generate more feed items and small fixups (bug 1061935)

Assuming the only Travis issue is that not enough feed items are generated to cause a scroll this should help remedy that. There might be a better way but this was like 10mins of work.
ugh, sorry i don't know why i meant collection. i meant itertools. You can do

```
from itertools import cycle


for p in cycle([1,2,3]):
  print "endless cycle:", p
```