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scot is a scribot. Not an official scribot, but it does the same thing. Hence the apologies!
This collection of web pages is a front-end to a database of links and comments submitted to scot, a "bot" that lurks on #flat on bigbob's irc server, which is mainly used by a selection of students past and present from Imperial College London, mainly those who are or used to be in the Science Fiction society (not including me!)
scot is written in Java using Paul Mutton's pircbot framework. This front-end is written in php. The backend is a mysql database. Scot's source code can be downloaded from my bots page.
No, you can't add links to the database (unless you chat on #flat). Or have them removed. Or correct bigbob's typos.
If you feel the need to contact me, try scot@round.org.uk.
Using scot's web front-end (these pages!) should be straightforward: the default view is everything submitted in the last week. Alternatively, you can search by keyword: eg a search for "news" would return every entry that contained the word "news", either as a word, as part of a word (eg "newspaper"), or as part of a URI (eg "http://news.bbc.co.uk").
To add an entry, first you have to be chatting on #flat. Address yourself to scot thusly:
scot: add http://your.link.here # a description of the link
Don't forget the description and the "#"!
scot can also perform searches and return entries via its irc presence - try
scot: help
for details of all the supported commands (well, the public ones, anyway :-) )