So, a few days ago, I made a post about Grooveshark – but I never bothered to share a playlist.

So, here’s mine.

This Kleptones CD is fantabulous, if a bit old. Seriously, download it. DO IT NOW.

So, I recently discovered Yahoo Pipes.

Yahoo Pipes is a staggeringly useful platform for performing various server-side transformations on tree-shaped data. It’s designed to work especially well with RSS feeds, although it works with JSON, as well.

It’s built entirely with a slick (albeit buggy) YUI interface that allows you to link transformations together, piping the output from one into another, in a chain.

The JSON from the site is set up in such a way as to allow JSONP pulls, but its own data-access is server-side, so it’s a quick way to noodle around Javascript’s restrictive-but-secure Same Origin Policy.

I’ve built three pipes so far — a reddit pipe, which pulls all of your most recent links and comments from reddit, and posts them to http://pipes.yahoo.com/lassam/reddit

A twitter pipe, which pulls all of your recent twitter posts from your Twitter RSS feed, available at http://pipes.yahoo.com/lassam/twitter

And a #sfucsss pipe, which uses my PieRC IRC logger, from http://curtis.lassam.net/pierc/, to pull a feed of the most recent things you have said on the IRC channel #sfucsss on irc.freenode.net, available at http://pipes.yahoo.com/lassam/sfucsss.

Then, I piped all of these things together, to create the “Social Megapipe” — ( http://pipes.yahoo.com/lassam/social_megapipe ) and am now using is as an all-purpose social-tracking widget thang (see ‘twitter++’ on my sidebar) – and it can be targeted on people who use reddit, twitter, and #sfucsss. Like Allen, or Dan.

After processing, these pipes can be consumed as RSS data, JSON data, as a site widget, or in a number of other useful formats.

My blog now offers syntax highlighting for any code snippets, courtesy of Alex Gorbatchev’s Javascript code highlighter, available here.

I’m going to have to donate some money, ’cause this script is all kinds of neat.

This link is awesome. Follow it, and be amused.

While I was working at EA, I became a tad addicted to the MySQL GUI Tools. They’re convenient and slick, and they make me a happy man. It’s the Query Browser, really- functionally equivalent to just opening ssh, logging in, typing in ‘mysql’, and entering queries manually. The big difference is the fact that you get a bigger screen, multiple windows, and you can save queries and data.

So, at some point (I think maybe on Reddit), I discovered this awesome gypsy-jazz remix of the Super Mario Bros. 2 theme.

I surf around on the website a bit, and I discover that Adrian Holovaty, the composer, was also a major contributor to the Django project. Pretty sneaky, sis. I suppose it only makes sense that people with a musical background would name a web framework after Django Reinhardt.

Creative, intelligent people are everywhere. I’m not sure how we’re going to stop them, but I suggest that the answer may be more television.