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June 19, 2008

If I had it my way there would be no caps lock and everything would be in text, but I don't, but read is a Ruby script for displaying and openning RSS feeds in text mode. To use it pass in the name of a site (e.g. reddit.com) or name (e.g. reddit) and you'll get a list of the RSS entries. Then you can choose one to open in an evil browser to read more. Of course it only works on macs. Here's an example: 
r3potatoo:ruby jeff$ ./read reddit
*** www.reddit.com/
*** www.reddit.com/.rss
[1] reddit.com: what's new online
      ( http://reddit.com/ )

[2] I would love to know what sick bastard at Kellogs came up 
    with this genius idea.
      ( http://www.reddit.com/goto?rss=true&id=t3_6nys3 )

[3] "I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to 
    acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely 
    about oil," Alan Greenspan
      ( http://www.reddit.com/goto?rss=true&id=t3_6o076 )

[4] Ahmadinejad: Oil Crisis “Fake,” Result of Dollar Devaluation 
    - HOLY SHIT, it's like he reads my mind!
      ( http://www.reddit.com/goto?rss=true&id=t3_6nyoz )


[5] So let me get this straight. "Curveball", who lied 
    us into the Iraq War, was working at a Burger King in Germany 
    when he gave his "intelligence"? Wowz.
      ( http://www.reddit.com/goto?rss=true&id=t3_6o06b )

[6] Reddit has gone Open Source !!
      ( http://www.reddit.com/goto?rss=true&id=t3_6nw57 )

[7] Wins $250K with scratch lottery ticket AGAIN while re-enacting 
    how he won his car
      ( http://www.reddit.com/goto?rss=true&id=t3_6o005 )

[8] Surviving the Hits - Suzanne Vega
      ( http://www.reddit.com/goto?rss=true&id=t3_6o19a )

[9] How Cops Really Want to Police
      ( http://www.reddit.com/goto?rss=true&id=t3_6nyx6 )

[10] A 19-year-old Italian tourist ambushed by a knife-wielding
     thug managed to disarm the attacker by grabbing his blade 
     with her bare hands and wrestling it away
     ( http://www.reddit.com/goto?rss=true&id=t3_6nyzw )

[11] If Indiana Jones 4 were shorter and more honest, it would be 
     this
     ( http://www.reddit.com/goto?rss=true&id=t3_6nwl4 )

[12] Trump on CNBC: Big Oil "ripping off this country"
     ( http://www.reddit.com/goto?rss=true&id=t3_6nww5 )

[13] Someone tell me why?!?!
     ( http://www.reddit.com/goto?rss=true&id=t3_6nyrv )

[14] Put your feet up [pic]
     ( http://www.reddit.com/goto?rss=true&id=t3_6nziz )

[15] Police break demonstrators leg, and then handcuff her.
     ( http://www.reddit.com/goto?rss=true&id=t3_6nz8i )

[16] Silent World [Pics]
     ( http://www.reddit.com/goto?rss=true&id=t3_6nzcr )

[17] Single? [Pic]
     ( http://www.reddit.com/goto?rss=true&id=t3_6o0k0 )

[18] Cancer patient's tumours vanished within two months after
     being injected with billions of his own cloned immune cells
     ( http://www.reddit.com/goto?rss=true&id=t3_6nzsf )

[19] Got six weeks? Try the hundred push ups training program
     ( http://www.reddit.com/goto?rss=true&id=t3_6nz1k )

[20] The General who led an Army investigation into the horrific 
     detainee abuse at Abu Ghraib has accused the Bush 
     administration of war crimes and is calling for accountability.
     ( http://www.reddit.com/goto?rss=true&id=t3_6ny1x )

[21] There are no ugly women... only poor ones
     ( http://www.reddit.com/goto?rss=true&id=t3_6nx9x )

[22] Keith Olbermann's special report on McCain's support of 
     the 'Enron Loophole', which allows speculators to drive 
     up energy prices. McCane is screwed.
     ( http://www.reddit.com/goto?rss=true&id=t3_6o0zk )

[23] Kucinich threatens 60 impeachment articles (instead of 35) 
     if Judiciary doesn’t act
     ( http://www.reddit.com/goto?rss=true&id=t3_6o0ef )

[24] Watermelon Viking Commands You To Eat Him [PIC]
     ( http://www.reddit.com/goto?rss=true&id=t3_6o1er )

[25] Bush gets drilled offshore by a real journalist (Video)
     ( http://www.reddit.com/goto?rss=true&id=t3_6o028 )

[26] blog.reddit - We've open sourced reddit!
     ( http://www.reddit.com/goto?rss=true&id=t3_6nw36 )


Please choose a number between 1 and 26 or 'q' to quit> 26
Posted by jeff at June 19, 2008 07:43 AM