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Really cool social family-tree building software. Allows you to invite your relatives to help build up the tree.

Wow! The Mono team produced an open-source implementation of MS’s Flash-killer(TM) in 21 days.

BBC releases music playlist data (from Peel Sessions and Top of the Pops at first), linked in with MusicBrainz IDs. Hurrah!

“When moved from hand to ear, makes Lightsaber sound effects”

“Best five second video on the internet.”

The most important Facebook application EVAR!

I saw a huge display of “alli” is CVS the other night, and most of these thoughts ran through my head. I remember when Xenical first came out, and I heard the phrase “fecal urgency” for the first time.

Apple continue throwing out tasty morsels of iPhone announcements in the run-up to the launch next Friday — This time, a built-in YouTube browser. (Random thought: If Steve Jobs is trying to tell the developer community that Web Apps are a perfectly good way to develop for the iPhone, how come Apple have taken the perfectly good website that is YouTube and created a custom app for it?)

Device that allows you to see in realtime how fast the little wheel is spinning on your electricity meter, wherever you are in the house. Our local leccy company, NStar, is subsidising them, so they’re only $30.

Supreme Court judge Justice Antonin Scalia: “Are you going to convict Jack Bauer? Say that criminal law is against him? ‘You have the right to a jury trial?’ Is any jury going to convict Jack Bauer? I don’t think so.” No, really. Frightening.

Another great relatively-obscure-Simpsons-reference shirt from Glarkware (I still love my “Perfectly Cromulent” one)

Photoshop lets you have your cake and eat it.

Compilation of the ZX Spectrum programs sometimes included with British pop singles in the 80s. “OH DEAR!! a bat bit you” I had no idea about the Urusei Yatsura track. Gonna have to give that a shot!

New free cellphone version of Opera allows you to zoom out and view the whole webpage. Kind of like that cellphone that’s getting launched next week — I forget its name.

“Versions is the first Mac OS X Subversion client that won’t make you long for the command line interface anymore.”

Article on SuperHappyDevHouse. Amusing that it mentions that there has never been a follow-up to DevHouseBoston… exactly one week before DevHouseBoston2!

Probably will be pulled pretty quickly, but the full two hours of Michael Moore’s new film is up on Google Video.

Teaser for the next Pixar flick.