The short-form week of 26 Aug–1 Sep 2013
02 Sep 2013; last modified 17 Sep 2013
The week in review, 140 characters at a time.
This document was created automatically from my archive of my Twitter stream. Due to limitations in the Twitter API and occasional glitches in my archiving system, it may not be 100% complete.
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 05:19pm
I assume booking a trip to HK makes me “more interesting” to some computer illegally
sifting through my communications. [expletive deleted]—@ndw
Monday at 04:24am
Plus: gave myself 45 min to get ready and only took 23. Minus: it’s 4:23am.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Monday at 05:22am
Monday at 08:43pm
I said some stuff about male feminism and the privilege found at the top of Heteronormative
White Dude Mountain: http://terribleminds.com/ramble/2013/08/26/the-face-and-regency-dress-of-male-feminism/—@ChuckWendig
Monday at 09:10pm
Interesting fact: Over 100 billion neutrinos pass unnoticed through your head every
second.—@WorldAndScience
Monday at 09:43pm
Slightly dubious title notwithstanding, this is a very pretty picture of pi: http://www.wired.co.uk/magazine/archive/2013/08/start/spot-a-shape-and-reinvent-maths—@tomcoates
Tuesday at 03:35am
New and amazing illusion - each dot only goes in a straight line. https://t.co/H40E3Gnbai
via Gilad D.—@RichardWiseman
Wednesday at 07:03am
Pro-drone pro-NSA pro-stop-and-frisk MLK-praising prodigies of contradiction, fooling
no one but themselves.—@tejucole
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 11:37am
I've fully embraced Evernote as my backup brain. I *hate* the idea of being this dependent
on a web service, but it's *sooo* helpful.—@RussB
Thursday at 12:12am
Call for abstracts @XMLAmsterdam closed. Awaiting verdict from @JeniT @ndw @robinberjon n @jonathan_robie! Stay tuned!—@grtjn
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 11:02am
America's next president had better believe in restoring liberty http://fplus.me/p/31rm—@nazgul
Thursday at 06:30pm
Friday at 04:11pm
RT @grtjn Call for abstracts @XMLAmsterdam closed. Awaiting verdict from @JeniT @ndw @robinberjon n @jonathan_robie! #fingerscrossed—@RemonSinnema
Sunday at 01:09pm
Star Wars (1977, PG) a group of terrorists enlist the aid of a drug smuggler and a
religious fanatic to bomb the seat of governmental power.—@asimplesean
Sunday at 08:03pm
RT @ldmosquera: Pet peeve: URLs with non-essential params. When about to share one, I remove each
param until it stops working, and share t…—@ndw
Sunday at 08:20pm
An interesting and amusing argument against the existence of God - Hitchens at his
finest #atheismhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nIRJVmZ4K8&feature=youtu.be—@denyreligion
Sunday at 10:40pm
"It's not surveillance because the telco maintains the database, not the .gov; the
.gov just queries the database, see? Totally different"—@thegrugq
In a conversation that started on Sunday at 11:17pm
Golf shop called “The Range” in a mall called “The Domain”. Sadly, consensus is that’s
entirely coincidental.—@ndw