The east coast is pretty dry in contrast to the rest of the country. Galway, for instance, gets 1156mm of rain per year.

Why does it turn magenta when you double-click (on two distinct pixels specifically)?

That's just the highlight color. Assuming you're using Chrome, it's pretty eager about highlighting random stuff; other browsers may be similar. Try selecting some text.

There is a css rule to disable user selection which might be handy here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/826782

A while ago I did a bit of reverse-engineering on this and figured out how to get it to play music.

https://github.com/caoilteguiry/dev_music

Explanation of how it works is pretty scant at the moment, I'll try to expand it a little when I get a chance.