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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.

This kind of reminds me of the classic Tim Ferriss article:

http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/2007/11/07/how-to-learn...

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!

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