Wednesday, Mar 20
cursewords
made and submitted by parker
cursewords is a crossword puzzle solving interface for the terminal.
~parker
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Bio: Parker Higgins is the Director of Special Projects at the Freedom of the Press Foundation. He lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.
Friday, Jan 11
FOIA The Dead
When someone's obituary appears in the New York Times, FOIA The Dead sends automated requests to the FBI for their records on the recently departed, and publishes the results. So far it has almost 4,000 pages of (sometimes-mundane, sometimes-fascinating) records on 55 people which probably wouldn't have been released otherwise.