Things that made me happy this morning

• I’m working on a handbook for developer evangelists (the outline is here) and I am 7000 words in – after 2 days of writing.
• Billboard have released an API which gets you access to all kind of music charts. I’d love to mash that up with the Spotify API, but I won’t buy a premium account just to do some hacking.
• EtherPad is a very cool tool for collaborative text editing. Much like SubEthaEdit for the web – or like Bespin of course
• Vanish is an solution to create web content that self destructs after a certain time (much like these messages in the spy movies).
• Hey IT is a campaign to tell your IT department just how much IE6 makes kitty cry.
• phMagick is not a skin conditioner, but a pretty cool PHP wrapper for imageMagick to convert images, add drop shadows and so on. CSS3 for all browsers!
• JSON Formatter is a validation and pretty printing tool for JSON.
• There is a pretty sweet isometric timeline animation of the international space station at USA Today (you know, the newspaper you always stumble over when you leave hotel rooms)
• Fancy Fast Food shows you how you can turn fast food into very pretty meals
• 10 historical software bugs with disastrous consequences teaches us to fix our code.

Things that made me happy this morning:

• The source code of the moon landing control programs has been released as open source. Now get soldering and build the hardware in Arduino. I also checked the code and could not find a fake call!
• MapQuest released their driving directions web service
• AnythingZoomer is a jQuery script that provides you with a little lens to zoom parts of the screen. Nothing new, but potentially useful.
• Open a banana like a monkey is one of those videos that makes you go “why did I do it wrong my whole life?”
• Apparently rounded corners are all the rage in remedy packages – Apple has a lot to answer for, but I like it.
• Moddims is an Apache module that uses ImageMagick to convert pictures on the fly. Great for a thumbnail API.
• Make magazine has a cool EeePC hardware notifier hack that embeds an LED into the casing which flashes in different colours depending on you getting an IM, an email or a Tweet.
• IBM has a long and detailed article on using jQuery with JSON-P
• Opera’s Hallvord shows us the most expensive line of JavaScript ever