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31 May 2010 - 23:59Twitter Updates for 2010-05-31

  • AFP stole Daniel Morel’s iconic Haiti earthquake pictures, then sued him. Great write-up from Russian Photos Blog http://bit.ly/9tUeeb #
  • really good analysis of microsoft’s situation. “Ballmer just opened the Second Envelope” http://bit.ly/bAnrbZ #
  • beautiful iceland volcano time-lapse video by Sean Stiegemeier via @petapixel http://vimeo.com/11673745 (music by Jónsi) #
  • @cyantist yay it opened finally?? i know what i’m having for lunch! #

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30 May 2010 - 23:59Twitter Updates for 2010-05-30

  • “women with manes of hair billowing, you’d think the audience consisted entirely of wind machines” http://is.gd/cvqVl #eurovision via @bbc #
  • one watches #eurovision hypnotized, like a car crash. the language of europe is clearly american-accented bad english. http://is.gd/cvrmM #
  • um. or eliza-doolittle-accented english sung by germans? with lyrics by rihanna’s songwriters. not _too_ bad #eurovision http://is.gd/cvrzx #
  • #eurovision winner lyrics since 1956 have had 12k words, 2% of them “love” says bbc. such important statistics! http://is.gd/cvrQl #
  • i like the lithuanian entry to #eurovision. catchy beat makes up for anachronistically meaningful (us-english) lyrics. http://is.gd/cvs8e #
  • “You got a question that is causing you some pain
    / Typin’ keywords into the search engine again…” Librarians Do Gaga http://bit.ly/cF4TFv #

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28 May 2010 - 23:59Twitter Updates for 2010-05-28

  • Listening to Amir Khan’s first lp recording, 1960. Raga darbari & marwa. Divine and calming. http://is.gd/cszo1 #

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27 May 2010 - 23:59Twitter Updates for 2010-05-27

  • no comment. Miraculous Adobe Photoshop Day Cream http://bit.ly/c9LSes via @petapixel #
  • just watched 13 Tzameti, stunning georgian film shot in black & white. 2 nail-biting hours, feels like a 10 minute short. http://is.gd/cqYFd #
  • The Onion on social media startups in general, Foursquare in particular, and press coverage. what can i say? http://ow.ly/1NALB #

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26 May 2010 - 23:59Twitter Updates for 2010-05-26

  • computers work so hard for me. i feel their pain. 50 billion writes the past week, yay. xkcd: http://xkcd.com/676/ #
  • why’s fox news unhappy with this? brussels has the best beer: Biden Says Brussels Could Be ‘Capital of the Free World’ http://bit.ly/bctcQ7 #
  • sony flexible display can be wrapped around a pencil. as a comment on engadget says, “forget mortgage, take my limbs!” http://is.gd/cpH6Z #

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25 May 2010 - 23:59Twitter Updates for 2010-05-25

  • happy towel day, and Don’t Panic! http://towelday.org/ #
  • cassowary kick-boxing a tree. “world’s most dangerous bird”? all i know is you gotta feed it yucky mash of banana & meat. http://is.gd/coeJT #

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24 May 2010 - 23:59Twitter Updates for 2010-05-24

  • @anildash and why does apple support XLS and DOC? proprietary, too. or Keynote files. oops. that’s apple’s own format, must be “open”. #

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23 May 2010 - 23:59Twitter Updates for 2010-05-23

  • the best (and funniest) fake twitter account of the year: http://topsy.com/s/bpglobalpr #
  • i’m a lady gaga fan. incredible surreal outfits, fireworks shooting out of breasts, and tattoo from rilke’s “letters…”! http://is.gd/clifc #
  • “strong kiss may … lead to a broken ear drum”. some kissing they do in guangdong. BBC headline: “Kiss of deaf” :) http://is.gd/clCfD #
  • xkcd “campfire” :-) i want it on a t-shirt. http://xkcd.com/742/ #

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22 May 2010 - 23:59Twitter Updates for 2010-05-22

  • “you burned me/dried me, heated me/scorched me till I/felt the pain of/death in my bone” my mom’s poems (re)published! http://is.gd/ckNee #
  • phone numbers of random people on facebook, who probably don’t know their phone numbers are public: http://www.tomscott.com/evil/ #
  • RT @asil:#vx22 is a geek reality show from up in the air. Airplane wifi+4sq+twitter+tumblr=a show in a whole new level. Damn Virgin America. #

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21 May 2010 - 23:59Twitter Updates for 2010-05-21

  • more from the privacy-is-dead-or-we’ll-kill-it dept: WSJ: Facebook, MySpace gave advertisers private user names & IDs http://bit.ly/9Zcnqp #
  • will tories (& libdems) good behaviour survive 3 years being in power? “curb CCTV, scrap ID cards, help open source” http://is.gd/cjnDB #

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