Somewhat off-topic, but I can't use my back-button to get off this page.
Can we please, please stop breaking shit that worked just fine in '95?
Can we please, please stop breaking shit that worked just fine in '95?
Not the author's fault (apart from choosing to use Blogger), but wow, how do you fuck web design up that badly? It's just a blog, a few paragraphs and links to more articles, it doesn't need to be an entire fucking web app complete with 5 other useless ways to view a list of summaries (Pinterest is big right now, people love grids, right? Here, let me smack you in the face with this stupid zooming JQuery effect).
Now the pioneer of JS apps doesn't even bother trying to put <noscript>There is usually a blog post here if you are using javascript</noscript>
Because I feel your pain, I wrote you a quick, dirty fix.
# how to fetch a blogger.com blog
# without the gratuitous javascript
# usage: nameofthisfile blog.whatever.com > html_file
#! /bin/sh
case $# in
1)
{
a=${1%%/*}
printf "%b" "GET / HTTP/1.1\r\n";
printf "Host: ${a##http://}\r\n";
printf "Connection: Close\r\n";
printf "\r\n";
} \
|nc -vv $1 80 \
|sed '
/targetBlogID/!d;
s/.*targetBlogID=//;
s/&.*//;
' \
|while read a
do
{
printf "%b" "GET /feeds/$a/posts/default HTTP/1.1\r\n";
printf "Host: www.blogger.com\r\n";
printf "Connection: Close\r\n";
printf "\r\n";
} \
|nc -vv www.blogger.com 80 \
|sed '
s/</</g;
s/>/>/g;
s/&/\&/g;
s/"/\"/g;
1i\
<br><br>
s/<name>/<br><br>name &/g;
s/<uri>/<br>uri &/g;
s/<generator>/<br>generator &/g;
s/<id>/<br>id &/g;
s/<published>/<br>published &/g;
s/<email>/<br>email &/g;
s/<title type=.text.>/<br><br>&/g;
s/<openSearch:totalResults>/<br>total results &/g;
s/<openSearch:startIndex>/<br>start index &/g;
s/<openSearch:itemsPerPage>/<br>items per page &/g;
s/<updated>/<br>updated &/g;
s/<thr:total>/<br>thr:total &/g;
s/<\/feed>/&<br><br><br>/;
'
done
;;
*)
echo usage: $0 blog.whatever.com >&2
esac(to prevent confusion: this is a parody of the site MBlume linked)