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”:http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2009/jun/09/games-dvd-music-downloads-piracy
• Finally an answer “how to pronounce GIF“:http://www.olsenhome.com/gif/ – it is “Jiff” – no, not “Yiff”:http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=yiff
• Some very “useful bash scripts for web developers”:http://blog.emson.co.uk/2009/06/18-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”:http://sophieandnigelswedding.com/2009/06/08/directions/
• “Partly Cloudy”:http://www.fubiz.net/2009/06/09/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”:http://www.themorningnews.org/archives/galleries/blind_prom/
• Some “mechanical engineering students turn class projects into solutions for disabled and seniors”:http://www.siliconvalley.com/news/ci_12555379?nclick_check=1

Code stuff

• Elliot Kember tries to keep twitter free from spammers with “Blocky”:http://blocky.elliottkember.com/spammers
• 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”:http://groups.google.com/group/page-speed-discuss/browse_thread/thread/3226192b4a1deecc
• “Bing has a API now”:http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd900818.aspx (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“:http://twitter.com/catomaior/statuses/2122702967 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?”:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vejqGtiHx88
• Now, that’s what “I call a party”:http://atlanta.craigslist.org/cas/1216417007.html
• Greeks know how to party, check this “Epic fireworks battle”:http://www.funlobby.com/index.php/200906031214/Epic-Greek-Fireworks-Battle-cool.html
• Do you remember the time “when cocaine was still advertised?”:http://www.pharmacytechs.net/blog/old-school-medicine-ads

Tags: ads, bing, Google, greek, guardian, pagespeed, party, piracy, tetris

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