Widdecombe of the week: Got the T-Shirt
Geekier readers will remember the Widdecombe of the Week feature in the weekly email newsletter NTK (sadly not published any more, and much missed)
A 'Widdecombe' is a web page where lazy programming means you can make your own text appear in the page by stuffing it into the URL.
CNN have a fantastic example of this. They have an online shop where you can have any of the day's headlines printed on a T-Shirt. However you can edit the text in the URL to make the headline whatever you like. Cue much hilarity:
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Sweet, nice discovery Tom!
I used to be an avid reader of ntk.
In fact the 2nd hit on google for "eddy parris" is on ntk!
werd
Posted by: Edd Parris | 21 April 2008 at 11:20 PM
Yeah it was great wasn't it. A Friday institution. Kudos for being featured, even if you were just having a moan :)
Posted by: Tom Nixon | 21 April 2008 at 11:32 PM