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
• Finally an answer how to pronounce GIF – it is “Jiff” – no, not Yiff
• Some very 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
• 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
• Some mechanical engineering students turn class projects into solutions for disabled and seniors

Code stuff

• Elliot Kember tries to keep twitter free from spammers with Blocky
• 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
• Bing has a API now (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 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?
• Now, that’s what I call a party
• Greeks know how to party, check this Epic fireworks battle
• Do you remember the time when cocaine was still advertised?

If you are in or around London on the 26th of February 2008, come to the De Hem’s pub in Covent Garden to celebrate two years of YUI. There’ll be cake, beers, videos from the YUI bash in the US, a quick update by me and schwag to take home.

• Sign up to the London YUI Birthday Party at upcoming