Posted by drfrog
Mon, 27 Apr 2009 00:40:18 GMT
the WTL site also has some nice scripts for current listening updates to blogs and such too
how does one run a script without starting up the script editor?
iTunes To Twitter AppleScript | Mac Tricks And Tips: "iTunes To Twitter AppleScript Apple Script Tagged Under: Apple Script, iTunes, Twitter iTunes To Twitter AppleScript Hey I’m starting to like Twitter. Its kind of fun, and a good way to keep up to date. I have a Mac Tricks And Tips Twitter feed, if you want to keep upto date with the latest posts, news and updates. I will probably be using it a lot over the next couple of days as this site is updated. Anyway, I have been playing around with a couple of AppleScripts that are really fun. They are designed to post your current iTunes track to Twitter. The potential to run up hundreds of tweets is bound to happen. "
(Via .)
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Posted by drfrog
Sun, 26 Apr 2009 19:54:37 GMT
also you can watch see the world map and the influence of this here:
healthmap
there is a twitter status alert as well:
swine flu twitter
4 cases of swine flu confirmed in Nova Scotia, 2 in B.C.: "4 cases of swine flu confirmed in Nova Scotia, 2 in B.C. Global vigilance grows amid Mexico's outbreak Last Updated: Sunday, April 26, 2009 | 2:02 PM ET Comments156Recommend173 CBC News Women wearing surgical masks pray in the Zocalo plaza in Mexico City on Sunday.Women wearing surgical masks pray in the Zocalo plaza in Mexico City on Sunday. (Dario Lopez-Mills/Associated Press) Nova Scotia and British Columbia have confirmed cases of swine flu, while new cases of the infection have been found in New York City, as health officials around the world test for a virus linked to a more serious outbreak in Mexico. Nova Scotia's chief public health officer, Dr. Robert Strang, said Sunday the National Microbiology Laboratory in Winnipeg confirmed late Saturday that four young people in the province are recovering from 'relatively mild' cases of the disease. Strang said the four are between the ages of 12 and 18 and all attend a private school in the Windsor area of Nova Scotia. They had been part of a group of students who were on a school trip to Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula in early April, Dr. Gaynor Watson-Creed, medical officer of health for Capital Health, told reporters B.C.'s Centre for Disease Control on Sunday confirmed cases of swine flu involving two people from the province who recently returned from Mexico."
(Via CBC.)
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Posted by drfrog
Fri, 24 Apr 2009 20:16:22 GMT
The Diet That Shrinks Smarty Pants: "Intellectuals and wonks have finally found their version of the Atkins: a diet complete with history, biology, psychology, and Harvard's seal of approval.
America's brainiacs are slimming down, and that might be because many of them are on the same..."
(Via The Daily Beast - Blogs and Stories.)
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Posted by drfrog
Tue, 21 Apr 2009 00:11:48 GMT
Convergence Continues
Hacking Perl in Nightclubs
by Alex Mclean
August 31, 2004
I've found the experiences of dancing and programming to have a great deal in common. With both I am immersed in an abstract world of animated structures, building up and breaking down many times before finally reaching a conclusion. Indeed, when the operation of even the dullest data-munging computer program is visualized, for example in a debugger, it does seem to be dancing around its loops and conditions -- moving in patterns through time.
Continues here:
http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2004/08/31/livecode.html
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Posted by drfrog
Mon, 20 Apr 2009 19:40:32 GMT
Pot vs. Alcohol: "
Retired Seattle police chief Norm Stamper:
Over the past four years I’ve asked police officers throughout the U.S. (and in Canada) two questions. When’s the last time you had to fight someone under the influence of marijuana? (I’m talking marijuana only, not pot plus a six-pack or a fifth of tequila.) My colleagues pause, they reflect. Their eyes widen as they realize that in their five or fifteen or thirty years on the job they have never had to fight a marijuana user. I then ask: When’s the last time you had to fight a drunk? They look at their watches.
"
(Via Daring Fireball.)
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Posted by drfrog
Mon, 20 Apr 2009 19:37:50 GMT
Stephen Hawking rushed to hospital: "Physicist Stephen Hawking, one of the world's most famous scientists, is 'very ill' in hospital, the University of Cambridge said Monday."
(Via CBC | Top Stories News.)
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Posted by drfrog
Sun, 19 Apr 2009 01:31:40 GMT
Antarctic Ice Is Growing, Not Melting Away, At Davis Station: "schwit1 writes 'A report from The Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research says that Antarctic ice is growing, not melting away. Ice core drilling in the fast ice off Australia's Davis Station in East Antarctica by the Antarctic Climate and Ecosystems Co-Operative Research Centre shows that last year, the ice had a maximum thickness of 1.89m, its densest in 10 years. The average thickness of the ice at Davis since the 1950s is 1.67m. A paper to be published soon by the British Antarctic Survey in the journal Geophysical Research Letters is expected to confirm that over the past 30 years, the area of sea ice around the continent has expanded.'
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
"
(Via Slashdot.)
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Posted by drfrog
Sat, 18 Apr 2009 19:47:56 GMT
On April 4, the US Supreme Court rejected former Black Panther and radical journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal's appeal for a new guilt-phase trial. The Court has not yet decided whether it will consider the Philadelphia District Attorney's appeal of two lower court rulings that Abu-Jamal deserves a new sentencing hearing if the death penalty is to be re-instated. This means that if the Supreme Court rules in favor of the DA, Abu-Jamal could be executed without a new sentencing hearing.
http://indymedia.us/en/2009/04/36954.shtml
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Posted by drfrog
Sun, 05 Apr 2009 01:08:49 GMT
Roman police find sewer children: "Italian police find more than 100 immigrants, including 24 Afghan children, living in sewers beneath railway stations in Rome."
(Via BBC News.)
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