140 characters is just right sometimes

"Every asshole who ever chanted 'Drill baby drill' should have to report to the Gulf coast today for cleanup duty," - Bill Maher.

Supreme court transparency via twitter

A fascinating glimpse into the world of constitutional legal scholarship in particular, and critical thinking in general.

Detroit: City of Just

So it seems that Jorge Just was recently in Detroit. We turn to him for some insight on the city of the future [for the uninitiated, read the twitter posts backwards to put them in chronological order]:

Twitter is Good for Something

OK, so in delving further into the mysteries and absurdities of Twitter, I came across this, which actually is really cool. I only use Twitter to keep up with my brother (we don't phone or email very regularly and when my mom asks if I've heard from him recently, I interpret "heard from" loosely and cite his frequent and cryptic tweets as evidence that he is still out there doing stuff) and to decide where and when I will be getting together with my teenage friends to make drugs.

I like this especially because it doesn't really even involve actualy Twittering, just turning a knob and pressing a button. Fresh pizza would be a good one, too (slices are so much better when they don't have to be reheated). And if they could twitter when the G Train is coming, that would save a lot of people a lot of pain. From adafruit industries via Make:

BakerTweet is a way for busy bakers to tell the world that something hot and fresh has just come out of the oven. It’s as simple as turning the dial and hitting the button. All of the baker’s followers get a Twitter alert to tell them that it’s bun-time. Or bread time. Or whatever.

BakerTweet from BakerTweet on Vimeo.

Twitter Understood

For those of us who have used Twitter on occasion, but aren't quite sure when or why to use it, and CERTAINLY can't explain to anybody else what the point of it is, Dan Kennedy at McSweeny's lets us in on his Groundbreaking Marketing Research:

Twitter seems to be, first and foremost, an online haven where teenagers making drugs can telegraph secret code words to arrange gang fights and orgies. It also functions as a vehicle for teasing peers until they commit suicide. In order to become a "follower" on Twitter, teens first must flash their high-beam headlights at an oncoming motorist on the highway. Then, if that motorist flashes his or her high-beam headlights back in reply, the teen must kill the motorist in order to be initiated into "following" the online gang.

Christopher Walken, is that really you?

I am sure that this will only end in disappointment, but I still like to imagine that its really him.