Holy crap. These things look cool as hell! And not even vaporware! Thanks to Edd Dumbill for the link.

What an excellent waste of my time: BBC Flash version of Infocom’s HHGTTG

Excellent. Kevin Kelly: Cool Tools

Why specs matter (Dive Into Mark): ” Most developers are morons, and the rest are assholes.”

Railroad “is a standards-based repository for large binary files such as digital media, along with their metadata. It is designed to be easy to integrate with content management systems and other client software. Railroad uses the industry-standard Apache HTTP server. It uses Apache’s mod_dav and mod_python, and metadata is stored in a PostgreSQL database.”

Woohoo! I just called Senators Frist and Leahy, and did my part for democracy! I have SAVED THE REPUBL…um…ok. Bugged some senators. Whatever. I do encourage you to check out savebetamax.org, however.

A couple of projects I haven’t mentioned before:

Python Director: a pure-python TCP load balancer. It takes inbound TCP connections and connects them to one of a number of backend servers.

PyWebLog: Not a project, per se, but a great comparison of Python web frameworks. Basically, take a problem, and code in up in different frameworks, to see what’s what. And blog about it, so that we can follow along from the stands. Great job…thanks!

Adam Curry’s Daily Source Code either finally has a website, or more likely, I finally found it. You can get his audio blog MP3s here directly…Daily Source Code. His “regular”/text weblog is still located at live.curry.com.

The Guardian: “Police in Paris have discovered a fully equipped cinema-cum-restaurant in a large and previously uncharted cavern underneath the capital’s chic 16th arrondissement.”

Bizarre. But cool.