As of right now, the App.net page on Facebook has 74,066 likes. I have a feeling that a lot of those people will jump on board if it's anywhere close to the goal in the last few hours.

I made this site to analyze and compare the readability of popular news sites. Every two hours, it scrapes articles from the RSS feeds of eight news sites with high circulation. I'm working on adding a few more sites into the mix.

It's all Perl, with Mojolicious, DBIx::Class, and PostgreSQL. I also wrote a CPAN module (Lingua::EN::Clarity) specifically for use in tandem with this project.

So far, it only calculates the Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level, but I'm building some more advanced functionality. I haven't written too many tests for it, so it's hardly secure or optimized, but I'm hoping to have it reasonably solid by the weekend.

I think it's interesting how accidents have decreased along with diseases. I imagine it has something to do with better technology and regulations.

I would think the automobile is the primary factor in why it isn't lower. (Looking at wikipedia, traffic accidents account for 2.09% of deaths, the next accident category, falls, is 0.69% http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_causes_of_death_by_rate )

I was actually surprised at how little it has changed relative to the amount of safety regulations and technology. I always pictured the years around 1900 as being much more physically dangerous.

What we saved by having hard hats at work and guards on machines - we lost by you commuting an hour in your car without a seatbelt

And different jobs - a printer jam doesn't do quite the same damage as an explosion in a coal mine.

Accident RATES in factories have gone down a lot, construction/farming a little less so - but the number of peopel exposed to the risk environment has dropped a lot

A printer jam in 2012 doesn't mean quite the same thing as a printer jam in 1912 either.

You're thinking of the 100s killed in the great Difference Engine bug of 1868

In addition to the Brewing the American Dream program, Jim Koch has done a lot to support small craft brewers. When there was a hop shortage in 2008, the Boston Beer Co. sold 20,000 lbs. of hops to brewers at cost [1]. It's addressed in the documentary "Beer Wars," which I highly recommend [2].

[1] http://www.samueladams.com/promotions/HopSharing/Default.asp...

[2] http://www.hulu.com/watch/235712/beer-wars

This is one of the nicest browser-based drawing tools I've seen. While I can't see it replacing Inkscape for most of my work, the ability to edit the mxGraph markup is super cool, along with the SVG export option.

I can't stand reading literature electronically, there's just something about the experience of reading an actual book. Even with technical books, I like to read through sections before even trying any of the examples or exercises. I spend way too much time in front of a computer screen, and reading physical books is a nice break.

I think there's a lot of potential here. If it grows a lot, I could see a lot of cool things you could do with the data. I'd definitely be interested in reading a blog sort of like OkTrends (http://blog.okcupid.com/) for personal goals.

Also, I wasn't able to access any of the forum posts. I wasn't redirected to the login page, so I'm not sure what's wrong.

Good Luck!

I've fixed the forum posts, and I'll have a read of OkTrends, seems interesting - not enough data to use as of yet, though :)

Also, a little more padding around the text might look better. It's a little cramped.