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• 13:56 More self-taught linux today: installed bftpd, created new user, logged in via ftp, can see directory, but can't download any files. Soon. #
• 13:59 Give him a fair trail, then hang him -- "Khalid Sheikh Mohammed likely will be executed after trial, White House spokesman says" - Reuters #

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• 11:24 16 degrees F and its nearly noon. FWIW, this is historically the coldest week of the year. Things should start warming up soon... #
• 15:08 Learning Linux scripting! With command line variables!! What is the sign for happy geek? #
• 18:52 Why, homemade Ham and Bean soup with Worcestershire sauce and Pico de Gallo tortilla chips. Thank you; I think it's delicious too. #
• 21:20 Finaly Finishing Firefox! Fantastic! #

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• 09:34 Politicians: until you actually manage to get me into prison, do not tell me that my city, school, office, or neighborhood, is in "lockdown" #
• 11:09 British friends: what is a "skip"? As in "the documents were found in an old skip". #
• 21:03 Am I nuts, or have the added a lot of examples of someone saying the word "Avatar" in vocieovers? #caprica #
• 21:26 Nice little Kurzweil pastiche with the piano, there #caprica #
• 21:33 Greystone fraking around is probably the best depiction of how computer programmers really work. TMOT. #caprica #

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• 02:39 Learning so much Linux lately, it's not funny. No, really, do you see me laughing? It's not at all funny. #
• 12:49 A computer animation I made in 1997: Solar System Pullout youtu.be/2MQbf24umiE #
• 12:52 I favorited a YouTube video -- Solar System Pullout youtu.be/2MQbf24umiE?a #
• 19:27 #watergatejr prediction:$$ fine, probation, no prison. US Atty says "keep my kid out", others say "keep us out, or we roll on the Attys kid" #
• 23:30 Jon Stewart just ended with a moment of Zinn. Awwwwww. #

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• 20:39 Watching Red Scare movie "My Son John". This repressed, passive-aggressive family would drive anyone into the clutches of Stalin. #
• 21:41 Like Roman Catholic Mass. Stand up, sit down, stand up, sit down. #sotu #
• 21:46 "thank you, honey! She gets embarrassed." #sotu #
• 21:58 And the Supreme Court sits there stony. #sotu #
• 22:00 Watching #sotu on Cspan.org, full screen, dell monitor, while the Neuros records anti communist night on TCM. #
• 22:08 Prez Obama needs to say to the GOP 'The American people are better than this. YOU a re better than this." #sotu #
• 22:10 Are our nuclear missiles still auto-targeted at the Sargasso Sea? Anyone? #dangerroom ? #sotu #
• 22:13 "Once again prosecuting civil rights violations." OOOOh, snap! #sotu #
• 22:16 you can hear a pin drop in the chamber as he talks about cynicism. #sotu #
• 22:20 no one is saying shit now #sotu #
• 22:22 Serious question: do other heads of state end their major speeches with "god bless France" or "God bless Germany"? #sotu #
• 22:23 In the UK they used to end with "God Save The Queen/King" #sotu #
• 22:27 oooooooooh, good republican theater; make their response look like the state of the union! #sotu #
• 22:28 Republicans even #
• 22:28 republicans even applaud in lockstep. Weird. #gopresponse #
• 22:30 Milk it, brother, milk it! #gopresponse #
• 22:31 Why do they all sound like Bobby Jindal? #gopresponse #
• 22:32 Strategically placed ethnic people behind the Governor #gopresponse #< /li>
• 22:33 it's like they all took speech lessons from the same forensic teacher. that same singsong cadence. #gopresponse #
• 22:35 I have (and hate) to say that one of the few GOP leaders without the singsong cadence is Sarah Palin. Of course, she has other problems. #
• 22:36 the only downside to more nuke plants: where will the engineers and operators come from? New college grads? Denude the Navy? #sotu #
• 22:37 This lockstep applause from the GOP is freaking me out. #gopresponse #

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• 07:33 rainy days which are also Mondays always get me down squared. #
• 09:33 Ibsen's "An Enemy of the People": the problem of telling the truth to a public that doesn't want to hear it. snipurl.com/u6odd #
• 15:19 Woman falls into Picasso. Well, isn't THAT a reversal! gothamist.com/2010/01/25/woman_falls_into_picasso.php #
• 15:31 Osama Bin Laden has the best job in the world. Taking credit for other people's work FTW! tinyurl.com/yaosz97 #
• 15:32 American Pi #geekedmovies #
• 15:44 Learning more about fermented fish sauce than mankind was ever meant to know. #

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• 17:40 One of my early computer animations: Inky the Android in Android Love youtu.be/zf9wvd5eXNo #
• 18:51 I favorited a YouTube video -- Inky the Android in Android Love youtu.be/zf9wvd5eXNo?a #
• 23:27 Just watched Logan's Run (www.imdb.com/title/tt0074812/) for the first time.What the hell was with that ice cave? #

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• 21:57 They changed the capacity of the brain to a more reasonable 100 terabytes!!! Did I have something to do with that? #caprica #

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• 13:26 Found the IM chat between my brother and me from the morning of September 11, 2001. #cleaningoldharddrive #
• 15:02 Found sexy emails between girlfriend and me from 1994. Cringe-inducing is the polite way to put it. #cleaningoldharddrive #

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• 02:38 Purple Rainman #moviemashups #
• 13:59 walking through the cemetery to Costco #
• 14:53 At Costco, finally #
• 00:42 Just watched Mission to Moscow. Now I understand how propaganda works. #

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• 11:10 The conventional army loses if it does not win. The guerrilla wins if he does not lose. - H. Kissinger #
• 21:53 Type a hashtag into google (e.g #masen), and you'll get a dynamic twitterfeed in the google result page! #
• 01:42 All Quiet On The Waterfront #moviemashups #
• 01:43 How Soylent Green Was My Valley #moviemashups #
• 01:43 Dr. No No Nanette #moviemashups #
• 01:44 The Godfather of the Bride #moviemashups #
• 01:46 City Of Lost Children Of Men #moviemashups #
• 01:46 Of Mice and 12 Angry Men #moviemashups #
• 01:48 The Rocky Horror Picture Showboat #moviemashups #
• 01:56 Being There Will Be Blood #moviemashups #
• 01:57 Dr. Strangelove Story #moviemashups #
• 01:59 An Affair to Remember the Titans #moviemashups #
• 02:03 Advise and Consenting Adults #moviemashups #
• 02:06 Guess Who's Coming to My Dinner With Andre #moviemashups #
• 02:09 Aliens of the Deep Throat #moviemashups #
• 02:15 The Invisible Man of La Mancha #moviemashups #
• 02:18 Quiet Flows The Don Quixote #moviemashups #
• 02:19 Agnes of Godfather Part II #moviemashups #
• 02:20 The Lost Horizon Boys #moviemashups #
• 02:22 A Hard Day's Night of the Iguana #moviemashups #
• 02:22 Three Men and Rosemary's baby #moviemashups #
• 02:26 A Hard Day's Twelfth Night #moviemashups #
• 02:28 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kids #moviemashups #

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• 15:50 Some various ways rescue workers can detect humans: www.wired.com/magazine/2009/10/st_infoporn/ #

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• 10:29 Spent the morning with VNC. I can now control my hacker-friendly digital video recorder from anywhere on the internet. #
• 11:25 Trying to boot up a 12 year old Gateway computer running Windows 98 to get the data off the hard drive. Now that's a full working day, lad. #
• 19:36 Watching Elvis Costello's show on IFC. He should come with subtitles. #
• 20:58 Stephen Fry in America on PBS!!!! #
• 21:41 Finishing the evening with "A Hard Day's Night, the extended edition" #
• 01:10 Re @cshirky s rant about women: I honestly had no clue to the gend er of his first student. I know women and men who behave exactly that way. #

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• 11:20 at a stripped down green market at grand army #
• 02:03 If the Mafia incorporated, they could steal all they want and it would be legal. First step: move from loan sharking to credit cards. #

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• 10:26 OK, look for a What's Inside podcast coming soon to an internet near you... #
• 12:04 Someone is mixing anthrax into the heroin in Scotland and Germany. www.eurosurveillance.org/ViewArticle.aspx?ArticleId=19464 #
• 12:06 Hey, I'm a journalist-programmer!! Utilize my skillz! RT: @ejgertz: Rise of the Journalist-Programmer. bit.ly/7vg02F #sej #
• 19:06 at MOMA to see the Bauhaus exhibit #
• 19:35 Off to the Algonquin #

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• 10:42 Doomsday Clock moved back one minute: Now 6 minutes to midnight. #doomsdayclock www.thebulletin.org/content/doomsday-clock/overview #
• 02:24 What would you think about a What's Inside podcast, consisting of me riffing on behind the scenes stuff that never made it onto the page? #

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• 03:34 Comedy of Scale: an anecdote might be tragic when told to one person, but hilarious when told in front of a large audience. #
• 17:20 Making bouillabaisse. Well, I'm making what *I* call bouillabaisse. #
• 21:15 Watching "Hardware Wars". Fluke Strbucker! Ham Salad! The Wookie Monster! #
• 00:41 Of course Haitians didn't make a pact with Satan. They made a contract with Petwo. HUGE difference. tinyurl.com/y9je9nb #

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• 00:11 It's not definite, but it is a nice move: googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/01/new-approach-to-china.html #

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• 11:04 twitpic.com/xj4rq - For the cupcake freaks #
• 11:05 twitpic.com/xj4we - For the cupcake freaks: the return #
• 11:06 twitpic.com/xj50l - In the frozen food aisle #
• 12:50 More Day After Tomorrow stuff: The UK from space, on Friday. tinyurl.com/ydxhzps #
• 16:07 I can't watch so-called "disaster" movies anymore -- I've lost the ability to be blase' about mass destruction. #
• 23:11 I have n ever before dreaded the future as I dread 2010. #

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• 13:13 Watching Steve McQueen's "Le Mans" on TCM. Boy, _someone_ went to film school, didn't they? #
• 13:17 Thanks for telling me what I think. RT: @CogSciLibrarian Why FBs bra-color gimmick didn't raise breast cancer awareness bit.ly/8I1veN #

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• 18:05 Just saw Avatar. Imagine if all that technology had been employed with a little imagination. #
• 18:59 I can't decide if I just saw Dances With Avatars, Little Big Avatar, or a Man Called Avatar. Probably all three. #
• 20:19 Watching Elvis in Concert on TCM. Elvis wouldn't get hired in the worst lounge in Vegas as an Elvis impersonator. #

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• 12:05 One hour and $15,000 later, I reach the #Sparkfun login screen. Alllllmost there...... #
• 12:20 1 hour and 20 minutes later, with $26,000 gone, I'm logged into #sparkfun. Images are disabled, BTW. #
• 12:42 This arctic blast we're having? Due to the Gulf Stream. Just like "Day after Tomorrow". tinyurl.com/yhvkbfr #
• 12:44 1 hour 42 minutes later, with $89K gone, at the #sparkfun checkout page. I'm going to get there just as they slam the door shut, I know it, #
• 16:26 I nominate @jennydeluxe for a Shorty Award in #journalist because she gets to the stories before they happen !!! bit.ly/shorty #
• 16:29 I nominate @dangerroom for a Shorty Award in #news because they break stories no one else is covering. bit.ly/shorty #
• 16:30 I nominate @wired for a Shorty Award in #news because they get the whole short content thing... bit.ly/shorty #
• 16:33 I nominate @twisst for a Shorty Award in #science because they provide a service tailor-made for twitter. bit.ly/shorty #
• 16:33 I nominate @NewsHour for a Shorty Award in #news because all other news outlets can learn a thing or two from them. bit.ly/shorty #
• 16:34 I nominate @TheEconomist for a Shorty Award in #news because they have the perfect amount of fact and snark. bit.ly/shorty #
• 16:35 I nominate @patkiernan for a Shorty Award in #journalist because he makes the news fun. bit.ly/shorty #
• 16:37 I nominate @alexismadrigal for a Shorty Award in #journalist because he tweets like it was his native idiom. bit.ly/shorty #
• 16:43 I nominate @StephenFry for a Shorty Award in #celebrity because he is the Twitter Celebrity. bit.ly/shorty #
• 16:49 Dig that crazy pink New York sunset. #
• 16:53 I nominate @bruces for a Shorty Award in #weird because his tweets are like those from a cranky old planetary AI. bit.ly/shorty #
• 16:57 I nominate @hoeken for a Shorty Award in #tech because he and @bre developed the Makerbot! bit.ly/shorty #
• 16:58 I nominate @bre for a Shorty Award in #tech because he and @hoeken developed the Makerbot! bit.ly/shorty #
• 17:41 I nominate @madfoot for a Shorty Award in #journalist because she's funny about the serious stuff and vice versa. bit.ly/shorty #
• 17:45 I nominate @nxthompson for a Shorty Award in #journalist because he knows what makes the world tick. bit.ly/shorty #

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• 09:34 Jamie Hyneman and Capt Sullenberger should team up to form Competency, Inc. They'll charge an arm an a leg, but they'll get your stuff done. #
• 15:03 I nominate @ejgertz for a Shorty Award in #journalist because she's an exciting & thorough climate journalist. bit.ly/shorty #
• 16:53 Does 'screen mail' now mean 'potato chips'? Or is it much, much worse? notalwaysright.com/the-secret-language-of-customers/3342 #
• 21:08 Incidentally, that distinctly orange "star" dominating the eastern sky right about now? Mars. #

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• 14:21 More than you wanted to know about legendary character actor Arnold Stang. blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2009/12/you_wanna_make_.html#more #

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• 13:16 Too cold to be angry. #
• 16:16 I know they're friends, But it seems that Bruce is also Cory's Dutch Uncle. tinyurl.com/y9tlxka #

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• 14:56 Went to my local guitar shop to get a new tuning peg for my guitar. The conversation went something like this: tinyurl.com/joq7b #
• 16:41 Freeze Wint-o-Green Lifesavers for 2 hrs. Turn out lights. Smash one Lifesaver w/ hammer! Weird blue flash like Northern Lights! Repeat! #

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• 22:27 HELP! I'm trapped in tvtropes.org and can't get out!!! #

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• 11:25 fiddling with video editing software effects. Chroma keyed all the red out of "The Red Balloon", made it the Electric Blue balloon #
• 17:05 Today in Binary: Dingbat Negative Circles Digit Nine www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=010110 #

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• 06:05 I generally sleep 5.5 to 6 hours per night. Fell asleep at 10:30. Naturally, I'm up at 5:30. Top o' th' mornin' to ye. #
• 07:50 It is snowing in Brooklyn. I repeat, it is snowing in Brooklyn. #
• 11:24 Some thoughts on the Russian and their asteroid quest: murmursofearth.blogspot.com/2009/12/apophis-and-russians.html #
• 14:17 There's an herb called thyme. Why isn't there an herb called spayce? #
• 15:48 #10yearsago Functionally insane, lonely, bereft, underemployed, heading toward homelessness.Not yet been in print. Don't remember much else. < a href="http://twitter.com/justpat/statuses/7247078676">#
• 00:41 We watched the fireworks. Or rather, we heard explosions, and watched the clouds light up different colors. #