Of course, the entire hoax needs a little software to track the movement. Detailed instructions on creating the map* can be found at github.com/gleuch/gcar-tracker.

(*Some computer skillz required.)

Posted by Greg Leuch on Feb 15.10 to app, berlin, code, gleuch, google, how to, ruby, sinatra   

As Twitter releases its official support for retweets, we’ve decided to hack help them test out their new system by increasing the volume of retweets. Retweet Game applies retweeting into a game, with the winners receiving hundreds of new retweets and followers.

Retweet Game exploits the user’s desires for Twitter popularity and reach with a unassuming and forgettable interface while thrusting users’ common conversations into the upper bounds of Twitter famousness. Users to gamble their time and tweets for a chance to win a retweet round. Perfect loosing your *real* Twitter friends.

Of course, you can always increase your odds with a donation to F.A.T. :D

Retweet Game was made by Greg Leuch using Sinatra.
Grab the source code and run your own instance of Retweet Game.

Posted by Greg Leuch on Nov 11.09 to games, retweet, ruby, sinatra, Twitter, website   

ADVANCED FAT LAB TECHNOLOGY DETECTS KANYE BLOG RANTS AND ALERTS TO TWITTER IN REAL-TIME.

STAY ALERT. STAY SAFE. SUBSCRIBE TO THE KANYE RANT DETECTION SYSTEM

→ SOURCE CODE (RUBY+MECHANIZE)
BY JAMIE WILKINSON & EVAN ROTH

Posted by Jamie Dubs on May 14.09 to kanye, KANYEWEBST, Projects, rants, ruby, web   

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I have recently constructed the first Fatbot to do our bidding. If you say one of several keywords in the #FATLAB IRC channel the fatbot will look up some information for you.

Fatbot currently responds to:
* !meme — auto-generate an internet catchphrase from Automeme API
* !swineflu — print latest stats from the CDC.

Ex. 1:

<jamiew> !swineflu
<fatbot> U.S. Human Cases of H1N1 Flu Infection:
         226 cases,  1 death -- http://www.cdc.gov/h1n1flu/
<jamiew> !meme
<fatbot> YOU HAVE NO CHANCE TO GET LAID, MAKE YOUR TIME

fatbot was made with ruby & isaac.

Posted by Jamie Dubs on May 04.09 to irc, memes, Projects, ruby, swineflu   

A gl_tail visualization of the fffff.at traffic logs, at 2x realtime. Recorded March 12th, 2008 at 12:30pm.

Posted by Jamie Dubs on Mar 19.08 to analysis, datavis, hits, jdubs, opengl, ruby