Movie times sidebar

Struck by a desire to avoid housework this morning, I hacked up a current-listings set of updating film showtimes for a selected set of Seattle-area theaters over on Siffblog. It’s drawn, circuitously, from the customizable movie times listings to be found via My Yahoo, which is why the film links point at Yahoo, and there’s no direct ticket-buying link. I may experiment with getting the data from the Google Movie Times page, but that does not yet allow one to exclude by theater.

You can see the list in Siffblog’s sidebar. Hopefully I can figure out how to do something like this for SIFF next year, too.

My Yahoo 2 RSS

For wahtever reason, Yahoo’s RSS initiatives have yet to extend into the Yahoo services heirarchy, meaning that while you can set up a theater-by-theater list of local movie times, you can’t easily look at it outside of the My Yahoo website. Happily, Mikel Maron at BrainOff has a little RSS widget up that republishes My Yahoo content as RSS feeds. Ah, sweet, theater-by-theater customizable goodness at last!