i need something better to pick the sites. ended up settling on 7 sites because the icons fit under the search box

i just read this in the docs "the Stack Exchange employs heavy caching and as such no application should make semantically identical requests more than once a minute. This is generally a waste of bandwidth, as more often than not the exact same result will be returned." the since filter is being applied to the cache contents and you are 'overtaking' the cache?

curl does the trick too: curl http://stackoverflow.hewgill.com:8080/firehose/stackoverflow

Thanks Kevin. I'm about to build the graph in a wp7 app. Maybe i'll do it in server side code until the new api becomes available.

hahah - are you emailing a PDF version of the question to the kindle's email address?