Carl Griffith's 1847 Oregon Trail Sourdough Starter is great stuff! I've been using it for about 6 months now and it works flawlessly.

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Diane asked, so I decided to process our server logs to find out how many times our game for children who are blind and visually impaired, Hark the Sound , has been downloaded and, if possible, the country that requested it.

The quick summary is that Hark the Sound has been downloaded by 1537 unique IP addresses, we have mailed 169 CDs to the US and 9 to other countries, and we have given away over 500 at workshops. We encourage people to make their own copies so we must be approaching 3000 installed versions in the field.

Identifying the geographic location associated with an IP address is a shaky proposition but I decided to try anyway. I used the database at Hostip.info to extract the following stats.

Hark has been downloaded by IP addresses in 70 countries and 46 US States. The countries I can identify include:

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Pete sent some interesting links about capabilities of the OLPC. This is going to be a great platform for accessible games and literacy tools.

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Over at A List Apart (a very useful resource on all things web related), there is an interesting article on accessible web applications .

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In reference to my earlier post about the USB-driven visual alert for people who are hearing impaired.

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OSFlash has a collection of open source software and tools using the Flash platform.

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Aptana looks great! Nice example of using it with AFLAX .

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AFLAX looks interesting. It appears to be possible to use much of Flash from Javascript without even having the Flash IDE.

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IBM is making a repository for course content teaching students to make accessible content.

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Pete pointed me to Chickenfoot (what's with these names?). Looks like it has potential for improving the accessibility of pages.

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