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The word lifestream makes me gag, but this is interesting anyway. A self-hosted, PHP, social stuffs aggregator. [via Hackszine]

Funny idea and video from Sara Silverman. (nsfw)

Nice update of the Washington Post tax plan comparison graph that went around a while back, weighted by population.

"Mount your iPhone or iPod touch as a wireless drive on any Mac, Windows, or Linux computer." Cool, I've been wanting this feature for the iPhone. [via ckohtz]

This is a lot easier than whatever I've been doing.

"Differences between Republican and Democrats exist...but those differences are often dwarfed by the differences between those entrenched in and dependent upon the Washington Establishment and...American citizens -- who are not." [via rc3]

"The U.S. Senate this afternoon passed the FISA Amendments Act...granting retroactive immunity to telecommunications companies that participated in the president's illegal domestic wiretapping program." Discouraging.

This is going to change my life.

very nice Twitter interface for iPhone.

welcome, Ollie!

Good start at an iPhone-friendly interface for Flickr. Needs links to larger photos, though.

Access your Mac desktop remotely with your iPhone. wow!

Open source Office suite for Macs.

a nice walkthrough for installing Ubutnu Linux under Parallels.

For the "podcast someday" list of tools: this will automatically Record Skype Calls On Your Mac

Firefox Add-on lets you click and drag any form field to resize. (Unfortunately, it doesn't remember your field size preference.)

Open source remote desktop client for Windows RDC on Mac OS X. Handy if you need to manage Windows servers from Mac. I hear it's more stable than the official Microsoft RDC client for Macs.

If you do any ColdFusion development (shut up!), you should check out this CF Textmate add-on. With this + Transmit, I prefer TextMate to HomeSite now for writing CF.

hooray! Click this link to set a cookie (with cookie technology) to disable those annoying Snap site previews that are popping up everywhere. [thanks torrez]

A simple keyboard remapper for Windows that uses the registry. I think this'll be handy for some issues running XP with parallels. [via Nelson]

Remap your Home and End keys on a Mac so they operate on the current line rather than the current document. This has been bugging me forever!