speak-to-tweet
Google, in response to the Internet blockade in Egypt, said Monday that it had created a way to post messages to microblogging service Twitter by making telephone calls.
Google worked with Twitter and freshly acquired SayNow, a startup specializing in social online voice platforms, to make it possible for anyone to “tweet” by leaving a message at any of three telephone numbers.
“Like many people we’ve been glued to the news unfolding in Egypt and thinking of what we could do to help people on the ground,” Google product manager Abdel-Karim Mardini and SayNow co-founder Ujjwal Singh said in a blog post.
“Over the weekend we came up with the idea of a speak-to-tweet service — the ability for anyone to tweet using just a voice connection,” they said.
Aghios Ioannis (Άγιος Ιωάννης, Κρήτη) Crete
Majestic Laundrette
Now you know
The United Kingdom Explained from Colin Grey on Vimeo.
Ask a law librarian
Two guys enter, one small and scrawny, the other tall with huge pants and a hood. The scrawny one is holding a piece of paper with codes relating to criminal cases written on it.
Scrawny: “Yo man, what this here mean?”
Librarian: “UUMV?”
Scrawny: “Yeah.”
Librarian: “Unauthorized use of a motor vehicle.”
Scrawny: “Oh that it? Mean like when ya kinda steal a car?”
Librarian: “Uh, yeah.”
Tall companion: “Did we steal a car?”
Scrawny: “Well, she didn’ say we could use it.”
Eskimo Words for Snow
Herman Melville’s words for beards.
(via the daily dish)
this somehow feels dirty to me
headline of the day
Funeral pyres an option in Colo. mountain town
Werner Herzog and Errol Morris, a conversation
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hakuna matata
This is one of my favorite things about ants — the ant death spiral. Actually, it’s a circular mill, first described in army ants by Schneirla (1944). A circle of army ants, each one following the ant in front, becomes locked into a circular mill. They will continue to circle each other until they all die. How crazy is that? Sometimes they escape, though. Beebe (1921) described a circular mill he witnessed in Guyana. It measured 1200 feet in circumference and had a 2.5 hour circuit time per ant. The mill persisted for two days, “with ever increasing numbers of dead bodies littering the route as exhaustion took its toll, but eventually a few workers straggled from the trail thus breaking the cycle, and the raid marched off into the forest.”
(thanks, Robert)
from the spam
Man if i ever saw two racoons fighting over a blogs itd be this one.
End-of-Weekend Musical Interlude
Best erotic dream ever
Encounter with Patrick McGoohan. Woke up just after we entered his hotel room, but that was all right. It was sweet enough for me.
February elimae
What Cindy said
Having just had our groceries rung up by a weathered, late-fifties, husky-voiced strawberry blonde with heavy eyeliner:
I don’t think Miss Kitty was much of a checker.
“Who divided by zero?”
Quote out of context
That you had parents and a childhood does not of itself qualify you to write a memoir.
Ayoade on Ayoade
“I’m very interested in Catholic writers and increasingly becoming less and less interested in the work of people who have no governing structure to them.”
Possibly my favourite interview I’ve ever done, and one that didn’t start out so well. Richard Ayoade is very reticent to talk about himself, and I don’t think he thought much of my first few questions, so when I asked if he was Welsh since the film was set there, he said no, and I laughed and said “Well that blows my next question,” to which he then replied somewhat dully, “What, ‘what was it like, shooting in Wales?’” and I looked stricken, and said “No, not at all,” as it is the worst question in the world. I then popped my question about Flannery O’Connor and the importance of having a regional point of view, and things were back on track.
Dear clusterflock
Favorite character in fiction?
The Chilly Hand of Coincidence
This image from Lydia reminds me powerfully of the scary 1933 Betty Boop Snow White cartoon I saw on TV in the 1960s and which I shared with Deron just the other night. The wicked stepmother turns a roto-scoped Cab Calloway (Koko the Clown) into a spooky daikon radish, and the ghosts have icicle fingers.
Dogtooth
I can’t more highly recommend this movie. I also don’t want to give it away. It is currently streaming on Netflix. Here is the trailer, and here is the Wikipedia page (spoiler alert), if you want to see or read more about it, but, again, I appreciated the chance just to watch it.
Thanks, Aaron.
from the spam
One thing I like about reading an article like this is there aren’t any spelling or grammatical errors!
from the spam
When someone says ‘wait for it…’ as a comedic device, it’s even funnier to just kick them in the crotch real fast.
