facebook friend status on my desktop


Facebook released RSS updates of friend statuses, so, me want play.

geektool is a utility for OSX that allows you to throw any piece of information
you want over your desktop’s wallpaper and under any running application.
here’s what a part of my desktop looks like:
full of valueable information, and now friend’s Facebook status too, until it
starts annoying me and I pull it off.

it takes 5 lines of Python code:

import feedparser
d = feedparser.parse(“http://www.facebook.com/feeds/friends_status.php?….”)
e = d.entries[0:5]
for x in e:
   print x['title']

craigslist minor changes

just noticed two changes in craiglists.com, one for ‘prettiness’ and one for ‘cashiness’.
they added some css to their tabs at the top:

i’m all for simplicity, but these pages are plain ugly. i keep wondering if this is the result of taking too seriously the phrase ‘dont fiddle with a cash-milking cow’ or just old-school stubbornness.
they also added a link to RSS results at the bottom, together with a link that adds this page to your yahoo page thingy:

i wonder how much that little links is worth…