Sometimes, Twistr still surprises
Follow Cost has been getting most of my love these
days, but sometimes Twistr comes through for me:
Twistr. Twitter + Flickr = LOLs?
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WaMu: Ouch
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Misses Palin
You know it's bad when the Russians are mocking you.
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MinneDemo is ON! Novemeber 12, Uptown, Minneapolis We rented Intermedia Arts which is a
super-cool venue.
We've got a number of cool presentations lined up, plus we are going to
have kegs of beer this time. So it should be pretty awesome.
Hope you can make it. RSVP here.
MinneDemo is back! And this one might be the best
one ever.
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Michelle Bachman: An Embarrassment to Minnesota Watch as she calls for a McCarthy-style witch-hunt against "anti-American"
Congressleaders -- including Obama. Unbelievable!
This needs to end.
Her opponent El Tinklenberg is within
striking distance to unseat her. There's just two weeks left. Give now -
on
El's site or ActBlue.
Michelle Bachman is an absolute embarrassment to the state of Minnesota.
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Nasruddin and the Philosopher
Once a renowned philosopher and moralist was traveling through Nasruddin's village when he asked him where there was a good place to eat. He suggested a place and the scholar, hungry for conversation, invited Mullah Nasruddin to join him. Much obliged, Mullah Nasruddin accompanied the scholar to a nearby restaurant, where they asked the waiter about the special of the day. "Fish! Fresh Fish!" replied the waiter. "Bring us two," they answered. A few minutes later, the waiter brought out a large platter with two cooked fish on it, one of which was quite a bit smaller than the other. Without hesitating, Mullah Nasruddin took the larger of the fish and put it on his plate. The scholar, giving Mullah Nasruddin a look of intense disbelief, proceeded to tell him that what he did was not only blatantly selfish, but that it violated the principles of almost every known moral, religious, and ethical system. Mullah Nasruddin calmly listened to the philosopher's extempore lecture patiently, and when he had finally exhausted his resources, Mullah Nasruddin said, "Well, Sir, what would you have done?" "I, being a conscientious human, would have taken the smaller fish for myself." "And here you are," Mullah Nasruddin said, and placed the smaller fish on the gentleman's plate.
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Sarah Palin Debate Flow Chart ( Via.)
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Twistr Bike
Sometimes Twistr excels:
Twistr. Twitter + Flickr = LOLs?
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Why I hate "security questions" These questions are usually more insecure than the password itself. For
example, mother's madien name or where you met your spouse? How many
people know that, or could easily find out? Usually there's only three
questions. It's pathetic how easy the anwsers would be to guess or root
out for most people.
Sarah Palin's Yahoo! Mail account was hacked -- by some one who knew
basic facts about her and used Yahoo! "forgot my password" feature to set
a new password.
Details of this week's break-in, if authentic, were consistent with speculation by computer security experts who said Yahoo's "forgot-my-password" service almost certainly was exploited. The mechanism allows customers to retrieve or change their password if they can verify their identity by confirming personal information such as birthdate, zip code and the answer to a "secret question," such as a childhood pet's name or school mascot.
Palin's hacker was challenged to guess where Alaska's governor met her husband, Todd. Palin herself recounted in her speech at the Republican National Convention that the pair began dating two decades ago in high school in Wasilla, a town near Anchorage.
"I found out later though (sic) more research that they met at high school, so I did variations of that, high, high school, eventually hit on 'Wasilla high'," the person wrote.
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Internationale Seriously though, this stuff is really scary.
Three-month
T-bills just hit 0.06% return. Yikes.
LOLz: "Now that the gov't has nationalized Freddie, Fannie & AIG, is it
going to make us sing the 'Internationale' before baseball games?"
So comrades, come rally,
And the last fight let us face.
The Internationale,
Unites the human race.
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Obama on taxes
The Washington Post did
a graphic about the McCain/Obama plans. As you can see, almost all of McCain's
tax cuts go to those mkaing more than $250,000/year. (I don't think this includes
McCain's plan to make employer health care benefits taxable, though.)
John McCain's been saying Barack Obama is going to raise everyone's taxes, and a
lot of people believe it. But it's not true. For almost everyone, Barack Obama's
plan cuts taxes, while John McCain raises them.
I can make a firm pledge: Under my plan no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, notyour capital gains tax. Not any of your taxes.
And my opponent can't make that pledge and here's why. For the first time in American history, John McCain wants to tax your health care benefits.
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Tumblon: Launched! There's still a lot of work to do, but it feels good to have it finally
open for business. Expect to hear more about Tumblon in the future.
The beta for Tumblon has finally launched!
Tumblon is the site for parents with young children that I've been working
on for the last 10 months. If you have kids, you should check it out.
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Twistr: Twitter + Flickr = LOLs? We pull interesting Creative
Commmons Attribution licensed photos from Flickr and slap random Twitter
messages on top of them.
Usually, they are pretty stupid. But sometimes they can be funny, like
this one:
And you can vote on which photos are good or bad, so
the most WIN photos rise to the top.
Eric Chapweske and I have developed Twistr to answer
that age-old question -- can you make LOLcat-type images randomly?
Twistr. Twitter + Flickr = LOLs?
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MinneBar and MinneDemo in the news Casual mixers put
spotlight on local tech talent
Overall the article is pretty positive, but it hightlights how far we have
to go in order to build up our tech ecosystem. MinneBar is a "must attend"
event, but not many companies have come out of it.
Thomas Lee at the Star Tribune wrote an article about MinneBar and
MinneDemo today:
Beer was flowing but no one seemed to be drinking much.
That's what Mike O'Connor remembers from a past MinneDemo event, a quarterly schmooze fest where tech geeks -- programmers, software developers, entrepreneurs -- swap ideas and show off their latest work.
Alcohol consumed is usually a good party metric. But there was more gabbing and less gulping this time.
"I think the magic ingredients [to Minne-Demo are] good people to talk to, interesting things to talk about, and beer," said O'Connor, a veteran entrepreneur and consultant. "The beer is more of a signpost, the clue to how people should interact." That is, informally.
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Niel Shubin bio "Shubin earned a Ph.D. in organismic and evolutionary biology from Harvard
University in 1987. He has also appeared on The Colbert Report on January
14, 2008."
Only on Wikipedia would appearing on the Colbert Report be co-equal with
getting a Ph.D. from Harvard.
This is the whole of Neil
Shubin's biography on Wikipedia:
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