"It's a debugger for web pages, like FireBug (for FireFox) and Web Inspector (for WebKit-based browsers), except it's designed to work remotely, and in particular, to allow you debug web pages on a mobile device such as a phone." Blimey. That's, um, remarkably useful. Duly noted.

"No consoles are launching in 2009, right? Not so. Brazilian manufacturer Tectoy, most notable outside of South America for its long partnership with Sega and official distribution of its consoles in Brazil, will be releasing an entirely original product called Zeebo. Centered around downloadable games distributed only over a 3G wireless network, the console is designed for emerging markets..." and, even if it's not exactly powerful and the business model still seems sketchy, this could be really, really interesting.

"This has to be the most quick-and-dirty data visualizer out there: I wrote an ascii art plotter script that takes a column of numbers on stdin and throws out a plot on your console." Oh, that's going to come in handy.

"It's just an Nintendo in a toaster, but I like it."

"Yes, that's an underscore character in front of the .collect. In irb (and hence, script/console), an underscore is a kind of global variable that holds the last result." I did not know that. Useful!

"Utility Belt is a grab-bag of tricks, tools, techniques, trifles, and toys for IRB, including convenience methods, language patches, and useful extensions." Looks most handy, too; some stuff is OSX-only.

"Console is a Windows console window enhancement", and it's great - tabbed shells, multiple shells, decent input support, pretty. Much nicer than cmd.

Ugh! Linked in this thread... is a terminal hack for OSX that makes your console drop down *like a console in Quake3*. Sehr cool - and I'm very tempted by it...

'PS3 controller specifics are "nothing we need to be concerned about as developers," explains the techie.' - you *what*?

"SNES - As Good As It's Going To Get"