Magpie, PHP, and RSS. Lately I’ve been looking for a way to harness all of the RSS feeds coming my way from del.icio.us and Netflix and Bloglines. This looks like the simplest way so far. Too bad I don’t have PHP on this host. And of all the feeds Netflix offers, why don’t they syndicate the movies you’ve rated, with ratings? They have a library of about 500 films I’ve rated, and I’d love to have access to that data.

Boing Boing brings us news of a working, cockroach-guided, robot. As elegant a hack as this is for overcoming the limitations of machine logic in a real-world environment, it’s still f*cking creepy. Maybe it’s just my innate hatred of cockroaches, but damn, that’s nasty.