Updates for the week of 2010-06-06

  • RT @ebertchicago The Right says government failed in the BP case. Why is it against more federal regulation of corporate practices? #
  • Agh! All these interesting Twitter following notifications on my phone, and no wifi to properly look at them. #ludditesarehospitable #
  • Phone dying. Wifi-less hell. Will reply to folks soon… I hope. #myheartdieswhenthebatterygoes #
  • Don't Blink. Blink and you're dead. http://flic.kr/p/86daaD #
  • Yester-RT @colleenlindsay Lovely post-BEA, post-Backspace tweet-up w/ @DaphneUn, @Doycet, @DianaFox, @MichelleHodkin, and @Literaticat. #
  • RT @ebertchicago Today: Del Toro is off "The Hobbit." Last week: Del Toro announced he wouldn't film it in 3D. #
  • Police dog FTW (http://j.mp/bVYY5w) – Awesome. #
  • BP's new logo – Holy Kaw! (http://j.mp/9TNkZZ) – Yup. #
  • Roleplaying to Power Your Exercise Routine (http://j.mp/bRHVaj) – Very cool. #
  • Ever Wonder What a Gelatinous Cube Sounds Like? (http://j.mp/dye8VT) – That's … okay, I can go with that. #
  • RT @MichelleHodkin: @inkyelbows FEED is so, so amazing. @SeananMcGuire is a genius #
  • RT @ebertchicago: "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it without a sense of ironic futility." – Errol Morris #
  • Crowdsourcing our holiday: RT @DaphneUn: Hey Twitter! Plan my and @doycet's last full day in NYC! What should we do/see/eat? #
  • Have been led into an Apple store by @DaphneUn. If you don't gear from us soon, send open source rescue dogs. #
  • RT @doctorow: RT @mathowie: Happy Quit Facebook Day! (I celebrated a few weeks early.) #
  • Writers, discuss: nerdity that cld be built into ebooks (links, bckgrnd info, rifftrax – as effective released free via web. Y/n? #
  • My drift: the stuff we can/could do with the ebook media is already our best website content. Maybe? Is the web why ebooks aren't robust? #
  • Related: I *LOVE* walking around the west village, gesticulating wildly and talking book stuff with @DaphneUn. #lucky #
  • "I think we should walk over to Forbidden Planet." #thingsyoucanonlyhopeyourgirlwillsay #mywifeisawesome #
  • Dinner w/ @DaphneUn @gooddirt and Jim-I-dont-know-twitter-name, talking books and everything else. Reccing FEED again. (Blog post soon.) #
  • Rumor has it that, last night, I agreed to run a 10k in Death Valley, come January. In related news, the restaurant had excellent martinis. #
  • Goodbye, NYC. You're still my very favorite. #
  • RT @Judd_of_Kryos: Legends of the Mouse Guard preview: http://bit.ly/cFQk4S — Ooohhoohhh. #
  • A sound rule (http://j.mp/99NaA5) – I took exactly this picture two days ago. #
  • Adrift: Voice in the Speaker says it’s “deduced the arrangement you made with the outer subsystems” and would like… http://bit.ly/bTYRp3 #
  • Its June. You need a book to read. I have a suggestion: @SeananMcGuire's (@MiraGrant's) FEED – http://bit.ly/dhNlIb #
  • It's June. You need a book to read. I have a suggestion: @SeananMcGuire's (@MiraGrant's) FEED – http://bit.ly/dhNlIb #
  • RT @GerryDuggan Um, I don't want to cause a panic but BP's chairman just put his baby son into a rocket and blasted him into outer space. #
  • Yeah, @daphneun just pantsed me in the hallways. #totallygrownups #
  • Yeah, @daphneun just pantsed me in the hallway. #totallygrownups #
  • Anyone use Web Of Trust? I'm working to get WOT to like my site again, after THE INCIDENT. Any WOT feedback-love would be great. #
  • The pictures BP doesn’t want you to see. (http://j.mp/bZlKcp) – It makes me want to weep. #
  • Photo Series of the Day: “Caught in the oil” (http://j.mp/ciJjDA) – Via @chuckwendig and Terribleminds. #
  • Huh. LotRO goes F2P. (Nothing really changing for people with subs or lifers.) http://is.gd/cCDXL #
  • People, Read it: http://is.gd/cCF9q – We Just Tore Up Our Contract with Mother Nature #
  • Also, @cmpriest's article: Oil – http://is.gd/cCFbr #
  • Visualize the size of the Gulf Oil Disaster, if it occured where you live. http://is.gd/cCFr7 #
  • And, finally, the Tetris analogy. http://is.gd/cCFP3 #
  • Plan for a quiet afternoon writing became 'afternoon listening to a window estimate guy'. WhhhOOOpie. #dammit #
  • Adrift: A glance at Jon and Deirdre says we agree. I tell the VITS no thanks. The Voice says that’s “unfortunate” … http://bit.ly/d6be1J #
  • Jebus, window guy, quite doing the carnival show and spit out the estimate. #
  • RT @DaphneUn: So you know how @doycet has been raving about FEED by @miragrant? Yeah, it's that good. Go. Run. Buy It. Read It. #