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Cartagen is a vector-based, client-side framework for rendering maps in native HTML 5. Maps are styled in GSS, a cascading stylesheet specification for geospatial information – a decision which leverages literacy in CSS to make map styling more accessible.

Kogbox lets users create snippets – small scripts limited to 100 lines and 10 seconds of execution time. Write as many as you like, and combine your snippets with others' to build simple web tools.

A library for fetching Google News articles as native Ruby objects

An cellphone interface for sending/receiving web pages via SMS

A Ruby on Rails application with RAGI interface to Asterisk, which can generate speech from arbitrary text strings and play it over the asterisk-phone interface.