[GreenKeys] Heavy Metal alternative

[John Nagle]

    If you want something a little more modern, see my "BaudotRSS":

	http://www.aetherltd.com/communicating.html

This reads anything with an RSS feed and prints it on a Baudot device.
RSS feeds are available from many news sources, including the Associated
Press.  You can also follow Twitter feeds via RSS, although the result
is rather banal.

It will also send and receive SMS messages to and from cell phones.
You need a Google Voice account to do this.

It's not as simple to use as Heavy Metal, though.  And the instructions
are a bit out of date.  The code is open source, and if anyone wants to
improve it, they're free to do so.

					John Nagle

On 2/22/2012 5:13 AM, greenkeys-request at mailman.qth.net wrote:
> Hi all,
>     Just returned from a trip and took a quick look at HeavyMetal.  I'm
> actually a little surprised that "Today in History" and "Top Stories" have
> worked for as long as they have (more than 10 years now!).  The way HM
> operates is that it fetches a web page, strips out the HTML formatting and
> tries to locate and print out the interesting text.  This is inherently
> fragile - as it depends both on the web page location and formatting not
> changing.  Further, the way I coded it up a decade ago is embarrassingly
> bad.