November 2008
“Innumeracy affects as many as one in eleventeen people.”
– Twitter / toldorknown
The Libertarian Moment - Reason Magazine →
The generation raised on the Internet has essentially been raised libertarian, even if they’ve never even heard of the word. Native netizens now entering college exhibit a kind of broad-based tolerance toward every manner of ethnic, religious, and sexual-orientation grouping in a way that would have seemed like science fiction just a generation ago. The products and activities they enjoy and...
Let me google that for you →
Tired of being asked questions that a simple googling would have answered? This is the single serving site for you. Demo.
Twitter. →
nostrich:
amwelles:
97% is boring. 3% is pure awesome, and 99.9% of that 3% is nostrich and lonelysandwich. (via stupidinboston)
Hey, thanks! If anyone’s interested, here are some Twitterers I particularly enjoy following for their ability to make me laugh (which is where I find most of the value in Twitter now):
CcSteff
Nick (Douglas)
Avery Edison (A fellow Brit)
Strutting
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The Fairy Feller’s Master Stroke
Queen...
“To live up to the ideal we just embraced, we have to do intentionally what Obama...”
– David Weinberger – We. One. (via Fritinancy)
Fritinancy: Twittering the Election →
Rod Knowlton, a k a Told or Known, had a bunch of good lines, including “Barack Obama is our first open source president.” And this excellent pun on John McCain’s “that one” dismissal of Obama: “That Won.”
Nancy Friedman’s always interesting Fritinancy (formerly Away With Words) is even more interesting today thanks to a mention of yours truly.