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A little piece of what makes Somerville special: A race where 200 fat blokes race 5 miles, stopping off at three “first-aid stations” (dive bars) to chug a beer and eat a hotdog.

My lovely missus is doing a 24-hour sponsored blog. She’ll be blogging every thirty minutes for 24 hours, starting at 8am tomorrow. Go throw some cash in the direction of her charity!

Google offer free Subversion hosting and bug tracking for open-source projects. Missing in comparison to Sourceforge: Web Hosting, Downloads, SVN web-browsing and adverts galore.

Groucho glasses make anything funny.

Animatics from the upcoming Simpsons movie. The big guffaws from the crowd make me think that the best time to see this will be a late Saturday evening showing, when the audience is made up of slightly inebriated geeks (this is how I first saw the South Park movie, and the crowd reaction really enhanced the viewing experience)

It’s a great song, but this video just made it even better. I’ll always have an especially soft spot for it after someone on a mailing-list I was on made it clear he didn’t get the joke, and wondered how Pulp had pulled it off.

If, like me, you’ve got a shedload of Firefox extensions installed and, like me, are seeing memory leaks in Firefox, this guide can help you track down the responsible parties.

Nifty “who’s interested in what?” tool for conference attendees, knocked out in a few hours by Kellan and Rabble. I’d love to see this at future conferences.

“Little did such founding fathers as George Washington, George Jefferson, and ***ERIC IS A FAG***…”

IDE built on top of Eclipse (and available as an Eclipse plugin) that aids in the coding of HTML, CSS and JavaScript. The code-completion tooltips showing you which browsers understand which keywords looks dead handy.

John Gruber’s Magic 8 Ball does its work on Zune.

Brian’s summary of last night’s Boston Web Innovators Meetup. My snark is saved for the comments section. But if I hear of another startup whose entire business model is “targeted advertising”, there’s going to be trouble!

Reddit launch a branded sub-site just for Slate articles, essentially becoming the “official” place to comment on and rate Slate articles. An interesting joint venture, showing there’s more to the Web 2.0 businessplan than just “targetted advertising”.

Slim Devices launch their $2k “audiophile” version of the Squeezebox. Gold-plated out the wazoo for those who claim they hear the difference. They probably won’t sell many, but they’ll make a shitload from the ones they do sell.

Can of Pledge + Bowling Pins + Laser Pointer + Pug Dog == Pug Bowling!

“We didn’t anticipate this level of heat this year — we never thought we’d get a twenty-first hot season in a row!” Extra marks to the authors for the Tribe of Toffs reference.

A splendidly fun flashgame, drilling down for minerals, and returning to the surface before you run out of fuel, whilst cashing in the minerals and upgrading your driller. I could see me getting quite addicted to this!

I’m curious to test out RedSwoosh’s P2Pness, so link-followers: Have a shot at downloading seven stonking megabytes of J-Pop oddness! Windows users should be directed to download the RedSwoosh client, while Mac & Linux users should be redirected to the CoralCDN service. Let’s see how little bandwidth I can use distributing some QUALITY CHOONS!

Theoretically seamless and easy P2P file sharing. Add “http://edn.redswoosh.net/” to the front of a URL, and it’ll go through a P2P client instead of being served up by your HTTP server. Kind of similar to what OpenCola were doing in 2001.

Local indie T-shirt designer. I’ll have to take a nosey at his store on Newbury St.