• Momentile has an IE6 message screen full of awesome
• A nice YQL open table to allow for multi queries
• Seeing that Facebook redirects vanity URLs with JavaScript, I thought I grab http://www.facebook.com/window.location.href
• Is it irony or by design that the London 2600 site has an invalid certificate ?
• The top 50 of words people looked up in NYT articles – I do like “fecklessness”
• “select * from weather.local where location in (select id from weather.search where query=’barcelona,spain’)” is a YQL statement that finally allows you to do a weather forecast by city name instead of weird city IDs. result, console.
• A nice Base64 encoding tool for images.
• Norwegians, baking soda and water spells doom (or clever viral, but heck – it is funny)
• You know mankind is doomed when we need the comfort wipe
• If you are a fan of the full English, check out the 10 pound breakfast
• 20 people wearing shirts they shouldn’t – slightly NSFW
• Chinese farmer build helicopter made from scrap metal – it worked for the A-Team, why not?
• Tattoos explained by location means I don’t have to pay tax anymore?
• elephants crossing a river looks fun

• The top 13 software development quotes have some gems in them with my fave probably being “Nine people can’t make a baby in a month.” – Fred Brooks
• EveningArwen on Etsy has a very dishy Star Trek inspired corset for sale that should get geek heartbeats quicken.
• Sophos has a good list of passwords used by a worm to brute-force access to servers and Modern Life is Rubbish has a top 10 most common passwords list. This makes me happy and very very scared at the same time
• Andrew Woods is confused about the spatial nature of the UK and its semantics and I got the Yahoo Geo team to tackle this – blog post to come
• Todd Hoff has a good piece on How to achieve scalability by doing essential work up-front based on what was done at Flickr
• I so want a cookie monster cup cake
• The work the New York Times is doing is exciting me more and more. Their Times Open idea is spot on and it was fun meeting them at the hackdays in London.

Things that made me happy this morning (evening, afternoon? what do I know, jetlagged and confused):

• The Videos of Paris Web talks are now available – most of them in French, but two in English. In any case awesome content, check them out! Amazing “bang for your buck” conference, that one.
• Opera’s “Mother” Henny Swan talks about the state of the accessible web 2008
• One of the cooler thinks Henny talks about is Project:Possibility, an Open Source initiative to build accessible software. Check out the awesome favicon on that one! 5.1/4” floppy with wheelchair FTW!
• While “us Brits” (well, I can play now, can’t I?) had a good insight into who represents us in parliament via they work for you for quite a while now, the New York Times hackers brought the same convenience to the unwashed masses via Represent. I love the clear look of it!
• I’ve been to my first Mozilla Labs Meetup and it was great – especially after the Manhattan mixed by Brendan Eich…
• To round things up, I am very happy that someone set a record for Most Images Of Fish Sandwiches Looked At In One Minute so I don’t have to.