Tweets for 2009-02-26

  • Wait. It’s free to access wikipedia; but not to access h2g2.com … http://xkcd.com/548/ Oh, and how about free access to The Well?! #
  • I really dig the animated visual metaphor for discovery through communication here http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A43773627 #
  • OH “Massive bat dieback threatens insect plague in US Northeast.” Damn. If it’s not the insects, it’s the massive bats! #
  • It isn’t obvious, but Dreamland’s interview with Wasserman can eventually be downloaded here: http://www.unknowncountry.com/podcast/ #
  • I just watched Mail spike to over 2000% CPU. I’m curious how such a thing is possible. #
  • Definitely not a good time to be using the DOOM process manager … unless you’ve got the BFG. #
  • @lindabeet Life has been empty, but empty is tiny slices; almost as if on a cellphone with the reception breaking up. in reply to lindabeet #
  • Too much money for bad pizza, I admit; but, I did it and I refuse to apologize to anyone #
  • @stonetree Okay, that’s it. I don’t care what my mother says. I’m leaving the refrigerator door open from now on. in reply to stonetree #
  • whoa, there’s dissonance when one of my tweeple slams two social circles together by RTing across what I thought was a gap. #
  • @tinotchka Six degrees makes triangulation inevitable, I suppose. Oh, right now I’m remembering sixdegrees.com back in the day. in reply to tinotchka #
  • @tinotchka It’s like a forced march to making compartmentalization not only obsolete but impossible. Like bottled water, training us … in reply to tinotchka #
  • It’s insidious, I tell you. It’s Darth Insidious *shooo-perrr* *shooo-perrr* … #
  • @unicursal Not quite … maybe what you use to combat the Stay Puft Mashmallow kind of “big friendly giant”. in reply to unicursal #
  • @unicursal Yeah! A billion years ago, internet time, someone hooked up Doom to a process manager http://tinyurl.com/37j3 in reply to unicursal #
  • At some point, adding more books to my to-read list becomes absurd. I’ll never catch up to myself at this rate. #
  • Uh oh, I’ve got an itchy throat and my body is achy … not good. Where’s that vitamin C? Quick! #
  • @xiojason I’m going to stock up on supplies tomorrow. So, I’ll see if I can spare any progeny … in reply to xiojason #
  • I find it very odd that I have to manually cause the spellchecker to ‘learn’ words that are already known by the dictionary application. #
  • Local Community Radio Act of 2009 (H.R. 1147) was just introduced in the House. Support it: http://tinyurl.com/den9hg #