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• 11:40 Wandering around at loose ends today. #
• 17:31 Directly upon getting home I take my pants off. Always. On those few occasions when I can't depants myself, I am extremely uncomfortable. #
• 01:55 Amazing! A guy plays the first movement of the 3rd Brandenburg Concerto on 10 melodica tracks! snipurl.com/wyy9b #

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• 09:46 Instead of asking if this is Obama's Katrina, ask instead if this is Big Oil's Chernobyl. #
• 13:51 Facebook NEEDS to know stuff about you! RT: @timoreilly: Putting Online Privacy in Perspective oreil.ly/93vVKw #

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• 15:58 Unexpected lunch at the Double Windsor #

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• 12:52 Upgrading my hard drive, because clouds have a nasty way of evaporating. #

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• 10:10 What's Inside our favorite spicy sauce??? whats-inside.tumblr.com/post/634449415/whats-inside-worcestershire-sauce #
• 13:28 Serious Q: McLuhan said that video is a "cool" medium. How then to explain Glenn Beck, and political shoutfest shows? McL was wrong? #

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• 09:46 I have been car-free for a solid year! And it has been a great year! twitpic.com/5fmjv #
• 11:51 Winners of the Michelle Bachman Hero Award: www.sacbee.com/2010/05/21/2768857/woman-killed-after-confronting.html #
• 13:10 Now it is Stroller Tailgate Party Hill: ephemeralnewyork.wordpress.com/2010/05/22/where-the-hippies-hung-out-in-prospect-park/ #
• 20:36 Ah, my name is-a Eu-Gene. www.youtube.com/watch?v=FeZlXJtLhMQ< /a> #

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• 07:57 Dreamt I met Glenn Beck for lunch. He asked me to appear on his show to present What's Inside every month. O Ambition! #
• 11:25 What does the phrase "an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth" mean to you? #
• 18:55 twitpic.com/1qg440 #
• 18:56 Who are you going to believe: me, or your lying eyes? www.slate.com/id/2254054/pagenum/all/#p2 #
• 19:07 "24 miles of Louisiana is destroyed. Everything in it is dead" bit.ly/bi1qFM #
• 22:30 Anyone have any quantitative questions about the Space Shuttle you've always wanted to know? Ask me. #

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• 17:16 Kitty hiding from vacuum cleaner monster twitpic.com/1qge41 #
• 22:34 Reading David Foster Wallace's "A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again". David, did you HAVE to kill yourself? #
• 22:48 Have you ever seen gray ice cream? If so, what flavor was it? If not, what flavor do you think gray ice cream would be? #
• 23:25 A Partial Map Of Your Tardis: community.livejournal.com/dwfiction/2794749.html #

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• 13:51 Does Princess Leia ever lie to Luke in ANH? Everyone else does: C-3PO, Uncle Owen, Aunt Beru, Obi Wan, Han... #
• 15:58 So explain again why Chewbacca doesn't get a medal? #

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• 05:20 I told you I wasn't going to be able to get to sleep tonight. And I didn't. #
• 12:35 Why do tech writers all feel the need to be Nietzsche: "[privacy, books, print, the laptop, Adobe] ... is dead" #
• 14:45 Don't forget: Metropolis at FilmForum at 7:30pm. Be there or be led astray by a robot who will cause you to flood your underground city. #
• 15:10 I wanted to give a seminar on entropy but it all fell apart. #
• 15:13 Of course, something came up: now I can't make Metropolis tonight. trying for Sunday. #
• 16:09 And proud of it... twitpic.com/1prmh6 #
• 18:48 #firstdraft "I see the problem: You're confusing the pronoun 'who' with the nickname of the man on first base!" #
• 21:02 Another word for psychedelic twitpic.com/1ptyls #

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• 10:40 What's Inside too long this month. Had to cut the lines about taking a dump at SxSW, and the elves carrying bracken to a composting cottage. #
• 12:35 Listening to Rhythm Heritage's "Theme from S.W.A.T." while coding = exponential increase in typos. #
• 13:51 Miserable perverted bastard junkie string arrays in Java wasting my valuable time. #
• 23:40 I'm watching the funniest things on my DVR right now, to wipe the Grey's Anatomy finale from my mind so I can sleep! #
• 00:50 When I try and fail to use pointers, I am reminded why: The C++ class at Columbia whose windows overlooked the Barnard dorms. #

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• 11:36 How would you translate "fuckface" into Chinese? #
• 12:21 Let's contact CBS to complain that their 48Hr Magazine lacks photos of Eddie Murphy and Nick Nolte. #48hrmag #
• 13:00 Have to rewrite vast parts of the article. Managed to save the line about taking a dump at SxSW. #
• 13:54 Did any of us think to include the blackmailing producer from CBS's "48 Hours" when we were writing about hustlers? #48hrmag #
• 17:30 Against all odds, Metropolis has been held over another week at FilmForum, NYC. We're going at 7:30 on Friday! #

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• 16:36 Saved my story!!!!! Have to do some minor tweaks to it! #
• 18:56 Chopping onions when my glasses started to slip off. I reached up to adjust them and almost sliced my nose off. #
• 19:07 First web joke I remember: "Did you hear OJ Simpson has a website? it's at ///////" [say it out loud] #
• 19:12 Earliest web joke I remember: "Did you hear OJ Simpson has a website? it's at ///////" #
• 23:14 BBC showing multiple fires in Bangkok as army moves against the protesters: news.bbc.co. uk/2/hi/world/asia_pacific/10124369.stm #
• 23:18 This is a #test #

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• 15:36 Why they went with Shatner instead of Abe Vigoda is beyond me. RT: @ProgGrrl: CBS confirms "Shat My Dad Says" starring William Shatner. #
• 19:10 On my way to Lowes to save my story. #
• 21:01 did I just spot a mistake in the time travel episode of Stephen Hawking's Universe? #
• 22:38 THIS is what investigative journalism should be!! www.nytimes.com/2010/05/18/nyregion/18blumenthal.html?pagewanted=1 #
• 01:01 I have a feeling I'm not going to see Metropolis at Film Forum -- I have too much I need to get done this week. #

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• 10:13 Without using any words or phrases found on their website, can anyone tell me what this company does: breakfastny.com/ #
• 17:40 It seems to be a complete hoax that Ronnie James Dio's death was a complete hoax. www.today.msnbc.msn.com/id/37180773/ #

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• 10:59 Immense $1 book sale at Brooklyn Central Library! Get here before I buy them all. #
• 20:21 Hey look! RT: @erikmal: Hey look, it's @justpat's infographic in @48hrmag: yfrog.com/eaqurj #
• 20:34 My favorite Go-Go's collection of Ray Guns: twitpic.com/1nr4ih #
• 02:06 After some initial snage, Operation Scrape is coming along well. I really, really enjoy coding in Processing! #

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• 09:08 World War Two for teenagers: www.collegehumor.com/article:1802364 #
• 13:57 Begging or bragging? twitpic.com/1nqm10 #

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• 11:21 When a TV show's writing staff wins an Emmy, does everyone get their own statue, or is there just one for the office? #
• 11:57 Vox Populi, Vox Dei twitpic.com/1ng2kv #
• 12:19 Cute 3yr old girl making people smile by saying a cheerful "Hi!" to everyone on subway car. Endearing at first. Then annoying. #
• 12:48 Island of Coney, 13 May 2010 twitpic.com/1ngh1i #
• 13:43 Nathan's Coney Island sells chicken chow mein. #
• 14:27 UPDATE: Nathan's Coney Island sells a flavorless mucilagenous sludge they call chicken chow mein. #
• 15:03 Skinned my knee without tearing a hole in my pants. WIN! #
• 15:27 During today's Coney Island sojourn, I got some sun, walked on the beach, outlined a feature article, sent out queries, and skinned my knee. #

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• 10:23 Andrew Sullivan: "my job is to think out loud. It is not my job to report stories." snipurl.com/w64kp #
• 13:17 Journalism has changed from "this is what happened" to "this is what should have happened". #

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• 12:13 Food poisoning. Suspected culprit: bad spinach. Ugh. #
• 12:19 I tried it -- the pic was unchanged! RT: @ptorrone: Your Photo as an Early Human bit.ly/a8ALgh #
• 13:11 Spinach is from Canada. Packaging is bilingual except for the "sell by" date, which is French. 2010 MA 17. Is that "Mai 17" or "Mars 17"? #
• 13:24 WTF does this mean? "Search is a way to harvest demand, not create it." bit.ly/9kPD1U -- Success in tech relies on being inscrutable. #
• 13:29 You're never going to hear me say I love my new gadget. I love people. Some places. Very, very few things. #
• 14:46 fucking goddam spinach food poisoning #
• 15:53 If this batch of bad spinach were a person I would be beating the crap out of it right now for making me this sick. #

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• 13:28 I have the same number of followers as Conan O'Brien!! #
• 15:36 What's the coolest "gettin'" term for sex? Gettin Busy? Gettin Fresh? Gettin Down? Or gettin something else entirely? #
• 16:05 Serious question: Do kids (ages 8-20) today know what a laser light show is? Anyone? #
• 16:52 Off to NYUs ITP show! #
• 21:40 How big is the Gulf oil spill compared to other places? #deepwater #horizon paulrademacher.com/oilspill/ #
• 23:52 Adding the word "monkey" before practically any noun makes it funnier. #
• 00:37 I wondered how long it would take -- RT @ClaraJeffery: @48hrmag take over @motherjones on weekend=new model of coworking/officesharing? #

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• 16:43 Time Warner Cable reports internet outages in Brooklyn. I, of course, already knew that. #
• 17:05 TW cable is also out in Brooklyn. This I didn't know until just now. #

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• 13:24 Why don't these cats listen to me? I'm bigger and I have a higher neocortex ratio! #
• 13:27 NYC TWC customers: tune to channel 72 to see eerie traffic cam video of a deserted Times Square. #
• 17:12 This kind of sucks. I have the design sense of a 2 year old, yet I have to design my own infographic. #48hrmag #
• 02:16 I contributed to @48hrmag - 48hrmag.com #

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• 10:27 Video tutorial makers: include a transcript, because I'm not going to watch it otherwise. Your job is to inform me, not surprise me. #
• 10:29 People, think: if the Times Square non-bomber's plane had taken off, he would not have "escaped" -- they would have turned the plane around. #
• 13:40 Actually, the Constitution *is* a suicide pact. We're supposed to be willing to die for it so others remain free. #

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• 08:43 Cop on TV saying NYers shouldn't stay cowering in their homes from terrorism fears. I don't know anyone who is. Do you? #
• 09:03 Tautology! RT:@The_Takeaway:"Had this car bomb exploded, no one would be suggesting he was incompetent."NYPDs Paul Browne ow.ly/1GHEZ #
• 02:22 Spokeo.com thinks I am a male Hispanic tradesman in his early 50s who plays sports, loves food and wine, and is not interested in politics. #

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• 11:14 My email "From" line says "Patrick". I sign the email "Patrick". Why do PR people always call me"Pat", a name I hate? Why? #
• 12:21 You're all invited to an orgy -- an orgy of Wired's "What's Inside" articles! whats-inside.tumblr.com/ #
• 14:06 Tumblrs, I beseech thee: Please promote my What's Inside blog. Thank you! www.tumblr.com/directory/recommend/humor/whats-inside #
• 20:44 Bowie's "Heroes" on loop as I try to figure out what to do for the rest of my life. #

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• 09:08 Didja notice that the NYCDOT traffic cams in Times Square were cut off last night? Citizens should not be shut out of information. #
• 09:15 There "should" be? Who says? @michaelluo: Given how many times nyc has escaped attack, there should be mass exodus but there isn't. #
• 09:22 SPOILER! @janewiedlin Annakin is about 2 kill all the Sandpeople. And not just the men, but the women & children too. #
• 12:13 snap-front pajama pants no longer stay up. must move exclusively to drawstring. #
• 12:58 Spent most of yesterday outside, topped off by an unexpected impromptu barbecue. Now I get to stay inside and work on my brand. #
• 16:31 Walking past the auto-parts store, where the Freon bootleggers are working the parking lot. #

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• 14:40 Got a reprint check from GQ South Africa! I thought those were strictly imaginary. #