December 2008
80 posts
Testing Tweetshrink http://tweetshrink.com/ 2 automatically shrnk yr tweets when U run out of characters
2008’s oddest travel stories http://tinyurl.com/yo7q8m/c/a/2008/12/26/TR3S14FFOQ.DTL
Some websites that didn’t think their URLs through… http://tinyurl.com/a734kk
RT: @jayrosen_nyu: Samuel Huntington, legendary political scientist at Harvard, has died. http://is.gd/dIzG
RT: @brianadrian: RT @juliewright socialmedian: The Social Media Guru Curve http://bit.ly/Cxk0 Found this amusing enough to share. Indeed
The 10 Best Foods You Aren’t Eating http://tinyurl.com/6jw75z
St. Stephen’s Day is a holiday over here too, so yet another big meal, this time @ my sister’s… Next week I’ll go on a diet, I promise
RT: @DonIrvine: Diplo-twittering http://tinyurl.com/8kbu2p
The Story of the Rockefeller tree http://tinyurl.com/8z844m
RT: @emzanotti: RT @snachodog: Nativity if it happened on Twitter - http://tinyurl.com/73pdnp
Made it through last night: nice family gathering, dinner, exchanged presents. Now to another big meal. Life is good. Merry Christmas, all!
How secular newsrooms handle stories with a religious component http://tinyurl.com/94r5jw
RT: @dcagle: My MSNBC, Best of Daryl, year in review slideshow is posted: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28380133
off to all-family reunion and Christmas dinner, so Merry Xmas to everyone!
Internet Overtakes Newspapers as News Source http://tinyurl.com/93u3f4
Testing http://www.twittergadget.com/, the Gmail gadget
Nah, don’t like the Twitter Gadget for Gmail; too small, too far down even after re-positioning. Need to use scrollbars a lot (speed killer)
Mac vs PC: what really goes on inside our home computers http://tinyurl.com/6uawsm
Techniques for surviving the holiday chitchat marathon: how to talk to people (yes, there’s more than tweeting!) http://tinyurl.com/8peynp
Washington Is Killing Silicon Valley http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122990472028925207.html
Beer goggles not only a guys’ thing http://www.futurepundit.com/archives/005809.html
Hilarious examples of booze talking @ Xmas parties http://tinyurl.com/795dge
amazed that so many people seem to be interested in Obama’s pecs.
RT: @guykawasaki: Huffington Post accused of lifting content http://adjix.com/xab
Extreme poodle grooming. Wouldn’t that be like torturing the poor pets? http://www.pinkcoyote.net/creativegrooming.html
Didn’t win a dime of the $3-billion El Gordo http://tinyurl.com/786sd2 How could I, I didn’t buy any tickets (lottery is a tax on the poor)
LOLing at RT: @TechCrunch: The Richter Scales Are Back. Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas. http://twurl.nl/d17t7l
And now laughing my a** off at http://tinyurl.com/54s22m
RT: @jayrosen_nyu: Remember the Feds were going to “buy toxic assets?” How did it switch to “inject capital” into banks? http://is.gd/cNY7
Feeling only marginally better this morning, but hey, it’s a step.
Sick. Sucks. Back later
Hitting the road. See you tomorrow!
RT: @dcagle: We have a new collection of cartoons about financial Ponzi schemer Madoff: http://www.cagle.msnbc.com/news/MadoffsMistakes
Gone too far? Wikileaks posts secret bomb-stopper report http://tinyurl.com/3gdvww
RT: @RobMcNealy: RT @WhenIGroUpCoach “If I’d listened to customers, I’d have given them a faster horse.” ~Henry Ford
Saddam’s daughter linked to both the show-thrower and the bungled coup attempt? http://tinyurl.com/3zo2uz
What’s killing newspapers is… http://www.slate.com/id/2206854/
RT: @guykawasaki: Boston.com always has the best photos http://adjix.com/u4n
What Bloggers Can Learn From Journalists http://tinyurl.com/55regs
“The right to marry does not entitle me to a spouse” Good post re rights vs entitlements http://reason.com/blog/show/130627.html
Next time I see someone showing off the OfficeMax elf thing as if it was the most original, funny thing on Earth, I’m gonna throw up…
2008 ≠ 1929; 2008 = 1873 http://tinyurl.com/47aw46
RT: @JonHenke: RT @marshallmanson Guardian announces 100 best websites for 2009. Twitter headlines. http://bit.ly/kSun
David Pogue’s Pogie Awards http://tinyurl.com/4quhqo
RT: @bernardmoon: Tabbloid… Turn Your RSS Feeds Into A Magazinehttp://tinyurl.com/5yagt2
The “advantage” of having a 4-wheel drive http://tinyurl.com/6n6amc
RT: @mbites: Sober reading from @jenslapinski http://tinyurl.com/45xjmd
RT: @dcagle: Ha! This cartoon made me LOL! http://tinyurl.com/3wb2fw JMG: indeed
US Bankrupt? No, it’s more like a homeowner with a mortgage http://tinyurl.com/6555zo
‘Digital Influencers’ Get Info from Magazines, TV First http://tinyurl.com/6hulky