googleCL - Command Line Access to the cloud

I have just installed googleCL and am blogging this from the command line. There are some really nice features that will be really useful to integrate into other scripts. For example adding calendar appointments or getting contacts e-mail addresses all at the command line. I have not explored all the features yet, but it looks like it will be really useful. I can't wait for access to Tasks which is the feature I really want.

Perl one liner: Command Line Google

I stumbled across this really cool perl one liner here while looking for something else.

function google () {     u=`perl -MURI::Escape -wle 'print "http://google.com/search?q=".
    uri_escape(join " ",  @ARGV)' $@`;     links $u; }

Add this to your .bashrc file and then you can just google at the command line!
 For example :

google cambridge weather

You may have to change links to be w3m or lynx depending on which text browsers you have on your system.

I will probably never ever use this, but I feel happier knowing that I can

Google Reader: Read what they read

I use Google's Reader a lot to keep up to date, as best I can, with papers, blogs etc. I was interested to see the 'power users' post recently about what certain influential people read.

Power Readers

No great surprises, and I would have liked to see what people in more scientific fields are reading.

I would guess pharyngula, Bad Astronomy and a smattering of Nature, Science type things.

I didn't see XKCD on any of their lists, shame.