Pretty Comments is a tiny (1kb) jQuery plugin that makes textareas grow as content goes in. This should make a pretty cool addition to any jQuerified comment form. I think I'll add this here to my own theme when I have some time to do some coding in order to get rid of Prototype.

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I just found out something that some will find obvious: from the trunk page of the WordPress SVN repository (or WordPress Mu, or anything that uses Trac really) there's a link at the very bottom of the page that will send you a fresh build in a zip archive. Handy for when you don't have an SVN install to play with.

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PuTTy Connection Manager: PuTTy with tabs. This is awesomely awesome. If I had to chose one feature a software was missing since mankind and software exist, I would have pointed this one. Now I can die happy :)

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Facebook acquisition, Google decline or Microsoft social network: everybody is making predictions for 2008. Twitter user predictions08 tracks them. Could be fun and interesting for the next few days.

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