“groovy mother...”

His covers (and to call them “covers” does them an injustice, they’re *massively awesome* reinterpretations) of Coldplay and Britney Spears are outstanding. Can’t wait for the full album.

Even funnier than “Fake Steve”. “Great. Liz Taylor is endorsing me. Can someone please find a way to shut this old bag up? I mean who’s next? Michael Jackson?”

Heh. He’s probably the only person who’d have a chance at being a Republican senator for Massachusetts.

“… and you’re on a deadline”

Local live-music aggregators Tourb.us and Tourfilter get a writeup in the Globe.

Automatic “spa” for pets. I’d pay good money to see Bacon and Clyde take a run through one of these things.

My friend Jenney’s lovely homemade cards. Now with “Breakup Cards”, just in time for Valentines Day!

Good explanation from RevDanCatt of the awesome potential of Flickr’s new “Machine Tags”. Also a great example of a company watching what their users were doing, and working out a way to enhance that behaviour and crank up the awesomeness at the same time.

Your handy guide to understanding the whole Cingular/AT&T thing.

Interesting looking program launcher for Windows — It actually makes CAPS LOCK a useful key on the keyboard again — but I’m not sure it’s worth $25.

Google posts flyers giving tips on automated testing inside toilet cubicles. Good god, that’s the creepiest thing I’ve heard of in a while.

Watch the penguins at the New England Aquarium, and take control of the camera. PENGUINS!

Firefox extension for generating marginally-more-secure passwords. Use your same password everywhere, but hash it against the website’s domain name.

[Three Hours of Fascinated Clicking]

Gathering together posts equally confused by the bizarre cameo during last night’s State of the Union by the creator of those bullshit Baby Einstein DVDs. “Bush points out the American Dream in the audience and apparently, the American Dream looks like a less pointy Ann Coulter.”

Some friends’ startup. It’s going to evolve into smart “social search”. In the meantime, Bostonfolks: Try training their brain (It’s fun!) and seeing how well it knows you.

I’ve finally found a good dimmable low-energy lightbulb. This model’s less than $7, and has none of the buzzing or flickering that’s been a problem with previous bulbs we’ve tried. Gonna buy a few more, then our house will be completely incandescent-bulb free.

Viral clip promoting new series of Life on Mars. What would Windy Miller say?

Tremendously enjoyable quiz show format from the UK. Surprised it hasn’t been snapped up by a US network as cheap filler.

The only dating show to feature the phrase “Shut the hell up — Papi’s batting” on every episode, I imagine.

Fantastic news — Diesel Cafe’s owners are opening a new coffee shop in Union Square. There hasn’t been a caffeine + wifi place within walking distance of my house since the Grand Coffeehouse shut down.

I’d love nothing more than to share the pleasures of a pint with my hounds.

My Name is Earl shouts-out to TWoP, including having their characters post to the TWoP forums. “No, I don’t think shows should do more meta jokes that cater to the online bloggers and I’m sure everyone at Television Without Pity Dot Com agrees with me.”

“I’m having my breasts redone because of HD”

And now the keys for Blu-ray discs are getting released, even though there isn’t any software to extract the video yet! Outstanding.

I didn’t realise last.fm had this functionality. Rather puzzled that The Beatles are Number 1 — I do love their new “Love” album, but I didn’t think I’d played it more than The Delgados, or even Girls Aloud, in 2006.