intertwingly

For reasons that aren’t exactly clear to me, the practice of specifying icons in feeds hasn’t quite caught on.  Many sites specify a shortcut icon or provide a favicon but curiously few provide this information in their feed.

To address this situation, I wrote a small script that searches for icons and creates a small ini file with this information.  Passing the name of this file as an additional parameter on the call to generate a planet results in better looking planet.

One oddity I did notice was that at least two sites return back zero byte responses on GET requests to /favicon.ico.