One thing I missed when I turned to my Windows PC as my main workstation from my Mac was the lack of Expose - a neat task switcher that laid out all running programs into a grid of thumbnails at the whim of a keystroke. I recalled using another alternative in the past but it didn't do it so well. Switcher however really nailed how it worked just like on the Mac. Thanks to this and cygwin which satisfies my need for a shell, I'm really not missing work on my Mac too much.

You can download Switcher on its project homepage

I'm tired of that lady with the british accent navigating my course. I'd much rather have Snoop Dogg telling me where to go.

MBED is a microcontroller that was designed for quick prototyping. As you see in the video, Steve, one of the beta testers of the mbed managed to hack a billy bass.

If you click through, you'll find a variation on this experiment where Steve managed to get the Billy Bass to read out twitter mentions for its twitter account via a webserver and an ethernet connection (no computer!).

There's already some resources being shared and you can program it using C++. The other cool thing is that it's just $60 if you preorder. I own one of these Billy Bass things and I'd love to hack around with it over Christmas break.