April 2009
132 posts
Does it make me a bad person that a tweet like “Tomorrow promises to be interesting and fun ” fills me with homicidal loathing?
Annals of great-poet dickishness: T.S. Eliot rejected “Animal Farm” for publication at Faber and Faber. http://tinyurl.com/d3w22a
I’m amazed how vividly these retro cereal boxes bring me back to being a kid in Redwood City. http://twitpic.com/2n5fuly
March 2009
102 posts
Just downloaded the Skype app to me trusty iPod Touch, getting a VOIP rush.
RT overheard: “God can see past all that marketing crap” (via @AcmePhoto)
RT Bingaman, Udall, Navajo Nation Pres. Shirley Witness Obama’s Signing of Public Lands Act. http://tinyurl.com/c9a6j6 (via @barbwire55)
Yes! Two million acres of new wilderness in 9 states, plus a lot more: Obama signs Public Lands Act. http://tinyurl.com/dfhfek
First sentence of a Cool Tools review I never finished reading: “I’ve worn fanny packs for over 20 years…” http://tinyurl.com/cod89s
While we read by candelight in Santa Fe: Earth Hour Before and After Images http://ecoworldly.com/?p=2627
The horror: RT Dan Froomkin @ W Post on his paper’s latest torture revelations & much more. http://tinyurl.com/cu29ct (via @GregMitch)
Obama paranoia & “conservatism as an alienated cultural sensibility” in hysterical grief mode. http://tinyurl.com/d46kxj (via @OpenThreads)
Some great news in primate conservation: a previously unknown population of orangutans on Borneo. http://snurl.com/euyav (via @jcolman)
RT Sign of the times for the newspaper & book biz: Today’s NYT Book Review has exactly ONE page of paid advertising. (via @GregMitch)
Just added myself to the http://wefollow.com twitter directory under: #environment #writer #media
Fascinating comment war (192 +) raging @ NYT over Nicky Dawidoff’s profile of climate “skeptic” Freeman Dyson http://tinyurl.com/c7dsvr
I’m ranked 45,207 out of 1,814,303! “@HalSF got a grade of 97.4/100 on @grader.” http://twitter.grader.com/HalSF
RT Student this morning raved about the endangered species she has eaten were so delicious. China, you’re doing it wrong. (via @stinson)
RT @foxyscot28: @earthhour Im in ireland and our street is fully in the dark great sight and no glow over the hills (via @LighterFootstep)
I’m cheating on @delicious with @instapaper.
On Real Time with Bill Maher, Mos Def on Obama’s marijuana answer: “That’s what happen when you the black man with the job.”
RT David Simon [creator of The Wire] on newspapers vs. corruption http://tinyurl.com/dkev6q (via @Virgotex)
This week’s Vocabulary Hate Tweet: “methinks,” “encapsulate,” “sustainable,” “teleprompter,” “homeland.” “privilege [verb].”
New shark/blue Vasque Blur trail runners arrived - probably my 5th pair. That’s just how I roll.
Noisy ad hominen lizard-brain Obama-trashing from formerly silent enablers of W. is a dead end. Use your prefrontal cortex people! #tcot
Paper scissors rock: New York Times cuts employee salaries by five percent. http://tinyurl.com/ch5p4n
Hey New Mexico: There’s a storm coming. http://tinyurl.com/d6d3g3
RT @mikemadden The president of the United States thinks youre a stoner: http://tr.im/hQkB
Pot kettle black: Twitter hater Andrew Sullivan (@dailydish) slags the Tweetscape in a 101-character blog post. http://tinyurl.com/deqys4
RT Lands bill on its way to the President, imp. pieces for NM include Ute & Navajo Pipelines and Sabinoso Wilderness (via @repbenraylujan)
Wild Earth Guardians sues Fish & Wildlife to secure endangered status for the SW’s Gunnison’s prairie dog. http://tinyurl.com/c2q383
DOH! RT Why is it breaking news that people in one party want the policies of the leader of the other party to fail? (via @PatrickRuffini)
Bob Dylan Quotes for iPhone/iTouch: New $.99 app generates random quotes http://tinyurl.com/d74xs2 (via @DylanTweets)
I never get over the irony of Rush Limbaugh using the Pretenders’ “My City Was Gone” as his radio theme. http://tinyurl.com/ccwrt6
The Great Conservative Divorce of ‘08-‘09 has a new most-bitter ex-spouse rant winner over at Balloon Juice http://tinyurl.com/dk8e78
Alaska’s Mt. Redoubt, in angry rebuttal to Bobby Jindal, spews ash 50,000 ft. & disrupts air traffic. http://tinyurl.com/c7eh5f
To my followers: What kind of camera, laptop, pen, phone, & watch should I buy? Also need dry-cleaning picked up. #crowdsourceslaves
Why half-cocked blogger Andrew Sullivan is essential reading: http://tinyurl.com/dbs6hr (p.s. Andrew STOP using the adjective “bloggy”!)
“let fury have the hour/anger can be power/d’you know how you can use it?” Glenn Greenwald, pro-rage: http://tinyurl.com/cannzg
The future of journalism as an open-source, collective “mystery solving exercise” http://tinyurl.com/dl8ufj (via @jayrosen_nyu)
HOLY FRAK! #BSG
Washington Post publishes Chris Mooney’s answer to George Will’s climate columns: http://tinyurl.com/crkzyo (via @jfleck)
RT 12 plotholes that must be filled in the #BSG finale: http://bit.ly/lVoP (via @Veronica)
New Neil Young video “Cough Up the Bucks” (“where did all the cash go?/where did all the money go?”) http://tinyurl.com/cpmc3s
Welcome Tom C. to Twitter — @tcurwen that is, a great journalist & kickass writer for the LA Times… #followfriday
RT Just deactivated my Facebook account. I suddenly feel 25 things lighter. (via @hodgman)
Stop the Aerial Killing of Wolves by Gov Sarah Palin’s administration. http://tinyurl.com/d3kmo8 (via @actionalerts)
2009 State of the Birds report: a microcosm of the biodiversity crisis (commissioned by Bush in ‘07) http://www.stateofthebirds.org/
RT I had the #bsg finale spoiled for me by an unnamed moron, but I will tell you that it sounds AWESOME. (via @jstrevino)
Jonathan Weber of the innovative regional new aggregator NewWest.net tackles the journalism revenue connundrum. http://tinyurl.com/cur54c
“Big-name, big-brained futurists don’t know how to solve the newspaper cirisis.” http://tinyurl.com/cfh8u8