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  1. @robotwisdom Agreed. Seems more targeted for a return to the world of Samuel Johnson; i.e, pithy, well-timed aphorisms and rejoinders. 7:57 AM Nov 19th from web in reply to robotwisdom
  2. Built-in retweets don't appear in the user_timeline API which is a loss of functionality. I want this changed: http://bit.ly/funcloss 6:06 AM Nov 19th from web
  3. @robotwisdom Not specific to "reign" but it's a rule that intransitive verbs cannot be used in the passive voice. http://bit.ly/29gBua 9:42 AM Nov 18th from web in reply to robotwisdom
  4. "portmanbleu" - that feeling of utter hopelessness one feels when encountering yet another portmanteau on the web. http://bit.ly/wormonaut 6:17 AM Nov 17th from web
  5. Wes Anderson influence by Joe Frank? Same deadpan trenchancy. The Tenenbaums opening could easily be part of a JF monologue. 11:18 AM Nov 13th from web
  6. @thatwhichmatter We are in the Age of the Portmanteau. Too bad, because they almost universally suck and have a half-life of about 24 hours. 6:44 AM Nov 12th from web
  7. Never ran into the need to resort to "amn't" until just now. http://en.wikipedia.org/wik... 8:16 AM Nov 5th from web
  8. Salem is "Witch City" but the events that led to the trials took place in what is now Danvers and the whole point is there were no witches. 6:11 AM Nov 1st from web
  9. "Some Roman families can be traced into the 7th century, in 1 case (emperor Avitus - http://bit.ly/4DrxVv) beyond 700" http://bit.ly/1vHpAF 9:08 AM Oct 30th from web
  10. The rise of environmental monasticism. "Saint Simeon the Pole-Sitter" for the 21st century: http://bit.ly/nocash 5:27 AM Oct 29th from web
  11. Two arcane words that go good together: "wit" and "shod", as in: http://bit.ly/10kWwb 9:49 AM Oct 28th from web
  12. Latest sunrises ever: with Daylight Savings Time extending into Nov., sunrise now even later than during the Solstice. http://bit.ly/sunriz 5:53 PM Oct 26th from web
  13. It's funny how the twitter spam accounts are followed by nothing but other spam accounts. It would make a good algorithm to clean them out. 5:22 AM Oct 23rd from web
  14. Candyland in < 1 minute. Preset the cards: Queen Frostine; Double Purple; Double Purple; Purple. Kids cry, but you're back to football... 8:51 AM Oct 18th from web
  15. 10/14: Manliest day on the calendar: Battle of Hastings, 1066; Eisenhower's birth, 1890; Roosevelt's speech after shooting, 1912. #trivia 6:02 AM Oct 14th from web
  16. @waxpancake Yes. Isn't that the Google Books dilemma? 1:06 PM Oct 12th from web in reply to waxpancake
  17. Little Big Man (1970; Hoffman) and Neighbors (1981;Belushi,Aykroyd) are both based on books by Thomas Berger: http://bit.ly/UKqD6 #trivia 8:50 AM Oct 10th from web
  18. The "Under Construction" image - http://bit.ly/uncns - is going the way of the "No Vacancy" sign - http://bit.ly/novac 5:19 PM Oct 9th from web
  19. @CHRISVOSS Twitter only gives access to the last 2000 tweets (this changes from time to time) 2:45 PM Sep 27th from web in reply to CHRISVOSS
  20. Sunn 0))) in Providence tomorrow night. I wonder if Eno envisioned this when he called ambient music "a tint" http://bit.ly/sunno 3:17 PM Sep 18th from web