There is a persistent effort to equate "open government" not with transparency of process, but with "open" data, APIs, and so on. The term "semantic government" is not nearly as sexy, but just as ineffectual.

Likewise, the article uses the watered-down definition of "hacking", which no longer means "hack mils" but rather "hack the coffeemaker".

"Admit failure and give up on trying to get normal people to tweet."

What are you saying? Fourteen year olds and ethnic minorities use this website. How normal can you get?

"An experienced Twitter user would know to add a “.” at the beginning of his message"

Thanks for the protip, Dalton.

This is so dumb. Why is this art, because it's pretty? God listen to the music. So cheesy. It's the "Alienware" aesthetic. Nerd

You say no to a rapid prototyping environment for iPhone apps using familiar web technologies . . . . JUICY J CAN'T

Damn........ they got a font called Lobster Two

This changes everything

Wait till you see Helvetica Neue S...

~jk

I think it comes from Google Web Fonts that one.

If we use this website to "remix" Brazzers can we get the Libyans to take their domain away

Whoa... this is amazing. Classic use case for all the tools is letting me know when someone has broken into my wine cellar and turned on the taps.