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Why Can’t We Just Get Along?
December 14th, 2009Atoms work together to make cells. Cells work together to form organisms. Organisms work together to form societies, and societies work together to make cultures.
Getting cultures to work together seems to be the tricky one.
Tweet1000 Tweets, Nothing To Say
July 2nd, 2009There has been much talk of Twitter heralding the end of blogging, which is a little like saying Lego killed the construction industry. Twitter is blogging, it is just blogging without the thought process, the craftsmanship or the paragraphs. Which is what makes it so great.
But one way in which Twitter is killing blogs is this new form of lazy writing, whereby a blogger just collects the oh-so-witty things they have said on Twitter that week and calls that a blog post. I won’t hyperlink to any of you, but you know who you are.
So, hypocritical bandwagoneer that I am, I thought I would allow myself this indulgence as I hit my 1000th Tweet milestone. A good time for a review my last year and a half of micro-narcissism (March 2008 is when I first succumbed, which was late, but still six months before Stephen Fry). Surely out of 1000 carefully constructed pithy missives there were at least a few 140-character gems.
I can’t believe my first three-word tweet had a spelling mistake …
surcoming to Twitter.
Fri Mar 14 15:33:24 +0000 2008
I’m finding I’ll buy anything the new French President is trying to
sell us as long as he has his wife standing next to him. Tue Apr 01 10:24:00 +0000 2008
Munching marmite on toast. The zinc helps quell my homicidial urges
Wed May 14 11:12:26 +0000 2008
Tweetconjecture: Public Enemy had an entirely white fanbase, all of whom believed the band had an entirely black fanbase.
Mon Jun 09 14:49:43 +0000 2008
Excess, Freedom, Vanity, Sanity >>>
July 27th, 2008
Nemesis The Warlock – Pat Mills / Kevin O’Neill (2000AD Prog 520 – April 1987)
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