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Radical Browsing

A software "browser" is for many quite possibly the most used piece of software. As a result of it's very persistence and ubiquity, the software may fade into the background, becoming a "natural" and "neutral" part of one's daily (computing) experience.

By digging into the underlying network mechanisms, protocols, and markup languages it's possible to create radically different kinds of "browsing" of the material made available via the world wide web.

some examples

Page mashups with python & Beautiful Soup

Some useful tools built into Python:

urllib2
urlparse

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-What are you browsing?
+= Radical Browsing =
-Radical Browsers
+A software "browser" is for many quite possibly the most used piece of software. As a result of it's very persistence and ubiquity, the software may fade into the background, becoming a "natural" and "neutral" part of one's daily (computing) experience.
+By digging into the underlying network mechanisms, protocols, and markup languages it's possible to create radically different kinds of "browsing" of the material made available via the world wide web.
-examples
+some examples
 * [http://bak.spc.org/iod/ WebStalker]
 ** [http://bak.spc.org/iod/mutation.html A Means of Mutation, Matthew Fuller]
+* http://www.potatoland.org
 * http://www.artisopensource.net/hacks
-* http://www.potatoland.org
-* http://images.google.nl/imgres?imgurl=http://digitalarts.lcc.gatech.edu/unesco/internet/artists/images/int_a_iod4.gif&imgrefurl=http://digitalarts.lcc.gatech.edu/unesco/internet/artists/int_a_iod.html&h=195&w=180&sz=2&hl=en&start=6&um=1&tbnid=BFsxR76CznlE5M:&tbnh=104&tbnw=96&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dweb%2Bstalker%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dcom.ubuntu:en-US:official%26sa%3DN
 == Page mashups with python & [http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup Beautiful Soup] ==