Things that made me happy this morning

• Shock value cushions could be fun to use at the next hack day.
• A German inventor built his own James Bond rocket pack using water pressure
• Bloopsaphone is a library to create chip-tune music in Ruby or C
• A video mashup of Fatboy Slim and the Russian Army – you’ve been served
• Jim O’Donnell has set up an Open Data Table for YQL to index the National Maritime Museum Archive
• George Ornbo uses YQL and microformats to pre-populate web forms
• The New York Times have a new API that allows you to retrieve TimesPeople data for a particular user, including the user’s profile, activities, news feed and network
• Adobe released a neat list of all the Adobe evangelists on Twitter