This is just a small update, you no longer need to provide a password to display a public timeline.

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I saw this on shell-fu today:

curl -Is slashdot.org | egrep '^X-(F|B)' | cut -d \- -f 2

and, like the tip says, it will give you a random quote from Fry or Bender of Futurama. So what’s going on here and how can we make it better?

Curl is silently grabbing the HTTP headers from slashdot.org, and piping the results into egrep. egrep searches for any line in the piped data that start with X-F or X-B and then pipes that information into cut which trims the first two characters from the line so you’ll only see the emitted quote.

Well if that’s the case, then we can modify the egrep to:

egrep '^X-(B|F|L)'

to get quotes from Bender, Fry and also Leela.

Today we have a track sampling solely the dirty business of its collaborators, Javanese gamelan, and some heavy rock, alright?

Reddit users already know that imgur is probably one of the easiest, most inobtrusive ways to host an image online. Now, the good imgur devs have made an api available for developers.

I wrote a quick little python interface for it using pycurl and simplejson. It is available for download here.