'XBMC Plugin for browsing and watching RTE Player streams, TV3 streams and TG4 streams (Ireland only), An Lár TV and Magnet WebTV' (via John Looney)

cool geeky photo tricks, via Nishad

modern web-scraping tech, using Ruby and Nokogiri

Macromedia created a "parallel" cookie infrastructure, which is not cleared/controlled by browser cookie controls. Heinous! I had no idea. Checking mine, it was full of ad-tracking crap

a very nice interactive editor in Flash, supporting lots of the usual perlish stuff. via Joe

"How the Giants of Finance Shrank, Then Grew, Under The Financial Crisis". but the data is less interesting than the excellent dataviz technique used to display it