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  • euicho 11:18 pm on 6/25/2009 Permalink | Reply
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    Michael Bay Facts 

    Michael Bay

    Awesome.

    It seems a successor to the ubiquitous Chuck Norris Facts meme has arisen. The target? Action movie director Michael Bay.

    In the wake of the new Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen movie a stream of Michael Bay Facts has been pouring out of twitter, and as with Chuck Norris Facts, most are hysterical.

    Since Michael Bay Facts mock their target rather than revere him (he really is a shitty director, though I loved Transformers: ROTF), and since Michael Bay will never be bad-ass like Chuck Norris, I’m sure this meme will be quite short lived. With that in mind, get them while the getting is good. I see io9 has posted some of their favorites, and I’d like to do the same. (More …)

     
  • euicho 3:31 pm on 6/11/2009 Permalink | Reply
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    Why Facebook Steals Potential Tweeters 

    I had a brief little convo. with my bff John Nels (who’s an excellent musician: johnnels.sad-machine.com) about Twitter and facebook. Rather than summarize I’ll just paste it here:

    Thomas: Its funny, people complain about twitter being pointless, but I have SO MANY people on facebook that update just as if it were twitter, all day long
    John: i know
    Thomas: they’re twittering without twitter basically lol
    John: but the do more on facebook
    Thomas: yeah. its cause they’re already on facebook doing tons of shit; playing games and stuff
    John: right
    Thomas: that was a brilliant move on facebook’s part
    John: why do it on a site that just does updates then?
    Thomas: exactly. They make twitter obsolete for lots of people.

    What do you guys/gals think? Amirite?

     
    • d00d 3:52 am on 6/12/2009 Permalink

      Well I personally think that more people should use brightkite.com

      Like a certain blogger, who shall remain nameless at this time.

    • Catalina 12:54 pm on 6/12/2009 Permalink

      inorite?

    • Euicho 5:43 pm on 6/12/2009 Permalink

      Lol yes yes I should. I’ll start using it more when I travel away from Bangor.

    • Nyrath 9:05 am on 6/14/2009 Permalink

      Well, to me the difference is that one can follow a given person’s tweets without the permission of that person. But you can’t examine somebody’s facebook wall unless they specifically let you.

    • B 9:57 pm on 6/15/2009 Permalink

      really it’s just annoying to manage so many things unless you have a system setup, which is why i am only managing my facebook for my personal updates. I am still using twitter but only for my work stuff since I only need to keep track of my daily activities. And really no one was updating for my twitter friends other than the great euicho and I could read his twitter posts on facebook, so thus I didn’t need it.

    • euicho 1:40 pm on 6/16/2009 Permalink

      Both very true.

      Having a system was crucial for me. I don’t care too much for updating my facebook status, but since twitter does it automatically I set it up. Also, I like brightkite, but wouldn’t want to update that AND twitter each time. Luckily, brightkite updates twitter for me if I use it. And Yahoo Fire Eagle brokers my location info between any services I allow so I can control my privacy levels.

      Without things updating one another it becomes a social networking nightmare/fuster-cluck

  • euicho 11:49 am on 4/25/2008 Permalink | Reply
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    ROFLCON: Lulz From Afar 

    ZOMG TEH HAX0RZ!!!1

    If you’re like me… then you really need some help, dude. But kidding and warped sense of humor aside, if you’re like me then you a) love internet memes, and b) cannot make it to ROFLCON 2008 *ARRGGG*!

    Fear not, dear friends, for you needn’t An Hero nor sit at home alone in the dark all weekend. Instead, you can sit at home alone on the internet, watching live footage and updates and picture from ROFLCON all weekend!!!1SHIFT How fun?

    Sauces include live video from ustream, a flickr pool, twitters, and bright kite. So as not to whore out other’s hard work, go to roflcon.org for the links to these delicious little media morsels.

    I’ll be on most of these services as euicho, on and off over the weekend. If you see me on there, say hi!

     
    • euicho 10:27 pm on 5/3/2008 Permalink

      there were some great panels, go to the roflcon website for recaps!

  • euicho 2:12 am on 11/14/2007 Permalink | Reply
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    Twoosh Spotter: A Greasemonkey Script 


    EDIT (10/6/2009): Twoosh Spotter is now up to v2.0. I’ve fixed it so that the tweets shown after hitting the “more” button get checked for twooshes, and also fixed a bug where “&” was converted to “& a m p ;” and counted as 4 characters instead of 1.

    I recently came across a new portmanteau on Twitter called a “twoosh” (TWitter swOOSH)!

    Coined by rentzsch, A twoosh is a twitter that hits the 140 character limit exactly on the nose. This is just one of those fun little oddities that people like to play with, but unless the poster follows up their twoosh with another post pointing it out, the twoosh goes unnoticed by all but the equally twoosh endeared… and those with OCD.

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  • euicho 5:15 pm on 2/5/2007 Permalink | Reply
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    Knowledge Is Only a Few Clicks Away 

    The internet is truly amazing. Check this out:

    I was on twitter and read the following on the public timeline (a list of all public updates):

    “the song ‘so much’ by spill canvas is amazing”

    I thought to myself, “I wonder what that song sounds like.”
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    • Nyrath the nearly wise 7:49 pm on 2/16/2007 Permalink

      SF author Jerry Pournelle sort of predicted that in the future we would be connected to the equivalent of the Library of Congress.

      He ruefully admits he did NOT predict that people would bitch and moan if Google didn’t cough up the data they wanted in under five seconds.

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