= Introduction = PicturePicker picks pictures from the web at random, in response to nearly meaningless textual inputs (ie, tweets). It pairs them, and shows them. Not much to it. = Requirements = * flask http://flask.pocoo.org * simplejson http://pypi.python.org/pypi/simplejson/ * lxml.html http://lxml.de This version of PicturePicker is a crude prototype written in python, and self- hosting via the http micro server available via the Flask framework. It relies on several other features of Flask, too. Parsing of web services results is via simplejson, so you'll need that too. Parsing of resulting web content is via lxml.html, which is teh awesome. These may imply their own dependencies. While you should never use this code in production, if you *were* going to do that, you would deploy it by making a Debian package, right? And naturally if you make a Debian package, the dependency graph can be safely ignored. What I mean to say is: good luck. = Installation = What, are you kidding me? chmod +x the file and run it with $ python hello.py = ToDo = Much, including making a fancy ajax version, and making picture selection better. Idea for making picture selection better: Can google (or bing?) give us a score for how good a picture was for our search? If so, set a cutoff and any time we go below the cutoff we pick a random picture from cuteoverload.com instead. Another idea for making picture selection better: actually maybe we should just pair everything with random pictures from cuteoverload.