Tag Archive: twitter

May 05 2012

Pentametron creates sonnets out of users’ tweets

This is certainly a lot better use of a Twitter bot than most. It’s just the sort of high-concept bot I would love to do, if only I had a decent idea for one. And I bet it’ll irritate real poets, like Cuttlefish, for its (present) flaws. Creator Ranjit Bhatnagar built, in PHP, a script …

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Feb 21 2012

Vic Toews: Gun registries are invasion of privacy. Internet snooping is great though!

During the Conservative fight to fool everyone into believing the long gun registry is a bad idea, one of the most frequent and most proximate reasons the CPC and their spambot flaks gave for dismantling and bonfiring the database was that it served as an invasion of privacy that allowed the government too much insight …

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Aug 27 2011

Hurricane Irene as seen from space

It may be a lumbering behemoth that’ll peter mostly out before it hits us here in Canuckistan, but it looks like there’s pretty much no avoiding this one. If you’re anywhere on the East Coast, you’re in this juggernaut’s way. It’s very sunny and bright and cheery-looking here at the moment. Meanwhile, everyone on Twitter …

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Aug 17 2011

Mock The Movie: Atom Age Vampire

Lifted from The JAYFK: Last week, we kicked-off Mock The Movie with the SyFy Original Movie‘Sands of Oblivion‘.  Participating smart-ass science fiction and horror movie lovers took to twitter and shared their snarky comments with the tag #mtm.  This week, we’ll be enjoying Atom Age Vampire! This 1960′s gem has a damsel in distress, a mad scientist, and vampirism caused by science!!! …

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Aug 14 2011

Python Twitter-bot Framework

I’m working on a Twitter bot to be used for the upcoming episode of Mock The Movie this Thursday, and I have every intention of participating as often as humanly possible, if not the least way by running this bot when necessary. If you’re a Python developer and are interested in building a Twitter bot, …

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