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Cool stuff (in a gloriously uncool way). A servlet to handle remote Lucene queries which is based on Atom-Pub, XOXO and OpenSearch. Hooray for well-defined standards which will speed up coding.

Yahoo exec plants idea in record labels’ heads that DRM’d music is useless. Hope he can make it take root. The only people benefitting from DRM currently are Apple (getting iPod lock-in) and Microsoft (selling their technology to everyone else). Everyone else loses.

RSS feedreader plugin for Eclipse. Piping FogBugz’s RSS feeds into this will make it easy to keep track of my bugs in the IDE.

Excellent paper by danah boyd explaining just why teenagers are spending hours on myspace — Parents have become to paranoid about the “dangers” in the real world, that the only place kids can be themselves unsupervised is online.

Adrianne’s book is out, and it’s great. From the back cover: “They say Jesus loved the little children, all the children of the world, but he never had to dine with one. He chose the lepers.”

All the info on a remarkably well-done phishing scam. Even users trained not to fall for scams could fall for this.

Search engine for the code samples made available for download by programming book publishers.

Forthcoming webapp which promises to bring a bit of transparency to the nightmare that is airline ticket pricing. Having just spent an hour trying to work out the cheapest way to get to Scotland for my sister’s wedding in August, this can’t come soon enough.

Excellent flash animation and tune. Not made by Weebl, just hosted by him.

Oh, fucking hell. Dave Winer’s started another dick-swinging war about RSS, this time claiming that a group he started no longer exists, which came as something of a surprise to the nine members.

New distributed computing project “sponsored” by the Beeb. It’s an interesting problem to solve, and they’ve done the smart thing that made SETI so viral: A really attractive screensaver that will attract attention around offices. Now running on a bunch of my PCs.