TTMMHTM: Piano hacks, PHP and Ruby secured, Leisure Suit Larry in Canvas

Things that made me happy this morning.

Changing a staircase into a massive piano makes 60% more people use it instead of the escalators – fun is the best way to make people use things.
You can do vocoding with a Piano
YQL meets SPARQL
Kayak releases trends data – sadly enough not as a data API but as graphs
Twig is a PHP5 templating engine with security baked in.
Rails 3.0 now has XSS protection built in – congrats, guys.
Michael Moore’s new web site is based on Django and here’s some info how they made it scale.
This site is under construction is probably the best “under construction” animation collection ever.
Google Moderator is a great app to collect questions for a final panel of a conference.
Lego Mindstorm robots solving Rubik’s cubes – SkyNet has nothing on them
Old point and click adventures in Canvas – play Leisure Suit Larry as a multiplayer game.
The YQLEX builder is a nice mashup of the YUI grids builder and YQL