Chess in JavaScript (with threaded AI using Web Workers!) (via @dalmaer)

A lightweight tool for creating ad-hoc JavaScript benchmark tests

JavaScript lib to make IE behave like a standards-compliant browser

“Written in Python and is very easy to set up on Linux, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, Solaris, and any Unix that runs python 2.3. It is based on Ajaxterm.”

“Online mapping is evolving into a historic nexus of disparate technologies and communities that is changing the fundamental use of the Internet, as well as redefining the concept of maps in our culture.”

create, share, and tag your own Google Map w/o resorting to the Google Maps API.

Microsoft is entering the world of—wait for it—Web Services (e.g. Web2.0) in a big way. “Firefox support”, whatever that is, supposedly coming soon.

rough-around-the-edges Google Maps/Weather mashup