2003-04-20»
don’t preach»Madonna floods the P2P networks with an MP3 of her saying “What the fuck do you think you’re doing?”. To quote the Wombles, making good use of the things that we find.
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my god it’s full of microstars»
My back yard is filling up with people.Phil (off of Samuel Pepys and the Craig of Haddock), and Gavin, my old flatmate and major webcasting genius. Matt and Fiona also came by but we chased them away. Get orf my land!
I’m still feeling a bit guilty I didn’t update panopticon for this year. But I just saw a sneak preview of a demo Ludicorp is doing for Emerging Tech that would have knocked anything I could have done into a cocked hat. Hooray for the Lazyweb!
(Quinn points out that this entry reeks of “peppy happy danny”. A very good sign I should go to bed and sleep until I’m grumpy again.)
2003-04-18»
more automatic hyperlinking»Ronan has an Emacs and Perl hybrid that spots words that he hyperlinks in past pages, and then uses that to suggest suitable href’s in current entries. Looks pretty neat, although of course I can’t touch emacs to test it, lest my Vim-wielding hands turn to dust.
oops»
We took a break from NTK this week, but forgot to tell anyone. Oops.
(Oh, and then I put the wrong date on the invite. It’s all about the admissions of fallibility, isn’t it?)
2003-04-17»
awww» 
It’d be unfair to give this as the reason I haven’t been blogging much lately. It is the reason I’ve been typing a lot slower:
lucky google for blosxom»
Todd Larason wrote an even more automatic hyperlinker macro for blosxom called “autoluckygoogle “. Much better name!
overenthusiastic mac hyperlinking»
Giles Turnbull asked if anyone had written an equivalent of the overenthusiastic hyperlinker for Mac as an OS X Service. I never worked out how to get Services to work, but a while back I did hack up something for Cory for BBEdit . It worked fine on my borrowed ibook, but I didn’t have time to work out how to get it to find Python libraries on his machine. Then the ibook broke :(. Here’s the code – stick it in /Applications/BBEdit 6.5/BBEdit Support/Unix Support/Unix Filters/ then spend ages trying to get it to find the pygoogle libraries (which you also need to download and install). Then give it out as a DMG for others to use. Yay!
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#!/sw/bin/python import google import sys import re def main(argv): search=open(argv[0],"r").readline() data = google.doGoogleSearch(search) if (data.results[0].summary): title = data.results[0].summary else: title = data.results[0].title title = re.sub('</*b>','',title) print '<a href="%s" title="%s">%s</a>' % (data.results[0].URL, title, search) if __name__ == '__main__': main(sys.argv[1:]) |
Just select the text in BBEdit, and then – oh, I forget what you do. Some BBEdit option marked “Unix Filters” I imagine. I’m such a tease.
Here’s another from the bag of tricks I sent Cory – this automatically creates a new QuickTopic and subscribes you to it. Save it in the same place and give it a go. Just select the text you want as a title, and let her rip (you’ll need to change the yourname/yourmail stuff in it). It’ll spit out the URL for your discussion. I think Cory still uses this. It used to drive me crazy watching him jump through all these manual loops just to post one damn Boing Boing post. Like the boy hasn’t enough things to do.
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#!/sw/bin/python import xmlrpclib import sys yourname = 'Your Name Here' yourmail = 'your@email.address.example.com' # ---------------------------------------------------------------------- print len(sys.argv) title=open(sys.argv[1],"r").readline() if (title == ''): title = "Boing Boing Discussion" quicktopic = xmlrpclib.Server("http://www.quicktopic.com/cgi-bin/xmlrpc.pl") result = quicktopic.tio.newTopic( yourname, # user name for topic creator yourmail, # email for creator 'boing', # forum ID (the part before the /H/ in the URL) title, # topic name '', # first message 1, # subscribe: get email for every post '', #linkfrom -- linked forum/topic '', #linksubject linked topic name 0, #privacy (currently unused option) '', #language (default is English) ) url = result.split(",")[0] print ' <a href="%s">Discuss</a>' % url |
an electronic marshall information plan»
The Humanity Libraries Project is the sort of resource we were looking for after we came back from Kaindu in Africa in 2001: freely redistributable practical information for developing countries.
In order to achieve broad public participation to the pressing global issues, we propose that core UN knowledge should be released in “copyleft” in standard formats. Then they can be bundled on low cost cd-roms or central servers in each country. Copyleft would mean that UN agencies retain copyrights, and control over the commercial book sales. But that at the same time free use and electronic dissemination is allowed for non-commercial purposes without the actual inefficient centralized copyright control.
Most of the freed books look very NGO’ish, but it’s a start. You can send off for a cheap CD containing 160,000 pages to redistribute in your country. (via memepool)
2003-04-16»
vim, google and overenthusiastic hyperlinking»Writing huge swathes of text on Webpages without putting in hyperlinks looks – I dunno, somehow a bit impolite. So I wrote a vim/python macro that lets me wrap selected text with its corresponding URL, pulled from Google’s top entry. So I can write A Mighty Wind, select it, hit “,g” and – voila – it becomes A Mighty Wind. You can also hit “,g” in normal mode and it’ll wrap the word the cursor is sitting on. Here’s my hack – you’ll also need Mark Pilgrim‘s pygoogle code.
In your .vimrc, add these lines:
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" ,g - create google a href for word under cursor map ,g <Esc>Bm`:r!ghref <cword><CR>"gdd``i<C-R><C-R>g<esc>dw vmap ,g yvgvdm`:r!ghref '<C-R>=substitute(@0, "['\n]", " ", "g")<cr>'<cr>"gdd``i<C-R><C-R>g<Esc> |
Now put this program somewhere in your PATH, saved as “ghref”
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#!/usr/bin/python ## # ghref - takes a string on command line, looks it up in google, outputs # the HTML for a hyperlink to the "I'm feeling lucky" URL ## import google import sys import re def main(argv): search=argv[0] data = google.doGoogleSearch(search) if (data.results[0].summary): title = data.results[0].summary else: title = data.results[0].title title = re.sub('</*b>','',title) print '<a href="%s" title="%s">%s</a>' % (data.results[0].URL, title, argv[0]) if __name__ == '__main__': main(sys.argv[1:]) |
It’s just a fiddled-around recorded macro. I imagine there’s bugs – I fixed a couple just copying this out. But maybe it’ll inspire someone else to write a better version.
chefmoz»
I’ve never spotted Chef Moz before. It’s a spin-off of ODP that lets you read and edit reviews of over 185,000 restaurants worldwide. The data is all under an open license – I wonder if someone could craft a PDA app out of this? I wonder if someone already has?