Zach Thomae

gen_nocorrect

Wed, 16 Jan 2013 20:32:50 -0600

gen_nocorrect: A shell (written for zsh) function for turning a list of commands into nocorrect aliases.

Example input:

jsc
mplayer
ipython

Example output:

# Aliases for nocorrect commands. Automatically generated
alias jsc="nocorrect jsc"
alias mplayer="nocorrect mplayer"
alias ipython="nocorrect ipython"

https://gist.github.com/4553009

"[RIM] will stand alone as the only mobile solutions provider focused on IT first and the needs of..."

Thu, 03 Jan 2013 19:51:17 -0600

“[RIM] will stand alone as the only mobile solutions provider focused on IT first and the needs of users later.”

- Rob Enderle, Why 2013 Is RIM’s BlackBerry Year

split_keep.py

Wed, 02 Jan 2013 21:32:39 -0600

split_keep.py - A simple python function for splitting a string by multiple “splitters”, remembering the splitter used each time.

What it does: Takes a string and a list of splitters and splits the string by each of them. Basically, returns a list containing all of the splitters found in the input string, along with all of the characters found between them.

https://gist.github.com/4440324

soundstretch.sh

Mon, 17 Dec 2012 19:21:11 -0600

soundstretch.sh - A silly shell script for recursively finding mp3 files and making copies that are sped up +40%.

What it does: Recursively searches for mp3s^* in a given GETDIR, making faster copies in the same relative location in a copy of the directory tree rooted in the PUTDIR specified.

^*Will skip over files with the extension .fast.mp3, so as to not speed songs up twice.

Key line:

find "$GETDIR"
    -type f \( -iname "*.mp3" -a ! -iname "*.fast.mp3" \)
    -exec bash -c 'convertFile "{}" "$PUTDIR" $FORCE $VERBOSE' ';'

https://gist.github.com/4281336

Introducing Comparative Word Clouds

Sat, 08 Sep 2012 08:44:00 -0500

What is a comparative word cloud?

Comparative word clouds are like normal word clouds, except they compare two different sources of text.

How does it work?

In a normal word cloud, words only have one meaningful attribute: their size, corresponding to how many times they are used. In a comparative word cloud, words are also colored according to how predominately they appear in one source or another—for example, words only appearing in one or the other might appear red or blue, with words used in both colored with shades in between. The words are loosely placed according to how relatively often they are used in the sources, to reinforce the information provided by the coloring while keeping the basic shape of a word cloud.

Why use this?

In a picture, this:

Has anything else like this been done before?

Yes—most notably by Drew Conway. Our clouds don’t work in the same way—he uses placement on the canvas to convey how predominately words are used in one source or another with color reinforcing it, while I do the opposite. His calculations are also done slightly differently—for example, only words that are used in both articles appear, and they are sized based on their frequency only in the source where they appear most.

How can I make these?

As of now, there isn’t an easy, plug-and-play way of making comparative word clouds. However, I have a rudimentary implementation on github that might give you a place to start.

My implementation is forked from Jason Davies’ word cloud layout for d3.js. For a good introduction to d3.js, I recommend this presentation by Mike Dewar (uploaded to Vimeo by none other than Drew Conway).

Most of the implementation isn’t done in the d3 layout, but a simple example of how it might be finished is given in the example.

From there, this is the most important snippet, showing a very simple way of calculating the attributes of a word. After the words in each source have been counted (and common words removed), we calculate the total number of words in each source, and divide the raw count by that (or, if the word wasn’t used at all, use a count of zero). Then, the “size” is the sum of the counts for a given word, and the “difference” is the difference of the usage in the first article and the second divided by the size. (Why divide by size? Well, it makes the difference a number between -1 and 1, where these each of these represent words being used completely in one article or another. Said another way, this makes the difference like a percentage that can go both ways.)

var tags = function (first, second) {
		    var addValues = function(obj) {
			    var sum = 0;
				Object.keys(obj).forEach(function(i) {
				    sum += obj[i];
				});
				return sum;
			};
			words1 = addValues(first);
			words2 = addValues(second);
	        return unique(Object.keys(first).concat(Object.keys(second))).map(function (w) {
		    var c1 = ((first[w] / words1)) || 0,
	                 c2 = ((second[w] / words2)) || 0;
	            return {
	                text: w,
	                size: c1 + c2,
	                diff: (c1 - c2) / (c1 + c2),
	            };
	        });
	    }(texts[0], texts[1]);
	    tags = d3.entries(tags).sort(function (a, b) {
	        return b.value.size - a.value.size
	    }).slice(0, 51);
	    var max = tags[0].value.size;
	    tags.forEach(function (d) {
	        d.key = cases[d.key];
	        d.value.size /= max
	    });

Any questions? Feel free to email me or ask me anything. You also might want to follow me on Twitter.

Disclaimer: Since this is a word cloud, it isn’t the most sophisticated visualization tool you can find—it’s still more of a commodity visualization technique than anything else. It still has all of the problems of other word clouds, especially in being best suited for those who already have some understanding of what the sources are about.

Everything about this, from the twitter bird tweeting a dislike...

Tue, 28 Aug 2012 13:45:52 -0500

Everything about this, from the twitter bird tweeting a dislike button to the phrase “ethically icky,” is awesome. http://instagr.am/p/O4dpMKRLCg/

Batman and the Bomb

Fri, 20 Jul 2012 04:44:28 -0500

WARNING: This post is about a major spoiler for The Dark Knight Rises.

How far away from Gotham would Batman have to have taken the bomb to stay out of the blast radius?

Using New York as a model (which is fair…) he would’ve had to have put it about here:

You can play along here.

Some notes:

The air blast radius would be about 7.63 miles, but the thermal radiation radius would be about 14 miles. Since third-degree burns are really bad (an understatement), I used the thermal radiation radius to place the bomb.
Getting the bomb out here is difficult. The Bat would have to be much faster than any helicopter in existence, for sure. (The fastest helicopter in the world can travel about 5 miles per minute, for comparison.)

Lady gaga fugue on guitar (by matthewguitars)

Sun, 08 Jul 2012 22:18:12 -0500

Lady gaga fugue on guitar (by matthewguitars)

11 Days of Mozart: The most popular composers on WPR, updated

Sun, 08 Jul 2012 17:46:00 -0500

I updated my script to take start/end dates and a number of composers to print results for as (optional) arguments from the command line, and wrapped the functionality inside a class.

To test it out, I made it fetch data going back to the first day I could find archives for, May 12th, 2010. The results are similar to the results for this year, with more shifting at the bottom of the list.

Results:

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: 953572 seconds
Ludwig van Beethoven: 650857 seconds
Franz Joseph Haydn: 597224 seconds
Johann Sebastian Bach: 505043 seconds
Antonin Dvorak: 385224 seconds
Johannes Brahms: 384967 seconds
Franz Schubert: 353319 seconds
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky: 336718 seconds
George Frederich Handel: 333560 seconds
Felix Mendelssohn: 288508 seconds
Robert Schumann: 239454 seconds
Antonio Vivaldi: 202499 seconds
Frederic Chopin: 194942 seconds
Camille Saint-Saens: 167783 seconds
Sergei Rachmaninoff: 165387 seconds
Richard Strauss: 163767 seconds
Maurice Ravel: 156930 seconds
Claude Debussy: 155820 seconds
Edward Elgar: 155643 seconds
Jean Sibelius: 150540 seconds
Georg Philipp Telemann: 134558 seconds
Luigi Boccherini: 132601 seconds
Ralph Vaughan Williams: 127123 seconds
Aaron Copland: 119691 seconds
Edvard Grieg: 118143 seconds
Gustav Mahler: 116837 seconds
Gioacchino Rossini: 113339 seconds
Franz Liszt: 112802 seconds
Ottorino Respighi: 109616 seconds
Sergei Prokofiev: 107547 seconds
Dmitri Shostakovich: 98440 seconds
Giuseppe Verdi: 95818 seconds
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov: 90403 seconds
Hector Berlioz: 89517 seconds
Gabriel Faure: 83087 seconds
Carl Maria Von Weber: 80124 seconds
Max Bruch: 79516 seconds
Igor Stravinsky: 77808 seconds
Richard Wagner: 77284 seconds
Louis Spohr: 76933 seconds
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: 74636 seconds
Bedrich Smetana: 74151 seconds
Henry Purcell: 72311 seconds
Georges Bizet: 70632 seconds
Johann Christian Bach: 68189 seconds
George Gershwin: 63948 seconds
Frederick Delius: 62307 seconds
Joaquin Rodrigo: 61184 seconds
Arcangelo Corelli: 59189 seconds
Alexander Borodin: 58209 seconds

Chart:

Full code:

require 'date'
require 'optparse'
require 'ostruct'
require 'mechanize'
require 'open-uri'
require 'gnuplot'

class WPRCrawl

  def self.parse(args)
	options = OpenStruct.new
	options.starting = [Date.today.year, 1, 1]
	options.ending = [Date.today.year, Date.today.month, Date.today.day]
	options.composers = 50
	opts = OptionParser.new do |opts|
	  opts.banner = "Usage: wpr.rb [options]"
	  opts.separator ""
	  opts.separator "Specific options:"
	  
      opts.on_head("-h", "--help", "Show this message") do
        puts opts
        exit
      end
      
	  opts.on("-s", "--start-date YYYY,mm,dd", Array,
	          "Starting date for search") do |date|
	      options.starting = date.collect { |x| x.to_i }
	  end
	    
	  opts.on("-e", "--end-date YYYY,mm,dd", Array,
	          "Ending date for search") do |date|
	      options.ending = date.collect { |x| x.to_i }
	  end
	  
	  opts.on("-c", "--number-composers count", Integer,
	          "Number of composers to print data for") do |count|
	    options.composers = count
	  end
	end
    
    opts.parse!
	options
  end
  
  def self.get(options)
    d = Date.new(*options.starting)
    e = Date.new(*options.ending)
    count = options.composers
    puts "Top " + count.to_s + " composers from " + d.to_s + " to " + e.to_s + ":"
	url = "http://wpr.org/guts/playlists/DisplayPlaylistByDate.cfm?date="
	date_format = "%Y-%m-%d"
	agent = Mechanize.new
	composers = Hash.new(0)
	
	while d < e do
	  results = agent.get(url + d.strftime(date_format)).search("//tr[@valign]")
	  results.each do |r|
		composer = r.children[2].content
		if !composer.empty?
		  time = r.children[6].content
		  duration = time.split(":")[0].to_i*60+time.split(":")[1].to_i
		  composers[composer] += duration
		end
	  end
	  d = d.next_day
	end
	
	count = composers.size if count > composers.size
	composers.sort_by {|k,v| v}.reverse[0..count-1].each do |k,v|
	  puts k + ": " + v.to_s + " seconds"
	end
	
	Gnuplot.open do |gp|
	  Gnuplot::Plot.new( gp ) do |plot|
		plot.title "Classical composers - WPR"
		plot.ylabel "seconds"
		plot.xlabel "rank"
	
		x = (1..count).collect { |x| x }
		y = composers.sort_by {|k,v| v}.reverse[0..count-1].collect { |k,v| v }
	
		plot.data << Gnuplot::DataSet.new( [x, y] ) do |ds|
		  ds.with = "linespoints"
		  ds.notitle
		end
	  end
	end
  end
end

options = WPRCrawl.parse(ARGV)
WPRPCrawl.get(options)

The bookstore goes meta http://instagr.am/p/Mq63gAxLDa/

Wed, 04 Jul 2012 14:28:11 -0500

The bookstore goes meta http://instagr.am/p/Mq63gAxLDa/

I plotted the data from this post. Very much a power law...

Mon, 02 Jul 2012 15:41:12 -0500

I plotted the data from this post. Very much a power law graph.

Relevant code snippet:

Gnuplot.open do |gp|
  Gnuplot::Plot.new( gp ) do |plot|

    plot.title "Classical composers - WPR"
    plot.ylabel "seconds"
    plot.xlabel "rank"

    x = (1..50).collect { |x| x }

    y = composers.sort_by {|k,v| v}.reverse[0..50].collect { |k,v| v }

    plot.data << Gnuplot::DataSet.new( [x, y] ) do |ds|

      ds.with = "linespoints"
      ds.notitle
    end

  end
end

Based on code found here.

Who are the most popular composers on WPR?

Sun, 01 Jul 2012 19:47:33 -0500

Question: Which composers are played most on the NPR News and Classical network on WPR, and how much playtime do they get?

Here’s a rough draft of some code to find the top 50 most played composers (by total piece duration) for 2012. It does nothing fancy (it doesn’t even convert the raw number of seconds into something more human-friendly), but it gave me an answer.

require 'date'
require 'mechanize'
require 'open-uri'

d = Date.new(2012,1,1)
url = "http://wpr.org/guts/playlists/DisplayPlaylistByDate.cfm?date="
date_format = "%Y-%m-%d"
today = Date.today
agent = Mechanize.new
composers = Hash.new(0)

while d < today do
  results = agent.get(url + d.strftime(date_format)).search("//tr[@valign]")
  results.each do |r|
    composer = r.children[2].content
    if !composer.empty?
      time = r.children[6].content
      duration = time.split(":")[0].to_i*60+time.split(":")[1].to_i
      composers[composer] += duration
    end
  end
  d = d.next_day
end

composers.sort_by {|k,v| v}.reverse[0..49].each do |k,v|
  puts k + ": " + v.to_s + " seconds"
end

And here’s the output, as of now (numbered here for readability):

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: 216498 seconds
Ludwig van Beethoven: 150386 seconds
Johann Sebastian Bach: 146788 seconds
Franz Joseph Haydn: 133335 seconds
Johannes Brahms: 95029 seconds
Antonin Dvorak: 92350 seconds
Franz Schubert: 83477 seconds
George Frederich Handel: 68254 seconds
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky: 61137 seconds
Robert Schumann: 57608 seconds
Felix Mendelssohn: 56727 seconds
Frederic Chopin: 52036 seconds
Antonio Vivaldi: 47288 seconds
Maurice Ravel: 44718 seconds
Edward Elgar: 37858 seconds
Claude Debussy: 36875 seconds
Richard Strauss: 36316 seconds
Ralph Vaughan Williams: 35336 seconds
Sergei Rachmaninoff: 33705 seconds
Gioacchino Rossini: 33336 seconds
Aaron Copland: 31754 seconds
Luigi Boccherini: 30890 seconds
Camille Saint-Saens: 30490 seconds
Georg Philipp Telemann: 28837 seconds
Sergei Prokofiev: 27142 seconds
Franz Liszt: 25941 seconds
Jean Sibelius: 25362 seconds
Dmitri Shostakovich: 24723 seconds
Edvard Grieg: 24449 seconds
Gustav Mahler: 23831 seconds
Ottorino Respighi: 23659 seconds
Hector Berlioz: 22307 seconds
Louis Spohr: 21468 seconds
Giuseppe Verdi: 20561 seconds
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov: 20496 seconds
Henry Purcell: 20495 seconds
Gabriel Faure: 18773 seconds
Georges Bizet: 18503 seconds
Johann Christian Bach: 17287 seconds
Richard Wagner: 17163 seconds
Bedrich Smetana: 16842 seconds
Carl Maria Von Weber: 16803 seconds
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: 16291 seconds
Alexander Borodin: 15357 seconds
Joaquin Rodrigo: 15295 seconds
George Gershwin: 15177 seconds
Michael Haydn: 15153 seconds
Frederick Delius: 14789 seconds
Max Bruch: 14788 seconds
Anton Bruckner: 13040 seconds

I’ll do more with this later.

newsweek: This is genius.

Thu, 28 Jun 2012 10:45:22 -0500

newsweek:

This is genius.

"Yet I would like it if the tiny baton twirler, who has been made to wear lipstick for the parade..."

Wed, 27 Jun 2012 15:44:38 -0500

“Yet I would like it if the tiny baton twirler, who has been made to wear lipstick for the parade before she has even sprouted her first public hair, grows up and marries the only Negro that Sheboygan has ever seen in person.”

- Don’t Mention My Name in Sheboygan - The Realist (appears on the second page)

Class Resources: CS 638 - Web Programming

Wed, 20 Jun 2012 22:12:55 -0500

A few years ago, there was a CS course at UW-Madison called CS 638 - Web Programming. The course was later renamed CS 369, and it’s still listed in the course directory, but it doesn’t appear to have been offered very recently. So, I grabbed the class files from one session of the class and zipped them up.

From the class directory, I’ve included:

Lecture slides (with mentioned links in a separate folder)
Quizzes (with answers)
The sample exam (with answers)
Class notes (for early lectures—later ones weren’t available)
Demos
The syllabus

Enjoy.

The LEGO store http://instagr.am/p/L4G4sexLNO/

Thu, 14 Jun 2012 20:55:02 -0500

The LEGO store http://instagr.am/p/L4G4sexLNO/

This is a gem.

Wed, 13 Jun 2012 20:55:09 -0500

This is a gem.

Can’t decide what to pay attention to…...

Sun, 10 Jun 2012 07:38:36 -0500

Can’t decide what to pay attention to… http://instagr.am/p/LsZCBhRLJ3/

Tweets Onslaught: 2012-05-30

Wed, 30 May 2012 17:05:23 -0500

This is everything I’ve tweeted over the past few days. Yawn.

2012-05-23 01:46:56 - My dumb tweet-fetching program seems to work, so I can probably sleep now. TODO: Make it less stupid.

2012-05-23 01:48:18 - RT @wjjessen: Stop Meeting People and Make Things Happen http://t.co/WRTvrZ2h

2012-05-23 10:51:45 - US Supreme Court takes on broad software and method patents, sort of http://t.co/M2of4rsG

2012-05-23 10:58:55 - #shotsfired RT @robertcaruso: Yup. I misspell tweets…and I still write better papers than graduate students. #realkeeping

2012-05-23 11:01:21 - RT @amandablair: RT @Colin_Jones: Column on comma errors has a comma error - http://t.co/nwKNVS7F via @thisisjendoll

2012-05-23 11:09:58 - Ugh RT @madpolitics: It’s official: Governor declares Donald Driver Day in Wisconsin http://t.co/qc5GFLVd

2012-05-23 11:16:29 - @alexandralgekas Well, he has Ben Kingsley. Unrelated: The winner of the 48 hour film challenge is really good: http://t.co/XShmFeEN

2012-05-23 11:30:30 - RT @cschweitz: An Obama Spending Spree? Hardly http://t.co/lgGBqygJ A look at federal spending under Reagan, both Bushes, Clinton and Obama

2012-05-23 11:31:28 - RT @dandrezner: http://t.co/WZOpN72A RT @mollyesque Romney’s education policy slogan: “A Chance for Every Child” http://t.co/fHjB9mRM

2012-05-23 11:35:08 - @dandrezner Excuse me while I pretend that this movie doesn’t exist: http://t.co/FLxYtrFN

2012-05-23 11:41:52 - @slvonglahn My jam: http://t.co/IYeHCx8B

2012-05-23 11:49:10 - @slvonglahn And of course, there’s this other one: http://t.co/wHZjegLC

2012-05-23 11:50:28 - The musical version of beta testing: v1: http://t.co/wHZjegLC v2: http://t.co/IYeHCx8B

2012-05-23 11:53:29 - RT @ethanklapper: !!! RT @HuffPostSF: Silicon Valley tech executive caught stealing LEGOs http://t.co/A4NNuqC9

2012-05-23 11:54:11 - RT for @UWMadison RT @weywerdsun: Educational games to train middle schoolers’ attention, empathy: http://t.co/ooEH6M30

2012-05-23 11:57:53 - RT @ckanal: RT @paidContent: Fred Wilson: Content owners, don’t fear the future http://t.co/O821RX05 #pc2012

2012-05-23 12:00:07 - Ew. MT @kellyfincham: Interesting read if you’re in the market for a job - 8 reasons journalists should consider PR http://t.co/yotzRSwM

2012-05-23 12:01:34 - Soros! Tides! RT @garonsen: Game over, #Occupy. Bill O’Reilly has found you out: http://t.co/WJyV9kPR

2012-05-23 12:18:22 - RT @AdamWestbrook: Video: http://t.co/hdEwqC2W The best art documentary film I’ve ever seen.

2012-05-23 12:28:47 - adamwestbrook: The best art documentary film I’ve ever seen…. http://t.co/XA8uJhlE

2012-05-23 15:15:29 - RT @CoreyRobin: “We are all @secupp.” Excellent piece (by @Beyerstein) about a shameful incident. http://t.co/YVIjTg5u

2012-05-23 15:34:16 - Ugh: Hustler’s Larry Flynt Responds to Fake Explicit S.E. Cupp Image: ‘That’s Satire’ http://t.co/E97FNv1z via @theblaze

2012-05-23 15:40:16 - @ckanal At first glance, I thought you were telling me to beware foods that were healthier than they need to be. Oops, not quite.

2012-05-23 15:45:22 - RT @Reuters: Journalist alleges Piers Morgan showed him how to hack into phones 10 years ago http://t.co/sXxUDLwe

2012-05-23 15:47:02 - RT @erinbiba: HP is firing 27,000 people http://t.co/ldC83lOO

2012-05-23 16:13:34 - RT @Mowgli3: A great thing for dudes to read, via @progjourno: http://t.co/0RkvJ3yF

2012-05-23 16:16:24 - RT @Slate: Why partisanship is actually the only thing preventing all policy decisions from being a series of scams: http://t.co/tpQMTQt9

2012-05-23 16:18:01 - RT @ggreenwald: Here’s the Chris Matthews comments I referenced earlier - working now http://t.co/XPl6ZvF1

2012-05-23 16:21:04 - RT @dancow: Forbes gets new 5-real-time-screens to remind them to write more about Mark Zuckerburg + Justin Bieber http://t.co/D5ZRbZTX

2012-05-23 16:25:52 - RT @SuzyKhimm: Actual good advice for college grads, from @anya1anya: http://t.co/MnbsmXpZ

2012-05-23 16:44:34 - +1 RT @dandrezner: Micro moon base? RT @BuzzFeedPol Gingrich Super PAC Still Deciding Fate Of Leftover $5.6 Million http://t.co/53sT7Ycx

2012-05-23 16:46:08 - ICYMI: No, Members of Congress Don’t “Talk Like 10th Graders” http://t.co/K0RTwH1S via @BrowBeatSlate

2012-05-23 16:50:12 - RT @DaniFankhauser: “an all-male panel of VCs at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference said that sexism isn’t that much of an…” http://t.c …

2012-05-23 16:54:17 - Facebook IPO: lawsuits and accusations cloud the bigger issue | The Verge http://t.co/tzwg8HDD via @verge

2012-05-23 17:07:47 - RT @tanehisi: Took a few hours to write a piece on Obama and race. Saw it linked and condensed into—“Is It Racist To Oppose Barack Obam …

2012-05-23 17:16:18 - RT @monkeycageblog: Instead of learning statistics from a robotic professor, learn it from an actual robot! http://t.co/z3koBud2

2012-05-23 17:23:16 - RT @NickHeynen: Note to camera thieves — taking a picture or video of yourself with the stolen camera is generally inadvisable: http:// …

2012-05-23 17:33:47 - RT @JimPethokoukis: Is it an orange sky? No, wait, that’s Gallifrey

2012-05-23 17:45:27 - Should be a tumblr: @BuzzFeedAndrew’s Twitpic page.

2012-05-23 17:59:20 - This @foxnation comment is a bit vile. #twitpic http://t.co/sjeTQsAb

2012-05-23 18:06:17 - RT @KooisMe: @dancow PR major here. Never felt compelled to pursue it. P.S. good journalism is like creative non-fiction (which is like …

2012-05-23 18:41:17 - Does not work as advertised: http://t.co/jK2rPTdB

2012-05-23 19:47:11 - RT @jeffjarvis: & public wants free beer RT @mediaguardian: Public wants stricter press regulation and tighter limits on ownership h …

2012-05-23 19:51:09 - RT @dpleasant: I always thought cable shoutfests were the most informative and productive. #edshow

2012-05-23 19:51:56 - RT @Mowgli3: I just had a crazy idea, but bear with me: what if we stopped getting mad at women for reporting assault and got angry at d …

2012-05-24 02:27:52 - RT @md_kleist: Always search for the hidden truth…that is the call to all peoples. Never be satisfied with what you think you know.

2012-05-24 02:29:57 - Late-night productivity: The ruby script that I made to aggregate myself now has timestamps & links: http://t.co/MYRdret5

2012-05-24 02:31:26 - TODO: Fix the timezone, link profiles in text.

2012-05-24 11:00:16 - RT @ProducerMatthew: Today, the average website wouldn’t fit on a 3.5-inch floppy disk - http://t.co/zlNh4Ddb

2012-05-24 11:03:47 - RT @edyong209: I love this piece so much. 10 science concepts that would make awesome supervillains. http://t.co/9RLtNYZZ

2012-05-24 11:05:26 - RT @BoingBoing: Cognitive Democracy: networked-based decision making as an alternative to markets and “nudging” http://t.co/waE8tZzg

2012-05-24 11:14:51 - Thioridazine kills cancer stem cells in human while avoiding toxic side-effects http://t.co/I46ETgAH via @medical_xpress

2012-05-24 11:18:44 - How Tim Cook is changing Apple http://t.co/8DrObbuZ via @FortuneMagazine

2012-05-24 11:20:13 - RT @poliblogger: Rejoice! Birtherism is Dead!: After all, Hawaii has finally and once and for all provided verification that Oba… htt …

2012-05-24 11:24:20 - Mankiw! MT @jbouie: Romney lets a little Keynes slip in an interview. What it might tell us about his administration: http://t.co/Ov0eDkTZ

2012-05-24 11:40:27 - Things that are messy: @webstagram rss feeds.

2012-05-24 11:44:17 - RT @MikeElk: RT @LarrySabato: On March 15, the Crystal Ball listed WI Gov. Walker’s recall race as Leans R. Today, we’re moving it to Li …

2012-05-24 11:45:05 - RT @LarrySabato: All polls have shown Walker ahead; Feingold (D) might have beaten Walker (R), but retread Barrett unlikely to do so 2/2

2012-05-24 11:48:09 - RT @cressman: Quebec’s attack on free speech: http://t.co/xGftRNWK

2012-05-24 11:52:16 - Semi-related: http://t.co/XlIcyXco RT @jessicakroy: R.U. a Cyberpunk? http://t.co/gZUa1p1H

2012-05-24 12:03:48 - @jessicakroy “I WEAR… [ ] Spock ears -> [ ] permanently due to plastic surgery”

2012-05-24 12:12:37 - Failure Is Not An Option: Why Kickstarter Hides Failed Projects http://t.co/NltXKcvi h/t @stkonrath

2012-05-24 12:12:53 - RT @ProducerMatthew: Interesting read: Relatives of top Nazi officials, now living in New Mexico, wrestle with their legacy - http://t.c …

2012-05-24 12:26:03 - FOUND: Nin-ghetto http://t.co/OUJNyU4k via @instagram

2012-05-24 12:29:38 - Nin-ghetto back. Lots of NES ROMs are on that chip. http://t.co/i171sO2S

2012-05-24 12:34:50 - @laurenamichael I used that clip in a presentation. Did not disappoint.

2012-05-24 12:35:01 - RT @LaurenAMichael: The essence of science, from Richard Feynman, in all of 63 seconds. http://t.co/ESxFk9Iq @scholarlykitchn

2012-05-24 13:01:37 - The battery pack is broken, but I found the AC adapter, and it can turn on. It might still work!

2012-05-24 13:03:17 - The second controller also has a “GameStar” logo on it. Might be a clue as to what it is.

2012-05-24 13:04:47 - And the button layout on the second controller looks exactly like this (bad pics, sorry): http://t.co/aMZwhJiT

2012-05-24 13:07:26 - It’s made by a Chinese company called Advance Bright Ltd. It looks similar to this: http://t.co/SGa9B8aQ

2012-05-24 13:08:34 - More on the company here: http://t.co/lk5xCVqz

2012-05-24 13:28:20 - Nin-ghetto: 80000 games in 1. http://t.co/PpIEVaF2

2012-05-24 13:40:55 - RT @BuzzFeedAndrew: (Bon Jovi guitar riff) RT @RickSantorum: We’re half-way there!

2012-05-24 14:01:05 - RT @aschweig: Twitter is a way to post short messages on the internet. Sometimes people will read them. #hashtagconference

2012-05-24 14:01:39 - RT @aschweig: Customers are really important to your business, especially when they’re giving you money for your goods or services. #has …

2012-05-24 14:05:39 - RT @kashhill: Chief of Police Orders Ten Officers to Hunt Down Son’s Stolen iPhone http://t.co/3ymrnD7X (Spoiler: they don’t actually re …

2012-05-24 14:06:21 - RT @MattZeitlin: I’m 40 seconds in….@reihansalam’s interview with Larry Flynt is already the best thing on the internet http://t.co/qP …

2012-05-24 14:13:43 - RT @aschweig: RT @trx0x: Transparency is very important. Especially if you want to see out of windows. #hashtagconference

2012-05-24 14:51:46 - RT @ckanal: Facebook’s photo filters + @instagram’s - interesting side-by-side screenshots http://t.co/7Hh4hfmm

2012-05-24 14:54:29 - RT @arstechnica: No-cost desktop software development is dead on Windows 8 http://t.co/3Y61n8jZ by @DrPizza

2012-05-24 14:57:30 - RT @DaniFankhauser: Why FB launched camera, and what it means for Instagram - Yes, they were working on this way before the… http://t. …

2012-05-24 14:59:08 - cc @jacobmouradian RT @kategardiner: Sparkles.

2012-05-24 15:31:55 - RT @KenJennings: By my math, a 13-episode pickup & late-Sept. premiere means Community will end exactly when the Mayans predicted it …

2012-05-24 16:51:24 - RT @mattyglesias: Just figured out that it’s “WI Recall” not “wire call.”

2012-05-24 16:53:51 - RT @Vosmek: Could not have said it better. Moreover I wish I had! http://t.co/cIvCSyua

2012-05-24 16:58:35 - RT @ProducerMatthew: This plant strangles other plants after smelling them. Entertaining read from NPR - http://t.co/EZIRgFLW

2012-05-24 17:01:24 - @slvonglahn About it being my jam? Yeah, just a teeny bit. But no, Glen is not kidding at all.

2012-05-24 17:02:41 - RT @ckanal: Wouldn’t be surprised. RT @davidhoang Soon enough we’ll have a Facebook app that launches Facebook apps…App Launcher!

2012-05-24 17:03:46 - Small announcement: Tribes: Ascend is fun. A lot of fun. That is all.

2012-05-24 17:05:39 - Doctor Who: new companion starts work | Den of Geek http://t.co/BdO5WwOD

2012-05-24 17:13:53 - Link? http://t.co/t4OUh5JA RT @petersagal: Why cable news is so great/horrible: http://t.co/dBo2DHpg

2012-05-24 17:24:23 - RT @BuzzFeedBen: “Propaganda” amendmen dropped from Senate version of defense bill, Gillibrand blasts it http://t.co/QshjlxGS @rfelliott …

2012-05-24 17:25:26 - RT @thinkprogress: .@50Cent: “We need organizations for straight men.” http://t.co/KbGSvD8m

2012-05-24 17:28:10 - Read it. RT @michaelellsberg: .@TuckerMax’s thoughts on my @Forbes profile on him. Interesting http://t.co/jDiXiGWn

2012-05-24 17:30:01 - RT @mollyesque: MATTHEWS, avidly: Me too, me too. I’m with elephants. GINGRICH: They’re just remarkable. http://t.co/sJOhsQ8B

2012-05-24 17:37:49 - RT @EFF: EFF needs a new Coders’ Rights Project sticker. Help choose on Facebook: https://t.co/GjW3zdoU

2012-05-24 17:39:02 - RT @TeeMcSee: American TV isn’t following the Egyptian election at all. Wait until Morsi wins the first round and watch the explosion of …

2012-05-24 17:40:59 - RT @DeanZambrano: RT @PBSMediaShift: Can anyone be a data journalist? http://t.co/NeZx5WBj (via Guardian)

2012-05-24 21:51:26 - Batteries Not Included - a collection of vintage toy commercials - Boing Boing http://t.co/NpmgvjBa via @BoingBoing

2012-05-24 21:55:49 - I missed this earlier: The cable news audience has peaked - Jack Shafer http://t.co/dYd80bTq

2012-05-24 22:03:04 - Ron Johnson and 14 other Senators (all R’s) who voted to stop FDA agents from conducting warrantless raids on farmers: http://t.co/BRf6Y0aQ

2012-05-25 05:55:39 - RT @jelani9: The plan was to read Toni Morrison before bed. I’m currently reading an Avengers graphic novel. I think this is called unde …

2012-05-25 06:01:03 - RT @daveweigel: 7 am, waking up in the morning. Gotta be fresh. Gotta go downstairs. Gotta have my bowl. Gotta have cereal.

2012-05-25 06:05:29 - Conflicting messages in #wirecall: How am I supposed to DVR the debate if I cancel my cable?

2012-05-25 07:01:35 - RT @swin24: A left-wing date movie that dramatizes the invention of a lady’s sex toy in Victorian London: http://t.co/MA6x88VC @hysteria …

2012-05-25 07:09:26 - My luck: Security Now is exactly as long as my bus ride this morning.

2012-05-25 07:10:40 - RT @acarvin: News from @AP: Egypt vote: Brotherhood advances to second round http://t.co/nMecYFPI

2012-05-25 07:11:33 - RT @hemantmehta: I’ll admit: I thought about giving her the points… #HappyTowelDay http://t.co/P2V2aAi4

2012-05-25 08:38:46 - There is not too much on my desk http://t.co/yYD8vKFm

2012-05-25 08:51:54 - Twitter Story to Launch The New Yorker’s Science Fiction Issue http://t.co/lhfHql9q h/t @boingboing

2012-05-25 08:53:38 - RT @dancow: via @CJR “When big data is bad data”, re: NYC teacher data http://t.co/mKH9uMo6

2012-05-25 08:59:22 - !!! RT @dancow: agh, indepth @CJR piece on big/bad data http://t.co/itJiQgZS marred by misuse of “begging the question” http://t.co/Xfm5ZrM9

2012-05-25 09:06:26 - @dancow “Spreadsheet journalism”? Brilliant. I think I’ll steal that.

2012-05-25 09:08:46 - @erik_paulson Or a netbook. Oh, wait, nevermind.

2012-05-25 10:19:27 - RT @ksablan: Techmeme makes money not by promising advertisers traffic, but promising them “good company alongside great content.” http: …

2012-05-25 10:42:55 - RT @mmoyr: I’m so glad this exists: RT @ZooeySiri Siri, why aren’t more things lunar powered?

2012-05-25 10:48:01 - @ckanal Another bit from my endless closet of conservative bloggers: http://t.co/vRDk3z8W

2012-05-25 10:55:36 - @ckanal And something much juicier: The More Leaders Make, the Meaner They Get http://t.co/5cks9PFJ

2012-05-25 11:00:49 - RT @andymboyle: The Huntsville Times has an interesting teaser headline above the news of their reduction in printing: http://t.co/dddq2h04

2012-05-25 12:54:33 - @Mattzwolinski In case you didn’t know: You should change your password or contact support. Your account has been compromised.

2012-05-25 13:11:26 - RT @aburnspolitico: Also now wearing a “Convict me” sign on his back RT @jameshohmann Edwards has been flirting w/a female alternate jur …

2012-05-25 13:16:58 - RT @erinbiba: Eating dirt may be adaptive, not pathological. http://t.co/3kuMYXPU

2012-05-25 13:20:15 - RT @expresident: Photo: http://t.co/G8YiWVp9

2012-05-25 13:48:21 - SHOCKER: Penn Jillette endorses Libertarian Gary Johnson http://t.co/R7yBmM6O

2012-05-25 14:16:36 - The right way to look at Economic Freedom vs Income: Linear separability. (Not this: http://t.co/pvKtdkON) http://t.co/QVh2Fp14

2012-05-25 14:26:33 - RT @peretti: My friend @felixsalmon thinks I tweet too many BuzzFeed links, does he hate AWESOMENESS??!?? -> http://t.co/6NyVy2MD

2012-05-25 14:26:46 - RT @mattlynley: Killing a killer is like a double negative, right?

2012-05-25 14:51:56 - RT @aaronchimbel: @stevebuttry has some great insights on student media pursuing a digital-first approach, including @tcu: http://t.co/3 …

2012-05-25 16:27:48 - I pushed an old project onto GitHub today: http://t.co/ZHtb8bYI

2012-05-25 16:30:30 - File under: People Obama is seeking advice from. Perry: Don’t Go After Romney On Bain http://t.co/YEeNsTrx via @TPMLivewire

2012-05-25 16:49:33 - Only 4 get to be in the Slug MT @jessicakroy: 7 Techies Who May Be Living Out Their Childhood Dreams by @kellyfaircloth http://t.co/Ir1iaxwc

2012-05-25 16:50:02 - Re: last tweet: Apologies for the accidental-caps-lock fix.

2012-05-25 16:50:08 - RT @dmataconis: Today @SpaceX succeeded. Somewhere, Robert A. Heinlein is smiling.

2012-05-25 16:57:30 - RT @robertmentzer: Um? RT @WAOW: Wis. GAB: It’s a felony to tweet photo of your ballot http://t.co/sHKr2h3U

2012-05-25 16:58:18 - RT @robertmentzer: But is retweeting someone else’s tweeted pic of a ballot also a felony?

2012-05-25 16:58:26 - RT @robertmentzer: What if you have one of those disclaimers in your profile that says “RTs are not endorsements”?

2012-05-25 17:03:36 - @MaxwellJohnLove Re: equivalency of “dope”: Was expecting Immortal Technique. Only got Common.

2012-05-25 17:07:26 - @MaxwellJohnLove I guess that’s not that bad, really. Also: you have now seen the limits of my knowledge of rap.

2012-05-25 17:09:40 - @MaxwellJohnLove Seeing as I don’t listen to rap actively, knowing one unknown rapper doesn’t show much. But he is amazing.

2012-05-25 17:11:17 - @ryan_rainey @MaxwellJohnLove I think you mean “Media TraKKKers.”

2012-05-25 17:15:21 - @ryan_rainey @MaxwellJohnLove Offtopic: I remember when he made the song “What if the Tea Party was black?”. Knew him before he was cool?

2012-05-25 17:16:55 - @MaxwellJohnLove I believe I am betraying my claim that I don’t know much about rap. Believe me, it’s true.

2012-05-25 17:21:56 - RT @Beyerstein: .@Ronc99 @darleenclick @Johngcole SE Cupp’s ideology is irrelevant. It’s never OK to bully anyone with rape-in-effigy.

2012-05-25 17:22:28 - RT @news3jessica: I’ll be live tweeting much of the Gov debate tonight (in between preparing stories for @Fox47Madison and @WISCTV_News3 …

2012-05-25 17:23:47 - @ryan_rainey @MaxwellJohnLove Jim Hoft? Oh.

2012-05-25 17:25:57 - Dear people talking on the bus: Can’t wait to drown you out with some Mahler.

2012-05-25 17:31:57 - Dear bus wifi: Can’t wait to shut you down with some Mahler.

2012-05-25 22:39:02 - Saw the Avengers again instead of watching the #widebate. I think that was a good decision.

2012-05-25 22:41:20 - And every day until June 6th will further prove that all of @dmataconis’s cynicism about politics is right.

2012-05-25 22:59:25 - RT @davewiner: You’ve heard of junk food and junk bonds, now junk news. Which is mostly what we get. No nutrients. Twinkies. http://t.c …

2012-05-25 23:01:57 - RT @MelissaTweets: Snort RT @radleybalko: barroom libertarian: (n) a guy who would rather win an argument than get laid.

2012-05-25 23:07:04 - RT @hemantmehta: America’s ‘Evolution’ Problem http://t.co/j8hdfxco

2012-05-25 23:10:59 - RT @mathewi: RT @Digidave: A good article on why articles are outdated. http://t.co/7L63EMlg via @SeanBlanda - I agree. I think we can d …

2012-05-25 23:13:14 - RT @verge: Amazon and independent publisher resolve dispute, 5,000 titles return to Kindle Store http://t.co/6niCr4A6

2012-05-25 23:42:44 - RT @BuzzFeedAndrew: Check out @BuzzFeed President @jonsteinberg on CNBC explain social advertising on @CNBC. http://t.co/OzkV1m7s

2012-05-26 00:00:00 - +100 RT @ckanal: Great top comment on that article, btw, from @rdmcfee of Vancouver. http://t.co/94ZOd6n4

2012-05-26 00:05:46 - @billyhallowell This is a time when it might be interesting to hunt down what data point just got mangled.

2012-05-26 00:10:02 - RT @benhjacobs: Tampa Bay Manager @RaysJoeMaddon just called out the Red Sox for “cowardly behavior” on Twitter. I love the future.

2012-05-26 00:14:34 - RT @BillyHallowell: Oh wow. RT @TheRealRoseanne: @DaveMuegge @BillyHallowell get the f*ck out if you don’t like it chump!

2012-05-26 00:16:33 - RT @BillyHallowell: @TheRealRoseanne You and I should chat. Would love to hear your political views. We couldn’t disagree more, I’m sure.

2012-05-26 00:16:39 - RT @TheRealRoseanne: @BillyHallowell only problem: I am in no way interested in hearing your ideas. Good luck!

2012-05-26 00:24:22 - @billyhallowell The one thing I can’t get out of my mind: She is running for president. @TylerBarton27

2012-05-26 00:28:16 - The Green Party has priorities. (Found on @TheRealRoseanne’s campaign website) http://t.co/XUthIWsW

2012-05-26 00:33:46 - @tylerbarton27 @BillyHallowell Because she’s a “mother, grandmother, activist, leader, feminist, and successful business woman,” of course!

2012-05-26 00:36:38 - @tylerbarton27 @BillyHallowell Offtopic: You know what’s funnier than running for President? This: http://t.co/SS45q7hD

2012-05-26 00:53:29 - RT @Mowgli3: By the way, the thread in question is here, if you want to be reminded of what horrible people r/atheists are: http://t.co/ …

2012-05-26 01:09:02 - Online interactions: Still rated by Apple http://t.co/jwQpyA8L

2012-05-26 13:36:51 - The president tucks me in at bedtime, reveals Mrs Obama: http://t.co/n6OsdoKi

2012-05-26 13:41:42 - @butzler Line item veto, obviously.

2012-05-26 15:50:20 - RT @BenjySarlin: Cause and effect. http://t.co/qfH97x4x

2012-05-26 15:59:53 - RT @aschweig: wow. people actually watch this, eh? #eurovision

2012-05-26 16:13:37 - Urban Planning: Detroit plans to shrink by leaving half the city in the dark - @io9 http://t.co/xAT4Usqg

2012-05-26 16:18:37 - Another one from @io9, by @BadAstronomer: How I Stopped Worrying (About Science) and Learned to Love the Story http://t.co/yxsr0KDb (fixed)

2012-05-26 16:20:28 - r twotorials: ninety two-minute r tutorial videos http://t.co/4qJyyuvx (via HN)

2012-05-26 16:24:44 - CHART PORN: Did a Stuck Quote Prevent a Facebook Opening Day Pop? http://t.co/Ava1Nd5m

2012-05-26 16:27:34 - Is the Retina display holding back iPad graphics? | The Verge http://t.co/MTbhCZRZ via @verge

2012-05-26 16:40:12 - RT @wblau: Jeff Jarvis on what connects the New Orleans Times-Picayune, The Guardian and Die Zeit / Zeit Online . http://t.co/x2KvpIAo

2012-05-26 16:42:33 - “Briesemeister also doesn’t mind the book’s graphic sex scenes, although she admits having to Google some of the terms” http://t.co/9S94eAII

2012-05-26 16:53:11 - Am I the only one who’s gotten a lot of hacked DMs in the past two days?

2012-05-26 16:58:49 - RT @michaelschaffer: Best thing about Mustang driver with MD vanity plate STFU23? 22 people already got STFU license plates before him.

2012-05-26 17:02:44 - She’s a real blogger now. RT @huffpostpol: Bristol Palin admits big mistake http://t.co/NRdw6nzY

2012-05-26 17:12:51 - RT @jayrosen_nyu: No, I’m sorry, Atlantic Wire, this is NOT at all how science journalism works. Churnalism, maybe. http://t.co/FftDO8oC …

2012-05-26 17:39:04 - RT @cressman: I needed this. RT @SethCLewis: Beating the Anxiety of Online Reading - more good suggestions from @zenhabits http://t.co/J …

2012-05-26 17:55:57 - RT @BuzzFeedAndrew: #fail RT @Poynter: Oh the inory: Denver Post announces it’s eliminating copy desk, misspells headline http://t.co/vv …

2012-05-26 19:35:13 - RT @AntDeRosa: I would love this RT @davewiner: Scripting News: A simple proposal for discussion software makers. http://t.co/ifl6hju5

2012-05-26 21:26:42 - RT @trevortimm: Why the right-to-record is so important: Arrested #OWS reporter exonerated in court by @timcast video, showed cops lied …

2012-05-26 21:29:27 - RT @robertcaruso: Oh helllllll no RT @danatgu RT @jilliancyork Oh look, @chrisbrown took time off from beating women to have sympathy fo …

2012-05-26 21:31:05 - If we act together, we can save the net from censorship and broken legislation. Join me in the #InternetDefenseLeague. http://t.co/zaODlR2H

2012-05-26 21:34:32 - RT @joshtpm: When has your corp brand truly arrived? When it’s enrolled into autocorrect.

2012-05-26 21:36:53 - From @DeborahZiff: Interest in research wanes among UW-Madison Ph.Ds: http://t.co/fakYTsPm

2012-05-26 21:38:00 - RT @AntDeRosa: WordPress, Reddit, Cheezburger and others join new Internet Defense League http://t.co/EKgRJROC

2012-05-26 21:46:47 - The github repo for the Internet Defense League shows commits that are up to 5 months old. Did anybody scoop this story?

2012-05-26 21:47:46 - Also noticed: http://t.co/R8G2Qwda was registered in November of 2010. http://t.co/t6tjVbrQ

2012-05-26 21:53:21 - AFAICT, Fight for the Future looks like it was founded around COICA. Unsure if they did anything big before SOPA, though.

2012-05-26 21:59:28 - FCC approves spectrum changes for Sprint and hospitals | Ars Technica http://t.co/575cdcGO

2012-05-26 22:11:17 - RT @jilliancyork: To support Syrian refugees, you can text 80077 to give $10. Money goes through Mercy Int’l, a 4-star charity. http:// …

2012-05-26 22:24:09 - Awesome. RT @boraz: My new course will be titled “US History: The Awesomeness of Awesome Americans.” http://t.co/Tiuy3hon

2012-05-26 22:25:44 - FOR SCIENCE: Can you grow a beard with consistent applications of Rogaine? - @io9 http://t.co/WyxzmaZd

2012-05-26 22:30:56 - A fitting Hitchens column: Because Our Fathers Lied http://t.co/kazamRRh via @slate

2012-05-26 22:32:54 - Epic rant is epic: Keep Your Bachelorette Party Out of My Gay Bar - @Gawker http://t.co/OzHMlRxz

2012-05-26 22:37:32 - #shotsfired RT @galtsgirl: Believe me, you cannot take hashtag games door to door when walking a precinct or making candidate calls.

2012-05-26 22:41:20 - RT @Alex_Ogle: Wait for it… http://t.co/ByhzURDM #tommyleejones

2012-05-26 22:54:46 - I can’t believe this exists: http://t.co/rqbtDW9o

2012-05-26 23:01:02 - RT @radleybalko: #journalism http://t.co/zMPje5Er

2012-05-26 23:24:39 - Clever camerawork. cc @jacobmouradian http://t.co/xwPNTioj

2012-05-26 23:37:23 - RT @BuzzFeedAndrew: RT @nydailynews: Naked man shot, killed by Miami police after allegedly chewing another man’s face: cops http://t.c …

2012-05-26 23:43:45 - Fixed link MT @buzzfeedandrew: MT @radleybalko: Santorum warned us. MT @HuffingtonPost: Yoga teacher marries herself http://t.co/xjkwiK9h

2012-05-26 23:45:18 - Ew: ” I do not yet know any interesting gossip about numbers bigger than 9999.” RT @boraz: Try this out: Number Gossip http://t.co/sQC4eCTy

2012-05-27 11:16:55 - RT @jason_sims: The Rs in George R.R. Martin’s name each stand for “R.R. Martin.” This recursion goes on forever, making it impossible t …

2012-05-27 11:18:53 - Obviously for the 16-year-old cougar story. RT @ksablan: The Journalism Daily is out! http://t.co/VePjj5ns ▸ Top stories today via @zthomae

2012-05-27 11:26:08 - !!! RT @blakestacey: The Journal of Chatroulette Studies http://t.co/R5jGNUVv

2012-05-27 11:34:33 - More proof: Wisconsin is Bizarro World RT @dariaanne: RT @jmattbarber: Divide and conquer #DescribeObamaInThreeWords

2012-05-27 11:35:48 - Yup… RT @joe_jeffries: #DescribeObamaInThreeWords Ron Paul 2012!!!

2012-05-27 11:38:54 - Waiting for “Professor of Law”… #DescribeObamaInThreeWords

2012-05-27 11:41:07 - RT @brainpicker: The evolutionary purpose of music that gets stuck in your head http://t.co/jtTi97Px And more on music and neuroscience …

2012-05-27 11:42:10 - RT @dmataconis: Memorial Day http://t.co/2kC663W7

2012-05-27 11:47:24 - @weywerdsun To quote a comment: “73% vs 83%? That’s some really weak sauce.”

2012-05-27 11:49:22 - RT @legaleagle: This is a thing that happened. #dubstep http://t.co/hKxoQmpK

2012-05-27 11:54:17 - RT @MrChrisLay: I expect much of my @IsthmusTDP live-blogging to be along the lines of “ha! more like goobernatorial.” #winning #tigerblood

2012-05-27 11:55:14 - RT @tomtomorrow: Shorter Thomas Friedman this morning: step 1: Obama should embrace Simpson-Bowles. Step 2: ? Step 3: VICTORY!

2012-05-27 11:58:58 - Seems legit. RT @noamscheiber: How to Drop 5 lbs of Fat in a week http://t.co/gJdlQnSR

2012-05-27 12:02:34 - RT @physorg_com: Yale study concludes public apathy over climate change unrelated to science literacy http://t.co/i7UdL9Gk

2012-05-27 12:07:06 - Must be @Dog_ebooks RT @horse_ebooks: Being aggressive to other dogs

2012-05-27 12:25:31 - RT @ethanklapper: A fantastic read from the May issue of @wired: Seven ways to spot the future http://t.co/DasKOVRx

2012-05-27 12:39:06 - @jeffsnowuw Problem not quite fixed…

2012-05-27 12:47:53 - Asking again: Am I the only one noticing more hacked accounts than normal this weekend?

2012-05-27 12:53:10 - @erik_paulson In one weekend, I’ve gotten 4 spammy DMs and have seen more spam on the public timeline. A lot more than I usually see.

2012-05-27 13:03:55 - RT @nickgillespie: Read while huffing #jenkum: From Rainbow Parties to Butt-Chugging, 5 Classic Teen Sex & Drug Freakouts: http://t. …

2012-05-27 13:14:40 - RT @dmataconis: Yea, pretty much….. http://t.co/kw0vO07o

2012-05-27 13:16:43 - RT @dandrezner: Hey @syfy: You may have produced the acme of postmodern cultural criticism. In other words, this f$&%ing rocks. Brav …

2012-05-27 13:18:59 - This is awesome. RT @corybooker: Yes, I’m at home working. Stop by and pick it up. RT @TurboGrandma: Can I borrow $20?

2012-05-27 13:20:52 - RT @ProducerMatthew: LIVE BLOG: Global community responds to situation in Syria (with live stakeout feed from U.N.) - http://t.co/nQ6tmN5F

2012-05-27 13:26:18 - RT @texasinafrica: There are an alarming number of billboards advertising AK-47’s in southern Tennessee.

2012-05-27 13:29:56 - @dmataconis This person has better taste in that way: http://t.co/x2Gp3k8C (But only in that way)

2012-05-27 13:31:40 - RT @awbjs: The new old thing in dev tools: http://t.co/Es5RgL3q @kwindla #Smalltalk #JavaScript #wheelOfReincarnation http://t.co/rfB6dN6J

2012-05-27 13:33:37 - RT @dmataconis: RT @JosephFCrater: Jack Kerouac Drunk on William Buckely’s show: http://t.co/mrULnA8a via @youtube

2012-05-27 13:41:04 - RT @brainpicker: The number of languages spoken worldwide vs. the languages of the internet, visualized http://t.co/HJdWmBQU

2012-05-27 15:16:48 - RT @ModeledBehavior: Entrepreneurial School Dropouts: A Model on Signalling, Education and Entrepreneurship http://t.co/iYkqGhuK (pdf) …

2012-05-27 15:19:50 - RT @Alex_Ogle: Michelle says Barack sings LMFAO in the shower http://t.co/gQ55l5Vg

2012-05-27 15:38:41 - RT @jilliancyork: But since Assange seems to think he caused the Arab Spring, I’m not surprised he knows jack shit about Syria.

2012-05-27 15:40:10 - #tweetsfrom2000 RT @davewiner: Florida Telling Hundreds Of Eligible Citizens That They Are Ineligible To Vote. http://t.co/NApjldf0

2012-05-27 15:44:40 - RT @mashable: Facebook May Launch Smartphone by Next Year [REPORT] http://t.co/ZZutvhsh

2012-05-27 15:47:48 - Cause and effect. RT @kristinaribali: 1.5 miles in. All uphill. Kids are threatening to puke. Good times.

2012-05-27 15:50:24 - RT @mattyglesias: Why it makes sense to as (some) teachers to teach (somewhat) larger classes: http://t.co/gYcVTwLd

2012-05-27 15:50:53 - RT @xeni: I don’t get it. Why would a cardboard box leaking blood on the Metro be unusual? http://t.co/9OuLlHyr

2012-05-27 17:01:14 - RT @ProducerMatthew: Russian envoy to U.N. Security Council: Difficult to imagine that the Syrian government would target women, children.

2012-05-27 17:02:30 - RT @AUDIOMIND: Never saw a room clear so fast as I just did when dude started playing dubstep at the underground stage at #demf. There’s …

2012-05-27 17:03:02 - RT @ProducerMatthew: Russian envoy to U.N. Security Council suggests a third force likely interfering in Syria.

2012-05-27 17:03:21 - RT @blakehounshell: Now Russian envoy talking about a “third force.” What an embarrassing load of crap.

2012-05-27 17:05:28 - RT @tskweres: How The Future of Mobile Lies in the Developing World http://t.co/52YHu1Vo via @techcrunch

2012-05-27 17:09:52 - RT @hemantmehta: Commentary on a Christian Children’s Show http://t.co/pD0PaL4K

2012-05-27 17:12:27 - RT @elanazak: It’s amazing how a small coding victory can make me so much happier. cc @tcarmody

2012-05-27 17:23:30 - Goofballery: What if Jack Kirby made My Little Pony comics? - @io9 http://t.co/oTaXTt9u

2012-05-27 17:25:59 - You should NOT follow me on Twitter « I love split testing – Visual Website Optimizer Blog http://t.co/GSyNHk2m via @wingify #ff

2012-05-27 17:27:17 - RT @noamscheiber: Thanks to everyone who wrote me - yes, it appears I’ve been hacked. (Though that weight loss plan did look compelling. …

2012-05-27 17:29:31 - Quebeckers take to the streets with pots and pans: a charivari - Boing Boing http://t.co/wmvgQhXV via @BoingBoing

2012-05-27 17:31:41 - RT @FooGDave: Nickelback walks into a bar…there’s no punchline because ruining music isn’t funny.

2012-05-27 17:32:42 - RT @BuzzFeedAndrew: Good story on how the Brown-Warren Senate race is intensifying the Boston Herald-Globe rivalry. http://t.co/aBtW13bF

2012-05-27 17:33:35 - RT @jtlevy: Even by standards of @radleybalko ‘s incredibly important & depressing blogging, a very important, very depressing post …

2012-05-27 17:45:27 - RT @BuzzFeedAndrew: RT @blakehounshell: Um. RT @Drudge_Report: Bilderberg power masters set to meet in USA… Developing… http://t.co/ …

2012-05-27 17:53:59 - @maxwelljohnlove Pff, Cato has you covered: http://t.co/Fi0fT38I

2012-05-27 17:58:15 - Um. MT @bryanjfischer: Homosexuality OR liberty: can’t have both. YouTube bans teen’s defense of marriage http://t.co/AHGYm0hs

2012-05-27 18:03:18 - RT @davidpilling: People’s Action loses Singapore byelection - quiet political upheaval continues in state that once had no opposition h …

2012-05-27 20:35:19 - RT @AmyVernon: I love this idea (& voted for it!) - Code Think: Learning the Process Behind Programming http://t.co/W403FK6Q

2012-05-27 20:48:16 - RT @ObsoleteDogma: Incredibly sad and poignant. http://t.co/OwbdroIv

2012-05-27 21:00:48 - Let’s test the theory. RT @billyhallowell: #Occupy RT @FOSH1ZZLE @BillyHallowell you used that stupid hashtag..now you’re tainted.

2012-05-27 21:06:13 - RT @dan_munz: Guammi bears. RT @aschweig: what do people from guam call themselves?

2012-05-27 21:06:50 - RT @mathewi: +1 RT @markoff: I give Michael Wolff tremendous credit for the courage to write this. http://t.co/nacYsYpu

2012-05-27 21:07:26 - RT @jstrevino: Follow @falklands82 immediately. The Battle of Goose Green and the martyrdom of “H” Jones is imminent.

2012-05-27 21:09:37 - How not to tweet http://t.co/jkAAN3nW

2012-05-27 21:20:09 - @billyhallowell Thanks for not making an “It depends upon what the meaning of the word ‘is’ is” joke. Too easy.

2012-05-27 21:24:23 - RT @ethanklapper: Former Sen. Alan Simpson (R-Wyo.) lashed out at members of his party on Sunday http://t.co/sHvixm6r

2012-05-27 21:46:20 - How to argue effectively (via reddit) http://t.co/inFEF05p

2012-05-28 02:25:23 - RT @JeffreyFeldman: Proof the NYT will keep paying you long after you have nothing interesting/original left to say… http://t.co/84v1C6kf

2012-05-28 02:27:12 - STEP. RT @ultan: DUB

2012-05-28 11:36:26 - RT @ddjournalism: How to introduce data journalism in newsrooms? Follow the panel The Data Tsunami & journalism (live streamed) http …

2012-05-28 12:25:30 - The best tech writing of the week, May 27 | The Verge http://t.co/9GRR8zar via @verge

2012-05-28 12:26:25 - RT @legaleagle: All I remember thinking of Atlas Shrugged before I fell asleep is they must not have been able to get any decent actors …

2012-05-28 12:27:13 - @legaleagle Don’t worry, Grover Norquist is in the next one.

2012-05-28 12:30:06 - @dcaa Awesome.

2012-05-28 12:40:03 - RIP your argument. MT @bryanjfischer: Note to Ron Paul fans: guy who chewed off guy’s face was probably high on LSD http://t.co/l8euruQL

2012-05-28 13:42:18 - Precision and purpose: Ubuntu 12.04 and the Unity HUD reviewed | Ars Technica http://t.co/3hJ2VbDf

2012-05-28 14:39:27 - RT @dmataconis: I am looking for more interesting things to do while the Olympics are on TV. Like sorting my socks.

2012-05-28 14:46:54 - RT @brianbeutler: Um. This is false. RT @JoseCanseco: Death is the same thing as never being born

2012-05-28 15:01:42 - @buzzfeedandrew Funny—10 years ago is about when Adam Sandler should’ve stopped making movies.

2012-05-28 15:38:12 - RT @AnnaTarkov: I’m going to use “puny god” as my go-to insult from now on. #Hulkrules

2012-05-28 16:57:40 - This person wants to know if @TheStalwart has “constant diarrhea”: http://t.co/HxnIf7RW via @collegemedia

2012-05-28 17:06:03 - @maxwelljohnlove Instagram clogging.

2012-05-28 17:06:57 - @maxwelljohnlove Not as bad as this: http://t.co/jkAAN3nW

2012-05-28 17:31:35 - @erik_paulson “Best reached through a free print daily”? That’s a strong assertion. @dcaa

2012-05-28 18:13:09 - @erik_paulson @dcaa I think that’s an unanswerable question—it depends on what they do online, among other things.

2012-05-28 18:16:41 - RT @KatyAnderson: +1, and learn to code MT @zoeywrites To journos who lament graduating into this climate, you should have worked for st …

2012-05-28 19:01:59 - RT @journchat: Guess what? Tonight one of our own @adampopescu is our guest moderator. Follow him for tonight’s ?s. Give him a warm welc …

2012-05-28 19:14:52 - RT @elanazak: @DR4WARD So hard to figure out a business model for local news when national news still hasn’t figured it out. #journchat

2012-05-28 19:21:30 - @sherriwrites @ianhillmedia Journalists usually forget about marketing because that end of the newsroom is separated by design? #journchat

2012-05-28 19:22:54 - RT @elanazak: RT @aschweig: A2: Interested in whether we take Buffet at his word that the publications will remain editorially independe …

2012-05-28 19:35:10 - @elanazak The monopoly still has to compete with the no-news alternative (a bad situation in general). #journchat @afmarcom @HuckleberryHart

2012-05-28 19:36:22 - RT @elanazak: @SherriWrites Exactly! I feel like there’s more ways to get national news but locally it’s a whole different beast. #journchat

2012-05-28 19:39:41 - RT @aschweig: @adampopescu that an executive at a news corporation, nay, THE News Corporation needs plausible deniability is kind of dis …

2012-05-28 19:46:16 - re: @elanazak RT. MT @sherriwrites: @zthomae Some local news startups OWN local news (e.g. @JxnFreePress). @DonnerKay editor #journchat

2012-05-28 19:47:03 - RT @afmarcom: @TheVoiceOfGenY I agree that daily may not be necessary; our local hard copy is better now that it’s less often. #journchat

2012-05-28 19:47:21 - RT @ianhillmedia: A4: If print disappears, I’ll just have to start buying wrapping paper during the holidays. #journchat

2012-05-28 19:51:44 - @nicwirtz @adampopescu @SherriWrites @elanazak Not all perspectives are equally powerful. Blogs are oftentimes weakly established.

2012-05-28 19:52:01 - RT @aschweig: @journchat only daily paper I read: Sunday NY Times. and it’s full of news I mostly already read online. #justsayin #journchat

2012-05-28 20:16:20 - @erik_paulson Maybe. I’ve noticed spam before, but a barrage of spam from hacked accounts over a weekend is new to me. Still watching this.

2012-05-28 20:19:07 - @erik_paulson I’ll get back to this later, when I’m done setting up a server. But a short answer: No, I don’t think you can guess well.

2012-05-28 20:22:03 - @sneibs It seems that @erik_paulson has put that quote into action. #WAR

2012-05-28 20:23:04 - @erik_paulson Education/testing. The hardware is weak, so it won’t do much else.

2012-05-28 20:27:52 - @erik_paulson More specific: It’s a web server for hosting web projects/experiments, and for learning more about how web servers work.

2012-05-28 20:32:03 - RT @conor64: If you aren’t following @chrislhayes you should be. He consistently strives and succeeds at producing work that has integrity.

2012-05-28 20:38:58 - RT @ethanklapper: Applicable for tomorrow’s #Manhattanhenge RT @textinstagram: The sun

2012-05-28 20:40:47 - RT @JoseCanseco: If Colombus had landed on the west coast things in Mass would be hundreds of years newer cmon govt spend money on the p …

2012-05-28 21:35:24 - RT @cschweitz: This exists: “50 Shades of Grey” illustrated by bewildering stock photos—“50 Shades of Shutterstock” http://t.co/DD0oVdg …

2012-05-28 21:56:02 - RT @ProducerMatthew: Channel 4’s @AlexTomo is reporting for the network from Homs, Syria. His first blog post - http://t.co/1YZhBzC0

2012-05-28 22:30:56 - RT @sarahljaffe: My google ads are trying to sell me a “degree in journalism with a concentration in PR.” Everything wrong with journali …

2012-05-28 22:35:26 - RT @jayrosen_nyu: @sarahljaffe The first decision I voted on as a J-faculty member at NYU was to do away with the PR program. In 1988. A …

2012-05-28 22:37:16 - RT @sarahljaffe: @jayrosen_nyu seriously. two things that should never be in the same department. sigh.

2012-05-28 23:03:59 - @MaxwellJohnLove Wikipedia says: Media ownership concentration + sentence length + war on drugs.

2012-05-28 23:04:48 - RT @zseward: Really thrilled @glichfield is joining us as global news editor of Quartz http://t.co/MWLPIJ7u

2012-05-28 23:05:09 - RT @felixsalmon: First @zseward, now @glichfield. Seems QZ is carving out a niche in liberating web-savvy hacks from paywall ghettoes.

2012-05-28 23:05:41 - RT @thekeenanwire: Dear entire newspaper industry: “You should pay because we need to eat” is probably not your winning marketing slogan.

2012-05-28 23:09:14 - @MaxwellJohnLove I think you should be worried about the Incarceration Singularity, too: http://t.co/UNebnsW3 cf. http://t.co/AKZsaDRG

2012-05-28 23:14:16 - @MaxwellJohnLove The singularity is all about exponential growth. The Incarceration Singularity is when everyone is in jail (rate=1).

2012-05-28 23:15:20 - RT @jilliancyork: Seriously, every conference should have its own Ryan Gosling meme.

2012-05-28 23:20:24 - RT @RealCollege: When did the WSJ become Cosmo? RT @WSJ Is sex a problem in your relationship? Join our live chat at 12:30 p.m. EDT Tues …

2012-05-28 23:23:22 - RT @BuzzFeedAndrew: RT @hunterw: The son of Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker thinks http://t.co/8kHj1ife is a “quality website” http://t. …

2012-05-28 23:27:17 - @BuzzFeedAndrew Accomplishments: One of Matt Walker’s friends bragged about smoking weed in the governor’s house. (Went to high school with)

2012-05-28 23:43:45 - Just discovered that my high school’s student newspaper is no longer being linked to on the school webpage. This is how things die.

2012-05-29 00:43:38 - RT @evgenymorozov: “404 Not Found”: Infocide in Open Content Communities http://t.co/zyb8oCUe interesting paper

2012-05-29 09:26:16 - RT @kissane: I hang out with coders and type nerds, but when you say Scala, this is still what I think of first. http://t.co/KUctAL4t

2012-05-29 09:27:26 - RT @AnnaTarkov: The skills required to do what a great real-time digital journalist does are different. AMEN. http://t.co/2RAT5cI3

2012-05-29 09:38:28 - Hypothesis: @hblodget’s linkbaiting is more reserved than people think it is. Evidence: http://t.co/U5h8amT4 became http://t.co/qjQ4VCCm

2012-05-29 09:40:20 - RT @robertmentzer: Careful! Different camera angle and that is a felony! RT @MahlonMitchell: Voted! Have you? http://t.co/bnEBFDtQ

2012-05-29 09:45:38 - RT @existentialfish: Everyone remember when a whole convention of Republicans mocked veterans? http://t.co/8zz6zLnd Good times. And by g …

2012-05-29 09:49:26 - RT @journeydan: EXCLUSIVE: No one gets exclusives anymore. So stop.

2012-05-29 09:49:58 - RT @ethanklapper: RT @FixRachel: Cory Booker’s communications director has resigned http://t.co/KIfrhica

2012-05-29 09:53:09 - RT @nhannahjones: Can’t shake this story: Man’s rape conviction overturned after accuser reaches out on Facebook. http://t.co/swuuSQuQ

2012-05-29 09:53:48 - RT @AlexJamesFitz: An email from Bill Clinton entitled “Good Morning” is how I’ve always envisioned my new life as a secret agent to begin.

2012-05-29 09:55:19 - RT @ggreenwald: One of the ugliest details from the NYT piece is that political adviser David Axelrod attends the meeting where Obama de …

2012-05-29 09:57:59 - RT @BuzzFeedAndrew: @cschweitz Questions like that are always sort of gimmicky. Paris Hilton is running 6% ahead of Congress. http://t.c …

2012-05-29 09:59:30 - RT @ksablan: Doh! RT @MSiddiqi: Well that was easy: presolved crossword in today’s Post. More proof copy editors are valuable. http://t. …

2012-05-29 10:00:07 - RT @ProducerMatthew: Mobile live-stream service Bambuser offers citizen journalists, activists free premium accounts - http://t.co/zZFApUjo

2012-05-29 10:04:34 - RT @ProducerMatthew: We already have a Facebook phone. It’s called the HTC Status - http://t.co/wxj8hXdS

2012-05-29 10:09:22 - There is not too much on my desk, take 2 http://t.co/GMbfSb6i

2012-05-29 10:11:31 - RT @hblodget: Greece in Great Depression. We’re going… RT @TheStalwart: MORE SPECIFICALLY: I’m heading to Greece to cover the June 17 …

2012-05-29 10:11:50 - RT @AlexJamesFitz: How do journo professors feel about that? RT @TheStalwart: PERSONAL NEWS: Starting next month I’m going to become an …

2012-05-29 10:14:41 - RT @waxpancake: Doing some Google+ vs. Twitter API tests. Twitter averages 10 posts/second mentioning “google.” G+ averages 7 posts/hour.

2012-05-29 10:15:57 - The future of TV as seen in Super Hi-Vision | The Verge http://t.co/wTJI8urK via @verge

2012-05-29 10:23:24 - Read before reacting. RT @ethanklapper: Female GOP Senate candidate: I would have married my mother http://t.co/TUSRcVJ1

2012-05-29 10:35:09 - RT @ProducerMatthew: BBC News apologizes for accidentally using Halo video game logo instead of logo for United Nations - http://t.co/au …

2012-05-29 10:50:53 - RT @aschweig: Hm. // bitly Tries to Turn Links Into a Destination for Mainstream Users http://t.co/khZ9DMbk

2012-05-29 10:54:38 - RT @farwent: Why my mom was disappointed in “Hatfields & McCoys” when she finally got to see an episode: “Hmmm. It’s really violent.”

2012-05-29 10:59:42 - @annatarkov They don’t just block it out—the actual text is replaced by a series of dashes. Ooh, tricky.

2012-05-29 11:03:15 - @annatarkov They have p/span elements in an “elided” class to block them out, but they ALSO replace the text to stop the easy JS way around.

2012-05-29 11:06:58 - @annatarkov I seem to be getting around this with the “print” widget. No comment.

2012-05-29 11:09:26 - @annatarkov It also means that I can probably hack together a userscript to put the text back in automatically. Will investigate.

2012-05-29 11:13:48 - @annatarkov Probably, but I’m trying to become more comfortable with web programming right now. It’s not the worst thing I could do.

2012-05-29 11:17:53 - Welcome to 2012, the year citizen journalism mobile apps will fail. RT @fludapp: http://t.co/A87Ka8GO

2012-05-29 11:19:03 - RT @dancow: via @nytimes: “The burden feels less like Noah building an ark and more like Schindler making a list.” http://t.co/gQeOdpA9

2012-05-29 11:26:32 - Fixed link: http://t.co/g0G326G1 RT @weywerdsun: “Tubes”: What the Internet is Made Of http://t.co/icOtEIa9

2012-05-29 11:28:24 - Manganese. RT @StephLauren: Minnesota? RT @andersoncooper: Mn

2012-05-29 11:33:36 - @timothypmurphy “You know the only thing more insufferable than this lunch? Congress in session.” #ArguingWithGeorgeWill

2012-05-29 11:35:18 - RT @ckanal: Agree MT @myurow: .@Bitly has lost its way. You’re a data service. Make it easy to shorten and analyze. Leave acct managemen …

2012-05-29 11:44:35 - @AnnaTarkov I can’t remember the last time I was disproven so completely so quickly. Naive me 2 hours ago: http://t.co/NN74LoxD Oops.

2012-05-29 11:46:05 - @AntDeRosa “Add a bitmark”?

2012-05-29 11:47:55 - @AntDeRosa Yeah. It’ll make a shortened url even if you don’t share it. @channay

2012-05-29 11:49:52 - @AntDeRosa I’ve made a few test bitmarks. I can confirm that it works. Make bitmark, save, copy link or view bitmark details later @channay

2012-05-29 11:51:24 - RT @mattlanger: Front page of @businessinsider before: http://t.co/UKPJIXqS And after: http://t.co/5hGGSSjJ

2012-05-29 11:55:08 - DEVELOPING: I’m going to try rework the Bitmark bookmarklet to save and shorten the old-fashioned way.

2012-05-29 11:55:45 - @AnnaTarkov Them not being as bad of linkbaiters as everyone says. Nope, they’re that bad.

2012-05-29 11:58:39 - The new @Bitly bitmarklet iframe id is “bitmark_yoself_fool.” That is all.

2012-05-29 11:59:56 - RT @BuzzFeedJack: “Did he say ‘Why Do People Hate Zoos?’ That’s a weird idea for an article.”-Every person at Business Insider when Henr …

2012-05-29 12:04:43 - Found in @bitly bitmarklet code: “nyanbox.” #dorks

2012-05-29 19:46:30 - New on tumblr: I have a bookmarklet that makes it really simple to share @bitly links http://t.co/vBMIC563

2012-05-29 20:06:50 - NPR, your timekeeping is not making sense. (Local time is CDT.) h/t @davewiner http://t.co/5ZZGcvbP

2012-05-29 20:08:01 - RT @AnnaTarkov: In case you missed it, this happened today: http://t.co/J3nenRZI I’m still trying to get over it.

2012-05-29 20:17:28 - +1 RT @dmataconis: The End Of The Debate Over Evolution? http://t.co/pMgIk2kI

2012-05-29 21:13:05 - RT @BuzzFeedAndrew: Donald Trump on Fox:”My Twitter is very large.”

2012-05-29 22:04:43 - RT @designhawg: in case you were curious what the mobile product manager at RomneyHQ is doing right now… #amercia #mitt2012 http://t.co/ …

2012-05-29 22:08:45 - Nope, it’s this: http://t.co/PhHh89ep RT @LibertyandEcon: Probably the Best Ron Paul Clip of All Time http://t.co/spWMfyWO #RP

2012-05-29 22:19:26 - RT @AlecMacGillis: Gotta hurt Perry to have Romney claim nomination in the state whose excessively sensible immigration policies Mitt pi …

2012-05-29 23:12:10 - Status: Rate limited while working on a Twitter script for Ruby again? Yup.

2012-05-29 23:13:41 - @aschweig If the new dashboard is too obnoxious, I made a bookmarklet for this: http://t.co/ZbIAQvF8 @MatthewRusso

2012-05-29 23:22:16 - @aschweig I wonder if they’ll be backpedaling over the next few weeks, tbh. Haven’t seen a lot of happy people. @MatthewRusso

2012-05-29 23:29:24 - @aschweig If the fancy new things get into API wrappers, I bet you could make this not suck. Easy linkblogging or something. @MatthewRusso

2012-05-29 23:31:02 - FW: Future employers. RT @mikekujak: Dear summer jobs… http://t.co/9Zer7eml

2012-05-29 23:34:57 - RT @joeybaker: Twitter’s implementation of server-side + client-side rendering might mark the largest deployment of its type http://t.c …

2012-05-30 00:22:50 - @willwilkinson I tried to unbreak it with a bookmarklet: http://t.co/ZbIAQvF8 Some assembly required, but then it’s pretty easy.

2012-05-30 00:36:13 - RT @adampopescu: #Journchat Recap: The @Storify Version http://t.co/SrXkoMpJ

2012-05-30 00:38:23 - RT @garonsen: This is pretty great: Former classmate of both Romney and Obama weighs in on the race: http://t.co/IEj3Moew

2012-05-30 00:43:11 - RT @adampopescu: Oh boy. Get ready readers: the true story of how n why @TashaReign posed for a pic with ex-Pres Clinton in Monaco. #sta …

2012-05-30 01:02:37 - RT @blakehounshell: BREAKING RT @BBCWorld: Apple’s CEO ‘I’m not Steve Jobs’ http://t.co/Aq2fDy5F

2012-05-30 09:44:22 - RT @mleewelch: I don’t know if @nickgillespie won the whole Internet with his sentence in this post (http://t.co/zb9rM0U6), but he won * …

2012-05-30 09:45:42 - RT @ZekeJMiller: The most confusing shot/chaser email ever from @AmericanXRoads’s @superfluouschap http://t.co/1lwcQx4h

2012-05-30 09:55:15 - RT @ajjaffe: RT @HuffPostHill For purpel mountians majesteis / Aboev teh friuted plane! / AMERCIAAAAAAA, AMERCIAAAAA GOD SHED HIS GRACE …

2012-05-30 10:59:51 - RT @aschweig: RT @Bill_Gross: Here is a link to the 112-slide presentation that Mary Meeker just shared at #ATD10 #D10: http://t.co/8pFZ …

2012-05-30 11:01:11 - RT @jayrosen_nyu: Side by side comparison: My post Tuesday that I wrote in imitation Gawker style http://t.co/Sv5bzhtu Gawker, same stor …

2012-05-30 11:11:20 - RT @ZekeJMiller: RT @michaelscherer: RT @RyanLizza: Official WH photo of Obama-Romney phone call. http://t.co/9dRBm1AQ

2012-05-30 11:37:29 - RT @daveweigel: I worry that the difference between “gaffe” and “flub” has been lost forever.

2012-05-30 11:48:28 - Conspiracy efficiency. MT @realDonaldTrump: I want to see @BarackObama’s college records to see his application’s listed place of birth.

2012-05-30 11:49:45 - http://t.co/lQoHh9Sn RT @TheStalwart: I’d like to see all the papers/networks devote more coverage to the latest stuff that Trump says.

2012-05-30 11:51:36 - RT @AntDeRosa: Serenity now http://t.co/9v8gCXbA

2012-05-30 11:57:35 - RT @jenayres: RT @MULawPoll: We’ll be live tweeting new poll results starting at 12:15. #mulawpoll

2012-05-30 12:00:12 - RT @AlexJamesFitz: Romney app updated, new version cites “bug fixes.” #Amercia http://t.co/NHQNMXFS

2012-05-30 12:01:14 - RT @kashhill: Google’s Competitor For Facebook Isn’t Plus. It’s Project Glass. http://t.co/2fiX6mhB

2012-05-30 12:03:18 - W.C. RT @TheStalwart: If your child’s teacher doesn’t teach like this, your kid is guaranteed screwed. http://t.co/x9iVEtrc

2012-05-30 12:03:53 - RT @dancow: I believe we’re at max-lameness: Student body president demands right to pick student newspaper editor http://t.co/KaxFwC3z …

2012-05-30 12:05:44 - And politically active. MT @dancow: Also, the newspaper-micromanaging-student gov. president is 37 http://t.co/PwqXNTL6 via @romenesko

2012-05-30 12:09:10 - @VickiMcKenna To be fair, Ed Schultz is a bit of a laughing stock.

2012-05-30 12:11:57 - RT @markknoller: HD Net’s Dan Rather reporting Venezuelan Pres Hugo Chavez now suffering end-stage cancer. http://t.co/bTgV4pyr

2012-05-30 12:14:05 - RT @LandonSandy: North Carolina’s newest ban: Idea that sea level rise accelerating exponentially. Even their graphs must be straight! …

2012-05-30 12:15:16 - !!! RT @dancow: Politwoops - Deleted tweets from politicians http://t.co/a22ogJrQ #politwoops via @sunfoundation

2012-05-30 12:15:38 - RT @ethanklapper: Here’s an early favorite from the new http://t.co/ncbqRCQw site: http://t.co/q3CstXjF

2012-05-30 12:55:55 - @erik_paulson You only need to allocate 8GB of memory to run the repeatability Felix VM, right? http://t.co/tG5S9Bw7

2012-05-30 13:07:10 - Last week’s: Disparate. RT @DanielBice: Word of the week: desperate. #wirecall

2012-05-30 13:08:16 - RT @ashk4n: Pretty cool project from @ProPublica: We’re working to track how politicians use your personal data (via email) http://t.co/ …

2012-05-30 13:09:50 - RT @Schneider_CM: “Here’s why the sampling is wrong in this poll I disagree with” - Everyone

2012-05-30 13:11:23 - RT @jackshafer: You need to follow @mathewi, one of the best new media and tech reporters—and Twitter contributors—I know.

2012-05-30 13:13:37 - Not really. MT @WeRWisconsin: VIDEO - @WePartyPatriots: “Political Version of Jay-Z’s “99 Problems” Is a Winner” http://t.co/Fr9vnCcx

2012-05-30 13:24:13 - RT @aschweig: I added Spelling to @mittromney’s topics on @klout http://t.co/EtV7b2bx

2012-05-30 13:27:09 - RT @keptsimple81: I prefer to think of him as the rapey mayor on Veronica Mars. MT @BuzzFeedAndrew: Fox Nation scoop: http://t.co/3iq9AB02

2012-05-30 13:28:34 - @keptsimple81 @BuzzFeedAndrew I think he peaked here: http://t.co/FewBoKXm

2012-05-30 13:32:38 - RT @TimFernholz: This is brilliant. http://t.co/kQzwpvO3

2012-05-30 13:35:15 - @erik_paulson Looks like I’ll be reading the docs (and probably the code, too).

2012-05-30 14:22:57 - RT @politico: RT @ByronTau: Did Obama endorse Mayor Tom Barrett? Jay Carney: “Not that I’m aware of.”

2012-05-30 14:24:20 - RT @TheStalwart: Dear media. More Donald Trump coverage, please! http://t.co/fpdGqsPq

2012-05-30 14:25:44 - RT @GottaLaff: VID: 4 yr-old gets standing O for singing “Ain’t No Homos Gonna Make It To Heaven” in church http://t.co/xYPpPukg

2012-05-30 14:54:01 - RT @aschweig: .@bitly had to write a blog post to explain how to shorten links with the new UI http://t.co/KWU2bFt5 passing that along w …

2012-05-30 14:55:02 - I’ll comment: “We’ve always seen bitly as a central place for online sharing and saving of your links.” Nonononono.

2012-05-30 14:58:19 - @ethanklapper His email address is disappointing. Should be http://t.co/ZSVS6fVG@voteforeddie.com

2012-05-30 15:00:11 - RT @HuffPostPol: http://t.co/AXD64QaV is someone’s legal name, and will appear on a Florida ballot in November http://t.co/bxSuBArj

2012-05-30 15:02:15 - Zombie outbreak—THIS IS HAPPENING RT @AlexJamesFitz: Guys, guys….guys!! RT @USATODAY Police: Woman killed her infant, ate part of brain

2012-05-30 15:11:08 - RT @ethanklapper: RT @PressSec: Per briefing question today: POTUS is supporting Tom Barrett in next week’s Wisconsin election.

An easy bitly bookmarklet

Tue, 29 May 2012 19:46:00 -0500

I hacked together a bookmarklet to make a bitly shortened url from the current page. Expanded, it looks like this:

var xhr = new XMLHttpRequest();
xhr.open("GET", "https://api-ssl.bitly.com/v3/shorten?longUrl="+encodeURIComponent(top.document.URL)+"&login=LOGIN_KEY&apiKey=API_KEY");
xhr.onreadystatechange = function() { 
    if(xhr.readyState == 4) { 
        if(xhr.status==200) {
            json = JSON.parse(xhr.responseText)
            window.prompt("Your new link", json.data.url)      
        } else {
            console.log("Oops", xhr);
        }
    } 
}
xhr.send();

I have a bookmarklet-friendly version here. You need to get your login and API keys from here and plug them in for LOGIN_KEY and API_KEY respectively for this to work (I haven’t given you an easier way to do this than opening up the raw file in a text editor—sorry!).

Once you have your API key values in the script, drag it up to your bookmarks bar and click on it when you’re on a site you’d like to get a shortened URL for. Your new URL will be selected in a popup prompt (that does nothing) for you to copy and use as you wish. The URL will be copied to your bitly history as per usual.

Based on code here.