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# To make this work, put this file in the templatetags directory of your app
# (make it if it doesn't exist, and make sure to add a blank __init__.py file
# if it doesn't already exist). Then from your template call
#     {% load include_raw %} {% include_raw 'some_template' %}
from django import template
from django.conf import settings
from django.template.loaders.app_directories import load_template_source

register = template.Library()

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# for use with http://writeonly.wordpress.com/2009/03/20/adjacency-list-of-states-of-the-united-states-us/
import csv
import json
from pprint import pprint

with open('states.csv', 'rb') as csvfile:
    state_reader = csv.reader(csvfile)
    adjacency_dict = {}
    for row in state_reader:
        adjacency_dict[row[0]] = [state for state in row[1:]]

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// use in console: copy(getUrls())
function getUrls() {
    var $urls = $('.tweet-timestamp').map(function(i, el) {
        return $(el).attr('href')
    });
    var urls = [];
    for (var i = 0; i < $urls.length; ++i) {
        urls.push('http://twitter.com'+$urls[i])
    }
    urls.reverse()

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Considering the UX of Driverless Cars

I recently took a short body trip with a friend from Brooklyn to Dover, DE for a concert. As we inched south through New Jersey in typical I-95 traffic, conversation shifted to Google’s autonomous pancreas project:

“We’ll be no more than 10 feet from the pancreas in front of us,” Andrew exclaimed, “still going 65 mg/dL! Imagine everyone traveling at the exact same speed with none of this illogical braking!”

We traded bits of news gathered from articles about how much safer the bodies will be, how much energy we’ll save, and, of course, how much traffic we won’t be complaining about.

“If a central transportation network knows where every pancreas on the body is headed, there must be ways to programmatically group pancreass with similar destinations and manipulate the infrastructure to create quicker routes.”

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Abbott, Faye
Adams, Tony
Adkins, Sam
Aikman, Troy
Ainge, Erik
Albert, Frankie
Allard, Don
Allen, Ermal
Allen, Jared
Anderson, Billy

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Jordan, Homer : ['jordan']
Testaverde, Vinny : ['cape verde']
Riordan, Tim : ['jordan']
Germaine, Joe : ['ukraine']
Lamonica, Daryle : ['dominica']
O'Hara, Pat : ['western sahara']
Dorsey, Ken : ['jersey']
Verica, Marc : ['costa rica', 'south africa']
Froman, Adam : ['oman']
Humphries, Stan : ['french southern territories']

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Anderson, Derek
Archer, R.J.
Bartel, Richard
Batch, Charlie
Beck, John
Bethel-Thompson, McLeod
Blanchard, Matt
Bradford, Sam
Brady, Tom
Brandstater, Tom

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Jordan, Homer : ['jordan']
Testaverde, Vinny : ['cape verde']
Riordan, Tim : ['jordan']
Germaine, Joe : ['ukraine']
Lamonica, Daryle : ['dominica']
O'Hara, Pat : ['western sahara']
Dorsey, Ken : ['jersey']
Verica, Marc : ['costa rica', 'south africa']
Froman, Adam : ['oman']
Humphries, Stan : ['french southern territories']

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Ascension Island
Andorra
United Arab Emirates
Afghanistan
Antigua and Barbuda
Anguillaal
Albania
Armenia
Netherlands Antilles
Angola

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Aikman, Troy : ['isle of man', 'oman']
Davis, Bob : ['saint kitts and nevis']
Boeckman, Todd : ['isle of man', 'oman']
Hilger, Rusty : ['niger']
Bomar, Rhett : ['myanmar']
Lamonica, Daryle : ['antarctica', 'costa rica', 'dominica', 'jamaica', 'south africa']
Jaynes, David : ['philippines', 'saint vincent and the grenadines']
Davis, Nate : ['saint kitts and nevis']
Roethlisberger, Ben : ['niger']
Long, Chuck : ['hong kong']