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I hadn't heard of Blekko, so I Googled it, but I accidentally typed it "blekki". Google autocorrected it, and Blekko was still the top result.

That didn't happen on Blekko. I got a lot of results about Bill Lekki. Then a few minutes later the results changed and the Wikipedia page for Blekko was the top result. Weird.

Pyro is neat, but not advisable as a general RPC solution unless you're 100% sure that you will only ever have Python clients, sometimes even the exact same Pyro version on both ends.

We've used Pyro extensively in the past at work, and are now trying to migrate away from it and towards a RESTful API, though it's slow going with interdependent services needing to all be updated.

See also https://github.com/j2labs/dictshield

Found it! http://insertcredit.com/2011/09/22/who-killed-videogames-a-g...

My take on the Machine Learning 101 class that just ended: http://btubbs.com/2011/02/26/machine-learning-101-course-eva...

The article is dated Nov 10, 2009.

If there's a ?callback=something in the query string, you could wrap the JSON in that callback so the service can be used with JSONP.