"csvkit is a library of utilities for working with CSV, the king of tabular file formats." Ooh.

It Just Works and is good.

"rush is a replacement for the unix shell (bash, zsh, etc) which uses pure Ruby syntax. Grep through files, find and kill processes, copy files - everything you do in the shell, now in Ruby." Equal parts "ooh" and "hunh?", I think.

Eric's written a command-line interface to Basecamp. Very nice.

"Pizza Party is a free text based software package for ordering pizza, or for throwing pizza parties." This is awesome.

"In both scenarios, the interfaces enabling these quick experiences are DOS-driven. No gradients, no Ajax, no mouse. Fitts’ Law isn’t even of concern. Just alphanumeric characters and keyboard strokes." Character interfaces till rule for ePOS