“groovy mother...”

Trey Parker and Matt Stone hint that the season premiere of South Park is so controversy-prone, they can’t reveal its topic in case it gets pulled. Also coming soon: Cartman as Jack Bauer in a 24 spoof.

Um… The BBC is going to put promotional clips on YouTube. Explain to me why this is “news”?

Everything a Powerpoint presentation *should* be. (http://isotropic.org/papers/chicken.pdf if you want to see the scientific paper on which this talk is based)

Chicago’s answer to SanFran’s pirate shop and New York’s superhero store opens, and it’s just as brilliant.

Since Apple Mail uses the opensource sqlite for its data repository, you can speed up Mail by running a SQL vacuum on the index file.

“His Ultimate Galactic Dragon Gyroball Pitch Power Explosion breaks three feet inside before cutting sharply toward the dugout, where falsehood and cowardice are forced to shrink before it!”

Relaxed, attractive Flash logic puzzle. A lovely way to fill five minutes.

I’m taking a look at Jaiku — a Twitter-a-like status-sharer, but with deep integration into Series 60 cellphones. It can tell people when I’m on my cellphone, warn them that I’ve put it on silent mode, or tell them my location based upon the cell tower I’m connected to.

The big craze with some friends’ kids — A kind-of cross between Beanie Babies, The Sims and Second Life. Buy a cheap cuddly toy, register with the site, and bring it to life in a virtual world where you can play with it, buy it treats with pretend-money you have to “earn” and interact with your friends. Think I’ll buy one for Joy.

Stonking prize for the BarCampBoston2 programming contest — A free helicopter tour of Boston with PhilG as your pilot!

Wiki-based attempt to write a book about BarCamp and co.

“What was your contribution to the team?” “Light both ends of fuse one and one end of fuse two. When fuse one burns out, light the other end of fuse two.”

Trick questions, logical traps, and just general evilness. Takes an age to download and get going, but it’s plenty of fun.

History of everyone’s favourite Windows feature.

Cunning use of Flash and Javascript to enable “special effects” (borders, rotation and shadows) on images in web pages cleanly.

Now in place on groovymother.com — My links should now be illustrated with dinky thumbnails.

Christopher Guest is to direct the pilot of the US version of “The Thick of It”. Very cool.

Picked one of these up over the weekend to stop my MacBook from frying my intimate areas when I’m working on the couch. Initial reaction: Very comfortable.