Anyone want to throw together a scoreboard while these idiots butcher innocents and each other?
You would need to scrape Twitter to get events, you could scrape EXIF data on the coverage photos and use D3 to visualize the results, and use HTML5 audio to run a reading of Twain's "The War Prayer" in the backgruond.
You could even expose a simple REST API to let the IDF and Hamas POST targets and PUT munitions/attacks, and then give some neutral body a key to confirm attack success or failure.
We could have badges. We could have freemium content--exclusive access to kill videos, or you could buy coins to sponsor your favorite charity for repairing the region.
It'll be great.
EDIT: Come now, sarcasm detectors. The above is meant in jest (mostly).
A scoreboard in the form of continually updated, and often publicized, kill counts is actually a pretty traditional part of warfare. Dispatches throughout WW2 announced how many Germans were killed vs. how many Americans in a particular engagement, and those were compiled to produce incrementally updated per-battle tallies. Newspapers and newsreels republished that kind of information regularly as well. Sort of the wartime version of baseball box scores.
Star Trek: TOS did it. Except after identifying which people were killed in the virtual attacks, those individuals were contacted and ordered to report to the collateralization center for the official results of the attacks to be consummated. Not particularly surprisingly, Capt. Kirk and the Jolly Enterprise Crew yet again violated the Prime Directive to set those silly savages' back on the True Path of All that is Right and Proper.
You would need to scrape Twitter to get events, you could scrape EXIF data on the coverage photos and use D3 to visualize the results, and use HTML5 audio to run a reading of Twain's "The War Prayer" in the backgruond.
You could even expose a simple REST API to let the IDF and Hamas POST targets and PUT munitions/attacks, and then give some neutral body a key to confirm attack success or failure.
We could have badges. We could have freemium content--exclusive access to kill videos, or you could buy coins to sponsor your favorite charity for repairing the region.
It'll be great.
EDIT: Come now, sarcasm detectors. The above is meant in jest (mostly).