Projects & Publications

• miscellaneous
  • Resources for depression/suicide
  • Advice to Occupy participants on talking with police
  • MIT Puzzle Hunt - Metaphysical Plant member (won '09, writing '10); coauthor w/ Alex Fink (& other teammates) of Making the Possible Impossible, A Modern Palimpsest, The Path More Stumbled, and Mario Clash, and contributor on Pattern Recognition
  • TSA rights flyer
  • May '08 TSA Screening Management SOP via Cryptome
  • Meta-analysis of Artisanal Bakery in France - UChicago MAPSS 300 midterm
  • Genocide, misunderstanding, adaptation, & attitudes - UChicago PSYC 34350 final
  • Empathy - Direct understanding through mirror neurons - Berkeley CogSci 100 term
  • Meditation for Hackers: All-Point Techniques - 2600 Magazine, Summer 2008
• open source projects
  • Make Your Laws, a project to create worldwide direct (liquid) democracy
  • # days since the last prominent homophobe was caught in a gay sex scandal
  • @twtwsh - Corrupt a Twitter Wish
  • Slim Creative Commons icons
  • CSS Fingerprint (results) - using the CSS history hack to identify and classify website visitors despite change over time, use of multiple browsers, etc
  • Prototype IdleTimer - event-based JavaScript idle timer for Prototype supporting multiple timers & observers and element-specific timers
  • Google Spreadsheet scripts gallery - Student's t-distribution function (based on Ferguson's)
  • Netlogo Zombie simulator (with nukes!), w/ Alex Fink
  • Rails Authorization Plugin fork to support full anonymous user roles
  • SuperDeploy Capistrano recipes plugin
• personal conlang stuff
  • Unker non-linear writing system (UNWLS), w/ Alex Fink
  • Gripping language, w/ Alex Fink
  • On the Design of an Ideal Language
• other conlang stuff
  • Conlanging 101 , w/ Alex Fink & David Peterson *
    • 26th Chaos Communications Congress proceedings ISBN 978-3-934636-08-8-0
    • Monochrom #26-34 ISBN 978-3-9502372-6-9
  • Language Creation Society founder & chairman of BoD
  • 3x Language Creation Conference lead organizer
  • Language Creation Society Podcast co-lead producer/host
  • Fiat Lingua: the Journal of the Language Creation Society managing editor
  • 2x conlangs_decal teacher - 2-3 unit semester long class @ UC Berkeley on how to create languages videos
  • conlangs founder

* Incidentally, this gives me Erdős number (of the first kind only) 3 - my coauthor Alex Fink wrote 4x (2x 2nd kind) w/ Richard K Guy, who wrote 4x w/ Erdős (also 2x 2nd kind).