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Photo by Dr. Charless Fowlkes, PhD read more…

Photo by Dr. Charless Fowlkes, PhD read more…

Create an executable file called "tinyurl" in your executable path which contains something like:

#!/bin/sh
wget -q -O - \
-U "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.8) Gecko/20071008 Firefox/2.0.0.8" \
--header="Accept: text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,video/x-mng,image/png,image/jpeg,image/gif;q=0.2,*/*;q=0.1" \
--header="Accept-Language: en" \
--header="Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7" \ read more...

				

I laughed so hard that I cried.

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1. Post inflamatory comment about someone egotistical enough to have their own "blog", and include link to their "blog".
2. Since they are egotistical, they will be checking their preferred blog indexing and serching services for links to and mentions of themself.
3. They will link back to the post of yours that mentioned them with probability 0 < p < 1
4. ?
5. Profit!

And I am ashamed that I've had so much exposure to the circle-jerk-osphere that this idea would even occur to me in the first place. read more…

1. Post inflamatory comment about someone egotistical enough to have their own "blog", and include link to their "blog".
2. Since they are egotistical, they will be checking their preferred blog indexing and serching services for links to and mentions of themself.
3. They will link back to the post of yours that mentioned them with probability 0 < p < 1
4. ?
5. Profit!

And I am ashamed that I've had so much exposure to the circle jerk -osphere that this idea would even occur to me in the first place. read more…

1. Post inflamatory comment about someone egotistical enough to have their own "blog", and include link to their "blog".
2. Since they are egotistical, they will be checking their preferred blog indexing and serching services for links to and mentions of themself.
3. They will link back to the post of yours that mentioned them with probability 0 < p < 1
4. ?
5. Profit!

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The U.S. Terrorist Watch List appears to be growing in some kind of automated fashion. Given the current size, it seems to have run into Bonferroni's Principle.read more…

Example code showing how to use Drupal API's support for xml rpc to post an item to a blog which supports the metaweblog XML-RPC api:

xmlrpc('http://blogs.www.friendster.com/t/api', 'metaWeblog.newPost', '31337', 'example@example.com', 'sample password', array('title' => 'drupal xmlrpc and metaweblog.newpost tutorial', 'link' => 'http://wtanaka.com/node/7746', 'description' => 'sample code for using xmlrpc and metaweblog.newpost in drupal'));

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