TTMMHTM: BOSS community, inate music, encoding and chinese glyphs for geeks, happiness, map overlays, JS scope and web databases

Things that made me happy this morning:

Save BOSS shows that a good community fights for its survival.
Smashing magazine has a very short and concise introduction to JavaScript scope – I am missing module patterns though – would have been more useful than explaining how libraries do it.
A great video of Bobby McFerrin showing at the world science festival that the pentatonic scale is innate knowledge to people – regardless of their cultural background.
En-code is a very cool online tool to encode code and mask invalid characters.
A collection of nice JavaScript driven animations and tutorials how to do them
Vermont Scientists are trying to measure happiness using blogs and twitter as sources. They’re building a device to do so called a “Hedonometer”. Well, I am doing my bit
A good geek explanation of Chinese characters
Apparently you can create an online shop with Google checkout in 5 minutes haven’t tried that yet, but let’s give it a go
Fontplore is an interface to walk through different fonts with a minority report feel to it.
Give a geek WiiFit and he’ll try to game it, not game with it – check out what happens if you alternately play a Wii Fit character with two people with a weight difference of 100 pounds
It is now easier to making image overlays in Google Maps with GGroundOverlay and GGeoXML
The HTML5 group of the W3C has an interesting Web Database Draft for HTML5 – it is a SQL interface to data sources on the web, much like YQL but without the intermediate server.