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An outstandingly fun Windows game: Drive a car over coloured blocks on a track generated by an MP3 of your choosing. Pick something mellow, and you get a relaxing low-scoring game. But if you want a challenge, throw some pumping techno its way. Works very well with Chemical Brothers and Pixies, I find. Best use of Digital Signal Processing ever!

Hooray! Just what I wanted!

Really rather sweet Mac screencasting software. The post-capture editing tools look handy.

ACM Queue is the one freebie trade magazine that I eagerly await and read cover to cover. If you’re a software engineer or architect, I highly recommend signing up for a free subscription at acmqueue.com

Collected facts about Barack Obama. This needs to be a Chumby app.

Local private hypertexty wiki note-taking brain-dumping app for OS X. I’ve been using it for a few days now, and really like it.

Forward your shipping confirmation emails to this site, and they’ll ping you as the packages move across the US.

Pepsi launches an all-“natural” version of Pepsi in a limited trial. Of course, it’s just as unhealthy, being massively full of sugar, but we can all pretend it’s better for you.

Amy Sedaris and some bunnies do some top-notch pimping for Microsoft Office.

Varied mix of designs for business cards, plus links to suggestions for what to put on them. Spurred me on to creating something nicer than Moo Cards for when I’m attempting to be “professional”.

Outtakes from last week’s Late Night where Conan O’Brien, Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart killed time/entertained the nation (delete as appropriate) by brawling.

If you’re interested in developing for Google’s new cellphone platform, there’s a developer day in Cambridge in a couple of weeks. Wonder if the iPhone SDK will be out by then too? Would be interesting to compare-and-contrast.

Crowdsourced traffic reports, via Twitter. Of course, there’ll need to be another site tracking all the accidents caused by folks texting accidents to this site while driving…

The actors who do the voices for Spongebob et al were worred about being typecast, so they made this film. Quality!

Further fuel for the “HD-DVD is fucked” fire, slashed-price players and superbowl ads be damned.

Fascinating account of the people (and corporations) involved in the creation of XML (which was published ten years ago today)

Photos of some of the delightful treats on sale this week at the “Conservative Political Action Conference”. Mmmm… misogynriffic!

Jon Stewart uses the exact same words as I did when I read Mitt Romney’s dropping-out speech. (Spoiler: “FUCK YOU!”)

The Globe’s fine marketing folks apparently decided that the perfect name for their new women’s supplement was that of the transvestite from the Kinks song.