Things that made me happy this morning:

• “8 bit trip”:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qsWFFuYZYI is a 1500 hour work stop-motion movie with lego bricks.
• James Gibbons collected “a great list of assistive technology videos”:http://lab.dotjay.co.uk/notes/assistive-technology/videos/
• Labuat has a “wonderful interactive song and ink thing”:http://soydeaire.labuat.com/ in Flash
• If you need a UK postcode API there is “Ernest Maples”:http://ernestmarples.com/
• “SVGWeb”:http://code.google.com/p/svgweb/ is a wrapper library for SVG that renders MSIE results in Flash
• “The boy who heard too much”:http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/29787673/the_boy_who_heard_too_much/print is a very cool story about the blind phreaker “Lil’ hacker”
• The “enigma machine in Java”:http://russells.freeshell.org/enigma/ is fun to play with
• An attempt at “version control for HTML using ins and del elements”:http://www.neverfriday.com/html-version-control/web-vc.html
• “Codepad”:http://codepad.org/ is much like pastebin.com but also executes and validates the code you share in it

• “Annathered’s Bento tips”:http://annathered.wordpress.com/page/2/ complete with gems like “how to make a radish Mario mushroom”:http://www.flickr.com/photos/annathered/sets/72157620169909136/
• Klaus Komenda has another great blog post, this time explaining “the transition from YUI2 to YUI3 as a developer”:http://www.klauskomenda.com/archives/2009/07/20/first-steps-with-yui3/
• “Warcraft explained with Super Mario”:http://www.cracked.com/blog/understanding-the-world-of-warcraft-using-super-mario-brothers/ – for us older people
• Paypal started a “developer outreach blog”:https://www.paypal-talk.co.uk/ and published a “very nice interview with me on the topic of accessibility”:https://www.paypal-talk.co.uk/About-us/News-stories/News/July/Interview-with-Christian-Heilmann—Yahoo-Evangelist/ – not sure why it is https though
• MIT has some very interesting research on “wearable computers”:http://www.media.mit.edu/wearables/ – soon you might me able to dial a number in your palm without the mobile
• Threadless now started to do “customizable cakes”:http://www.threadcakes.com/ (well as a contest – not overnight)
• “AMEE”:http://amee.org released “realtime carbon”:http://www.realtimecarbon.org/ showing how much every unit of electricity in the UK currently costs us in CO₂
• A “very detailed look into the etymology of computer game character names”:http://kidicarus222.blogspot.com/2009/06/its-secret-to-everybody.html dives into hitherto unknown depths of geekdom.
• A lovely (but NSFW because of swearing) “typographical animation of the famous Pulp Fiction ‘What does Marsellus Wallace look like’ speech”:http://vimeo.com/3631482