It's like Chicago 10, but it got made a lot quicker. Remember how the Supreme Court ruled that California's Northern District court wasn't allowed to broadcast video footage from the Prop 8 trial taking place in San Francisco? Mashable has the story of a pair of filmmakers who have thought up a workaround. Using court transcripts, they're recreating the trial and posting it all to YouTube. In the interest of creating an unbiased record, they are reportedly using actors of equal physical attractiveness to portray each side. (No word on whether, in real life, the pro- and anti- same sex marriage forces involved in the trial are equally as good looking.)

Our friends at SeeClickFix have some cool news to share today: The do-it-yourself civic platform is going multilingual. Citizens will soon be able to report non-emergency issues in their community to those accountable for the public space in 83 languages anywhere in the world using SeeClickFix on their PC or mobile phone. (And just in time for PdF Europe!)

Reflections upon the Obama campaign's design work? A crowdsourced fundraising effort? Total techPres bait, but Obama campaign design director Scott Thomas is involved in an intriguing quest. Wanting to chronicle the art and design that both was created by the Obama for America campaign and developed organically by supporters, but to put out a book with considerable production values, Thomas decided to avoid traditional publisher, go DIY, and fundraise himself for the production of Designing Obama -- using Kickstarter, what Thomas calls an "Obama-like fundraising model."

The finished product is set to come in an 360-pages of hard-bound art and commentary.

Think few people would prepay $10 for a digital version, or $50 or more for a print version of a book they haven't seen yet? With 13 days to go, 883 backers have contributed $57,000 of the $65,000 target Thomas set for the first run of the book.

Perhaps best described as Etsy meets Model UN, DIYcity aims to empower citizens to collaboratively create "a city that is like the Internet in its openness, participation, distributed nature and rapid, organic evolution -- a city that is not centrally operated, but that is created, operated and improved upon by all." The brainchild of John Geraci, co-founder of local media aggregator Outside.in, DIYcity has spread from its roots in New York City to branches in more than 40 global cities, from Kuala Lumpur to Curitiba, Brazil. Two flagship projects are just getting off the ground. SickCity -- "realtime disease detection for your city" -- is an attempt to track the spread of diseases throughout urban environments through Twitter keyword searches. And DIYtraffic ties Yahoo traffic updates to a simple cell-phone SMS platform (powered, it seems, by Twitter). Solutions built out for one city are cycled back into the mix, so that developers across the world can pull from the best practices of their counterparts wherever they might happen to be. (Apologies for the fact that you will no doubt now have Jefferson Starship playing in your head for the rest of the day.)