All-Encompassing Trip, by Guillermo Esteves

Best. Prank. Ever.

I was recently asked to be best man to my best mate in the world. The one condition was my mate made me swear — NO jokes before the wedding. #

I volunteered to check in on their house while they’re on honeymoon + 1 day I thought — “Technically, this is AFTER the wedding, right?” #

So here’s the thing: the newlywed’s marital bed now has a pressure-sensitive pad underneath which now tweets everytime they get on the job. #

You’ll know when it starts, when it ends, the force, a rating on the frenzy index and a judge’s comment — all broadcast live to Twitter. #

All I know is that Twitter lists are doing wonders for my self-esteem. Except for the eternal stench thing. I live in the third world! I have no running water! It’s not my fault!

All I know is that Twitter lists are doing wonders for my self-esteem. Except for the eternal stench thing. I live in the third world! I have no running water! It’s not my fault!

Check a tweet’s favorites with a bookmarklet

Ever wish you could see how many favorites a tweet has gotten? I made a couple of bookmarklets that let you check the Favrd and Favstar pages of a specific tweet. Just drag these suckers to your bookmarks bar, and click them while looking at a funny tweet:

(The links don’t show up on Tumblr’s Dashboard. View the post to install them.)

Update: Favstar incorporated my code into their official bookmarklet, so you can just use that one.

Blocking and reporting Twitter spammers with a shell script

A simple shell script that blocks a Twitter spammer and sends a direct message to @spam to report it: (↩ denotes a line wrap.)

#!/bin/bash
curl -s -u USERNAME:PASSWORD -d "id=$1" ↩
 http://twitter.com/blocks/create/$1.xml
curl -s -u USERNAME:PASSWORD -d "text=$1&user=spam" ↩
 http://twitter.com/direct_messages/new.xml

Replace USERNAME and PASSWORD with your username and password, obviously. It receives a single parameter, the offending spammer’s username, like so:

gesteves$ ./fuckyou.sh agibbs1984a

My script-fu is not that strong, so if you can improve this, I’m open to suggestions.