easy for you to find up-to-date, WordPress-themed video content within a couple of clicks. Without having to wade through spammy promotional videos, out-of-date content, and missing chunks of presentations.

For now WordPress.tv already contains more than 200 movies, but I’m sure the total amount will increase significantly in the weeks to come…

Google favicons, a history…

Since almost two weeks, Google uses a new favicon. It’s the second time in less than one year Google changes its favorites icon:

Google favicon 1

This classic favicon was used for almost 8 years.

Google favicon 2

In May 2008, the favicon was changed for the first time ever. The protest was immense and in June 2008, Google started to encourage users to submit their own favicon suggestions.

Google favicon 3

In January 2009, a final new favicon was deducted from all user suggestions. Once again, the reactions are not exactly enthusiastic. But I’m sure we’ll get used to it…

Since the last update, the GMail favicon has unfortunately disappeared completely , but the Google Analytics favicon still stands… for now.

GMail favicon

Google Analytics favicon