Links for 03 Aug 2010

• Raster’s Last.fm data scrapper looks interesting; I just wish he hadn’t used PHP…
• Seriously pondering standing desk alternatives after this paper
• The AV Club’s Undercover series has a lot of great bands covering a lot of great songs. I found it after @superchunkband pointed out their cover of “In Between Days”, but I don’t think there are any bad entries in the bunch. (The Bud bumper ads, on the other hand, are … regretable. Guess everybody has to pay the bills…)
• xslate may be worth looking at. Anybody played with it yet?
• Craig Venter says a bunch of outrageous stuff in this Der Speigel interview. Best part is probably when they play “gotcha” with old quotes.
• The MetaFilter thread on WikiLeaks is chock-full of goodness. I’m becoming fascinated with this story…
• Git internals in 30 lines of Perl is an excellent overview of the stark screaming elegance at the heart of git
• Curated Folksonomies describes something that I think I’m going to have to implement at $WORK one of these days

And now, let the ritual closing of the tabs commence…