I'll admit I'm late to the LAN party on the Yahoo! pipes tip—pipes looks like it could be highly useful if I ever get a chance to sit down and fuss about with it.

One of the most talked-about pipes-related developments is badger, the adorably named widget factory that spits out dummy-proof javascript badges for any rss feed. Badger's nice—fun color options and a pretty good interface for choosing them and all—but I'm a little surprised at the sheer level of excitement over it, since rss to javascript converters have been around for awhile. As far as I can tell, Badger's main accomplishment (aside from a better interface and a much better name) is routing the feed through pipes.

Are we all really that excited about a way to make Yahoo! foot the bandwidth bill? Maybe if kenspeckle had actual traffic I'd learn to care about such things.

In the meantime, help yourself to a kenspeckle badge!

update: Errr, my badger badge stopped loading. The javascript it ran on threw so many validation errors that I decided to just take it down. But you can still get your own kenspeckle badge if you'd like.