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Watershed for Twitter

An excellent analysis of Twitter’s “coming of age”. A great example is this footage of a massive Iranian protest tweeted by @davidwiner and a zillion other people.

Found my iPhone – and me

Upgraded to new 3.0 software, setup MobileMe, stepped outside the house, and anyone with the password to my MobileMe account can now find my phone (or me most likely) to within a few feet. Here’s a screen capture of the MobileMe “Find my iPhone” page:

MLB.com Streams Live Baseball Games to the iPhone

MLB.com Streams Live Baseball Games to the iPhone Must. Update. iPhone. (Via New York Times.)

Burnout: The adult kind

Burnout Web professionals are often expected to be ‘always on’—always working, absorbing information, and honing new skills. Unless our work and personal lives are carefully balanced, however, the physical and mental effects of an ‘always on’ life can be debilitating. (Via A List Apart.)

James Joyce’s Voice

Reading a short work.

The Doors/Craigslist via Weird Al

With Ray Manzarek on keyboards:

120HP is all you want on marble

YouTube – Jeremy’s Extreme Ford Fiesta road test The fun starts around 4 mins in.

Internet Identity

One of the first Internet related cartoons I saw back in the day was in the New Yorker. One dog sitting at a keyboard explains to another dog: “On the Internet, no one knows you’re a dog. Apropos of that comic is the logo for the Internet Identity Workshop. The Internet Identity Workshop focuses on [...]

Gamers Unravel the Secret Life of Protein

Gamers Unravel the Secret Life of Protein: ” The key to how any protein works is its three-dimensional shape, determined by all the ways its atoms interact. Trying to push two atoms closer when they want to repel is like holding magnets together when they’re oriented the wrong way. You can force them, but nature [...]

New Photos From Flight 1549 – Raising the Jet from the Hudson

The Unlikely Events of a Water Landing: New Photos From Flight 1549: ” (Via Wired News.)

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