Universal Subtitles

I have just added the UniveralSubtitles JavaScript code to my blog so that many videos will either display subtitles or give you the option of subtitling them yourself.
Here is a quick demo of a video from YouTube which a subtitled (Wikileaks themed of course).



Subtitling videos in this manner greatly improve accessibility for your website and it is easy to do. You don't have to download any software, just use their website.

Wikileaks Documentary

This might possibly be the best Wikileaks documentary yet and I highly suggest you watch it. Show it to people against Wikileaks, show it in the classroom and so on.
Please Tweet this as well with the button to your right or the one at the bottom of this post.

A Great Wikileaks Documentary that EVERYONE should watch! It is even more shocking that one would expect.

Wikileaks live discussion

The live discussion is now over, but you can watch the recordings at: The LiveStream Website

Watch live streaming video from pdfleaks at livestream.com

Personal Democracy Forum presents: A Symposium on Wikileaks and Internet Freedom

Julian Assange Person of the Year

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Skip the article and vote for Julian Assange

Time Magazine is running their regular Person of the Year contest, and Julian Assange could seriously win! My vote, however, was not only to show support for Assange, but also to support the freedom of information worldwide.

Julian Assange currently (as I write this) has a 89/100 average approval rating which has put him in first place, just above Recep Tayyip Erdogan who has an average rating of 83/100. Another person of interest is Barack Obama who is at 60/100.

Please note, you rank these people on a scale of 1 to 100. It is not a "I support this person" or an "I don't support this person" vote. You show how much you support this person.

What if Julian Assange Won?
If Julian Assange happened to win, I think it would make politicians everywhere realize that we desire freedom of information, free speech, and that we don't want Internet censorship.

Vote for Julian Assange!

Join in the discussion in the comments here or by adding #wikileaks or #cablegate (or both) to your Twitter post.

What is Up with BBot

BBot 6 has been waiting to be released for a long time now and it is widely known that this release hopes to be much faster than previous versions which tended to be somewhat of a drag. I am happy to say that Bikcmp and I have worked together on this yesterday and we rewrote 90% of the bot making it more compatible with other backends (like Twisted) and improving the API.
But don't forget speed, speed is always important to us and I must say that it is functioning quite well so far.

BBot 6 is almost done and hopefully it will be out before Monday. If you would like to follow the progress in real time, join #spam on irc.fossnet.info (port 6667 or 6670 for SSL) for live commit reports.

The Probelms With Education

We all know that there are numerous problems with education, especially in the area of math, and here is a presentation summing up some ways to get students interested in math and help them understand the big picture better.

Math is not linear on Prezi

Normally I try to keep my blog accessible to most people, but this is a sad exception, Flash Player 9 required

Comments welcome!

How we agree to make our lives worse!

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I have just finished reading this shocking article about the various failings of airport securty. Think about it, millions of Americans and people all over the world take off their shoes and walk through metal detectors, x-ray scanners, and experience privacy-invasive pat-downs, but the entire system is broken! You owe it to yourself to read this article and you owe it to the world to do something about it:
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2008/11/the-things-he-carried/7057/1/
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