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The 50 most interesting articles on Wikipedia

April 7, 2009

Deep in the bowels of the internet, I came across an exhaustive list of interesting Wikipedia articles by Ray Cadaster. It’s brilliant reading when you’re bored, so I got his permission to post the top 50 here.

Bookmark it, start reading, and become that person who’s always full of fascinating stuff you never knew about.

 

Posted November 23, 2009
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TypePad and lastn

TypePad have now enabled lastn to pull from all posts the 30-day restriction has been lifted. Yippee! No need for this hack any more: http://christophersleight.posterous.com/a-typepad-twitter-rss-hack

Filed under  //   typepad  
Posted November 18, 2009
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Top tips for climbers from Andy Kirkpatrick

British alpinist and writer Andy Kirkpatrick is currently publishing a series of top tips for climbers on his Twitter feed.

I wanted to keep these for future reference, so I created a tag in my Delicious account for them. All the tips are linked to from this page. And you can grab the RSS feed too.

I'm doing this with Andy's permission. If I get the time I'll make some code so you can embed the tips feed on your own website.

Filed under  //   andykirkpatrick   climbing   code  
Posted October 7, 2009
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A TypePad - Twitter - RSS hack

This is a work-around to the restriction on TypePad's lastn tag which only allows you to pull the latest posts from the last 30 days.

I'll write this up more fully at a later date, but broadly it would allow you publish links to the latest posts in a specific category on your blog - even if you hadn't posted something in that category for over 30 days.

1. Create an RSS feed for the category.
2. Hitch that up to a purpose-created Twitter account using TwitterFeed.com
3. Publish the twitter feed on your site using Remy Sharp's hack.
4. Style with CSS

Filed under  //   code   typepad  
Posted October 7, 2009
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