Is this some sort of XSS bug that’s being exploited? I don’t know. It will be interesting to see how it pans out, though. Maybe there are some DB problems on the Digg end.

Either way, I’ve deactivated the Digg button on my posts until further notice. This isn’t a big deal, as the wonderful SU users make up about 90% of my traffic anyway. Digg, not so much.

I’ll post more about this later when I figure out what’s going on.

Edit: looks like the offending Digg submission is gone. I’ll consider turning the digg button back on later.

Until next time!

-LightningCrash

70 the
45 a
42 to
34 of
32 digg
25 you
25 s
22 in
22 and
21 pic
21 on
19 this
19 for
18 your
18 iphone
17 is
16 new
14 video
14 from
14 ever
14 apple
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12 picture
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9 website
9 firefox
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8 what
8 vista
8 pics
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8 free
8 at
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7 kevin
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7 buy
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6 most
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6 c
6 by
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5 users
5 steve
5 right
5 photos
5 photo
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5 make
5 mac
5 kim
5 jobs
5 ipod
5 if
5 dvd
5 drm
5 computer
5 as
5 an
5 all
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4 work
4 without
4 water
4 under
4 time
4 thing
4 that
4 system
4 so
4 shows
4 see
4 rose
4 riaa
4 pictures
4 photoshop
4 people
4 out
4 or
4 microsoft
4 launches
4 itunes
4 hacked
4 get
4 coolest
4 can
4 button
4 be
4 awesome
4 are
3 youtube
3 xp
3 world
3 woman
3 ve
3 up
3 unveils
3 tv
3 touch
3 store
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3 sites
3 sign
3 show
3 seen
3 section
3 secret
3 save
3 re
3 pc
3 pay
3 page
3 over
3 other
3 old
3 no
3 net
3 needs
3 nbc
3 missing
3 me
3 list
3 linux
3 letter
3 laptop
3 key
3 internet
3 images
3 hd
3 got
3 good
3 geek
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3 face
3 f
3 do
3 desktop
3 design
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3 comment
3 comcast
3 colbert
3 cellphone
3 bill
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3 almost
3 access
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2 yahoo
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2 worlds
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2 while
2 web
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2 warning
2 wallpapers
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2 use
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2 top
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2 stephen
2 stealing
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2 start
2 squad
2 space
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2 site
2 shirt
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2 results
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2 porn
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2 please
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2 password
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2 own
2 open
2 online
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2 official
2 off
2 nsfw
2 now
2 nokia
2 nightmare
2 neighbors
2 need
2 myspace
2 music
2 mozilla
2 maps
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2 made
2 m
2 love
2 loses
2 look
2 logo
2 live
2 line
2 kill
2 kid
2 just
2 its
2 into
2 inside
2 idiot
2 high
2 hate
2 has
2 happens
2 had
2 hack
2 gmail
2 girl
2 gates
2 fun
2 found
2 first
2 fire
2 fiasco
2 fi
2 features
2 feature
2 every
2 effect
2 ebay
2 e
2 don
2 does
2 digging
2 desk
2 default
2 dear
2 cuts
2 customer
2 css
2 cracked
2 cover
2 could
2 cool
2 convert
2 connection
2 comic
2 com
2 color
2 cnet
2 clock
2 click
2 class
2 cheap
2 card
2 car
2 cake
2 but
2 business
2 building
2 build
2 browser
2 blue
2 blocked
2 billboard
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2 back
2 around
2 anti
2 announced
2 animation
2 alex
2 again
2 ads
2 across

Some of the top items, when read in succession, are almost headlines in themselves!

Maybe next time I’ll pull a few thousand headlines. That sounds like a good project for tomorrow.

Edit: Trimmed off entries with only one result.

$ cat *.html|grep news-body|sed -e 's/<[^<>]*>//g' > diggubuntuheadlines.txt

Now I have a list of each headline. Unfortunately, though, this also returns headlines from articles that just mention Ubuntu, so I killed the lines that didn’t have Ubuntu.

$ grep -i ubuntu diggubuntuheadlines.txt > diggubuntuheadlines2.txt

Now I want to pull out a list of unique words in the file, the number of occurences of each word, sorted by the most occurences descending. Thanks to this short perl script posted by planetscape, I have a solution.

I paste the contents into a file, change the first line to read /usr/bin/perl, save it, then chmod +x the file.

Next I pipe the contents of the file into the script, and save the output.

$ cat diggubuntuheadlines2.txt | ./countwords.pl > diggheadlinecount.txt

Well, I guess that’s enough foreplay, what’s the verdict?

117 ubuntu
25 to
22 linux
20 windows
19 a
14 in
14 dell
12 with
12 on
12 for
11 the
9 and
8 install
7 vista
7 of
7 how
6 your
6 you
6 from
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5 out
5 new
5 is
5 guide
5 feisty
5 by
4 without
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4 users
4 than
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4 has
4 free
4 best
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3 video
3 ultimate
3 time
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3 running
3 run
3 over
3 os
3 official
3 mythtv
3 more
3 microsoft
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3 logo
3 like
3 know
3 installing
3 get
3 fawn
3 fast
3 edition
3 edgy
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3 boot
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3 as
3 anything
3 about
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2 world
2 will
2 way
2 vs
2 vote
2 using
2 up
2 tutorial
2 top
2 this
2 there
2 t
2 support
2 studio
2 stickers
2 side
2 shuttleworth
2 review
2 read
2 powered
2 pic
2 pc
2 password
2 osx
2 online
2 one
2 officially
2 now
2 need
2 multimedia
2 mount
2 mce
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2 make
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2 look
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2 eye
2 ever
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2 distribution
2 desktop
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2 completely
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2 cheap
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2 box
2 books
2 beryl
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2 are
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1 xgl
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1 wireless
1 winxp
1 wins
1 wine
1 why
1 whole
1 while
1 wga
1 wep
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1 warranty
1 warcraft
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1 virus
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1 tweaking
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1 redesign
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1 ram
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1 preview
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1 prebuilt
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1 possibly
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1 popular
1 pm
1 player
1 picture
1 physics
1 photoshop
1 performance
1 perfectly
1 partition
1 part
1 parliament
1 or
1 onto
1 office
1 offers
1 offering
1 ntfs
1 nrg
1 notebooks
1 not
1 non
1 next
1 network
1 n
1 mod
1 million
1 might
1 mdf
1 mcgee
1 mcdonalds
1 marketplace
1 manufacturers
1 makes
1 macbook
1 mac
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1 links
1 lifehacker
1 life
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1 just
1 issue
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1 internet
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1 explained
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1 excellent
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1 everything
1 everyone
1 engine
1 embargo
1 eft
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1 easier
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1 controls
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1 conf
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1 coming
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1 circle
1 choose
1 card
1 canonical
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1 build
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1 bittorrent
1 billboard
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1 beautiful
1 basics
1 badger
1 awesome
1 award
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1 arrived
1 april
1 apps
1 any
1 an
1 american
1 amd
1 amazing
1 alumni
1 after
1 advantages
1 administrator

No surprises here, but it may be helpful when you go to write your next Digg headline.

Until next time

-LightningCrash