
As described in the newsletter. Pulls in the news feed from the BBC News front page, counts the fear words, and lets you know exactly what you should be worrying about today, with convenient graphical representations of the size of the bricks you should be shitting. Essential for today's busy pessimist.
If you're not feeling quite scared enough, there's also a super-awesome Daily Mail option. Highly recommended.
EDIT:
Updated! Now the Daily Mail is default (it's funniest, let's face it). BBC News and Yahoo News are options on the drop-down, and you can also enter your own websites.
( , Fri 3 Jul 2009, 20:38, Reply)

quick work too. difficult to read the bottom daily mail thing to be scared of. clicking. i'm going to check this every morning.
( , Fri 3 Jul 2009, 20:57, Reply)

Altered it slightly, so the text should be slightly easier to read. Thanks for the feedback!
( , Fri 3 Jul 2009, 21:09, Reply)

Although now my fear levels are raised mightily... ;D Oh, and the Daily Mail version is a work of comedy art!
*enclickens*
( , Fri 3 Jul 2009, 21:11, Reply)

DIANA............................wtf
( , Sat 4 Jul 2009, 12:06, Reply)

Any chance of a graph to plot changes in doom?
I wish to buy shares in BBC Doom.
( , Sat 4 Jul 2009, 15:54, Reply)

There is a chance this will happen. I just need to get sufficiently bored again.
( , Sat 4 Jul 2009, 20:18, Reply)

musta taken some hardcore skillz to make that, lets have a look at the code, hmmm
( , Sat 4 Jul 2009, 19:55, Reply)

Essentially grabs the file, strips HTML tags (so it's pretty much just the textual content of the page left), iterates through an array of words, counting the occurrences, sorts the array in descending order and calculates the width/colour of the rectangle for each word based on the number of times it appears on the page.
There's also a basic caching system for the built-in news sources, so it only requests the page if it hasn't done so for more than 5 minutes.
( , Sat 4 Jul 2009, 20:16, Reply)