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OS X GUI which makes it a piece of piss to add your own ringtones to the iPhone. Those wily hackers!

“netsh int tcp set global autotuninglevel=disabled” — The magic incantation that stops network performance SUCKING BALLS (at least on the RhymesWithNose network) in Vista.

Good summary of some of the powerful pieces of Python that are easy to overlook if you’re used to other, let’s say “more verbose”, languages. I’ve been coding in Python for close to three years, and there was stuff I learned here (dict.setdefault: where have you been all my life?)

Good summary of why Jabber is awesome and the future of IM. I have to admit, I didn’t “get it” until I installed my own XMPP server and was able to hack up a bot in Python with about 20 lines of code.

Codec allowing you to reliably back your data up to dead-tree. You can print about 200kb to a sheet of A4, then scan it in later to retrieve your data.

Just picked this up, and a quick skim shows it’s something a bit special: Learn good coding practices by reading experts choice of “the most beautiful code they’ve seen”, with plenty of commentary. I’m halfway tempted to take a day off next week and just sit and read this all day.

Excellently skeptical article on companies’ presence in Second Life. “You might wonder what Coke is doing in such a place. “It had a lot to do with hype,” admits Michael Donnelly.”

Forget Moo Cards… *these* will be the essential wicked-classy cards to hand out at future Web Innovator Groups.

Massively-multiplayer word association game. The Flash graphs are particularly gorgeous.

Fun little collaborative video project from GMail.

“Each of these guys is like a character, and each one has their thing — Papi’s beard, [Dustin] Pedroia’s sideburns, [Mike] Lowell’s little mustache,” says LMontro, sipping lemonade before a recent game. “The Yankees are all shaved and boring.”

Answering the question on many people’s minds… If you were blind and tried to make a clay bust of Lionel Richie (like in that 80’s mawk-fest video for Hello), how would it turn out?

Cool solution to the problem of automatically download bank statements from the gazillion different financial institutions out there: Easily scripting Firefox to download them for you. Well played, Wesabe. Well played.

Best video on YouTube? Possibly. 1,500 prisoners in the Phillipines performing the dance routine from the Thriller video.

Printed out a few of these flyers to keep in the glove compartment for when they’re needed.

Bunch of interesting topics covered at the Django tutorial at OSCON yesterday. I hadn’t heard of Django signals before, but can already think of three hacks in my code that they can replace!

Sunbird is flourishing into a good-citizen calendaring client. Syncs both-ways with Google Calendar, which is handy.

The inevitable first iPhone security flaw announcement. Notable for how frankly *non* sensationalist it is.

Best use of Google Maps yet?

I want a hippo for a pet! I’m sure Bacon and Clyde wouldn’t mind.

Oh lordy — Woot launch a Different-T-Shirt-Every-Day shop. My credit card quakes in fear.