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Well, since I use both Twitter and Facebook, perhaps I should throw in my thoughts.

Twitter has a couple of uses, at least for me. It allows you to essentially have IM conversations with a small group of friends, instead of individually. You post, they all get the tweet, someone responds, everyone gets it and so on. This works, primarily if you have witty friends who aren’t likely to tweet about their latest trip to the bathroom.

It can also be useful for following the creative process or just the day to day activities of certain “celebrities” that you might find amusing or interesting. For instance, I receive tweets from Warren Ellis, Ben Templesmith and Wil Wheaton. These are often amusing little breaks in my day. It helps that i have my phone set to receive tweets.

A couple examples of amusing tweets below:

warrenellis @BrianReed Unearthing old characters for Marvel to see if they’re worth reactivating will clip five years off your life. Trust me.

warrenellis Because six hours later you’re all “ah, yes, Flying Coyote Whore who some drunk invented for Luke Cage to fuck in 1975, I see potential..”

warrenellis And a day later you’re, “geezer, that guy who used to deliver the mail to The Fantastic Four, there’s totally a miniseries there...”

warrenellis And then your kid starts calling you “Scary Daddy” and your girl won’t let you touch her and you see Stan Lee when you try to jerk off.

warrenellis But you can’t jerk off and suddenly you’re living in the woods and you don’t remember why and someone seems to have pissed in your clothes.

warrenellis But you really want to write that story about the voodoo chicken guy from those old Marvel comics but old women are flinging turds at you.

warrenellis And cops are beating you up every night and you get raped by a hobo with a face like Roseanne who keeps saying “Cough on it, John.”

warrenellis And why? Because you decided to research old Marvel comics. Just walk away, Reed. Or you may never walk the same again

As for Facebook, yep, mostly a less obnoxious MySpace. I use it, along with MySpace, because they have both helped me get back into contact with old friends. I don’t spend much time with either, though.

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MySpace

Social networking sites are kind of annoying, and MySpace is the 21st century’s equivalent of a shitty Geocities Limp Bizkit fansite from 1998.

I’ve always found Twitter to be more obnoxious than MySpace, though, because of its obsession with constant, immediate, and irrelevant microupdates. Many blogs focus on topics other than the bloggers personal minutiae, but Twitter is designed to do nothing but feed the poster’s vanity, far as I can tell.

This Penny Arcade comic pretty much sums it up.

Yeah, I joined MySpace a while back and touched base with old roommates from the 90s and that sort of thing. Then I canceled my account a few weeks ago, because I realized I really didn’t need to be in touch with those people I hadn’t really known in a more than a decade.

My roomie is jonesing for the new Starcraft, and now I really really want D3 (I hope WINE can handle it). Blizzard is going to get some money from this household, that’s for sure.

I wonder if any of the D3 critters will look like SC’s Zerglings or Hydralisks. I doubt any D3 character class could easily handle a Zerg swarm. >:D

They look like they both use the same graphics engine—too sweet. Sadly, my “real” life will suffer when these two hit the shelves…

What does a woman say after she gets a black eye?

Nothing if the bitch learned her lesson the first time.

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Beware the beast man, for he is the Devil’s pawn. Alone among God’s primates, he kills for sport or lust or greed. Yea, he will murder his brother to possess his brother’s land. Let him not breed in great numbers, for he will make a desert of his home, and yours. Shun him, for he is the harbinger of death.

Still 75mph for me, and I still get 26mpg doing it.

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Beware the beast man, for he is the Devil’s pawn. Alone among God’s primates, he kills for sport or lust or greed. Yea, he will murder his brother to possess his brother’s land. Let him not breed in great numbers, for he will make a desert of his home, and yours. Shun him, for he is the harbinger of death.

Weight mainly affects city fuel economy, not steady state cruising, which is mostly about drag and gearing.

Except you need a bigger engine to give suitable acceleration in the city, with a heavier car.  Average engine power has about doubled since that Fiat was made. 

Some big cars address this - I don’t know how - by shutting off half the cylinders at highway speed.  Clever, those engineers.

Hijacking this thread, because when I searched on Dr Who only hit I got was

GOP fund-raiser who bashed Clinton as a “bad example” for children convicted of making child porn.

Ohhhhh-Kaaaay.

But seeing as you mentioned the Tardis (surely the winner when it comes to USB hubs- I mean powered by a TARDIS!)

!!!! SPOILER !!!!!!

No Really

A Spoiler

Is that enough warning?

Did you know DT started regeneration at the end of last weeks episode, after being shot by a Dalek

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I’d rather be liberal than illiberal.
I’d rather be progressive than conservative.

“And husbands on their parts, because they’re sinners, now respond to that threat to their authority either by being abusive,

He says men are sinners, that’s why they use violence.  If they were not sinners no doubt the woman would cower before his superiority.

And too think my brother was too scared to tell the joke “Why do women get married in white?” to my wife.

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I’d rather be liberal than illiberal.
I’d rather be progressive than conservative.

Really can’t see the point of Facebook.  My wife is on it, so I joined to do the silly things, but people who (might) know my brother want me to be freinds with them. 

Now my wife has a good use for it- organising a reunion of ex pupils for her old schools 50th anniversary, where she is now a parent governor, but otherwise some of the stuff people do-
“John has poked you”
John can fuck off.

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I’d rather be liberal than illiberal.
I’d rather be progressive than conservative.

Michigan gas prices seem to vary from $3.95 to $4.29 per US Gallon

To put it into perspective, here in the UK it costs me the equivalent of $8.91 for a US Gallon.

We also get paid in US monopoly money.

Our old Fiat 124g used to get 35mpg at 75mph.  But cars got a lot heavier because of - pffft! - “safety” and now it’s hard to achieve those figures without a lot of “technology” ‘n stuff.

Weight mainly affects city fuel economy, not steady state cruising, which is mostly about drag and gearing.

I’ve never even heard of Twitter until now, and I thought I kept fairly abreast of such things.

In the site’s defense, I think it’s one of those things that’s perhaps a fairly good idea… for a certain sort of person, occasionally, if the technology were good enough to automate a lot of it. If I could turn on such mundane monitoring of my location and activities and a device could figure out what all that crap that I was doing was, for instance, I could see a low level of interest in something like that. Turning on an indicator to tell people I made it safely home each day, if I didn’t have to pay any attention to it, might not be so bad even if I don’t think anyone would care. Having a device/software that could tell me if my drive home was taking longer, or if a route I was taking to some place wasn’t optimum, or just tracked how often I was too lazy to cook dinner and eating out, might be useful just as a “track myself” sort of data that I wouldn’t otherwise pay attention to.

The idea that anyone needs to take the time out to relate to other people what they’re doing though? That’s insane. That’s the sort of bullshit we all grow up and get out of the house to get over, “Mom, I’m out eating with friends. Don’t call the police.” Even for kids I can’t see the utility, because if my kids need to report shit like that I want to hear it from them personally because I wouldn’t want them to get their friends to do it, or else I’d want their phone lowjack telling me it where I could lock them out of fussing with it.

I haven’t found a need for Twitter, Facebook, Myspace, or other similar sites; and I seldom see much use for IM.  I prefer email for things that can wait, sending messages to somebody’s cell, or for near real time communications to a group when doing something like a major upgrade involving several people; I prefer using a telephone for immediate things.

It sure is catchy--don’t think it will leave my head soon!

No one, not in the name of religion, common sense, or any other reason should be able to or even think of abusing another human.  Especially when they use the excuse ‘to put and keep the subject (male or female) in their place’.  That said I’ll shut up!

What Ware is saying is pretty stupid, but to me he doesn’t seem to be say that men should beat their wives to regain authority.

He does stop short of endorsing violence, but he’s certainly blaming the victim. If women were properly submissive the way they’re supposed to be and not challenge their husband’s authority, they wouldn’t get themselves punched. Or drive some poor men into pussyhood.

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Science is answers that must always be questioned.
Philosophy is questions that may never be answered.
Religion is answers that must never be questioned.
Politics is answers that lobbyists pay for.

In Los Angeles the opposite seems to be true - people are driving faster because there’s suddenly a significant drop in traffic. This occurred about when regular hit $4/gal.

What Ware is saying is pretty stupid, but to me he doesn’t seem to be say that men should beat their wives to regain authority. Rather he’s lamenting that women are not being submissive, therefore leading men to misbehave by either being passive or abusive. He’s an ass, but he’s not endorsing spousal abuse.

I just hope it’s better than the last crap.

I am really upset about starcraft GHOST ... going underground but if you know blizzards history they fire anyone that even mentions what they are doing…

blizzard is the EMPIRE with a darth maul programmer that will use dark side force powers against any blizzard (lowbie) in that squad. and they learn “THE POWER OF THE DARK SIDE”.

No shit .. I used to get paid to beta test for them and know their diabolical ways.

Diablo 3? Unless you see something from the .blizzard.com site don’t believe it. and even then go into your storm shelter and hibernate for 5 years.

lmao… reality sucks eh?

Oh I have to address the religious aspect of this. Well anyone with even limited education that needs the “GOD” myth to feel some security during their existence in this mystery we call life, to me has not grown enough mentally to even make a statement like that pastor did.

I had a amoeba once for a pet. I hope I will see it again in HEAVEN.

duh.

The real intelligence is knowing that we don’t know shit. Nothing. There’s one thing you know and that is it. You are here. There is no other knowledge. Other than things we made up. Lets call this a tree. lets call this a bird.

words.

I love your blog stupid .. and the juxtaposition you use in your post.

`fin.

Our old Fiat 124g used to get 35mpg at 75mph.  But cars got a lot heavier because of - pffft! - “safety” and now it’s hard to achieve those figures without a lot of “technology” ‘n stuff.

I could see subscribing to a Twitter feed from, say, a Mars lander project.  But for us non-robot, non-interplanetary travelers, not so much.

Never met my ex-wife. broke my nose twice ( once was enough for me come to reality and realized that anyone that uses physical abuse to get their way is just an uneducated, ignorant human being?)

Nope I stayed around for even more. Its not just women who put up with this kind of bullshit. Now don’t get me wrong, I’m no pussy but I won’t hit a woman. In the end I left. Just packed up my shit and drove 2000 miles away to New York. LOL. Gave her everything that we owned ( which is what those people are all about, they have no depth of emotion or intelligence.)

There are still cavemen and cavewomen in our society. Even in this so-called enlightened age of technology and education.

That’s what it all comes down to.

I really don’t get Twitter, it seems kind of mundane and filled with minutia.

Facebook is Myspace but cleaner, a place to link up to friends, post pictures, play games with each other, etc. It’s good for finding old classmates, etc.

LinkedIn is a business connections form of Facebook/MySpace.

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“An eye for an eye leaves us all blind.” - Gandhi

So it’s ok to beat someone if it’s to assert your authority? I fancy becoming a professor, could I walk into his office and slap him about a bit until he agrees to give me his job?

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Somewhere out there, there’s a danish with my name on it

The only good use I’ve seen of Twitter is for the continuing adventures of Othar, Gentlemen Adventurer.

Everyone else seems to be trying to let everyone know that they went to store five minutes ago but couldn’t find the exact brand of milk they wanted.

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Somewhere out there, there’s a danish with my name on it

You’re not alone.

I can see the utility of a micro-blog like twitter as an alternate means of emergency communication, perhaps particularly so if you have a client on your smartphone. It’s probably been used for this by some unfortunates.

Also, I can vaguely see using their service for server monitoring purposes and submit low-security status messages to a private twitter feed. Machine to human communication, if you will. The barrier of entry is rather low, though, and there’s no reason not to roll your own—unless you absolutely want to use a twitter client that runs on your smartphone. Anybody sense a trend?

By and large, I simply don’t get twitter. It’s not that micro-blogs can’t be useful, but the “I’m taking a dump” “Here’s comes the paper” “Should I wad it or fold it?” monologues that just aren’t my thing.

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Science is answers that must always be questioned.
Philosophy is questions that may never be answered.
Religion is answers that must never be questioned.
Politics is answers that lobbyists pay for.

Part of the appeal of moving to Ann Arbor is the availability of hybrid-biofuel powered mass transit there. If I find that I can lock up a bike properly in the apartment complex then I may break down and buy one for getting back and forth to work.

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All I know is the wine lasts longer when you don’t gotta share it with someone
All I know is my steak tastes better when I take my steak tastes better pill
-- I Feel Fantastic, Jonathan Coulton

As nice as it is to have people driving slower I would much rather see an increase public transportation or like everyone else, lower gas prices. I’m part of a campaign to boycott Exxon Mobil, the current leader in profits during this energy crisis. Check it out here https://www.thepoint.com/campaigns/send-a-message-to-the-oil-companies/overview

Hopefully, we can all do something about it

Les, you say

It’s somewhat ironic that high gas prices are accomplishing something that draconian speed laws and occasional police crack downs haven’t been able to for years: Get people to drive slower.

Speed limits, like all laws, are only effective if the threat of being caught, and the penalty for being caught, are perceived as being high enough to make breaking the law not worthwhile- or if the reasons behind the law (in the case of speed limits, safety and environmental concerns) are perceived as being worthwhile.  Obviously, many people would rather take their chances and speed.

But economic considerations are enforced on all- you might not get caught driving 90 mph to work, but you won’t get away from paying for the gas. I suspect that the only way to get us living greener is to attempt to assess the burden on the planet of goods of the goods we consume, and factor that into the price, for instance in the form of a CO2 tax.  That would mean no more gratis externalization of the costs of environmental damage, such as the cost of the CO2 produced by gasoline, or those fruits imported from South America, or those plastic toys that are discarded in a week. Obviously not easy to do, but the alternative is going to be grim- if not for us, then for our children.

Yeah, if gas keeps going up then there’s finally a good argument for moving to one of those high crime, noisy neighbors, urban areas I try to avoid.

Or Europe, which is probably nicer anyways.

Well, at least most places in Europe have better public transportation. Everything here in the midwest is so far that it would take hours by bus, and scoots can’t go that far unless they’re the expensive maxiscoots.

I just hope that they’ve tweaked the game interface so there’s not so much clickaclickaclickaclicka… my poor wrist can’t take it. :(

It looks REALLY cool, though. I wonder what the other three classes are.

That ignorant git! This man is lucky that he will probably nether meet my mother… the only fractionaly redeeming thing about this is that he partialy acknoleges the abusive party to be in the wrong.

Hmm - the UK flag icon isn’t displaying on the comments I’m posting - glitch?

Trust me, I feel for you folks. Every time I even mention gas prices here there’s at least four comments from European SEB regulars about how lucky we are.

You’ll note that I didn’t bother complaining about gas prices in this entry. I’ve learned my lesson about doing that. I’m just amused that the higher prices seem to be getting folks to slow down for a change.

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All I know is the wine lasts longer when you don’t gotta share it with someone
All I know is my steak tastes better when I take my steak tastes better pill
-- I Feel Fantastic, Jonathan Coulton

Yeah, I’ve been doing the same thing. I used to drive 70-80 on the freeways, always kept my SHO right at about 2800-3000 revs or so.

Now I’m quite satisfied to have it at about 1900-2200, which is where it revs between 50-65mph, and I’m impressed with the mileage I’m getting.

I’ve also started accelerating more slowly from a stop, and I turn off the engine when I’m caught by a train or at a stoplight that I know I’m going to be at for a while.

We all gotta do what we gotta do, right? Now I only wish I’d been doin’ it sooner. Oh well, you’re only stupid if you don’t learn from your fuckups, right? LOL!

Michigan gas prices seem to vary from $3.95 to $4.29 per US Gallon

To put it into perspective, here in the UK it costs me the equivalent of $8.91 for a US Gallon.

This is the best news I have heard since time began.

I love that commercial as does the author of XKCD!

http://xkcd.com/442/

“boom de yadda, boom de yadda...”

I can hardly wait for D3!!

I will probably have to use up some vacation days when I get this baby!!

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‘Pseudo-morals work real well
On the talk shows for the weak
But your selective judgments
And goodguy badges
Don’t mean a f**k to me’ - MM

Quite frankly I have more of a problem with the unelected ones

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My Unitarian Jihad name: The pointy stick of reasoned debate!
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I could ever play D2 for two days in a row, tops. My tendons just weren’t up to the click fests.

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Science is answers that must always be questioned.
Philosophy is questions that may never be answered.
Religion is answers that must never be questioned.
Politics is answers that lobbyists pay for.

Oh man this won’t end well…
I played D2 so much through middle school it was unhealthy, and all this talk of D3 just makes me want to go play it again.

I do that at work- then have to immediately tell the vict...person it was a lie, or else they believe me.

Gollllleeee! I thought I was the only one that did that.  I’m so good at acting angry and serious, I have to constantly explain to coworkers that I’m not pissed, offended, paranoid and/or plotting their deaths. I’ve noticed also that most people are not good at catching sarcasm unless you use that snide, David Spade as the Asshole Receptionist on SNL tone of voice either.  I mean come ON people! There is no way that I really think that replacing the oil in my new car with kitten blood will really help me get 50 mpg!

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I will not attack your doctrines nor your creeds if they accord liberty to me. If they hold thought to be dangerous - if they aver that doubt is a crime, then I attack them one and all, because they enslave the minds of men.

-Robert G. Ingersoll

Well this has gone to the top of my wanted list! I played the first one to death on the playstation,but missed the second as I didnt own a PC then...hope the mouse and keyboard is as easy as the controller was.
Also a random dungeon generator would be icing on the cake - main reason I played the first one mutiple times i’d say.

Christianity is a prison religion. Passed on throug generations just now are people starting to notise. If you dont look at the simularity’s witch are shown right infron of ya well i just say belive in what ever you want to belive and see how deep the rabbit hole really is. Christianity is so powerfully connected throug illuminati. We all worship a cross then “Horus had a cross and jesus died on a cross where does this cross relate too” our astrological cross. They are really smart bastards. The 12 zodiacs the 12 disiples. The 3 wisemen the orion belt. Jesus and the devil are defined as the Morning star. Horus is the sun and the moon. Set is the darkness. This is the same thing as the greec mythology evry god had a planet. We are beeing controlled by misunderstood vibrations. Too be honest christianity isint really spiritual or helthy for the soul. Christians dont seem to understand the higher powers spirituality really brings until they start to understand what it is try meditation and see what it brings. It is time for the bible/idle worshippers to wake up.
The Earth is not owned by us, The Earth owns us as long we are on it becouse we are trying to live on it.
The thing is we are beeing controlled by “Religion, poletics and the media”. Let me explain the media first fashion directory. It means it can controll, how we should look like. how we should act like to be less ridiculed in school, work and public and ect. we see it on tv alot. Comersials telling us what to buy what to look at, what to do on our evry day, what car, house, bank and insurance all this crap we should buy/get. The News: Well we only hear one side of the story evry time so dont be so sure to get evry single truth out of that. What too belive in, i know christians have so meny facility’s helping poor people around the world with a bible you guys are litterally forcing them to belive in it. This is wrong. Spain invaded south america and forced them to convert them to christians. That was a real slaughter, allso in north america 60 million native americans dead too around 80 thousand native indian were left in north america. Who are the real bad guys here? Did we kill all these people for jesus… man if we really did damn he would have mutch to answer for. Why is the vatican in rome the same enemy that put jesus on the cross. Poletics we all know the make some minor fixes here and a few rules there to make our box smaller. Now what are they really up too? figure that one out and ill give you a gum. Search for “Illumunati, David Icke, Alex jones or royal blood lines. If you dont give a crap well we will be screwed over by the idiots in power. bb

The opener did make me play it, so that’s the task done. And I was never extremely keen on the predecessors....

Seems they go for a bit more of the three-dimensional gameplay areas, which is good.

LOL! Tom, I have a dad just like you! He used to be able to convince any kid to taste anything including cement. He once convinced a kid to dig for treasure in a neighbor’s yard and had him ask the neighbor to borrow a shovel so he could do it. He is now 83 and is living proof that the good die young. I survived and your daughter will too. I dare say he is at least partially responsible for the skeptic I have become.

I love this strip!

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Fred Hoyle, English astronomer, mathematician, & popularizer of science (1915 - 2001)

I’m afraid I am a merciless bullshitter. It’s my hobby. I always find that if you say something with enough gravitas then some people will just believe you.

I told my 18 year old daughter that it was possible to cut glass with scissors - but only if you did it under water. She didn’t believe me exactly, but I convinced her to find out by actually doing it. She did try!

On a trip to the south-west in the UK, we were coming out of a restaurant when we saw a huge moon in the sky. When she asked me why it was so big, she completely belived me when I told that it was because we were so much further west.

By the way, she’s now half-way through her PhD. She may be gullible, but she’s not stupid!