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Beautiful vintage postcards representingTokyo at the turn of the 20th century. It’s a far cry from the current image most of us have of the city.

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France’s Neuf Telecom is attempting to follow in Skype’s footsteps with a hybrid offer calledWengo. It works on your PC with the usual headset configuration but you can also connect an ordinary phone to it if you add a USB-to-RJ11 “wenbox” to the setup. Several packages are available if you want to call outside the free wengo to wengo network, some of them include the wenbox in the monthly subscription. It’s ISP-agnostic too. Quite an interesting move, if you live in France anyway.

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Alice, a new shop dedicated to urban art and culture, recently opened its doors in Brussels. It stocks books, magazines, toys, stickers, t-shirts and more. It also features a gallery dedicated to street art where the first exhibition will be taking place at the end of this month. It looks promising although it felt sort of empty when I visited it last week, it’s a bit early to judge though. The shop’s located at the end of the Rue Dansaert, close to the canal andLe Bonheur, a recent defector to that part of town.

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The list ofbanished words for 2005. I would have nominated blogosphere but it’s already in there.

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I tend to keep my vinyl-spinning antics separate from what gets posted here but I got several tellings-off the last time an event of this type took place and I didn’t warn anybody. So, for all those people (and anyone else that needs their bass fix): I’ll be spinning at the Boups New Year’s Eve free party this Friday. To find out the location, call one of the numbers onthe flyerafter 22:00. There will be 2 rooms, one playing breaks, electro, acid, etc, the other playing drum and bass. It’s within walking distance of the city center, be there at midnight…

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There’s a struggle for control of theBelgian indymedia branchtaking place, and they’re fighting it out wiki-style. One side is accusing the other of beingthe handpuppet of the PTB/PVDA, an extreme-left political party that seems to be best known for attempting to recuperate any event/protest for its own purposes, while the other is namecalling back withright-wing and zionist accusations.Right or wrong, my perception of indymedia Belgium was that control stood, indeed, in the hands of the PTB/PVDA. Does anyone actually believe there is such a thing as truly independent media anyway?

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