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ok this is weird. I posted twitter messages *other people have responded to* that don't show up in my twitter stream #twitterusocrazy

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dang, I was hoping iPhone v3 would have a dual core CPU. looks like 2x memory, 2x storage, CPU speed++, camera++ http://is.gd/zfAI

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popping the why stack http://bit.ly/4rx0kO

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who can I turn to? you give me something I can hold on to. http://danstheman.com/Jenny.htm

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voting for google doodles by age range http://www.google.com/doodle4google/vote.html

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Shall I walk, or shall I ride? "Ride," Pleasure said. "Walk," Joy replied.

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rt @anildash People who are willfully ignorant of pop culture = those who refuse to the learn the culture of foreign countries they visit.

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ok last #plantsvszombies I swear. This is the best "last stand" money machine layout http://twitpic.com/4z1sb

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really not a fan of these ONE BIG ASS GIANT FONT AD adsense banner ads google is allowing people to run now. Fugly. http://is.gd/yQ0o

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team fortress 2 scout does the Slap Chop http://bit.ly/zfJaD

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good money making layout for #plantsvszombies -- for "last stand" minigame http://img17.imageshack.us/img17/1346/plantsvszombieslaststan.jpg

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The official sequel to "d**k in a box". Really! http://bit.ly/mZvVY

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just taught grandma about emoticons on skype. old people are so adorable! =8D

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"WHAT!? I thought that Macs never crashed?" -- "They do crash, but in a more sophisticated manner."

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ahh, so if you run the #plantsvszombies Zen Garden in windowed mode, you make money in backbround! sweeeet.. mo money, mo money, mo money..

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plants vs. zombies is great, but digger zombies are some seeeerious bullshit. I'm just sayin'.

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getting kind of sick of hearing about how great Windows 7 is. get a room, you freaks. VISTA 4 LYFE

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why is every wikipedia talk page completely unintelligible to me? It is seriously bad, bad UI.

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change: I fear and hate it

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drummers: so lame, they can be replaced by tractors http://bit.ly/o8UlP

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are you truly alive, or are you really playing an extremely elaborate version of Roller Coaster Tycoon? There's no way to tell. Fun!

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based on some of the emails I get there is a surprisingly fine line between "enthusiastic" and "sort of crazy"

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Steve Ballmer is a total goofball, but I have to admit I get a kick out of him http://bit.ly/D1JMP

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is this advice about "writing scripts to a page" still true? strikes me as.. very odd. http://jennifermadden.com/javascript/writeMethod.html

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"The 3 most dangerous things in the world: programmer with a soldering iron, hardware guy with a software patch, user with an idea."

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For my money, there is nothing more intimidating than Val Kilmer's signature tooth snap move in Top Gun. (bite)

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having to educate @jarrod_dixon on the finer points of Top Gun song lyrics. It's HIGHWAY to the danger zone, mav. http://is.gd/kItT

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hilarious "speed run" of Family Feud on the SNES. SURVEY.. SAYS..! http://bit.ly/Hps9C

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Guitar Hero: Van Halen confirmed. Jamie cries. http://bit.ly/DzE3o

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so @spolsky is putting secret audio at the end of our podcasts that I thought was off-mic. Oh, I see, you want prison rules podcasting..

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this dragonforce parody video slays me every time http://bit.ly/ri9td

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yet again using stack oveflow answers to help us build stack overflow.. regex selectors in jquery: http://is.gd/xqEN

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ok maybe that answer was not *technically* correct, but its truthiness cannot be denied.

Jeff Atwood
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when programming job interviewer asks, "How many golf balls can fit in a school bus?" the correct answer is always "f**k you."

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whoever greenlit all these "I cured my yellow teeth" hotmail ads needs to be defenestrated. It's like reading a damn medical manual .. email

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rt @daveman692 Weave screencast showing Weave / OpenID integration to log in to StackOverflow http://bit.ly/mDoVl

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rt @kevindente "Reading on Screen IS The Future of Reading" http://is.gd/xo0t

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because cute overload is old and busted: http://uglyoverload.blogspot.com/

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my approach to site moderation? there is no crying in stackoverflow!! yt for @bluej100 http://bit.ly/5d49e

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ladyada is badass http://www.ladyada.net/make/tweetawatt/

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mcsweeneys explains Twitter http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2009/3/31kennedy.html

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what kids learn in college http://bit.ly/Wt5SS

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having a kid is like signing up for a front row seat to human evolution. and let me tell you, MAN we start out lame.

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maximo, the swishiest Mexican wrestler ever (see "fainting" at ~2m in) http://bit.ly/tb6Lb

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I demand that you click on this picture of @rockhardawesome . CLICK IT NOW http://img5.imageshack.us/img5/641/rockhardawesomesitsup.jpg

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all you need to know about the new Kindle in one picture http://bit.ly/1amhKY

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rt @timalmond [37Signals is] just keeping their passwords real.. real INSECURE

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37signals stores user passwords as PLAIN TEXT? wtf? http://bit.ly/thWXo

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You tell them to "salt your passwords to prevent dictionary attacks" and all they hear is "blah blah passwords blah blah blah blah". LOL

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I have had it with these monkey-fighting zombies on my monday-to-friday lawn! http://is.gd/tunZ

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we refer to remote desktop-ing into our production servers as "hanselman" now. "hey, looks like an issue, you better hanselman into prod"

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trivia: @superdalgas gave me my only virus, ever, back in the day.. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy99 thanks man!!1!

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really getting sick of IIS locks on sitemap.xml (10 mb XML file, presumably being modem-served) causing our builds to fail. grrrr.

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nifty chalkboard animation http://vimeo.com/4347460

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trac supports OpenID? WIN!

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Tales of the Black Dilbert http://blackdilbert.blogspot.com/

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rt @ottoradke "google apps limits you to 500 unique emails per day" behold the immense power of rate limits http://is.gd/kVvl

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someone just correctly pointed out this is the third time someone has gained access to my so.com credentials. (third is undisclosed) :'(

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suck. gmail hosted has decided that I'm a spammer because I am sending out so many serverfault.com email beta access grant emails.

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any sysadmin types who would like access to serverfault.com beta, please email team@stackoverflow.com with your OpenID URL

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oh "elite hackers", lol. takes me back to my 300-baud BBS days. Hacker News YOU SO CRAZY

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"I'd prefer if we saw many fewer codinghorror articles here.. I believe the interests of his fans and elite hackers are mutually exclusive."

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I just saw this "there's a 1 in 2 chance" episode of the Daily Show. The guy is a *teacher*! http://is.gd/wzL2

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ah, so in the The Beatles: Rock Band, the game supports the two guitarists singing together, as suspected.. http://is.gd/tJ9k

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"like Gravitar meets H.E.R.O. meets Fort Apocalypse meets Scorched Earth + a ton of fluid dynamics" http://is.gd/vihu

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NewTek Video Toaster http://tinyurl.com/dfcurm

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just "paid" someone who found series of subtle security holes in Stack Overflow with full Rock Band 2 Wii setup.. best money I ever spent

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Cirque de Soleil meets Hee-Haw in 1944 http://tinyurl.com/43zflf

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cuts like a 2000-watt ytterbium fiber laser through butter~! http://is.gd/wki0

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now that I think about it, everything should be chocolate coated, up to and possibly including chocolate.

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Do not anger the Scalia http://tinyurl.com/crbzjg

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meet Maru the cat http://tinyurl.com/7vtenx

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I just created a new anti-spam form data encryption scheme so lame it makes a Caesar Cipher look like Blowfish http://is.gd/1qvv

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just realized that I am bopping along to a 12" remix of Never Gonna Give You Up in my playlist. Related: what has happened to my life?

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rt @betsyphd The death rate for cancer, adjusted for size and age of population, dropped only 5% from 1950-2005. http://tinyurl.com/csaja4

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baby, cats, wife, there are officially too many things that require love and attention in this house now. 1 has to go. Sorry @betsyphd

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Joel Spolsky's recent talk about Stack Overflow at Google http://tinyurl.com/cwxoc7

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Stackenblochen http://tinyurl.com/5cznrm

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the weird thing about internet scale: you can sort of optimize for people who read your mind.. say stuff, then find the people who "get it"

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@johnmcc stop kicking PHP while it's taking over the world, damn you! http://is.gd/w4fq

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wow, date math sucks. I want a metric calendar, damn it.

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I don't mean to brag, I don't mean to boast, but I've got 67,450 Xbox Live points coast to coast

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"my pary are with the father who lost his bacon" http://tinyurl.com/csd6tf

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SELL THE KIDS FOR FOOD! specifically, this kid! http://tinyurl.com/cldm3g

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"I may have invented it, but Bill made it famous" http://tinyurl.com/2b3mbr

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@dominicchamon it's mostly because adsense kinda sucks; there are some hilariously bad keyword matches. I try to ban URLs, but... can't fix.

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I turned off adblock so I could work on our own ads (much hilarity ensues when you don't) and surprisingly flashblock gets most of 'em

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new meme alert: Play Him Off, Keyboard Cat http://tinyurl.com/c8lwlg

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being alive: it beats the alternatives

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meetings are like f***in' productivity kryptonite

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it is really satisfying to get upvotes on a quality post you spent time constructing, I must say..

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my team@serverfault.com mailbox is full of emails that really should be titled "HELLO I CANNOT FOLLOW BASIC INSTRUCTIONS!!111@!"

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Kazookeylele - Ukulele - The final countdown http://tinyurl.com/45k8xw

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"how to get other programmers to answer your blatant homework question" Pro-Tip(tm): use a female name when posting.

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Oh, the Conan Memories http://tinyurl.com/6bpo4z

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the whole "racy slides in ruby preso" controversy is so useless I literally feel dumber having been exposed to it http://is.gd/vFh1

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real life twitter is pretty funny http://is.gd/vmGI

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you know what I think Ruby presentations need more of? Hardcore pornography. For that matter, *all* presentations do.