Vicki Woods is talking a lot of sense. Ruth Kelly, unfortunately, isn't. You know how we've got the Postmodernism Generator? I'd love it i someone who understands the Dada Engine could write a similar script that would produce Ruth Kelly/NuLabour bullshit speak. 
Thanks, Mike. More cool stuff to come...
Oh my. Nutters in India are chopping off the heads of people accused of witchcraft. Hey America, you're next!
Ed Brayton has a post about Law Enforcement Against Prohibition, including a video from YouTube.
Nick Hornby has an article called How to Read. (Via Rebecca Blood)
Peter is having a good giggle at the expense of Tom Cruise and Mel Gibson. Religion has an important purpose: to keep Hollywood's stock of actors turning over.
I've had to go and correct this definition of atheism. Read this.
Yesterday's Daily Mail had two headlines explaining how kids were stupid - (a) because they can't read, write or do mathematics and (b) because they believe in God. Wasn't the target market for the Mail supposed to be conservative middle-aged parents? 
Kent is going in to the magazine business. Good luck, mate!
YouTube meets OPML (and all it's many friends) 
Another mashup for y'all! This time, it's the production of OPML feeds from YouTube favourites. This uses YouTube's excellent API to get a list of all your favourite videos and render them up in OPML.
I've tested it in Grazr and it looks really great. I didn't realise that Grazr rendered Japanese (I have a very bizarre Japanese TV show clip in my YouTube favourites).
The URL is: http://tools.opiumfield.com/youtube/faves/[username]
As an example, here's mine, and you can preview it in Grazr.
This is only the first of a set of YouTube-related mashups, I hope. It's even got Technorati support built in based on my previous mashup. I may also add another feature in the morning (wait and see!).
I built this mashup using Keith Devens' excellent PHP XML Library, which handles most XML brilliantly. I'm looking for other libraries to handle the few exceptions that Keith's scripts can't read, but it's a pretty good start. As for time, it took me about an hour and a half. I'm no expert on the Valley, but I can see how Web 2.0 kicked off, considering how easy it is to get these APIs to work.
In the morning, I'm going to work out my strategy for building other mashups and sketch out a brief timetable until I launch my mashup aggregator and you can get your own opium field to play in.
