Remove MITeX from project ideas (because it is a project now!)

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@@ -170,12 +170,6 @@ password, and then know how to use Barnowl.
 
 _Contact: afarrell_
 
-## MITeX
-
-Not a fully formed thought, yet, but the basic idea is to have a web app that lets users create a document, and then it texs the document nicely for them, based on some template that they've selected, and gives them a PDF.  They should have the ability to edit the source or just use the WYSIWYG editor.
-
-_Contact: jhamrick_
-
 ## Build a web client providing full control to the user
 
 Create a web browser extension (or possibly a stand-alone browser) that is "web-developer antagonistic".  It essentially takes full advantage of the
@@ -253,9 +247,9 @@ _Contact: geofft, broder_
 
 ## Github-to-zephyr connector
 
-For git repositories that we have control over, it's easy to use our home-grown (post-receive zephyr hook)[http://web.mit.edu/snippets/git-hooks/zephyr-post-receive] to send zephyrs when somebody pushes. We can't directly edit hooks on sites like (Github)[http://github.com]. However, Github does support (submitting a POST request)[http://help.github.com/post-receive-hooks/] to an arbitrary URL when somebody pushes. It would be cool if there was a site - probably running on scripts.mit.edu - that you could point Github's post-receive hook at to get zephyred whenever somebody pushed to Github.
+For git repositories that we have control over, it's easy to use our home-grown [post-receive zephyr hook](http://web.mit.edu/snippets/git-hooks/zephyr-post-receive) to send zephyrs when somebody pushes. We can't directly edit hooks on sites like [Github](http://github.com). However, Github does support [submitting a POST request](http://help.github.com/post-receive-hooks/) to an arbitrary URL when somebody pushes. It would be cool if there was a site - probably running on scripts.mit.edu - that you could point Github's post-receive hook at to get zephyred whenever somebody pushed to Github.
 
-(Bitbucket)[http://www.bitbucket.org/help/ServiceIntegration#post] and (Google Code)[http://code.google.com/p/support/wiki/PostCommitWebHooks} also support similar APIs.
+[Bitbucket](http://www.bitbucket.org/help/ServiceIntegration#post) and [Google Code](http://code.google.com/p/support/wiki/PostCommitWebHooks) also support similar APIs.
 
 _Contact: broder_
 
@@ -268,6 +262,25 @@ _Contact: broder_
 
 _Contact: mostly geofft_
 
+## Binary compatibility between OSes
+
+Help the cause of OS ecumenism! FreeBSD provides [binary
+compatibility](http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/linuxemu.html) with
+Linux operating systems: an add-on module to the kernel knows how to
+interpret Linux-"personality" programs, just like the base kernel can
+interpret FreeBSD-"personality" ones, and a standard component in the
+FreeBSD ports system will install a number of libraries from Fedora 10
+in /compat/linux.
+
+However, the number of people who use FreeBSD as their own OS is limited
+compared to those who use Linux or Mac OS X. Possible projects here
+include BSD binary compatibility on Linux, or porting FreeBSD's Linux
+binary compatibility to Mac OS X (which has a bunch of BSD-like parts,
+but whose core kernel is actually Mach). The latter would allow running
+Linux locker software on [MacAthena](http://macathena.mit.edu).
+
+_Contact: geofft, kaduk_
+
 ## Your Project Here
 
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