Collected Thoughts of the Day

• 09:39 Instead of calling it "dreaming", think of it as "all night hallucination partying". #
• 09:44 Space Shuttle Simulator kills 6 in China RT: @BreakingNews: bit.ly/aVyRE2 #
• 10:33 Even when thinking w/the little head? RT @rameshgandhi: Humans: only creatures whose sexual desire reside in the brain not the sex organs. #
• 11:13 Read this before you get married: bit.ly/d0TMQo #
• 12:34 RT @TheOnion: Area Man Passionate Defender Of What He Imagines Constitution To Be onion.com/9fFoAD #
• 12:59 Just to be sure -- the cat doesn't have bionic legs by any reasonable definition of the word bionic. bit.ly/dmz3Fx #
• 14:44 When I see polenta on ritzy restaurant menus, I remember my grandmother saying they left Italy so they could stop eating that peasant food. #
• 17:07 I need to become expert in spherical trigonometry in the next 30 minutes. Anyone have the brain peptides to spare? #
• 17:16 Re:Spherical Trig Help - false alarm. I realized I could eliminate one dimension, flatten it out, and treat it like 2D trig. #
• 22:30 For every ton of oil, 1/2 ton of methan e is released from #oilspill bit.ly/bQu4pq #
• 22:38 One bbl of #oil is 42 gallons. At .95 specific gravity of water, 1 bbl weighs ~320 lbs. bit.ly/bQu4pq #
• 22:39 If #deepwaterhorizon #oilspill has released 7 million barrels of oil, that's 2.2 billion pounds of oil, and 1.1 billion pounds of methane. #
• 23:07 Methane has 21x the greenhouse gas effect of CO2. So the #oilspill has released the equivalent of 24 billion lbs of CO2. #
• 23:09 If one car emits 11 tons of CO2 per year, the #oilspill's 24 billion lbs in 70 days is like 5 million extra cars on the road. #
• 23:10 (((((8 * .95) * 42) * 7 200 000 * .5 * 21) / 2 000) / 11) * 5 = 5 484 436.36 #
• 01:07 For every tweeter? Or just extroverts? RT: @nxthompson: @penenberg Tweeting releases oxytocin, which makes us kind. bit.ly/ah8gia #

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• 13:43 Wearing fake bling correlates with other types of dishonest behavior. ORLY? www.people.hbs.edu/mnorton/gino%20norton%20ariely.pdf #
• 18:54 Foursquare's entire business plan is a privacy hole. RT: @mat: Massive @Foursquare privacy hole, reported by @wired: j.mp/dr40aJ #
• 20:54 "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying" on TCM is so dated it might as well be about another planet. #
• 23:22 Watching Helen Mirren on Daily Show. I hope I look that good at 64. #

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• 10:04 I love Flintstones vitamins. They're like SweetTarts that are good for you. #
• 13:01 The toothpaste has melted into minty fluoridated astroglide; the Vaseline flows like a runny nose. #HOT #
• 13:21 Q: How to represent female astronauts, pictograph style? Spacesuits don't have skirts or busts. #
• 17:33 Rainclouds promise relief but don't deliver, just like Catholic schoolgirls. #
• 17:47 I'd buy one. RT: @pomeranian99: A b&W printer, priced with a profitable margin, with cheap cartridges easily available. Doesn't exist, eh? #
• 18:59 MacUsers: who wants to test a tiny one-function app I'm prototyping? Must be famliliar with Terminal and chmod. #
• 19:01 Park Slopians from Pacific to 23rd, from 5th ave to PPW: Turn off non essential devices: bit.ly/bdO42i #

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• 09:54 I slept with my mouth open and now I have no voice. #
• 10:19 So #eng is all red, #ger is b&w, but the goalies are yellow and green. Are they independent contractors? #worldcup #
• 10:58 #eng England #ger Germany a grudge match since 1966? What about the destruction of Coventry? Or Ypres? #worldcup #fifa #
• 11:08 I miss the old Buckminster Fuller footballs #worldcup #fifa #
• 11:25 Would it be a faux pas to use the term blitzkrieg now? #worldcup #
• 11:33 Now the #ger team is just playing "keep-away". #
• 11:36 What ever happened to "We shall fight them in the fields," #eng? #worldcup #
• 11:47 Well, at least the goalkeeper for #eng England can go back to living with Curious George. #worldcup #
• 12:11 Must get my sweat glands inured to the heat. #
• 14:32 Who is the British #WorldCup commenter for ESPN/ABC? He sounds remarkably like Steve Coogan / Alan Partridge. #
• 15:04 Suggestion to all #worldcup teams: do not dress your goalkeeper in canary yellow. #

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• 11:34 Hanging indoors on this fine day, getting the windows done. #
• 11:50 As I age, I find myself growing more intolerant of the little things like lactose. #
• 17:31 #gha vs #uru ? This is the strangest game of Risk ever! #
• 02:24 WHY do I know the lyrics to Ewok Celebration? "Yub nub, ee chop yub nub..." #

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• 10:41 #peopletoavoid The guy who says "Go ahead. I can't see how it can get any worse." Dude, it can always get worse. #
• 11:32 #ff Ro/Bot Edition: @MarsRovers @MarsScienceLab @CassiniSaturn @SergeGreystone @twisst @towerbridge @lowflyingrocks @sfearthquakes #
• 11:38 #ff Ro/Bot edition (cont'd) @esamarswebcam #
• 13:52 O cooling rain. Please come to Brooklyn, we beseech thee. #
• 23:30 #irrelevant People who pontificate that this or that is "relevant". #

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• 11:14 Beats humans? I kicked its shiny metal ass! RT: @pomeranian99: Meet Watson, a computer that beats humans at Jeopardy: nyti.ms/b2YWtC #
• 13:59 "glut-" means glue-like (glutin), eating (glutton) or buttocks (gluteus). A sticky ass swallower is a gluteal gluteus glutton. #
• 14:01 Could you tell by my last tweet that I'm researching monosodium glutamate? #
• 14:14 Obama: now that Medvedev has a twitter account, we can throw away those red phones. #
• 16:16 Summer 2010 idea: All Wired writers run for congress on a technocratic, decentralized, DIY, resilient community platform. #
• 16:44 Watching the severe thunderstorm from Binghamton barrel in towards Brooklyn: bit.ly/doA9sA #

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• 02:41 Excellent! Thank you! RT @yuweiquan: @justpat ymca? #
• 10:57 My review of the #Gernsback classic #sf story "Ralph 124C41+". #scifi bit.ly/av65S3 #
• 11:51 And now the ritual smothering of the man who made the goal. This tradition goes back to ancient Greece, where the victor was sacrificed. #
• 11:56 Poor Audrey Tautou! #
• 12:27 The Man With No Name From Frito-Lay -- which sounds like the title of a Spaghetti Western -- is incommunicado. #
• 12:30 Same here, with @ejgertz ! RT:@alexismadrigal: Pretty sur e it will take all day to recover...from watching @sarahrich get so into the game. #
• 13:56 Is Michael Hastings, the author of the #RollingStone piece, still in #Afghanistan? Is he keeping clear of #TeamAmerica ? #
• 14:05 When #Obama walked away from the microphone, you could hear his balls clank. #petraeus #mcchrystal #
• 14:23 I hate hate hate hate hate getting scooped on a story. Especially when it is 100% my fault. bit.ly/a2yO3m #
• 15:52 RT: @stevesilberman: Ha! Chimp discovers hidden camera,via @sciencepunk bit.ly/cgKdKr #

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• 09:57 The Artist Formerly Known As The Artist Formerly Known As Prince, jamming w/ Larry Graham @ BB King's,6/16/2010 youtu.be/XxnmmhQlGoY! #
• 10:22 My @PopSci feature on carbon neutral communities brings out the skeptics! #co2 #green #energy bit.ly/cJz290 #
• 12:11 Marjorie Ingall: "universally acknowledged that a parent in possession of a Flip camcorder must be in want of a blog." bit.ly/duT4ox #
• 12:45 Where is this? RT: @thegizwiz: Mini NYC Consumer Electronics Show opens 2day. 70+ exhibitors showing trade & press new gadgets. #
• 20:28 Ketchup beer? RT:@brendankoerner: curious about this beer: Very heavy oregano type smell with a slight hint of tomatoes: bit.ly/Wgrz5 #
• 20:31 Torrential rain in Brooklyn making the heat wetter #
• 20:31 AMEN TO THAT! RT: @jetjocko: @erikmal @jaketapper Whew. Never. Cross. The Fact-checker. #
• 20:35 Hope fact checkers say the same of me: "Everything was backed up. He had all his research, all his notes." bit.ly/b0g9cd #
• 01:13 "Lola", "Respect", "Saturday Night", "Gloria" - Any more songs that spell out (some of) t he words in their titles? #

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• 11:40 My blog post about the Know Nothing Party, one of the spiritual ancestors of the Tea Party: bit.ly/cEO2lS #
• 12:23 "A vivid presentation of the DANGERS TO AMERICAN LIBERTY from Foreign Influence" - A Know Nothing pamphlet from 1855: bit.ly/cX5sl7 #
• 13:03 The anti-Catholicism of the Know Nothing Party of the 1850s, in many ways the spiritual ancestors of today's Tea Party: bit.ly/9uZDoN #
• 13:55 Wurst. Joke. Ever. RT @jetjocko:Thinking of marketing a new kind of delicious, self-similar sausage: The mandel-brat. It tastes like itself! #
• 14:40 What "Birth of a Nation" was to the KKK, this anonymous novel is to the Know Nothings. Next: a Tea Party reality show? bit.ly/9GaXaI #
• 16:05 >Know Nothingism is the attraction of a red flag for a bull< bit.ly/ad0vkd >Tea Party anger like road rage< bit.ly/ar6muG #
• 20:17 Hooray, I'm rich! twitpic.com/1yuziu #

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• 22:32 On the one side, a complete absence of women! On the other, a face off between Scientologists and Objectivists! twitpic.com/1ylzvk #
• 00:58 They want to limit immigration, and make the US English only. The 2010 Tea Party? No, the 1850s Know Nothing Party: bit.ly/9n9mH5 #

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• 12:52 In Green-Wood cemetary to watch Red Bull Air Race. 9th ave gate, rt on Border Ave, past Hemlock Ave, road makes sharp left. Look to the ... #
• 12:54 In Green-Wood cemetery, watchAir Race. PPW gate, rt on Border Ave, past Hemlock Ave, road makes sharp left. Look to the rt of Ms Liberty. #
• 15:16 Remember I watched that girl undress during my C pointers class, so never learned them? Seems we learned linked lists in that class, too. #
• 16:39 TWC has something called "Liquidation Channel". Thought it was about executing political dissidents, but its just cheap gewgaws for sale. #
• 22:40 watched Marathon Man. Why di d the Nazi go to the diamond district in person. Couldn't he make a phone call? #

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• 02:31 Clearly fake, but the young woman is stunning. Should remember, however, that rage is the easiest emotion to act. bit.ly/cArvBJ #
• 13:46 11% of Henry Hathaway's films have numbers in the title. #movies #trivia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Hathaway #
• 20:12 Is there a C-Span for baseball? We need a tv channel where we can watch and hear the sounds of the game without any yammering commentators. #
• 23:10 I'd like someone to make "Tetsuo:The Iron Chef", please. #

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• 11:22 MAN:"Is this radiology?" ME: "I'm sorry, I think you have the wrong number." MAN: "YOU PEOPLE NEED TO GET YOUR ACT TOGETHER!" <CLICK> #
• 17:48 Is George Clinton invited? RT @reeraw: 'what color is your utopia/dystopia?' — second life afrofuturist multiverses bit.ly/aqFumL #
• 18:05 joebartonwouldliketoapologize.com RT: @jonward11: House GOP told Barton apologize or lose his committee seat. His future is uncertain #
• 18:55 Reading Ronald Reagan's diaries. I thought it was something we made up to mock him, but he really did call Nancy "Mommie". Jesus wept. #
• 18:55 Most meaningless piece of "journalism" ever. www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/06/16/obama.speech.analysis/ #
• 22:48 To Serve Man, the action figure: www.mwctoys.com/REVIEW_100202.htm #

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• 12:25 Ok, I lost two twitter followers between today and yesterday. Who was it? Speak up! #
• 13:45 Generally, researching products for What's Inside does not make me change my lifestyle. This one will. Big Time. #
• 15:21 Silly me: I honestly thought "Nacho cheese" was a legitimate variety, like Cheddar or Limburger. Turns out it is often not even cheese. #
• 16:42 I don't get it. Rent a white guy? For a company that's not real? www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2010/07/rent-a-white-guy/8119 #
• 22:12 Just saw a Florida tourism comm ercial: <We have 825 miles of beaches. Most of them aren't contaminated!> #
• 01:21 Now this is what I call a rainstorm! #

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• 10:17 Listening to various Beatle songs backwards while researching the pig enzyme lipase. #
• 13:30 Reading peer reviewed journal article: "Manufacture of Cheddar Cheese Using Proteinase-Negative Mutants of Streptococcus" #ilovemylife #
• 20:26 Is "ask what you can do for your country" simply not a trending meme in the 21st century? #oilspill #
• 20:35 Got oldfashioned haircut at oldfashioned barber shop today. Ended with splash of lilac vegetal and dusting with Clubman talc. Hello 1959! #
• 20:45 BP executives ask for Secret Service protection during their meeting with President Obama tomorrow. #nonotreally #

Collected Thoughts of the Day

• 03:11 Key to prospering in the digital age is learning how to be shameless. #
• 11:04 Did the evaluators of the AfghanMotherlode calculate the price-depressing effect all that new lithium would have on the market? #
• 11:09 When The #Singularity Happens: Will an iPod full of emo or goth music have a morose personality? What about an iPod full of showtunes? #
• 11:36 When the #singularity happens: will your car develop a moral conscience and refuse to drive you to midnight booty calls? #
• 11:51 The Book of Revelation, presented in the style of 1970s van art. bit.ly/c0sRFp #
• 12:07 The latest from Tom "It's Not An Idea Until *I've* Thought Of It" Friedman. nyti.ms/8YlcLF #
• 13:17 What do you think you're achieving when you say things like "Do people still use email?" "Do newspapers still exist?" #
• 14:22 Pray they don't get a C&D from the Eat Pray Love lady. RT: @48hrmag: RT @eatsleepdraw: ESDmag was created in a weekend. is.gd/cO6e3 #
• 16:48 Which US astronaut served as pilot for one spaceflight and crew for his next spaceflight? #
• 18:18 What NASA astronaut has spent a year in space without ever riding on the Shuttle? #
• 19:48 Watching the Lehigh Valley Iron Pigs vs the Buffalo Bisons. #

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• 14:38 Sorry, but no matter what anyone says, Brin did NOT become "part man, part machine". nyti.ms/9ls7yB #
• 14:42 Cuneiform tablets: "Plant Grafting for Mesopotamian Dummies" www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/history/lecture09/lec09.html #
• 20:12 Watching Ocean's Thirteen. Sad to think I will never be this cool. #
• 22:21 Are there two types of architecture: that which isolates you from the commons and that which engages you with the commons? #
• 22:26 We hear our internal voice telling us what to do. A re some people wired not to know that the voice is internal? Do they hear it as God? #
• 23:40 RIP Country singer and sausage maven (and Bond film actor) Jimmy Dean: youtu.be/wz6KzGeEX6o #
• 00:26 Can we trust the government's $1T estimate for Afghan mineral strike? The same people routinely inflate the street value of seized drugs. #
• 00:49 It's nice to know what's gonna happen : www.jvim.com/timeline.htm #

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• 12:05 Looks like the #oilwell is leaking *under the seafloor*. www.washingtonsblog.com/2010/06/evidence-points-to-destruction-beneath.html #
• 13:26 Was asked to record ENG vs USA world cup. I don't even know where the sports channels on my cable system are! #
• 16:19 I doubt anyone is blowing their #vuvuzelas. That buzz you hear is just people saying "vuvuzela" over and over and over. #
• 16:26 You mean the game just ends without one side crushing and destroying the other side? How un-American! #
• 20:53 Watching the PG-dubbe d version of "Scarface"(1983). Very unimaginitive replacements; no melonfarming iceholes yet. #
• 23:35 Johnny Cash seems to enjoy the silliness of singing the official lyrics to the Bonanza theme song. youtu.be/sinjOkz-nlw #

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• 04:34 Who knew Peter Lemongello was still active? www.plemongello.com/ #
• 05:12 Who knew Mummenschanz was still active? www.mummenschanz.com/ #
• 05:30 Who knew Earth Shoes were still around? bit.ly/92oHGV #
• 10:22 I'd like to see someone make "The Undersea World of Jacques Clouseau". #
• 13:53 Listening to Lola Rennt sndtrk while learning Python. 20 years of ending statements with a semicolon now out the window. #
• 18:37 EOTW is sked for 12/21/2012. There's time. RT: @hrheingold: On no! I forgot there won't be a Spring, 2012. going to work on my book anyway. #
• 20:20 Congratulations!!!!!!!! RT: @GarnetJoyce: My wife is a rockstar! She got offered the job at stanford on the spot! #

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• 11:17 No, play it big! RT: @ebertchicago: Advice to Nevada GOP candidate Sharron Angle: Downplay your call for making alcohol consumption illegal. #
• 13:00 Funny how so many "information should be free" folks have embraced the iPad, which is closed tighter than a level 4 biolab. #
• 19:45 I had to shut off twitter and email to get work done. Did you miss me? #
• 01:20 Asleep just before 11PM, awoke from a nightmare with a shout, now wide awake. I guess it's back to work, unless anyone has any better ideas. #

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• 10:51 NASA's cost-plus development contracts a thing of the past? www.nytimes.com/2010/06/08/science/space/08nasa.html?hpw #
• 11:44 Once again, XKCD is all about truth: xkcd.com/748/ #
• 12:30 Notice how fewer people report that they "...threw up a little. In my mouth.." nowadays? SO glad that epidemic has passed. #
• 12:47 SpinVox speech-to-text service went away just as Google Voice's service got good enough to use. As long as I don't have to type. #
• 16:30 Prospect Park in the rain; not as bad as one would think. #
• 18:00 OK, it got too cold to be out in Prospect Park in the rain. #
• 19:45 Is it common to want to be known as "tits on a stick"? gothamist.com/2010/06/09/sexy_banker_had_two_boob_jobs.php #
• 21:09 Please donate what you can to help get this poor woman to Talos IV. tweetphoto.com/26361730 #
• 23:17 Jon Stewart = 100% correct in his slam at White House journalists on tonight's Daily Show. #

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• 11:27 Gives new meaning to the term "pussy magnet" online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704513104575256452390636786.html?mod=e2tw #
• 12:17 Once again I ask: are there any quantitative questions about the space shuttle program you'd like to know? How many? How much? #
• 13:25 Vote on which idea will have the biggest impact on society in the next decade: bit.ly/apqQ3P They left out brain research. #
• 13:31 I Predicted this less than a decade ago. www.patspapers.com /story_stack/item/college_kids_less_empathetic_than_decade_ago/ #
• 16:49 "features the full length nude bodies of Beatle John Lemmon and his mistress Oona" foia.fbi.gov/doors_the/doors_the_part01.pdf #
• 18:32 Ringo Starr turns SEVENTY in one month. #
• 19:16 Harvey Korman + Buddy Hackett = Who's on First classicshowbiz.blogspot.com/2010/06/bud-lou-clip-1978.html #

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• 09:08 I would imagine that most of New York slept very very well last night. #
• 11:06 What's Inside research: there are reports of people abusing this product to get high. I don't even see how such a thing is possible. #
• 11:08 What's Inside: it would be like hearing that someone was abusing Tums to get high, or chewing gum, or soap bubbles. Just doesn't make sense. #
• 13:37 PR guy called back; didn't give any product info, and actually seemed upset that Wired does What's Inside. "What is its purpose?" he asked. #
• 13:41 Judging from the tweets, Jobs' reality distortion field is in fine form. "Hard to remember lif e before iPhone?" Get real. #wwdc #
• 13:59 iPhone 4 gyroscope: Put it in your pocket, will keep you upright when doing side-of-the-road drunk tests! #wwdc #
• 14:18 iPhone 4: can I edit the movie while I'm watching it in the theater? #wwdc #
• 16:06 iPhone4 - if the steel frame is part of the antenna, and if you hold it in your bare hand, then isn't your body the antenna, too? #
• 19:16 1992 computer receipt: 486DX/33, 4 MB RAM, 210 MB HD,14" monitor,FDD:1.2 and 1.44, DOS 5.0, HP deskjet 500 (b/w) printer = $2348.50 #
• 23:36 What ever happened with Kevin Costner's oil sucke r? #

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• 15:41 www.spc.noaa.gov/products/watch/wou0272.html Tornado watch for NYC metro, Eastern PA, entire states of NJ, CT, MA, RI #
• 18:45 Watching 1974's "The Missiles of October". So impressionistic. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Missiles_of_October How lucky we were. #
• 01:30 I sometimes wonder if I would be a better writer if I took opium or laudanum. Then I remember that my typing is bad enough as it is. #

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• 04:11 How long before they start calling 3D television "3V"? #
• 11:10 First step of The Singularity: a Maker Bot makes a Maker Bot! blog.makerbot.com/2010/06/04/a-makerbot-self-replicates/ #
• 13:27 So, because Steve Jobs had a near death experience and feels a sense of mission, my Java apps are useless on the iPad? #
• 17:01 Book sale; $7 Anathem. #

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• 10:26 Do you go on vacation as yourself? Or do you create a temporary persona: "intrepid traveler", "person of leisure", etc? #

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• 08:31 It was the third of June, another sleepy dusty Delta day... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ode_to_Billie_Joe #
• 10:45 One we find out what "r-e-s-p-e-c-t" means, why is it necessary to take out TCP? #
• 13:42 Researching What's Inside dandruff shampoo was a journey into the world of seborrhoeic dermatitis. The one I'm doing now: much, much worse. #
• 16:01 HP Lovecraft, in the style of Jack Chick: www.fredvanlente.com/downloads/WhyWeHere.pdf #
• 19:00 You wouldn't believe how disgusting this research is. #

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• 09:20 Egads! A generation of George W. Bushes? www.nytimes.com/2010/05/30/magazine/30fob-wwln-t.html?ref=magazine #
• 11:09 Researching a What's Inside: was this product, developed in the late 1910s, unknowingly using stem cells? #
• 12:03 I believe I started the "not obama's katrina; big oil's chernobyl" meme Sunday AM. Amazing to see how far it's spread, and w/o attribution! #
• 19:17 I think I have it: the point of Fox News is to reassure people the the world sucks as much as they fear it does. #
• 19:47 Are the nycsubways "do n ot ride between cars" recordings triggered by someone opening the door between cars? #