Things that made me happy this morning:

• 10 steps to organising a barcamp has great info on exactly that
• the social mention API covers several social networks and allows you to search for keyterms
• I want the 8gb Lego minifig thumb drive
• A great peek into the process how classic computer games were built including Mario, Tetris and Pong
• A Stormtrooper singing in the rain
• A great list of open datasets
• Undop is a tool to stop you from wasting too much time on those sites that normally make you do that
• Skulpt is a Python parser in the browser – whoa!
• The Google Wave API roadmap is now available
• The YouTube Data API now supports captions

Things that made me happy this morning

Inspiring and fun

• Older people playing Wii and going for it
• Beautiful poster design proposals for the 2012 olympics
• Build your own starship enterprise either from an old Floppy Disk or from other random office supplies
• The ten commandments as text messages

Tech stuff

• An interesting wrapper solution for embedding video with HTML5 and fallbacks for older browsers
• Tristan says as it is the web is hackable
• Microsoft know how to fix issues – just move your mouse

My stuff:

• I’ve been interviewed in Taiwan
• My talk at the open hack day Introduction to YQL as a video

Videos:

• Total eclipse of the heart the literal version
• Han Solo, P.I and a Side by Side comparison with the original opening

• Yahoo Finance just released “the new (accessible) currency converter”:http://finance.yahoo.com/currency-converter done by my colleagues Artur Ortega and Dirk Ginader. It is a perfect example of how accessible does not mean boring. Rich interactions – screen reader compatible
• Firefox 3.05 comes with some new cool accessibility features fixing focusing issues
• Our Dumb World – the Onion’s Atlas as a google maps mashup
• Serge Jespers explaining What not to do in Air Applications – don’t break age-old usability ideas.
• Learning the details about the Internet Explorer security flaw – it is a real issue .

And a nice quote from Carrie Fisher:

Even now, many years later, people are still asking me if I knew Star Wars was going to be that big a hit. Yes, of course I knew. We all knew. The only one who didn’t was the director, George Lucas. We kept it from him because we wanted to see what his face looked like when it changed expression.