Also available as a twitter bot.

A quick and dirty book on learning Japanese counters (via @tofugu)

This gallery of bento was also featured on Wired.com, available on Flickr too.

The article I wrote for eduFire last week.

Otaku bento and cosplay for good measure

A flash glossary of subcultures and their place in society.

Has a number of resources for learning, mostly podcasts and audio downloads, many of which are available free.

There are a couple of other companies doing audio search indexing, one from Germany the name of which escapes me now. I see an application in this for languages.

I found this while commenting on the eduFire blog, there are lots more, like grokit that put learning and teaching in more open democratic marketplaces. What do you want to learn today?

Stephen Downes from the National Research Council of Canada writes about the current state of e-learning and how the n-gen (digital natives) are demanding new approaches to learning. Stephen looks towards future trends and new approaches to learning from