Orphaned Tweets on Slate.com

Two of these “lost tweets” really caught my attention:
Phillyrules it hurts to breathe. should I go to the hospital?
10:09 PM Aug 23rd, 2008

DouglasAllen I am writing an email to the makers of Spray N Wash to thank them for making a product that got the blood stains out of my new PJs and robe.
7:40 PM Aug 27th, 2007

WHA?

So, do you tweet?

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Government unveils world’s fastest computer

WASHINGTON (AP) — Scientists at the Los Alamos government weapons lab have built the world’s fastest computer, capable of sustaining 1,000 trillion operations per second.

The Energy Department and IBM Corp. announced the breakthrough Monday.

The computer will be used to help maintain the nation’s nuclear weapons stockpile.

Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman says the new computer, named Roadrunner, also will be used to help solve global energy problems and “open new windows of knowledge” in basic research.

The Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico and IBM worked for six years to achieve the world record computer speed.

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The second is Power101.com
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via Strange New Products

It’s a Spartan…er…Master Chief?

Oh yeah, the company making this car is Tesla Motors. No relation to the band, Tesla, who JD knows and loves.

**UPDATE** I just had a thought. Think about this – you are driving down the freeway and realize your battery is running low. You stop at a reststop and pull out your bright orange 200 foot extension cable, plug one end into your car and run the other end into the reststop where you unplug the vending machine and plug in your car. Think anyone would stare?

I signed up and tested it out with a gatorade bottle I had on my desk and it works pretty slick. They only have select stores that they search for prices with, so in my case I was told that some grocery store in New York had gatorade for $8 for a 12 pack.

But it’s a free service so I can’t really complain.

After checking out leoburnett.com I found another billboard they did that I really like.

1. Thou shalt not subject defenseless others to cell phone conversations. When people cannot escape the banality of your conversation, such as on the bus, in a cab, on a grounded airplane, or at the dinner table, you should spare them. People around you should have the option of not listening. If they don’t, you shouldn’t be babbling.

2. Thou shalt not set thy ringer to play La Cucaracha every time thy phone rings. Or Beethoven’s Fifth, or the Bee Gees, or any other annoying melody. Is it not enough that phones go off every other second? Now we have to listen to synthesized nonsense?

3. Thou shalt turn thy cell phone off during public performances. I’m not even sure this one needs to be said, but given the repeated violations of this heretofore unwritten law, I felt compelled to include it.

4. Thou shalt not wear more than two wireless devices on thy belt. This hasn’t become a big problem yet. But with plenty of techno-jockeys sporting pagers and phones, Batman-esque utility belts are sure to follow. Let’s nip this one in the bud.

5. Thou shalt not dial while driving. In all seriousness, this madness has to stop. There are enough people in the world who have problems mastering vehicles and phones individually. Put them together and we have a serious health hazard on our hands.

6. Thou shalt not wear thy earpiece when thou art not on thy phone. This is not unlike being on the phone and carrying on another conversation with someone who is physically in your presence. No one knows if you are here or there. Very disturbing.

7. Thou shalt not speak louder on thy cell phone than thou would on any other phone. These things have incredibly sensitive microphones, and it’s gotten to the point where I can tell if someone is calling me from a cell because of the way they are talking, not how it sounds. If your signal cuts out, speaking louder won’t help, unless the person is actually within earshot.

8. Thou shalt not grow too attached to thy cell phone. For obvious reasons, a dependency on constant communication is not healthy. At work, go nuts. At home, give it a rest.

9. Thou shalt not attempt to impress with thy cell phone. Not only is using a cell phone no longer impressive in any way (unless it’s one of those really cool new phones with the space age design), when it is used for that reason, said user can be immediately identified as a neophyte and a poseur.

10. Thou shalt not slam thy cell phone down on a restaurant table just in case it rings. This is not the Old West, and you are not a gunslinger sitting down to a game of poker in the saloon. Could you please be a little less conspicuous? If it rings, you’ll hear it just as well if it’s in your coat pocket or clipped on your belt.

I totally want one of these:

http://www.econsultant.com/i-want-freeware-utilities/index.html?

Apparently I resemble an early 20th century French novelist, the lead singer of Green Day and that girl from Party of Five.