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Big news for the WalkScore people. They've received funding from the Rockafeller foundation, plan to make enhancements to the Walk Score system, and are starting an open source software project based on the walkscore software. This is all excellent news.
The enhancements include adding public transit, transportation cost, and greenhouse gas emission data to Walk Score. Or as they say in pressreleasese:

A few days ago I started out on a quest which didn't seem too hard. I have some DVD directories on my disks and want to burn them to a DVD such that it plays in a regular DVD player. Note that these are not the ISO image of a DVD, but simply the directory structure containing the VIDEO_TS directory and the .VOB files within it. There are several legitimate ways to generate a VIDEO_TS directory structure using either free or non-free software tools. For example on a Mac the iDVD app that comes with iLife can save to a VIDEO_TS directory structure.

A Web editor, i.e. a tool used to create and update documents directly on the Web. Browsing features are seamlessly integrated with the editing and remote access features in a uniform environment. This follows the original vision of the Web as a space for collaboration and not just a one-way publishing medium. The main motivation for developing Amaya was to provide a framework that can integrate as many W3C technologies as possible. It is used to demonstrate these technologies in action while taking advantage of their combination in a single, consistent environment.

A highly stable and feature rich web development environment. Pretty much everything in Quanta is designed so you can extend it. Even the way it handles XML DTDs is based on XML files you can edit. You can even import DTDs, write scripts to manage editor contents, visually create dialogs for your scripts and assign script actions to nearly any file operation in a project. You can even look at and communicate with a wide range of what happens inside Quanta using DCOP. Quanta Plus is a robust web development IDE. It’s highly-extensible and is able to run custom scripts.

Bluefish is a powerful editor targeted towards programmers and webdesigners, with many options to write websites, scripts and programming code. Bluefish supports many programming and markup languages, and it focuses on editing dynamic and interactive websites. Bluefish runs on most (maybe all?) POSIX compatible operating systems including Linux, FreeBSD, MacOS-X, OpenBSD and Solaris.

The unofficial bug-fix release of N|VU. It is a WYSIWYG web editor based on mozilla technology. I haven't used it for a couple years however the version number hasn't increased very much. The version I used was competent at editing web pages in a pseudo-WYSIWYG fashion, however the HTML it produces is pretty strange.

In a 'blog' by Dan Farber he paints Sun as having created our own Free Software Foundation.