Xavier Defrang

Tonight, most of Belgium has been hoaxed by a fake breaking news program claiming that Flanders had unilaterally declared its independance.

Considering the stupidity of our politicians and the rage going on in the streets, the backlash for Jean-Claude Defossé will probably be rude. It's high time we show the man our support!

Thanks Colin for the button.

In other news, 80% of the french speaking Belgian population seems to have the IQ of a mollusk.

I have quite a decent bathroom collection of computer games and programming magazines (from 1986 to 2000) and that's an endless source of bogus predictions and phoney reviews.

We'll start with a quote coming straight from the dot-com era:

(...) studies have shown that, in Europe, by 2004, 200 millions mobile devices will be WAP enabled and 60% of all internet connections will be initiated with mobiles.

- Sophie Bocquillon (september 2000, in Programmez, p. 44) *

* I highly suspect the article featuring this quote to be an infomercial, although it was not advised as is and it seamlessly blend into the other very poor content of the magazine.

This year won't end without my private top 1's for 2005:

Favorite Album

Degenerate by Vex'd

Favorite Tune

Midnight Request Line by Skream & Lift Off by Macabre Unit

Favorite Album

Pour Les Filles by Cuizinier, Orgasmic & friends

Favorite Party

Grime Night & TTC at Le Gazon

Favorite DJ Set

Plasticman at DMZ post carnival shock-out (Brixton) & Vex'd at Bugklinik (Gent)

Favorite Movie

Code 46 (I know it's old but I'm DVD kind of guy and it's the best movie I've seen this year anyway)

Favorite Toy

Fruity Loops Studio 5

Favorite Recipe

Lentils with mustard and cinnamon

Favorite Beverage

Tropicana Sanguinello

Favorite Productivity Tool

TextMate - It just stays out of your way!

Favorite Daytime Occupation

Ruby and Rails

Favorite Place

Copenhagen lakes

A pretty funny article about buzzwords : Anyone who uses mission-critical to describe something important is clinging a little too tightly to their childhood dream of becoming an astronaut.

You probably heard about the Mike Moore speech controversy, now here's some more clues gathered in a scientific way...

I wish this shit was a joke... how can those people so excited about this fucking war? How proud they will be when a handful of british boys will be blasted in the friendly fire of an amphetamine boosted Apache chopper pilot?

I really don't know what to think about this quite provocative hardline veg propaganda...

An excellent site about propaganda, worth reading before you watch CNN.

From a CNN transcript :

WALKER: I'm not going to try and defend Saddam Hussein. ...
HAYES: Try and defend Jacques Chirac. That's almost as difficult.

Fucking rednecks... the more I look at CNN, the more it looks like an American Pravda...

A record executive and his son make a formal case for freely downloading music. The gist: 50 million Americans can't be. A really great, well-written manifesto.

The lack of updates in the recent weeks was a bit caused by the major redesign of redofromstart.com, the website of hobbyists dj/vj trez & brioche (that's me). Tonight, we'll appear in the weekly music show Tracks...