Oooh, the Shruthi got an upgrade: not just white PCBs, but an interesting new filter board. Seriously tempted by one of these.

"Design, host and share your own custom maps." Interesting - tile hosting, tile creation.

Tom on writing the Noticings Uploader - and making the code open-source.

"Do you see this? It's the world's tiniest open-source violin." Yes.

"This information describes how Free Range operates, both as a business and as a culture.

We're open-sourcing our business, from the site to the contracts to the philosopy. Value does not come from these things, but from putting these ideas into practice. These ideas are not assets - we, the people, are.

Fork this." Free Range have put their manifesto and operating principles onto Github.

Open source DAW for Linux and OSX.

"Gemcutter is the next generation of gem hosting for the Ruby community. Instantly publish your gems and install them. Use the API to interact and find out more information about available gems. Become a contributor and enhance the site with your own changes." Apparently this is the next big thing, post-github not serving gems. Let's chase this trend for a bit.

"The next time you see an application you like, think very long and hard about all the user-oriented details that went into making it a pleasure to use, before decrying how you could trivially reimplement the entire damn thing in a weekend. Nine times out of ten, when you think an application was ridiculously easy to implement, you’re completely missing the user side of the story." Yes. Similarly: what you don't see is the decision-making, everything that was thrown away.

Jason Rohrer has a new puzzle game out, designed primarily for iPhone but also available for OSX/Windows/Linux as ever. The UI is very thoughtful, for something finger-driven; the game mechanic is complex, but I think I'll get a handl eon it soon. I hope.

It's an open-source radio-trigger for small flashes. Really! The hardware, the software - the whole lot - is open source. The Strobist community never ceases to impress with its ingenuity.

"LÖVE is an unquestionably awesome 2D game engine, which allows rapid game development and prototyping in Lua." And it all looks rather pretty, too. Must investigate further!

"Transmission is a fast, easy, and free multi-platform BitTorrent client." Impressive OSX version, for a multi-platform tool, too. Very pleased with this after Tomato gave up the ghost.

Lovely way to generate pages for your github projects - and to do so as a branch of said project. Clever.

"The outcome of this rampant illegal software copying is that Windows is seen as "the first world standard" and any attempt to push a cheaper alternative is strongly resisted. They consider it trying to cheat local people out of getting the same quality of software that is used in the developed world, even though it's a legal way of getting quality software for free." Not what you'd expect, but totally understandable: as said before, there is a middle class everywhere, and it has the same aspirations everywhere.

"The Fuzebox is a fully open-source, DIY 8-bit game console. It is designed specifically for people who know a little bit of programming to expand into designing and creating their own video games and demos. A full-featured core runs in the background and does all the video and audio processing so that your code stays clean and easy to understand." Ooh, that could be interesting.

"SourceForge is about projects. GitHub is about people... This is a pivot of the traditional open source project website. A pivot from project to programmer. I love the pivot."

"As we move into a world in which we can manufacture things as cheaply as we print them, the skills that tinkerers develop-- not just their ability to play with stuff, or to use particular tools, but to share their ideas and improve on the ideas of others-- will be huge." Lots of good reflections from "Tinkering As A Mode Of Knowledge".

"igraph is a free software package for creating and manipulating undirected and directed graphs. It includes implementations for classic graph theory problems like minimum spanning trees and network flow, and also implements algorithms for some recent network analysis methods, like community structure search." Oh, that could be very handy

This looks like it could be interesting/fun; if anything, worth watching as a slightly more attractive option for lifestreaming...

"The Tombs of Asciiroth is a free, open source game you can play right now in your browser. It has arcade, puzzle and exploration-style game play in an extensive world of font-based abstraction. If it looks a little old school, it's only because I've been trying to make this game since 1980. But other things kept getting in the way. Hope you have some fun with it."

"UbiGraph is a tool for visualizing dynamic graphs. The basic version is free, and talks to Python, Ruby, PHP, Java, C, C++, C#, Haskell, and OCaml."

"Not necessarily the completest 'best' collection, but some of the more notable games, applications and emulators that have grabbed my attention long enough to stay on my DS."

"UFO: Alien Invasion", an open-source clone of the X-Com/UFO games, now has an OSX port available. That requires trying out, then.

"Manage your conference notes and share them with other delegates, even with unreliable conference wi-fi!" Based on Tiddlywiki - an early piece of output from BT's Open Source division (and Osmosoft). Congrats to Jeremy!

"Recently I took a look at the numerous WordPress blogs I maintain and decided to extract some of the best plugins I use across them." - for once, a decent list, with some stuff I should look into on it.

"Zenphoto is an answer to lots of calls for an online gallery solution that just makes sense. After years of bloated software that does everything and your dishes, zenphoto just shows your photos, simply." Looks rather good. Thinking about this.

"In an effort to understand usability in the OSS world, I’ve researched the stories behind my favorite — and least favorite — OSS programs."

Interesting-looking little PHP web-forum.

pdf-to-html conversion utility, in C.

$99 desktop that has 4gb of internal storage and uses S3 for the rest. Distributed thin-ish clients, much like were promised in the golden age of Java. Etc, etc, etc.

Delicious Food. Beautiful Photography. Created, rated and improved by you and fellow food-lovers from all over the world.

MT4 is now in beta. Proper beta. "New look": looks very good; functionality seems up-to-scratch; to be open-sourced later in the year. Wow.

Reasonably interesting speech from George Osborne at the RSA; interesting given how savvy it is, and how (within reason) fair. Certainly interesting coming from the conservatives.

Wordpress 2.1 is now out. Probably better check this out, then...

Open source barcode scanning for OSX with iSights. Gives me ideas, that does...

Most interesting - the OLPC has a dedicated view source key - not just for the web, but for everything...

Featuring, of course, Remind.

Comprehensive article on Remind

Could be useful for work.

Hurrah! It's Star Control 2!

does exactly what it says on the tin

Open-source CMS that sounds a little different. Perhaps worth a look