I think the penalties associated with using plugins is simply the price DRM advocates should have to pay. I don't think it's the job of the W3C to make it easier on them to maintain this practice. The short-term gain of getting large media players on-board is outweighed by the long-term prolonging of the life of DRM and delaying the advancement of social norms and business practices for media distribution, consumption and ownership.

Looking at the companies that control media today and trying to mold the environment of the web so that they survive is exactly backwards. Instead, I think the W3C should focus on creating the best environment for an open web possible, and let the companies that exist now adapt to it or be replaced by those who can.

Okal, I added that resource, though you may want to consider truncating the author listing like you are doing with the description on the index page (this book had ~40 authors).

Great job on the site, and thanks for making it - I've already added several books to my shelf.

FYI - I just added 'On Lisp', but the registration button is at the top right, called 'Signup'.

(thanks) ok, another small bug - for sufficiently narrow browser windows the registration links are not shown (just drag your browser window narrower and you'll see them disappear). you need to float right or similar.

Thanks for noting that. I'll have to do a little more work on the layout. I hope it wasn't too frustrating.

Google did this, but it wasn't recently -- http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=505255

Thanks, that's the one I was thinking of.

I too made a canvas clock (though with a heavier dose of existentialism) a little while ago if you're interested.

link: http://morrow.github.com/Life-Clock/

code: https://github.com/morrow/Life-Clock/

I created a similar project (CSS docs only) after seeing the original version of this posted here and thinking of some improvements (instacss I think it was called). My version uses the HTML5 history API and runs off of static files (scraped with ruby). If anyone is interested:

http://morrow.github.com/CSS-Reference

https://github.com/morrow/CSS-Reference

I've used stripe and it's definitely a breath of fresh air, but as I understand it, most people won't bother switching away from paypal to something without international support. Stripe's working on that: https://stripe.com/global but otherwise there isn't a good international alternative to paypal at the moment.

Not to get too analytical or philosophical, but I think it's because clocks normally represent time cyclically, as a repetitive process counting and displaying a sub-set of an ethereal infinite time set. Whereas this clock visualizes time spatially in known, limited, diminishing quantities.

The depressing part is either that this forces you to realize or reminds you that time is, in fact, limited -- or that it tricks you into thinking time isn't infinite, depending on your philosophy.

You have to wait to post replies sometimes, depending how many levels down the conversation is. This is a safeguard against threads full of knee-jerk back-and-forth responses, I suppose.

Here's a screencast I found that shows how transactions go down between dwolla users (you enter amount, dwolla account id).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zbf24_PTyx8