=Overview= The *Congress Explorer* is an open-source platform aimed at searching and exporting data about the Congress members. The Congress Explorer leverages the *[http://services.sunlightlabs.com/api/ Sunlight Labs API]*. It provides a rich user-interface to perform complex searches on legisl...

[http://world-sunlight-theme.googlecode.com http://world-sunlight-theme.googlecode.com/files/thumbnail.jpg] This is my first try at an iGoogle theme. This theme uses two images -- both freely available online from NASA's website. This theme is one of the Northern Hemisphere -- once I get this one...

NOTE: polipoly is deprecated and no longer maintained. Due to the wide availability of better tools like GEOS http://trac.osgeo.org/geos/ and GeoDjango http://geodjango.org it is no longer in use nor will it see any further development. The last version of polipoly is available at http://gith...

=Words Vote.= <img alt="Apps for America" src="http://projectkhalid.org/images/appsforamerica_HM.png"> "Words Vote." employs Sunlight Labs' "capitolwords" python library to obtain lists of words used by individual congresspeople during an interval of time (usually before a major vote). Also grab...