I wrote The story of One Million Checkboxes [OMCB]. A brilliantly daft experiment a couple of weeks back, and just learned about an update to the story. An inspiring extension of the brilliantly creative nature of the experiment: The secret inside one million checkboxes.

I’d encourage that you read the post (or try to, because again, it’s technical, but even as a not too technical type myself, I think the exciting nature in it is clear). But in short, a group of ‘hackers’ organised themselves and played with the checkboxes and created some pretty amazing results.

Also, the post contains this short story by the OMCB creator, which is just lovely…

In highschool, I wrote a recursive mail rule that sent a friend of mine millions of messages as a joke. I (accidentally!) repeatedly crashed the school’s mail server.

The adults in my life were largely not mad at me. They asked me to knock it off, but also made me a t-shirt. I don’t think I’d be doing what I do now without the encouragement that I received then.

So much goodness in this project. Amazing, creative and inspiring stuff.