Wikiclock is so ridiculous I’m not surprised it took so long for someone to invent it. But it is a thing of sublime beauty. Reminds me of some of the projects at last weekend’s Maker Faire.
pageoftext.com, which hosts wikiclock, is only ridiculous in its simplicity. Why didn’t I think of that?
Both projects via Evan Prodromou reporting on RoCoCo. I’m sad that I couldn’t make it to Montreal but glad to hear it’s coming to the SF Bay Area next year.
As I left the Maker Faire I saw a Creative Commons sign and thought, “I wonder if Mike is about?”
I was about a bit. Someone did mention that a tall man with long hair asked about me, must have been you.
The above-mentioned thought was swiftly followed by another: “Oh, he’s right there!” But you were evidently absorbed in your conversation.
Hi Mike, the code for pageoftext.com is free open source. You can get your own copy of it here: pageoftext.com/potoss
I include the (minimal) module tests and Selenium tests. The code is still changing around quite a bit since it’s still very new, so I wouldn’t call it *stable*, but it’s usable and the regression tests are reasonably good.
It’s mainly GPL2 (with some Artistic and UGPL mixed in from the Perl and JavaScript libraries I used).
Thanks for mentioning my silly project. Cheers – Gordon