I’m right now in Atlanta, Georgia and Georgia Tech for University Hack Day. Yesterday night I kicked off the one week event as my colleagues from California were delayed because of the snow situation in the US.

The presentation covers the history of hack in Yahoo, what makes a good and interesting hack and goes into explaining some of the technologies that people can use.

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Some people complained that the PDF is not readable on a PC, so here’s a powerpoint version of the same talk.

Things that made me happy this morning (Atlanta, GA, 6am – jetlag anyone?)

• Cracked.com has an amazingly sane 5 things you think will make you happy but won’t going through, fame, wealth and beauty amongst other things. It is true, I have an abundance of each one of them and still I have to find other things to fill this list.
• A good picture of god’s control buttons reminds me of the Farside “god at his computer”.
• There’s a good new overview site out on
• Sam” title=”“>how he brought the National Maritime Museum data into YQL using Open Tables Pullara has two cool video using Origami paper art

  
  Origami In the Pursuit of Perfection from MABONA ORIGAMI on Vimeo.

• People found a pink dolphin – I always knew dolphin’s were gay sharks.


• Three of my ex-colleagues got together and release a lot of good things on Project Fondue including a Unix Permissions Calculator and a 40 web developers to follow according to Thinkvitamin – right now about 150 new followers came from that.
• Adding a “bleep* to songs does not only make naughty songs radio-proof, no it can also make innocent songs sound naughty. Check out the count from Sesame Street and what he bleeps all day long

• Flickr now has video for all users and video in HD – long photos win!