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ljlatest

ljlatest(6x)							XScreenSaver manual						      ljlatest(6x)

NAME

       ljlatest - prints the most recent public posts on livejournal.com.

SYNOPSIS

       ljlatest [--verbose] [--columns N]

DESCRIPTION

       The  ljlatest  script reads the most recent public posts made to livejournal.com, and prints them on stdout, after doing a rudimentary con-
       version of HTML to plain text.

       This script is just a wrapper around
       xscreensaver-text 
	 --url http://www.livejournal.com/stats/latest-rss.bml
       As of XScreenSaver 4.21, you can just use use above URL in the "Text URL" field on the "Advanced" tab in xscreensaver-demo(1).

BUGS

       This program makes it seem like morons have invaded your screen saver.

       The output is always ISO-8859-1, regardless of locale.

SEE ALSO

       http://www.livejournal.com/, xscreensaver(1), xscreensaver-text(1),  fortune(1),  phosphor(6x),	apple2(6x),  starwars(6x),  fontglide(6x),
       dadadodo(1), webcollage(6x), driftnet(1) EtherPEG, EtherPeek

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright  (C) 2003, 2005 by Jamie Zawinski.  Permission to use, copy, modify, distribute, and sell this software and its documentation for
       any purpose is hereby granted without fee, provided that the above copyright notice appear in all  copies  and  that  both  that  copyright
       notice  and  this permission notice appear in supporting documentation.	No representations are made about the suitability of this software
       for any purpose.  It is provided "as is" without express or implied warranty.

AUTHOR

       Jamie Zawinski <jwz@jwz.org>, 30-Aug-2003.

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