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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2008-12-14

  • Top 25 Censored Stories for 2008 from Project Censored, scary stuff: http://tinyurl.com/6rxn2m #
  • Chief of UN Mission in Afghanistan to NATO and friends: WAKE THE HELL UP and LISTEN TO KARZAI! http://tinyurl.com/5fax9g #
  • Or rather, to Afghanistan’s “international partners” #
  • @fadereu Pirates work for money, as a livelihood. Not for politics… I think they’re only terrorists in that they work outside the system.. in reply to fadereu #
  • A worst-case scenario for a post-#mumbai geopolitics in South Asia: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/07/weekinreview/07cooper.html #
  • A cautionary piece comparing Obama’s economic dream-team to JFK’s team of “The Best and the Brightest” (Vietnam, much?) http://is.gd/aEvf #
  • New Google Reader interface allows you to hide unread counts!!! Maybe I’ll actually start reading RSS feeds now… http://is.gd/ag56 #
  • Woooh 4°F up here in Vermont… #
  • Wishing there was an easier way to get the LightRoom flickr plugin to recognize all the photos I’ve already uploaded… reuploading Mongolia #
  • Laughing at flickr: “O HAI sidetracked! Now you know how to greet people in Lolspeak!” #
  • thinking that the new Thyrfing album sounds an awful lot like Dimmu Borgir… #
  • Is it just me, or is my MBP display dim? Don’t remember if it was ever brighter… but I’d say comparable to a new glossy @ 60% brightness! #
  • wtf how in hell do you crop a horizontal photo as vertical in lightroom? Even switching aspect ratio to 6×4 does nothing! So annoying! #
  • Wow! @TheLightroomLab just replied with how to do it! Draw crop, drag corner until crop rectangle flips. Thanks!! #lightroom (twitter love!) #
  • How do you upload your photos to #flickr? From #lightroom? Picturesync allows revising prev uploads, but LR’s re-exporting breaks it… #
  • Trying to figure out what “breaking up” with a friend actually means… if anything. #
  • Uploading crap-tons of photos to http://flickr.com/photos/yule/ while trying to write this research proposal on suburban L.A… #
  • Amazing! http://www.project-euh.com/ #
  • Laughing at some great cat haikus (yay stumbleupon!) http://www.strangeplaces.net/weirdthings/cathaiku.html #
  • Thinking its hilarious how half the people who swore off AIM for the last 10 years are now infatuated with GChat. Not a new idea, people! #
  • Required For Int’l Human Rights Day: Amnesty International State of the World’s Human Rights Report 2008 http://tinyurl.com/563aj4 #
  • Oh NOES! R.I.P. Postmodern Urbanism… (Michael Dear) Daniel Z. Sui just SERVED you, and jenga’d my proposal. (is that a word? is now) #
  • @fncll Doesn’t the Salon sub-heading make it sound like they never saw Titanic? I mean, “strips off her clothes and secrets” c’mon now… in reply to fncll #
  • Lulz @ What’s on Blagojevich’s iPod? http://is.gd/b38y (RT @KatieFavazza from http://tinyurl.com/5kyvk2) #
  • Dismissed: “Geographers are themselves quite capable of launching intramural holy wars; see Sui’s unbridled assault on postmodern urbanism.” #
  • GM: “Hey, my brick is sinking!” Chrysler: “Hey, mine is too!” GM: “I have a great idea! Let’s tie our bricks together and they’ll float!” #
  • OMFG grille delivery! About to eat a chicken quesadilla, drink a beer (tsk) and then pass out. And then wake up and destroy some exams…! #
  • “Being drunk is feeling sophisticated without being able to say it.” #
  • @atlaswoof Seriously! Especially when it happens for no reason, and you only find out by accident…! Suuuuper lame in reply to atlaswoof #
  • Bedtime, dreaming about data structures, strike/slip faults, magma, sedimentary rocks and sleep? Tomorrow marks my last day of exams 4EVER! #
  • “Aurgasm | your fav music uv never heard”? http://aurgasm.us/category/metal = Error 404 – Not found. LAAAAME. (and what’s with the .us?) #
  • Trying to figure out if its really worth an extra $5/month for SSH access… maybe now that I’m entering the real world, it will be? #
  • Hard not to after discovering the magic of SVN-checkout as live-version this summer. And you can checkout wordpress directly! OMG! #
  • @codinghorror ditto! in reply to codinghorror #
  • http://wordassociation.org really interesting play! Stats: #1 association to AND from LOVE is… HATE! Eesh #
  • Reeling. Ouch #
  • Hoping that it’s finals week that causes all this December drama, and not Dec. Cause of the former, this is the last. Not of the latter, tho #
  • Looking for a ride to Boston on Sunday or Monday.. anyone got friends going? #

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