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Sums up how I feel about the whole fucking stupid “email addresses stored in iTunesPlus files” storm in a teacup. I’m ashamed to be an EFF supporter sometimes.

In case anyone’s looking for them, the slides and (limited) notes from my talk at Ignite Boston last night.

I CAN HAS GROVYMUTHER?

log4j logger which posts to Twitter. Inevitable, perhaps, but still funny.

Renderer for that awesome squiggly last.fm-over-time visualization I posted a couple of weeks ago. Very excited to see my results from this!

Avoiding any problems of “competing” standards, the Dojo Offline project are interfacing with Google Gears as an optional offline storage platform. Great to see.

Clips from their joint interview (the full interview is also available). BillG clarifying he’s not Fake Steve Jobs is one of the most bizarre, awesome and meta things I’ve heard in a long time.

Firefox and IE extension from Google which enables offline webapps. Currently works with Google Reader, but not GMail yet.

Twitter add a page listing all the times someone @s a message at you. I found a couple of times someone I’m not following has responded to me!

last.fm bought by TV & radio network, CBS. OK, the radio connection makes a little sense, but still strikes me that the other half of Viacom would have been a better match.

MS’s entry into the multitouch world. Very much positioned as a whizzy demo kiosk, much like touchscreens were twenty years ago.

Good to know — the hotel we’ll be staying at in San Francisco next week is right above a Lush store.

Cool new street-level 360º views on Google Maps. Only a handful of cities so far.

“Programming the LOL way.” I CAN HAS TURING COMPLEET?

British charity single to promote a documentary on the disenfranchisement of old people in the UK — a choir of OAPs performing “My Generation”.