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function generateChart(figures) {
    // figures is an object mapping labels to numbers
    var cht = 'p'; // Chart type: pie
    var chs = '460x200'; // Image dimensions
    var chd = []; // Chart data
    var chl = []; // Corresponding labels
    var min = 0;
    var max = 0;
    $.each(figures, function(label, value) {
        chl[chl.length] = label;

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/* jQuery methods for accessing HTML comments and comment text
   Only tested in Safari. */

jQuery.fn.comments = function() {
    return this.contents().filter(function() {
        return this.nodeType == 8;
    })
};
jQuery.fn.commentText = function() {
    var s = [];

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# Compile nginx standalone without root access
mkdir ~/installed
mkdir ~/installed/nginx
mkdir ~/src
cd ~/src

# PCRE dependency - we'll compile against this statically
wget http://kent.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/pcre/pcre-7.8.tar.gz
tar -xzvf pcre-7.8.tar.gz

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"""
Convert numbers from base 10 integers to base X strings and back again.

Sample usage:

>>> base20 = BaseConverter('0123456789abcdefghij')
>>> base20.from_decimal(1234)
'31e'
>>> base20.from_decimal('31e')
1234

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/* Expanded form of a bookmarklet for extracting rev=canonical OR tinyurling a page */
(function(){
    var url=document.location;
    var links=document.getElementsByTagName('link');
    var found=0;
    for(var i = 0, l; l = links[i]; i++) {
        if (l.getAttribute('rev') == 'canonical' || (/alternate short/).exec(l.getAttribute('rel'))) {
            found=l.getAttribute('href');
            break;
        }

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/* Expanded form of a bookmarklet for extracting rev=canonical OR tinyurling a page */
(function(){
	var url=document.location;
	var links=document.getElementsByTagName('link');
	var found=0;
	for(var i = 0, l; l = links[i]; i++) {
		if (l.getAttribute('rev') == 'canonical' || (/alternate short/).exec(l.getAttribute('rel'))) {
			found=l.getAttribute('href');
			break;
		}

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(* 
  Open a new tab in Safari (and move focus to the URL bar)
  I have this configured as a Quicksilver trigger for ctrl+alt+T
 *)

tell application "Safari" to activate
tell application "System Events"
	tell process "Safari"
		click menu item "New Tab" of menu "File" of menu bar 1
	end tell

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http://sugg.search.yahoo.net/sg/?output=jsonp&nresults=10&command=django
http://sugg.search.yahoo.net/sg/?output=json&nresults=10&command=django
http://sugg.search.yahoo.net/sg/?output=xml&nresults=10&command=django

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def extract_form_fields(self, soup):
    "Turn a BeautifulSoup form in to a dict of fields and default values"
    fields = {}
    for input in soup.findAll('input'):
        # ignore submit/image with no name attribute
        if input['type'] in ('submit', 'image') and not input.has_key('name'):
            continue
        
        # single element nome/value fields
        if input['type'] in ('text', 'hidden', 'password', 'submit', 'image'):

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# Code for using http://developer.yahoo.com/geo/placemaker/
import urllib, httplib2

h = httplib2.Http()

URL = 'http://wherein.yahooapis.com/v1/document'
API_KEY = 'your-Yahoo-API-key'

def placemaker(text, doctype='text/plain'):
    head, response = h.request(URL, 'POST', headers={