Keys of favorite songs

Pie chart of keys of favorite Last.fm songs, using the EchoNest API for track analysis.

GitHub t-shirt

Open source Google Analytics replacement

An open source replacement for Google Analytics.

Google reconsiders censorship of search results in China

Google is not happy that the Chinese government wants to spy on human rights activists: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/01/new-approach-to-china.html

The important part

We have decided we are no longer willing to continue censoring our results on Google.cn, and so over the next few weeks we will be discussing with the Chinese government the basis on which we could operate an unfiltered search engine within the law, if at all. We recognize that this may well mean having to shut down Google.cn, and potentially our offices in China.

Let freedom ring.

Backlash against stingrays

Backlash against stingrays.

I found

I found Rilo Kiley as the background music to a crappy hamburger commercial:

That’s the same weird company that made this weird video a few years ago:

Apparently this burger place is only in the west.

A somewhat restrictive software license

“I give permission for IBM, its customers, partners, and minions, to use JSLint for evil.”

Play videos without using Flash

Daily Motion and Mozilla have a demo for a simple video player without using any Flash here.

Google’s Chrome OS

Google released the source code to their customized, “web-app” based operating system:

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/11/releasing-chromium-os-open-source.html

Someone who’s going to…circumvent…

I think I’ll just continue listening to all the bands that spawn from Broken Social Scene without actually listening to Broken Social Scene:

“An Anniversary Away” by Reverie Sound Revue: