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  1. Ate tofurkey. Not bad, but prefer real veg food to fake meat. Now back to Thanksgiving ritual of heavy-lift writing. 2 chaps rewritten.
  2. RT @PeakePoetics: "Whatever we say / About snowmen, / It is as short-lived / As snowmen themselves." -Issa (trans. Yuasa) #poetry #quotes
  3. Wonder how much the frequency of tweets drops during thanksgiving, christmas etc. Would like a seasonal frequency chart.
  4. @tubelite haven't you tired of the Onion style humor by now? Or maybe I haven't visited it enough lately and it has changed?
  5. HT @amitseshan for http://ow.ly/FFlh
  6. "The World According to the USA" http://ow.ly/FFlh ... best geographic humor I've seen since "The End of the World" http://is.gd/543oy
  7. RT @jshuey RT @chrispirillo He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave.[Carnegie]//S-C-L?
  8. @nimbupani I remember that song. Remember being impressed by the unusual nadaswaram/mridangam opening.
  9. Slideshow "How to Get ReTweeted" with interesting social proof/cascade model, data, graphs by @danzarrella
  10. Sociopath cartoons on Dilbert http://bit.ly/7zWsso ... lemme know if you find any others I can add to trail
  11. RT@GuyKawasaki: How to use Twitter during presentations http://om.ly/cUyr //First systematic take on presentation backchannels I've seen
  12. feedburner behaves curiously... every week or two subscriber count crashes by 30-50% for a few days. Any numerati know why?
  13. RT @harshd: @vgr Here is the data on tweet activity vs # of followers (11.5m accounts). :) http://bit.ly/4h8Y02 //very neat
  14. RT @OneNakedApe: @vgr less than 22? http://bit.ly/dh4Vj //22 is apparently sweet spot in number of tweets per day
  15. RT @olivermarks: New ZD post: 'Is Google the Center of the Universe?' http://bit.ly/3cdP5 link economy needs to feed more people
  16. RT @peepf: Putting the principle to work & upping your human pagerank RT @seanpower How Twitter’s Retweet = Pagerank for Humans http://a ...
  17. Basic question just occurred to me. Does tweeting more gain or lose followers? (+ you are more visible, - you are more noisy). Data?
  18. quick poll: what is better for writing web-based scientific computing apps: Python/SciPy or Ruby? (only 2 options, no 3rd)
  19. Retweeting @courtenaybird: Kindle Opens the Door to Pirated E-Books http://bit.ly/6rM9GF #amazon #tech (RT @jwyarow)
  20. RT @trailmeme: The Hung Jury on Google Wave: 12 key reviews/meta-reviews: http://bit.ly/51tyTm