April 2009
132 posts
RT @grist Interior dept repeals Bush’s assault on Endangered Species Act, restoring independent review http://is.gd/vcod (via @langdoncook)
Drowning in Leonard Cohen, waiting for new Dylan vinyl to fly through the mail slot and rescue me.
President Announces Members of Science and Technology Advisory Council, incl. Google CEO http://twurl.nl/vnrkvk (via @ObamaNews)
Samuel Beckett: “You’re on earth. There’s no cure for that.”
Too bad… RT Lance Armstrong apparently not coming to the Gila after all: http://tinyurl.com/dhcyq6 (via @jfleck)
Wow! Breaking: Desert Rock coal power plant hits wall…EPA asks for whole new approval process. http://bit.ly/ckddF (via @kunmnews)
Depressing RT @OpenThreads Gallup: 55% of all Americans think interrogation methods were justified : http://tinyurl.com/chsey3
RT Retweet is stupid (Scripting News). http://tr.im/jLAS (via @davewiner)
Bright windy high desert afternoon on the bike (silver Sequoia)…
Reagan on torture & inhuman treatment in 1984 - just another hysteric who wouldn’t keep walking. http://tinyurl.com/cuxob6 (via @dailydish)
Listening to João Gilberto, thinking about Brazil and feeling summer just up ahead.
Macworld interview with the author of the fab Tweetie for iPhone and Tweetie for Mac http://bit.ly/Gla6Y (via @gruber)
On the other hand, some days Twitter is a window on fresh genius, and others it’s all about stupidity amplified by idiotic compression.
I’m now seeing big overlap between info/links on Twitter and my Google Reader feeds. But no one’s moralizing about & sneering at RSS.
Alarming RT Giraffe, impala & warthog populations crash in Kenya’s Masai Mara wildlife reserve. http://bit.ly/KHXZX (via @BBCSciTech)
Honey Nut Cheerios and a chocolate cupcake RT In defense of Twitter http://tinyurl.com/d62jxr (via @kottkedotorg)
Scarborough raises the dead! RT Should FDR have been tried after WWII for the Japanese internment camps? (via @JoeNBC)
Looks like I jumped the gun yesterday on the Santa Fe River spring flow - was only some kind of water dept. line-flushing. Bummer,
That should be @marcambinder in my previous tweet for all you folks hung up on orthographically hegemonic linkage systems.
Why is President Obama So Frakkin’ Popular?: @marcambiner offers his cautious/skeptical take http://bit.ly/BOoVL
Earth Day has jumped the shark — which is probably a good thing for shark conservation and other long-run environmental agendas.
How is it legal for Canadian cities like Toronto and Seattle to have major league baseball teams? (via @gruber)
Being tortured by the US govt is not a big deal; ergo, being professionally disgraced, disbarred, dishonorably discharged, etc is trivial.
Am now as worried about the fragile, demoralized psyches at the CIA as I am about retaining top talent at investment banks.
Santa Fe River spring run has begun - leading edge of flow has reached Camino Alire bridge. Let’s make it a living river year-round!
WWF-Backed Wildlife Protection Bill Clears U.S. House.
http://tinyurl.com/d65suh (via @WWFUS)
Twitter rules: Be considerate & no whispering. @ replies work if discussion is of general interest. Otherwise, DM. (via @sashafrerejones)
Uh oh I’m getting old. Stupid band names and stupid names for blogs are really starting to bug me. Tinted Windows: really? GET OFF MY LAWN!
Obama admin appoints stellar environmentalists to key positions @ Interior Department & beyond http://tinyurl.com/cmqyt9 (via @SantaFeFrank)
Wildlife Conservation magazine’s May/June issue will be its last, as WCS makes cuts and plans for an online future. http://bit.ly/gVWST
Bruce Barcott’s Last Flight of the Scarlet Macaw. Superb! 1 of the best books on wildlife ever. http://tinyurl.com/cz83ga (via @olsentropy)
I’m as MAD AS HELL and I #tcot #teaparty #handshake #conservatives #foxnews #socialism #bailout #nom #astormiscoming #NRA #obamaisamuslim
Including Puget Sound RT Tonight on Frontline: Poisoned Waters. http://tr.im/jkwu (via @davewiner)
Latest Cheney Tape May Contain Evidence Of His Whereabouts - breaking news from the Onion never gets stale http://tinyurl.com/6zxgko
Into The Talent Code, a highly readable new book by @DanielCoyle about the neurolgy of excellence. Look out Malcolm Gladwell it’s on!
The way forward: enthusiastic embrace of AM radio hosts, the newsweekly format, and the chiliastic heresy. http://tinyurl.com/c6m4hs #tcot
http://twitpic.com/3o8ro One of the Damon Winters shots that just won the feature photog Pulitzer, more here http://tinyurl.com/cl3azt
1 of Oregon’s best RT John Daniel reading from his new book “The Far Corner” at Hawthorne store tonight http://bit.ly/bKKdE (via @Powells)
Just joined a twibe. Visit http://twibes.com/Wildlife to join
It’s Nambu vs. Tweetie on my Mac desktop. Tweetie instantly steals the lead if only because the iPhone app is such elegant software.
From the desk of Don Draper RT Zing! A gallery of classic advertising photography from 1962. http://tr.im/jf11 (via @pdnonline)
Just joined a twibe. Visit http://twibes.com/GREEN to join
It’s been a deliriously great run RT
Bob Dylan’s ‘Theme Time Radio Hour’: His time might be up http://tinyurl.com/corgmo (via @DylanTweets)
Hannity. Cheney. Pravda.
Amused by various uberbloggers smacking Twitter & deploying exactly the same rhetoric tar-pit print peeps once used about bloggers.
Can we stop with the “teabagging” now? At this point about as funny and clever as the Joe McCarthy/Limbaugh usage of “Democrat Party.”
Bad donkeys! RT Are Democrats quietly letting Net Neutrality die? Outrageous if true. WebProNews http://tr.im/jeYf (via @jayrosen_nyu)
Super-disturbing but amazing freeze-frame tracking shot of an apocalyptic clown heist-in-progress http://ow.ly/3mNC (via @MichaelCaruso)
Impeach Jay Bybee—and ignore Rahm Emanuel! http://tinyurl.com/d7sn7f (via @joanwalsh)
Concern Troll memo to GOP: Pls focus MORE on Chavez handshake, Saudi bowing, Tea Party economics, e, Michelle angerYOU’RE KILLING US!