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<b>10.28.03</b>
<p><i>9:48pm</i>. I’m a little intoxicated, not gonna lie. So what if it’s not even
10pm and
it’s a Tuesday night? What? The Kirkland facebook is
open on my computer desktop and some of these people have pretty horrendous facebook
pics.
I almost want to put some of these faces next to pictures of farm animals and have
people
vote on which is more attractive. It’s not such a great idea and probably not even
funny, but
Billy comes up with the idea of comparing two people from the facebook, and only
sometimes
putting a farm animal in there. Good call Mr. Olson! I think he’s onto something.
<p><i>11:09pm</i>. Yea, it’s on. I’m not exactly sure how the farm animals are going
to
fit into this whole thing (you can’t really ever be sure with farm animals…), but I
like the
idea of comparing two people together. It gives the whole thing a very Turing feel,
since
people’s ratings of the pictures will be more implicit than, say, choosing a number to
represent each person’s hotness like they do on hotornot.com. The other thing we’re
going to
need is a lot of pictures. Unfortunately, Harvard doesn’t keep a public centralized
facebook
so I’m going to have to get all the images from the individual houses that people are
in.
And that means no freshman pictures…drats.
<p><i>12:58pm</i>. Let the hacking begin. First on the list is Kirkland. They keep
everything
open and allow indexes in their Apache configuration, so a little wget magic is all
that’s
necessary to download the entire Kirkland facebook. Child’s play.
<p><i>1:03am</i>. Next on the list is Eliot. They’re also open, but with no indexes
in
Apache. I can run an empty search and it returns all of the images in the database in
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single page. Then I can save the page and Mozilla will save all the images for me.
Excellent. Moving right along…
<p><i>1:42am</i>. Quincy has no online facebook. What a sham. Nothing I can do about
that.
<p><i>1:52am</i>. Leverett is a little better. They still make you search, but you
can
do an empty search and get links to pages with every student’s picture. It’s slightly
obnoxious that they only let you view one picture at a time, and there’s no way I’m
going
to go to 500 pages to download pics one at a time, so it’s definitely necessary to
break out
emacs and modify that perl script. This time it’s going to look at the directory and
figure
out what pages it needs to go to by finding links with regexes. Then it’ll just go to
all
of the pages it found links to and jack the images from them. It’s taking a few tries
to
compile the script…another Beck’s is in order.
<p><i>2:08am</i>. Mather is basically the same as Leverett, except they break their
directory down into classes. There aren’t any freshmen in their facebook…how weak.
So I
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