Live headlines from Google News, pinned at the place each story is about. Click a marker to read the article.
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This is the 2026 rewrite. The 2004 original was a Tkinter desktop program: it scraped Google News HTML directly and pinned headlines on a static worldmap.gif using a hand-compiled keywords.txt of country coordinates. The full original is available as a downloadable Python file above.
There are many rhymes about magpies, but none of them is very reliable because they are not the ones the magpies know themselves.