Script to print the current twitter trends.

trends.py

#!/usr/bin/env python
try:
    import simplejson as json #python <2.6
except(ImportError):
    import json as json #python 2.6+
import urllib

trends = json.load(urllib.urlopen('http://api.twitter.com/1/trends/23424975.json'))[0]
trendlist = trends[trends.keys()[0]]
for trend in trendlist:
    print trend['name'].encode("utf-8")

This was designed as a pretty thing for GeekTool. Should work on a standard OSX python installation.