Needed a host page for the MockingBird code base, so here it is. I unearthed it looking for material to show to the fine folks at Code for America. I don't think I have much of a shot there this year, but hey, you never know. It certainly can't hurt to get used to the application process.

MockingBird is a Google Wave bot that I wrote in the early days of the Wave bonanza, back before I forgot I had a Wave account for like 8 months and the world at large sort of gave up trying to use it. The bot still works, and it was kind of funny to see it in action again. Its basic programming is relatively dumb and innocuous, but the idea is you could dial it up to inject a blue streak of utter dadaism into your Wave. It's named in honor of Yelling Bird, a potty-mouthed antagonist from the works of Jeph Jaques who never has anything nice to say.