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  1. RT @timoreilly We sold 22,000 ebooks in our #DayAgainstDRM celebration. Not bad, considering how other publishers think they need DRM
  2. RT @nybooks No profession in the US has a higher rate of turnover than teaching. j.mp/zyZmp6
  3. "The problem with fiction, it has to be plausible. That’s not true with non-fiction.” - Tom Wolfe j.mp/wPwZcf
  4. RT @mental_floss You are standing in an open field west of a white house. There is a small mailbox here — goo.gl/IE3Zw
  5. RT @doctorow Round of applause to the 13 million people who stood up -#SOPA #PIPA are tabled 4 now #13millioncheers sopastrike.com/numbers
  6. RT @GreatDismal As a writer I try to avoid cliches like the plague.
  7. RT @ConanOBrien Only 364 more shopping days until Christmas.
  8. RT @AlbertBrooks Working on "It's a Wonderful Tweet" A man is shown how the world would be different if he were never on Twitter.
  9. RT @Ihnatko BREAKING: The Simpsons has been renewed for seasons 24 and 25. It will produce at least 559 episodes.
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  11. RT A great teacher intuitively thinks "How is this child intelligent?" not "How intelligent is this child?" http://su.pr/7cyNcq
  12. RT @timoreilly S&P Cuts U.S. Rating: "This punishment was for political bad behavior." When will adults come to DC? http://bit.ly/rlVZaL
  13. RT @jeffjarvis ABC News does a :60 explainer on the debt "crisis." Oh, live it up, news people, Take 90 seconds. We can afford it.
  14. RT @baratunde For every $1 in lobbyist money they accept, members of congress should have to spend 20mins alone w a human constituent
  15. RT @JPBarlow Over half of the Senate and almost half of the House are millionaires. No wonder they won't tax the rich. They are the rich.
  16. RT @JPBarlow Mankind leapt for the stars. And fell back to Earth.
  17. RT @timoreilly Netflix users ought to turn their ire on movie studios from holding back movies from streaming, not Netflix itself
  18. RT @jpbarlow: "you cannot own free speech."