As I mentioned in my brief legal guide for bloggers, you shouldn’t be afraid of cease and desist letters that tell you not to link. Here’s a group who stood up for their freedom to link: News Hounds: Dear Bill O’Reilly: You Don’t Scare Us
I’ve seen a couple of people mentioning Selenium, including this link to a great tutorial on Selenium’s standalone mode: Agile Testing: Web app testing with Python part 2: Selenium and Twisted. Selenium does web app acceptance testing using your actual browser. All other testing frameworks I’ve seen do direct HTTP communication and try to emulate a browser, generally neglecting JavaScript. As webapps get more dynamic, something like Selenium seems critical.
I’m not a handyman type, but even I can see that there are times when Magic Sculp will come in handy. You use it like clay and it hardens into a very tough plastic.