Ben Welsh palewire

Reporter, Editor, Computer Programmer

palewire / .block

Last active August 17, 2023 03:59 — forked from mbostock/.block

World Choropleth

	license: MIT
	height: 600
	border: no

palewire / 0_reuse_code.js

Last active August 29, 2015 14:18

Here are some things you can do with Gists in GistBox.

	// Use Gists to store code you would like to remember later on
	console.log(window); // log the "window" object to the console

palewire / wardead-splash.py

Last active December 15, 2015 04:19 — forked from ascheink/gitmo-splash.rb

Used to make a montage of faces of California's War Dead for a Facebook poster image. https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151492464488010&set=a.74076168009.73112.5863113009&type=1

	import os
	import urllib2
	from urllib import urlretrieve
	from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

	# Open our page with all the photos
	response = urllib2.urlopen('http://projects.latimes.com/wardead/iraq/')
	# Hand it off to BeautifulSoup for HTML parsing
	soup = BeautifulSoup(response.read())
	# Narrow the page down to just the main body well

palewire / Hartnett Command Performance

Created September 30, 2011 20:40 — forked from ryanpitts/Hartnett Command Performance

Let Ubuntu read you the latest @wmhartnett updates from Twitter

curl https://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline.rss?screen_name=wmhartnett | grep '<description>.*</description>' | sed -e 's/<\/*description>//g' -e 's/ \/ wmhartnett//g' -e 's/wmhartnett: //g' | espeak