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  "title": "Making the Xbox maker friendly",
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  "html": "<p>If you're a tinkerer and you've never checked out the <a href=\"http://www.xboxmediacenter.com/\">XboxMediaCenter</a>, you really owe it to yourself to do so—there's just so much potential in this project.  Did you know that it comes with a Python interpreter, and that there's a <a href=\"http://www.xbmcscripts.com/\">scripting community</a> building really cool living room apps for it?  Did you know that it bundles the <a href=\"http://www.goahead.com/products/web_server.htm\">GoAhead webserver</a> along with <a href=\"http://spyce.sourceforge.net/\">Spyce Python Server Pages</a>?  </p>\n<p>I'd never heard of GoAhead's tiny webserver before, but Spyce looks interesting.  Overall, XBMC is surprisingly polished for an \"amateur\" effort, and it's certainly more <a href=\"http://www.makezine.com/03/welcome/\">maker friendly</a> than anything else in our living room besides our laptops.</p>\n<div id=\"comments\" class=\"comments archived-comments\"><h3>Archived Comments</h3>\n<ul class=\"comments\">\n<li class=\"comment\" id=\"comment-221087129\">\n<div class=\"meta\">\n<div class=\"author\">\n<a class=\"avatar image\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://highearthorbit.com\"><img src=\"http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=a25421f6c79d5f381fab65c82abf85e8&amp;size=32&amp;default=http://mediacdn.disqus.com/1320279820/images/noavatar32.png\" width=\"\" height=\"\"></a>\n<a class=\"avatar name\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://highearthorbit.com\">Andrew Turner</a>\n</div>\n\n\n<p><a href=\"#comment-221087129\" class=\"permalink\"><time datetime=\"2005-09-27T16:27:50\">2005-09-27T16:27:50</time></a></p>\n</div>\n\n\n<div class=\"content\"><p>Wow, I had no idea all this was going on. I setup my XBox, XBMC (and ol' XBMP), and Xebian about 2 years ago and never really kept up. It was a huge effort at the time to get it going, and I just counted my lucky stars.</p>\n<p>However, all this progress really makes me want to go back and start mucking with it again. Hrm - view my home automation &amp; home intranet from my XBox. View MythTV from within XBMC? Sounds very yummy.</p></div>\n\n\n</li>\n</ul>\n\n\n</div>\n\n\n",
  "body": "If you're a tinkerer and you've never checked out the [XboxMediaCenter](http://www.xboxmediacenter.com/), you really owe it to yourself to do so—there's just so much potential in this project.  Did you know that it comes with a Python interpreter, and that there's a [scripting community](http://www.xbmcscripts.com/) building really cool living room apps for it?  Did you know that it bundles the [GoAhead webserver](http://www.goahead.com/products/web_server.htm) along with [Spyce Python Server Pages](http://spyce.sourceforge.net/)?  \r\n\r\nI'd never heard of GoAhead's tiny webserver before, but Spyce looks interesting.  Overall, XBMC is surprisingly polished for an \"amateur\" effort, and it's certainly more [maker friendly](http://www.makezine.com/03/welcome/) than anything else in our living room besides our laptops.\r\n\r\n<div id=\"comments\" class=\"comments archived-comments\">\r\n            <h3>Archived Comments</h3>\r\n            \r\n        <ul class=\"comments\">\r\n            \r\n        <li class=\"comment\" id=\"comment-221087129\">\r\n            <div class=\"meta\">\r\n                <div class=\"author\">\r\n                    <a class=\"avatar image\" rel=\"nofollow\" \r\n                       href=\"http://highearthorbit.com\"><img src=\"http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=a25421f6c79d5f381fab65c82abf85e8&amp;size=32&amp;default=http://mediacdn.disqus.com/1320279820/images/noavatar32.png\"/></a>\r\n                    <a class=\"avatar name\" rel=\"nofollow\" \r\n                       href=\"http://highearthorbit.com\">Andrew Turner</a>\r\n                </div>\r\n                <a href=\"#comment-221087129\" class=\"permalink\"><time datetime=\"2005-09-27T16:27:50\">2005-09-27T16:27:50</time></a>\r\n            </div>\r\n            <div class=\"content\"><p>Wow, I had no idea all this was going on. I setup my XBox, XBMC (and ol' XBMP), and Xebian about 2 years ago and never really kept up. It was a huge effort at the time to get it going, and I just counted my lucky stars.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>However, all this progress really makes me want to go back and start mucking with it again. Hrm - view my home automation &amp; home intranet from my XBox. View MythTV from within XBMC? Sounds very yummy.</p></div>\r\n            \r\n        </li>\r\n    \r\n        </ul>\r\n    \r\n        </div>\r\n    ",
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