Code to quickly create a mosaic image of the faces of the detainees still in Gitmo http://i.imgur.com/tIqdGtH.jpg

gitmo-splash.rb

require 'nokogiri'
require 'httparty'

puts "Scraping ids of detainees in custody"
ids = []
(1..10).each do |n|
  response = HTTParty.get "http://projects.nytimes.com/guantanamo/detainees/held?page=#{n}"
  page = Nokogiri::HTML(response)
  ids += page.css('#detaineesTable a').map { |link| $1 if /detainees\/(\d+)/ =~ link['href'] }.compact
end

puts "Grabbing WikiLeaks photos"
ids.each do |id|
  url = "http://projects.nytimes.com/guantanamo/images/faces/#{"%06d" % id}.jpg"
  system "wget -q #{url}" if HTTParty.get(url).code == 200
end

puts "Combining images"
system "convert -define jpeg:size=200x200 0*.jpg -thumbnail 60x60^ -gravity center -extent 60x60 square.jpg"
system "montage -geometry 60x60+0+0 -tile 15x10 square*.jpg splash.jpg"