Things that made me happy this morning:

• The data.gov.uk release yesterday was a great event. UK House Prices got applauded, I sat next to Tim Berners-Lee and I managed to pester people from the government to have me come around and showcase YQL!
• Gource is a very sexy visualisation of Git commits, forks and so on.
• This Saturday Yahoo will host CrisisCamp Haiti
• Metal Slug sprites is a collection of all the sprites in all their pixely goodness. Me having spent a lot of time pixeling stuff (notice the browser support info – this is how old this is), I am impressed.
• Jennifer Aniston and Matthew Perry show us how Windows 95 works.”Look Matthew I’m computing!”
• Want to buy a jumbo jet? Comes with slight water damage – yes, this is the Hudson River one.
• Tickery shows you which other people two people on Twitter follow.

• Charting the beatles are wonderful visualisations of the work of the Beatles – who wrote what with whom and so on.
• As some other trip got cancelled, I will be able to speak at Speaking out – public speaking made easy on the 10th of February in London.
• The script of they live by John Carpenter – not as much impact as the movie, but still cool
• The Paypal UK About Us page is all Daily Prophet – wait for a bit. I tweeted about this yesterday and caused a spike that worried their admins as @smashingmag did a re-tweet.
• Down for everyone or just me checks if a site is available and the issue is on your end. API Status does the same for APIs.
• Codingforums has a good post on performance of .htc files consider this before “fixing IE”.
• Synth Britania is a series of documentaries of UK Synth Music. F T W
• Bear vs. Plane shows just once more the awesome of duct-tape.
• The 42nd annual industry happy magic awards – the internet Golden Globe only with fewer Ricky Gervais jokes.