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Speed-reader app adapted by non-coder as language-teaching tool

Cory Doctorow at 12:37 am Mon, Dec 13, 2004

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Trevor (who made a "speed reader" app out of my novel, Eastern Standard Tribe, said app being an amazing brain hack that makes your ear wax go all runny) sez,
After running across the speed reader showing Eastern Standard Tribe, a French/English language instructor (and blink-tag era web enthusiast) downloaded the applet and proceeded to hack together a series of irregular verb lessons, complete with his own grass roots markdown syntax!

This guy knows nothing about Java and thinks it's cool to use midi on his pages, but he remixed my tool for remixing in what can only be described as a gorgeous cludge.

Who doesn't love a thriving creative commons?

Link (Thanks, Trevor!)

I write books. My latest is a YA science fiction novel called Homeland (it's the sequel to Little Brother). More books: Rapture of the Nerds (a novel, with Charlie Stross); With a Little Help (short stories); and The Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow (novella and nonfic). I speak all over the place and I tweet and tumble, too.

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