From Pickin’ Cotton to Pickin’ Presidents, an interesting correlation.
Oiligarchy is a playable commentary on the oil industry. Play the Flash game first, then read the postmortem. (I managed to get a “Farewell West”, but no M.A.D. at all.)
Black and white were the figures that recorded him
Black and white was the newsprint he was mentioned in
Black and white was the question that so bothered him
He never asked, he was taught not to ask
What was on his lips as they buried him
— The Association, Requiem for the Masses
Mv_Embed is a javascript library for easy embedding of ogg theora/vorbis media with the HTML5 tag.
Vernacular Video, by Tom Sherman. “As video technology spun off from television, the mission was clearly one of complete decentralization. Forty years later, video technology is everywhere. Video is now a medium unto itself, a completely decentralized digital, electronic audio-visual technology of tremendous utility and power.”
ProofWeb is both a system for teaching logic and for using proof assistants through the web. Supports Coq, Isabelle, and a few others. Awesome, check it out!
Teaching logic using a state-of-the-art proof assistant, by Cezary Kaliszyk, Freek Wiedijk, Maxim Hendriks, and Femke van Raamsdonk. On above system.
acts_as_git is a simple plugin which stores all changes you make to a text field in a Git repository. This is ideal for something like a Git-backed wiki.
A positive aspect of the Bush legacy, “The international community now has a potent new motivating tool to dissuade world leaders from engaging in tyranny and aggression – tell them they’ll be like George Bush if they do it.” WJW.
Straightedge lesbians
are doing shots of lime juice
what strange world is this?
— jwz