TTMMHTM: Piano hacks, PHP and Ruby secured, Leisure Suit Larry in Canvas

Things that made me happy this morning.

• Changing a staircase into a massive piano makes 60% more people use it instead of the escalators – fun is the best way to make people use things.
• You can do vocoding with a Piano
• YQL meets SPARQL
• Kayak releases trends data – sadly enough not as a data API but as graphs
• Twig is a PHP5 templating engine with security baked in.
• Rails 3.0 now has XSS protection built in – congrats, guys.
• Michael Moore’s new web site is based on Django and here’s some info how they made it scale.
• This site is under construction is probably the best “under construction” animation collection ever.
• Google Moderator is a great app to collect questions for a final panel of a conference.
• Lego Mindstorm robots solving Rubik’s cubes – SkyNet has nothing on them
• Old point and click adventures in Canvas – play Leisure Suit Larry as a multiplayer game.
• The YQLEX builder is a nice mashup of the YUI grids builder and YQL

Tags: fun, hacking, inspiring, kayak, piano, travel, yql, YUI