- Ladbrokes taking bets on words Lance Armstrong will use in TV interview. Shortest odds? Sorry. Longest: Team Sky – http://t.co/2dP5vZ5w ->
- Missed this, but HBO did it again: Game of Thrones Most Pirated TV-Show of 2012 – http://t.co/YbNJxb23 ->
- Thoughtful appreciation by Neal Gabler of Richard Ben Cramer – http://t.co/h0sHOq8q ->
- Researchers fail to attract recruits to health study via Facebook ads, so write about that instead – http://t.co/WbCP5ugd ->
- Whoa. RT @davidhornik: Pretty impressive — 10% of Sundance films this year were Kickstarter funded: http://t.co/uOmbIGgR ->
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Twitter Digest: 2013-01-09
By · January 10, 2013 · ·
Twitter Digest: 2013-01-08
By · January 9, 2013 · ·
- The Blessings of Atheism – http://t.co/uxuiwVwk ->
- The big questions: How Load-Carrying Ants Avoid Falling Over – http://t.co/bhRen1EI ->
- A California Drought: Not Enough Children http://t.co/kWZqDFP5 ->
- Nifty: Dashcam footage from 1907 Vancouver: http://t.co/0mPHIITe! /cc @GreatDismal /via @TheJulior ->
Twitter Digest: 2012-12-24
By · December 25, 2012 · ·
- The real Pascal's Wager involves an eleven-year-old and belief in Santa Claus. ->
- "Dropbox is down" is the new "Alderaan is gone". ->
- The 2013 Investing Issue – Businessweek http://t.co/n262354n ->
- Confiscated guns at U.S. airports will hit 1,500 mark before year's end, highest ever – http://t.co/gFlX9IkQ /v @rhh ->
- One legacy of Sandy: Energy utilities spending more on drones – http://t.co/7NCg8Zrm ->
- Technical but great analysis of exoplanet distribution – http://t.co/ZnAEszup ->
- Americans miss $200b in investing gains by mistiming the whole "Get the hell out of stocks forever" thing – http://t.co/t7fcy86M ->
- With 80% unemployment, food shortages and zombified politics, Zimbabweans brace for bleak holidays – http://t.co/kt8D68o6 ->
- This is the most read WSJ story of 2012? Why French Parents Are Superior – http://t.co/beNbv7mf ->
- Sad life of a gold bug: Guns, Johnny Mathis tapes & $7m in gold under floorboards – http://t.co/MnHYkvoE /cc @nouriel ->
Twitter Digest: 2012-12-23
By · December 24, 2012 · ·
- George Lucas loves Disney $s: Every employee (over 2000) got an iPhone & iPad for Christmas – http://t.co/yl2sHgfo ->
- Wanting, liking, and when you want what you don’t like – http://t.co/rvgruu7o ->
- Surfer Greg Long injured in three-wave hold-down as Cortes Bank goes off http://t.co/VOTzHATu ->
- The real drama in daytime soaps? Their struggle to survive – http://t.co/u9lqXesk ->
- Luge track safety, and calculating the vertical velocity to eject sliders from tracks – http://t.co/ZPJXOSov ->
- "It was a good year to sell calls. It was an even better year to sell puts." http://t.co/KpoC3V1o ->
- What, not TV? North Korean Rocket Had Military Purpose, Seoul Says – http://t.co/rAGoxRVM ->
- Charting missed/ delayed doomsday predictions over last 300 years http://t.co/UPmZRbY2 ->
Twitter Digest: 2012-12-22
By · December 23, 2012 · ·
- Sutter Hill, California, meteorite from last April is a scientific gold mine – http://t.co/v27eK17G ->
- New Vancouver bridge opens, and … closes because raining "ice bombs" down on cars – http://t.co/1QqWddAP ->
- Google finds its design voice on iOS http://t.co/ISjxC9Cc ->
- Insider trading ahead of Hyundai-Kia MPG debacle suspected – http://t.co/8F1zfCaY ->
- Shaky foundations: Government computer models, & a multi-part look at Canada's record housing boom – http://t.co/KU11rIGo ->
- The Mad Max Economy, the multibillion-dollar-a-year industries that thrive when things get really bad – http://t.co/a5H0BgQ7 ->
- Among most dangerous phrases in finance: "a new form of lending" ->
- Google working on 'X Phone', X tablet to take on rivals: WSJ – http://t.co/1fdYy70j ->
Twitter Digest: 2012-12-21
By · December 22, 2012 · ·
- I'm a assuming this means @davidfrum is off the NRA Christmas card list – http://t.co/tnEXyuqH ->
- Charlie Brown: What is it you want?
Lucy Van Pelt: Real estate.– A Charlie Brown Christmas -> - The Evolution of Cavities – http://t.co/UVPrnxf5 ->
- Year-old, but … anti-fragile: Book Recommendations from Nassim Taleb http://t.co/o0ws3n58 /v @johnallenpaulos ->
- So, today could have been worse: London Heathrow rail link shut down by fire amid holiday exodus | http://t.co/g1xxAqdL ->
- Economics finds a way: In Brazil's Favelas, a Middle Class Arises – http://t.co/xXJrYZx8 ->
Twitter Digest: 2012-12-20
By · December 21, 2012 · ·
- At my kids' holiday concert. Total sucker for this stuff. If 16-year-old me could see me now, he'd be pissed. ->
- Restaurant dishwashing not up to norovirus task. I did not want to know that – http://t.co/X0SLqmXk ->
- "Snow White rises into the sky. The heroes depart in search of a new principle. Heigh-Ho" – Barthelme ->
- “Anathematization of the world is not an adequate response to the world.” – Donald Bartheleme ->
- One of those evenings when you are reminded that politics is mostly just show business for ugly people. ->
- As a GoPro aside, the company backstory is great, from founding to today – http://t.co/83Cdjw7X ->
Twitter Digest: 2012-12-19
By · December 20, 2012 · ·
- You are lost in a maze of twisty two-factor authentications steps, all alike. Drop wand. Look. You see a wand. ->
- Gorgeous and wonderful from NYT: The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek – The New York Times http://t.co/KEVqs09m /v @kathrynschulz ->
- Bombs away, etc.: Series A crunch will kill 1,000 companies, $1B in angel money http://t.co/3Y6WFnmL ->
- How do I sign onto the system whereby I announce stocks in which I"m short, and it gets picked up as headline news? I want some. ->
Twitter Digest: 2012-12-17
By · December 18, 2012 · ·
- Sad: Not Even (Many) Canadians Are Likely To Get a White Christmas This Year … http://t.co/CGWWamX1 ->
- Like a SNL skit of tepid economic predictions for 2013 – http://t.co/ZNS6om94 ->
- Lest anyone confused, this https://t.co/ho2EjSmc and this https://t.co/p5sukHKn caused by accidentally turning on AM radio today briefly. ->
- Fond of argument that incr mass violence driven by more broken homes. That is, of course, supported by UK data after WW II. Wait, it isn't. ->
Twitter Digest: 2012-12-16
By · December 17, 2012 · ·
- Lionel Messi vs. Soccer History – http://t.co/t7lwheL3 ->
- Appealingly strange book: 10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); : GOTO 10 (Software Studies): – http://t.co/FlYmBuwS ->
- For my sins, off to the third kids' birthday part of the weekend. ->
- BMJ: Cyclists have no fitness- related survival advantage over golfers http://t.co/7fxdiMrw ->