“groovy mother...”

Simon Willison’s shifted his blog onto a Django-based platform. I think I might have a crack at this myself — The limitations of MovableType (not least the fact that I don’t know Perl terribly well) keep biting me these days. Could be fun to roll-my-own (and a good project for my week off work).

Yet another Flash musicmap explorer. This one’s from EMI and uses Last.fm relationship data.

Amazon are rather sensibly randomly distributing the chance to buy a Wii or PS3 from them. Sign up before midnight tomorrow for a shot at getting one.

Interesting Y-Combinator startup which offers a web-based frontend for mixing audio, with the social twist of being able to remix others’ mixes.

Very handy — Paste in a YouTube URL and download the video clip as an avi, mov or mp4 file.

Good to know — How Amazon image URLs are constructed.

Smart people have worked out how to download/upload Miis from/to the Wiimote over Bluetooth, and set up a forum for Celebrity Mii trading.

Bruce Schneier breaks down the password data gathered by a MySpace phishing attack. Notable fact: When the site insists upon including letters and numbers in the password, folks just append “1” to their usual password. (And, in my experience, when forced to change their password every few months, just cycle the number)

The negotiations are finally over: Dice-K will be wearing Number 18 on the mound at Fenway come April. A snip at $102m

Tsk. I should have known better than to link to an Orlowski post on The Reg.

It’s a bit wonky on its first night out, but this new Patent search from Google is pretty powerful, indexing the full text of all the patents. Only appears to hold granted patents though, not applications.

Dirt simple implementation of Slope One collaborative filtering algorithm in 40 lines of Python.

Nice security hack to find anyone trying to get into your laptop.

Barack Obama puts “all the doubts to rest” and makes his announcement.

Add a note that says “ho ho ho hat” or “ho ho ho beard” to any of your photos on Flickr to Christmas them up!

Threadless published a t-shirt yesterday which turns out to be a rip-off of some street-art. Justin’s tracking how it develops.

Has the novelty of digital downloads for music worn off?

Logo Quiz — Can you tell the Digital Audio logos from the ones for Haircare?

A French artist wishes to gather and display 1000 litres of chilled spunk/spooge/love porridge. Sign up for your free “donation kit”. No, really.

About 10% of British citizens live outside the UK. /me waves from the U.S. of Stateside.

Handy utility for ripping (stereo) music DVDs as MP3s.