TTMMHTM: Piracy figures, GIF or Jiff,Pixar Short, Blind Prom,Page Speed, Bing API and Tetris

Things that made me happy this morning:

Good to know:

• The Guardian released a great piece on the truth of the figures involved in DVD/Game and Music piracy
• Finally an answer how to pronounce GIF – it is “Jiff” – no, not Yiff
• Some very useful bash scripts for web developers
• A handy “know your Goth (stereo)types cheatsheet”:http://www.blackwaterfall.com/viewall.php

Everybody say “awwww”

• Tomorrow I am going to Sophie and Nigel’s wedding
• Partly Cloudy, Pixar’s new short movie – I loke the little Ram.
• A very heart-warming interview and photos of a prom night in a school for the blind
• Some mechanical engineering students turn class projects into solutions for disabled and seniors

Code stuff

• Elliot Kember tries to keep twitter free from spammers with Blocky
• The Google Page Speed team are listening to my concerns and will change some of the docs to replace a terrible JS example with better code
• Bing has a API now (which seems to be a rebranded Microsoft Live search) – good API, but I do hate this documentation format. And I work on a mac or on linux the advice to download the SDK didn’t help much either as it is an MSI :-(. Then again, there is a yet undocumented search option for FlightStatus – that looks interesting.

Erm, what?

• Who knew that there are Hardcore Tetris orgies?
• Now, that’s what I call a party
• Greeks know how to party, check this Epic fireworks battle
• Do you remember the time when cocaine was still advertised?

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