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proof of concept : what's on first?

asc @ localhost in /usr/home/asc/bin/perl/nytimes
119 ->perl ./mk-tasty
...
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/11/politics/11RIGH.html
found matching del.icio.us tags:
  lookup del.icio.us tag /abu_ghraib at flickr:
  lookup del.icio.us tag /mesopotamia at flickr:
  lookup del.icio.us tag /politics at flickr:
    http://www.flickr.com/photo.gne?id=29006
    http://www.flickr.com/photo.gne?id=28119
  lookup del.icio.us tag /torture at flickr: 
    http://www.flickr.com/photo.gne?id=31997
  lookup del.icio.us tag /usa at flickr:
    http://www.flickr.com/photo.gne?id=22954
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/11/politics/11CAMB.html
...
   

You can also do stuff like take someone's del.icio.us RSS feed, find all the corresponding tags on the site for each URL and then poll Flickr for matching images.

(I would have used the main del.icio.us feed but, as I write this, somebody's squirted bad-ness in to the mix and the XML is mal-formed.)

This is what it looks like, but it could also look like this.

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“Politics and Government” are on first, today. ←  → All your play are belong to loud