• My cold is getting better (I was flat for two days, annoying that)
• There, I fixed it is what most of my flat looks like
• Teenager swaps iPod for Sony Walkman for a week and finds out amazing things like tapes not supporting shuffle.
• The Pirate Bay releases a video portal and runs the whole thing on HTML5 they are asking for help, of course
• Some wonderful analogies from high school essays – probably fake, but still very funny
• The data collected by the Hubble Telescope is available as datasets – if I ever understand any of that I will start doing some mashups
• If ever you think you are the weirdest person on the web, check out the man trying to find his goddess
• “Loose Tweets sink fleets!” – a collection of nice, updated WW2 propaganda posters
• How about animated JPEG
• Google’s best PHP practices when it comes to performance are getting quite some flak from the PHP community this is good. Especially when Google take the info and upgrade the docs quickly.
• There’s a complaint that you “need to use two hands to turn on the private (porn) mode in Firefox”:https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=248970. True, this can’t be in alignment of the use case.
• An interesting survey showing the tech industry hot spots in the US
• A pretty cool viral video by Samsung how to make a camera vanish (and the solution to the riddle)

Things that made me happy this morning:

• The Sorry Jinho group on flickr that I set up to say sorry to a colleage who had his camera with photos of the british museum stolen already has 113 photos! Thanks, folks!
• The tweeting cat door is a wonderfully geeky hack that only makes a cat flap functional when one of the two house cats approach (RFID in the collar) and tweets every time they leave the house or come into it – this could work with kids!
• Goths in hot weather is another blog that is what it says on the tin
• The historic tale construction kit allows you to paint stories in Bayeux tapestry style
• The star trek movie recognition chart does make trivia much easier
• A cool collection of WWII propaganda posters
• A pretty cool pixel art meets real life video mashup
• I now finally know the correct translation of All Your Base