I can't tell if I liked Man of Steel so much because it was a great movie or because so much stuff blew up in it so gloriously.

@codinghorror I just skipped a vine mid-vine because I got bored

I never understood this obsession with cutscenes in games. I want to *be* the movie, not watch one.

is it bad that I use my phone to browse the web while cutscenes are playing in a video game I'm "playing"? #ohgod

Did you ever wish there was a store that sold nothing but giant, parody oversize items? http://t.co/Aaurd4SzAl

Bankrupted by Beanie Babies: "it was fun" http://t.co/DUBrguxnGC

Robogut! http://t.co/2Zufed4lqB

Water bottle rocketry stance. http://t.co/9FbT7yqnzY

@ToddPund see my previous tweet

oh, and to absolutely no one's surprise, the guy behind that website was in the movie UHF. On stilts.

"Two-Liter Pop Bottle Rockets may well be the GREATEST PHYSICAL SCIENCE TEACHING TOOL EVER CREATED!!" http://t.co/KE28VjhdGo

@dozba Bobcat Goldthwait

Lavabit and Silent Circle email shutdowns only show that "server-based" security is a sham; crypto must always be end-…

Have you started learning about Ember.js in the past two months? I would love your feedback here: http://t.co/4REsQyoN4x

@codinghorror Your law, my liege :-P.

Just got a snail mail that Burger King delivers now. WTF? http://t.co/YqWjqggUa1

@_gtz_ riot also turned off communication by default. Can't talk to other team.

I love how the MOBA approach to "fixing" negative player behavior is to hide everything: http://t.co/m5YnyMEc6g

Oh so you're saying it is OK for God to spy on us all the time, because he isn't "real"?

Baseball must have seemed like a really exciting sport in the 19th century.

Omniscient God was the original surveillance state.

DEFCON: The Documentary: Jason Scott was the first to be given all access to film the world's largest hacker con   http://t.…

man, Summer of Tears has those endings down pat. http://t.co/LrMUzEeELK

Did you know that the Buster Sword from Final Fantasy is not a practical weapon? Now you do. http://t.co/MuQzISp7OI

Here's a fun Android game for the whole family! https://t.co/9Vpx4zp4B1

"When you have children, you can have exactly one hobby." He left out the 'barely' part http://t.co/lsI77py3oU

"Asm.js is reasonably competitive with native C++ code on ARM" https://t.co/MploRqwoyh

I am unhappy with http://t.co/Gvrfwdz4yo http://t.co/HEC3ClvEb3

"Even I, a lover of newspapers since I was a child, had stopped reading them in print form" http://t.co/KsO3cN8h9a

Yes, it’s come to this (ref http://t.co/82mkx0u4HC) http://t.co/QbeumdXJUy

we regularly pay down our technical debt on @discourse -- it's the only way to keep it at bay http://t.co/A0fGmqOrxg

Hey @jtimberlake, this is how you relaunch an old social network. Bebo puts a little less dick in a box: http://t.co/Oi3DgjuJ…

Our Second Partner: Boing Boing, with history http://t.co/iTH4DSRNQz

Water bottle rocketry! http://t.co/JtJqFP9WiV

"4 to 6 weeks later, we'd get something amazing ... that thing? Disappointment." http://t.co/wiCKiRst16

I belatedly realized that this is how I use Amazon today http://t.co/FwTb6JDq6s

OMG YOU GUYYYSSS pop-tart ice cream sandwich! (via @seesharp) http://t.co/ChdgS6ZObb

I've spent too many hours trying to explain the sunk cost fallacy to stop now

The Ruby Rogues podcast that @samsaffron and I recorded has been posted: http://t.co/h3wjUMB1OR

PR people are so irritating. Even when you reply to a dumb PR blast with relevant info, they don't respond.

The significant objects experiment -- scientifically measuring the value of storytelling http://t.co/CxVpnkuqdC

WE ARE ALL DOOMED, a Play in One Act Father: "You should read 'Animal Farm.'" Son: "Isn't that a Facebook game?" EXEUNT.

New to Amber alerts? The abduction stats are sobering and maybe different than you'd expect: http://t.co/rafpOfZsQQ

"Better usability with AMBER Alerts is a case where 'think of the children' isn't a trite platitude."

http://t.co/7Eknit…

1-star Amazon reviews of books from Time’s list of the 100 best novels from 1923 to the present. http://t.co/hj0TkqcQiS

"But clowns have always had a dark side" I KNEW IT http://t.co/sgCS60hguQ

I mean that in an Opera sense of the word, where Firefox doesn't do much *wrong* per se, but is.. irritatingly quirky

The odd thing about working on a webapp that gleefully deprecates IE8 (and most of IE9) is that Firefox becomes your Problem Child. Weird.

"Any attempt to capture the work on camera confounds viewers ... has the photograph been manipulated digitally?" http://t.co/Z9jNhzVnDR

pretty much the best movie ever http://t.co/7qAKIocUhd

"The complexity of any intimate relationship is proportional to the square of the number of people involved."

I love this email pattern: "hey! let's meet up!" "ok, next week is good, what time?" <permanent radio silence>

How can you be a vegetarian, dude? http://t.co/P1U2l71CRJ

New NERF model delivers, getting rave reviews from community. And me: who knew full auto would be so.. satisfying? http://t.co/1sdaqiCwXw

Check out Discourse's awesome Rails Girls Summer of Code team: http://t.co/zhlpGX0lah - they're doing great work!

It was great to be on the Stack Exchange podcast again, just like old times with great friends: http://t.co/PS3dp8DqmY

you guys, I found out they're making a NERF machete... I'll be in my bunk. http://t.co/xJS4pU6WRh

Related to pop bottle water rockets, these fins are excellent: http://t.co/VnnWy8sEKD parachute is tempting but wind drift is .. really far

I had no idea a 2 liter pop bottle could go 200+ feet in the air, until I tried this thing out today with my son:http://t.co/yEB8YzDq8c

Played DOTA 2 training stages. Checked a noob thread on Giant Bomb: "The first initial 100 hours will be tough." Went back…

Does anyone really doubt that it's only a matter of time before an ARM based MacBook appears?

Not my birthday. Just saying that being alive is pretty awesome compared to the alternatives.

So apparently you're only allowed to celebrate being alive on your birthday. Not just on any old day of the year.

This has been a great year. In all fairness, the preceding 41 were pretty good as well. Here's to being alive and existing, versus.. not!

Waved at a K-9 police officer as he drove past today. He pulled over, chased us down & gave this to our son. Awesome. http://…

Woman makes incredibly mild comment about @morningmoneyben's profile pic, he completely loses his shit: http://t.co/hJm24FaRWu

I <3 my Surface Pro, but man, you can practically watch the battery meter sink in real time as you use it. Needs Haswell (+beyond) so bad

Remember, nothing is impossible! http://t.co/7NLCnkFTzd

This placebo thermostat story is fantastic, who knew? http://t.co/woIhpSNX1p

Finally went from a 3 blade razor to a 5 blade. Turns out it's actually 5 blades plus a trimming blade. Six blades. THE FUTURE IS NOW

I want to staple this to the face of everyone who linked to that godawful sealedabstract article about mobile JS http://t.co/XsabEgWNwu

Why mobile web apps are slow: http://t.co/ZqFQWddDD9 Why that article isn't as great as you think: http://t.co/6qYqFCV06K

Respect the van.

http://t.co/KgJtc3dh7H

@exxodium nah its generally good now

forums: still awesome after all these years http://t.co/xJtNxktFhg

It's amazing how terrible devices released in 2012 are now. I still have iThings with 30 pin connectors and I am embarrassed for them.

we've noticed some consistently strange JavaScript app perf on Android/Chrome latest. Anyone else? http://t.co/AHTzTgsW7j

reminder: "Ideally, your [displays] shouldn't be any brighter than a well-lit book" http://t.co/3HeisIYP2V

via @waxpancake new voxelized, minecrafted EverQuest: http://t.co/vHreyAts1f but have you seen Voxelstein 3D? http://t.co/94PVD88MfE

Ah yes, the Oriental riff. https://t.co/LFB1nnJGMz

Two VERY important Peter Cetera facts: 1) "Glory of Love" hit #1 on this day in 1986. 2) He has the best Twitter handle ever:…

PR Agency Bribing StackOverflow Users to Say Good Things About Samsung: http://t.co/gyrEYOVHbz

People with hair outrage triggers are very tiring. I AM OUTRAGED AT YOUR OUTRAGEOUS LEVEL OF OUTRAGE!

tipping is the original "pay what you want" humble labor bundle!

Design of Everyday Things course at @udacity -- https://t.co/WSk5Z4rsCf a little birdie told me that class discussion might be in Discourse

you know, @discourse is really fun to use. Just like smurfberry crunch is fun to eat. http://t.co/HuakRmXWth

Happy 20th Birthday Second Reality http://t.co/mThvd0HdKQ

The excellent Not Invented Here software company cartoon kickstarting a second volume: http://t.co/woha1c1CXT

I pretty much calibrate my Apple fanboy meter by how much they "like" the iPad mini. Maybe if you're blind. I guess.

side-by-side resolution comparison of iPad Mini, 2012 and 2013 Nexus 7 http://t.co/wnjhWDRdp8

it really freaks me out when someone favorites a tweet of mine from 2009.. or earlier. "900 days ago!"

We want to believe there is a rarity, a hidden nobility, a purity out there somewhere #unicorns

How One Weird Trick Conquered the Internet http://t.co/ChqPeQbt2t via @slate

a 3d printer in every pot! http://t.co/e67T4Jdr1q

@codinghorror SE religion sites by graduation order: Judaism, Christianity, Biblical Hermeneutics(beta), Islam(beta), Atheis…

Tonight @samsaffron and I are doing a Ruby Rogues podcast. Let us know if there's anything you want us to cover.

This is EXACTLY what you think it will be, but click on it anyway: religion subreddits by subscriber count: http://t.co/JCYHEOqLTE

@dozba @getdocker would this work for packaging @discourse ?

the history of wooing men http://t.co/f0BIrjUuTY

Give a toddler some totally mundane object: "What? I've never seen anything like this! My God, THIS IS INCREDIBLE, this changes everything!"