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iaincollins / gist:5dfbc22cdd704be2fd61
Created June 12, 2014 07:19
pseudo tabs-in-file
<script>
window.open('http://duckduckgo.com', '_blank');
window.open('http://news.bbc.co.uk', '_blank');
windoww.location = "http://explosm.net";
</script>
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iaincollins / UK Bills in the media
Last active July 25, 2019 07:17
Bills before the UK Parliament fetched & tagged and linked with news coverage from across the media using BBC News Labs APIs
Title: Specialist Printing Equipment and Materials (Offences) Bill
Type: Private Members' Bill, 10 Minute Rule Bill
Stage: House of Commons, 2nd reading
Sponsors: Mr David Amess
Documents: 1
Tags: body corporate, United Kingdom, supply Specialist Printing Equipment, related body corporate, attributable neglect
Articles: 0
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Title: Houses in Multiple Occupation (Energy Performance Certificates and Minimum Energy Efficiency Standards) Bill
Type: Private Members' Bill, Presentation Bill
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iaincollins / gist:0bc317c1a5bca896fb3a
Created September 29, 2014 12:47
Jim Davidson Co-Occurrences
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"img": "http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4b/CUN2008_Oscar_party_Gary_Busey.jpg/200px-CUN2008_Oscar_party_Gary_Busey.jpg",
"label": "Gary Busey",
"occurrence": "15",
"thing": "http://dbpedia.org/resource/Gary_Busey"
},
{
"img": "http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/56/Alice_par_John_Tenniel_32.png/200px-Alice_par_John_Tenniel_32.png",
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iaincollins / gist:3ed9e690f6d7f3fb8aa0
Created September 29, 2014 12:51
Adolf Hitler Co-Occurences
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"co-occurrences": [
{
"img": "http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/Vladimir_Putin_12015.jpg/200px-Vladimir_Putin_12015.jpg",
"label": "Vladimir Putin",
"occurrence": "89",
"thing": "http://dbpedia.org/resource/Vladimir_Putin"
},
{
"img": "http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/80/Official-photo-cameron.png/200px-Official-photo-cameron.png",
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iaincollins / gist:ab7637a1b60eb688723a
Created October 8, 2014 16:41
Tweets about ECHR from UK MPs
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"articles": [
{
"attributable_to_url": "http://dbpedia.org/resource/William_Bain_Scarth",
"cps_id": "twitter_517953738599059456",
"description": "RT @faisalislam: Combination of separate legal systems, ECHR incorporation into Scotland act, devolution &amp; ECHR withdrawal = quagmire http:\u2026",
"events": [],
"format": "TextualFormat",
"highlight": false,
"image": null,
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iaincollins / mp_twitter_accounts.csv
Created October 9, 2014 11:30
UK MP Twitter Accounts
We can make this file beautiful and searchable if this error is corrected: Unclosed quoted field in line 8.
full_name,party,offical_post,constituency,twitter_handle,uri,last_updated
"Ms Diane Abbott MP","Labour","","Hackney North and Stoke Newington","https://twitter.com/HackneyAbbott","http://dbpedia.org/resource/Diane_Abbott",2014-04-15T16:08:21+01:00
"Debbie Abrahams MP","Labour","","Oldham East and Saddleworth","https://twitter.com/Debbie_abrahams","http://dbpedia.org/resource/Debbie_Abrahams",2014-04-15T16:08:21+01:00
"Nigel Adams MP","Conservative","","Selby and Ainsty","TWITTER_UNKNOWN","http://dbpedia.org/resource/Nigel_Adams",2014-04-15T16:08:21+01:00
"Adam Afriyie MP","Conservative","","Windsor","https://twitter.com/AdamAfriyie","http://dbpedia.org/resource/Adam_Afriyie",2014-04-15T16:08:21+01:00
"Rt Hon Bob Ainsworth MP","Labour","","Coventry North East","TWITTER_UNKNOWN","http://dbpedia.org/resource/Bob_Ainsworth",2014-04-15T16:08:22+01:00
"Peter Aldous MP","Conservative","","Waveney","https://twitter.com/peter_aldous","http://dbpedia.org/resource/Peter_Aldous",2014-04-15T16:08:22+01:00
"Rt Hon Danny Al
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iaincollins / gist:3003478edb9bfcb6c737
Last active August 29, 2015 14:07
Stories about Ada Lovelace from The Juicer
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"attributable_to_url": "",
"cps_id": "twitter_515169056820051968",
"description": "RT @FindingAda: Find out if there's and Ada Lovelace Day event near you: http://t.co/0Xo0bhMYr8 If not, organise one! http://t.co/iVt8AlWZww",
"events": [],
"format": "TextualFormat",
"highlight": false,
"image": null,
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iaincollins / gist:ae30cdb679b34efda6da
Created October 14, 2014 11:13
Women in Science
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89milie_du_Ch%C3%A2telet
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._Catrina_Bryce
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._Grace_Cook
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_Lovelace
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_Yonath
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnes_Mary_Clerke
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnes_Pockels
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandra_Smirnoff
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Ball
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Catherine_Evans
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iaincollins / gist:d80fd6720ee77f13cae8
Last active March 27, 2019 20:40
YouGov API
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iaincollins / Bills with tags
Last active August 29, 2015 14:14
Combining UK Parliament data + NLP + BBC Things in node.js to tag Bills by topic
Tags for Employment Practices Bill:
{ 'Scottish Parliament':
{ label: 'Scottish Parliament',
hint: 'The Scottish Parliament is the devolved national, unicameral legislature of Scotland, located in the Holyrood area of the capital, Edinburgh. ',
uri: 'http://www.bbc.co.uk/things/59ab9b46-cb29-4394-bea7-59b2d6c74bc2#id',
properties: [Function] },
Wales:
{ label: 'Wales',
hint: 'a nation of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland',
uri: 'http://www.bbc.co.uk/things/00eb010f-568a-4b89-bbfe-799d5b812bed#id',