Given that I block NSA & PRISM tweets, was entertaining tuning into twitter & trying to figure why everyone was on about Lord Snowdon -> Turned on GoT tonight just in time to catch Daenerys reenacting her Level 2 YMCA gymnastics pageant. -> How Not to Be Alone | Jonathan Safran Foer – http://t.co/HMFxg75lfh http://t.co/Dz...

Photo-set: Flooding Across Central Europe – http://t.co/8G6j8teCbd -> CDC Update: Severe Respiratory Illness Associated with Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus – http://t.co/hWqN1338VN -> Col Flagg: Have you ever heard of Malaysian Chest Implosion Torture? Radar: No. Coll Flagg: Good. It hasn?t been invented? yet. -...

FRED: Free Energy Data – http://t.co/90H7GVDazO -> Solipsisms ?r? us, courtesy of my friends at @thinkup: I apparently mention me a lot – http://t.co/9rTRXvBM9D -> Almost 10,000 words on soccer/Italy/economics/racism by @wrightthompson? Yes, & it?s super. Go. http://t.co/g4sgEFLkIC -> When The Beautiful Game Turns Ugly: ...

The new Google Maps is truly Windows-ishly slow loading. I find myself non-clicking map links to avoid the dot-dot wait screen. -> Looking at 1980 pollution levels — admittedly not only reason — a little hard to understand why LA is imhabited http://t.co/3tE20oel8x -> VC1: Founder flaked again. He?s ? like, the Cat Power of...

It?s way late, but always enjoy @davidcowan?s annual list of best/worst TED talks — esp the ones he hated. http://t.co/RCmh1lzjOk -> Delighted that the Kickstarter to create a Nikola Tesla statue in Silicon Valley has succeeded. Congrats, Dorrian! http://t.co/rtnlrg5hKY -> TAL Revisits: #496: When Patents Attack…Part Two! http:/...

Am at "base-ball" game and cast of Les Miserables is taking the field. Is this normal? http://t.co/wG2Uf87kxH http://t.co/5cnwZWpYPq -> Bring back David Tennant: Matt Smith will leave 'Doctor Who' by the end of the year http://t.co/aAjuAxgq2I -> Anyone read? Looks interesting – The Emerald Mile: The Epic Story of the...

wardrobe creep: the simple yet unstoppable process by which your SO's clothes take over your closet http://t.co/yhjIDpunzU -> Just some of the helpful items people are throwing into the $1 Hulu bid. I think we have this one. http://t.co/NfOPApLuvx -> Getting some helpful responses in my $1 Hulu bid. Guy with used Hartford Whaler ticket...

Incredible story: ?Hollywood is turning my Reddit post into a ?lm?: http://t.co/jFXaLKIKRw #FT -> Gorgeous journalism: The 2013 Tasmanian fires, & the new breeds of wildfire that can't be fought – http://t.co/OUeCGAbkJi -> 1816: The Year Without a Summer – http://t.co/7gZga07QgI -> How unusual is this weekend's...

Arcade Fire covers The Guns Of Brixton – http://t.co/bIFqk7nQLp -> In case wonders what happens when a medicated billionaire tweets post-surgery, I give you @elonmusk tonight -> [Video] Estimating the Historical and Future Probabilities of Large Terrorist Events http://t.co/HeXNtdpiLc -> How Wall Street is literally writing Americ...

Exploring the deep mysteries of Gilligan's Island with the offspring http://t.co/vWUfkuORwR -> The astonishing power of swarms – http://t.co/ZgeLnEU8nw -> Money doesn?'?t? buy you happiness – http://t.co/tKWh7ePhTo -> 5 live Sport Special: German Football on Eve of UEFA Final [Audio] http://t.co/RNY1tVJjKo ->

Some appealing features of a parliamentary system | MinnPost http://t.co/4RJSNgEHc3 -> Harassing @TWC about their dumb decision not to carry Premier League Extra Time & NBC LIve Extra next EPL season. -> Wildfires ahead: SoCal vegetation moisture levels in some inland areas are driest in 100 years – http://t.co/bfFGi0KwRC -&#...

?He proposed a centi-million dollar dome over downtown?. Who is, Don Atchison. -> I?ll take ?CRAZY CANADIAN MAYORS? for $1,000, Alex. I?m aces at that category. -> JotD (Job of the Day): Heard by millions of people each week, you?ll get to say, ?This is NPR? each day. https://t.co/VHXJANiaFB -> Poll: Teens migrating to Twitter

Urban Dictionary: Highlingual – The belief that, when high, you can speak two or more languages http://t.co/F9sjt3Y77j -> There hitherto unplumbed relationship between football passing direction and politician orientation http://t.co/14SOuKvnIS -> Oh, ugh: Psychology tops SDSU list of most popular degrees among 2013 graduates – ...

Tableau to start trading tomorrow with symbol ?DATA?. Nice. Love those guys. -> Like services such as Wealthfront, but wish there was an uber-Wealthfront that managed allocations to LendingClub, CircleUp/Angellist, etc. -> Frontline: The Retirement Gamble – http://t.co/ip8xqqyGwC -> Today in ?ewww?: Human feces taint more than hal...

Diana Deutsch?s ?Sometimes Behave So Strangely? is the crack cocaine of looped audio http://t.co/zVDwEOveuh -> Watching Penguins/Senators, and explaining the deep mysteries of Evgeni Malkin to the offspring -> Jay Peak VT claims 350? of snow this season, more than Steamboat CO or Squaw Valley CA – http://t.co/IQvPkykCgY -> New @Me...

The 'IKEA Effect': How people overestimate the value of crap they assemble themselves – http://t.co/6eHfbQK1RF -> Good news for losers everywhere: Players in a winning team run a higher risk of suffering an injury – http://t.co/gDW3dGvQbq -> Tried to explain Bloomberg data story via analogy to Unix, ?finger? & ?.pl...

Vig: You mean them little cubes you put in hot water to make soup? Archie Gates: No, not the little cubes you put in hot water to make soup. -> Chamonix Storm Riding with JP Auclair. Superb. http://t.co/bMtR3ss1zp -> Which NWS Offices Have the Hardest Job Making Forecasts? Monterey and Los Angeles – http://t.co/HsfzKJsPjb ->

Reversals, expletives, & impossible returns: Yes, I beat @corytv in ping pong Thursday at Linkedin. Networks fighting over rematch rights. -> [Audio] Saul Perlmutter on the Ever-Expanding Universe http://t.co/HTA4Onptyf -> Sad news RT @nytimesbusiness: Alan Abelson, Barron?s Columnist and Editor, Dies at 87 http://t.co/lAMNJVb6pV ->...

Amusing how many people thought I meant Renaissance Fair http://t.co/duQ6AZAK2g when asked about Renaissance Weekend https://t.co/Yydg2gv54N -> Anyone ever gone to one of these Renaissance Weekend events? Verdict? -> Missed this, but actually kinda agree: Steve Jobs Would?ve Bought Tesla – http://t.co/u8830s7ELG -> Had to send a ?...

Entire squadron of electricians working here today. Am in awe at their ability to work on live circuits all day long with zero fatalities. -> Unsettling to have fires this size so early in year in SoCal: Springs Fire Grows To 6500 Acres http://t.co/OchA7AGMsw -> Talking to Americans: Belief in biblical end-times is stifling climate

Video of the Thiel/Andreessen debate at Milken this week on whether innovation is dead – http://t.co/OBuqCDEYEt -> Moderated fun panel yesterday at Milken with @dpatil @slavin_fpo @messina2012 & @mckinsey_mgi Thanks all. -> Ducked out of Milken conf yesterday at lunch with @ruffoloj to Sushi Dokoro Ki Ra La in Beverly Hills. Outst...

Panoramic shot north from roof of Beverly Hilton in LA http://t.co/cBNgTm4vjv -> Talking to Americans: One in five Americans believes that Obamacare has already been repealed http://t.co/2Skvn6RsqG -> QotD: ?America must be for entrepreneurs what Canada is for hockey?. (An industry than can provide Don Cherry employment?) -> Ominous: ?[...

If had known Suarez biting & getting 10-game suspension would elicit performance like today?s from LFC, would have suggested biting sooner. -> A "peace map" of Britain: Avoid Lewisham – http://t.co/zZ8hNikn37 -> Paul Krugman ( http://t.co/bAJrf1nPvD) vs Ken Langone (http://t.co/fexotfv8yv ) is noisily amusing -> Super ...

The physics of terror – http://t.co/64gO6IKha5 -> Modeling all of the European professional football: Where the does the Premier League Rank? http://t.co/4QZDrQcE5S -> QotD: "I've told the Tesla service division that their job is never to make a profit" http://t.co/sxfdStWuLr -> Wrt my earlier likelihoods question, th...

Eplaining the arcane mysteries kf Dexys Midnight Runners to the offspring -> Europe's ageing population – graphic of the day http://t.co/hPl9e3Vx1B -> Econo-debate: Is there a shortage of STEM workers in the United States? http://t.co/YG5iI2VU5X -> This Tuesday likely saw the coldest major league baseball game in history R...

Top 20 most well-read cities in U.S. is interesting, but would like to see bottom 20 http://t.co/VEloIcKmFx /v @timoreilly -> Find myself reminding AAPL zealots that co already plays in 4 of 5 largest CE categories http://t.co/07klobrXkA -> Today in Terrorist Special Pleading: Terror plot suspect says Criminal Code 'not a holy book...

Lionel Messi's Tough Night http://t.co/8G7Iw3xaTj -> RT @Squawka: GRAPHIC: Messi heat map vs Bayern. Weak. http://t.co/yVX3FbNbaC -> I thought I was the only one who made up Fake Coachella Bands. Apparently not. http://t.co/YWrYddkiyb -> Awful initial AAPL analysis today: 1) Beat #s that were higher 2 weeks ago, 2) Lower margins, a...

Baseball player 'steals first,' confounding all scorekeeping software http://t.co/YpY0xoeiPK -> Challenging beliefs in sports nutrition: are two 'core principles' proving to be myths ripe for busting? http://t.co/10C2iuOGQ5 -> Beach house Saturday. I'm told people like this sort of thing. http://t.co/ZkSvZReeV0 -...

World Snooker Championships start this weekend, so here's Ronnie O'Sullivan's crazy-fast 147 – http://t.co/cjKr7P28fR -> ?I am a Mentat, You do not withhold information or computation lines from a Mentat.? – Dune (1965) -> We?re at insufferable point in breaking news cycle when journalists pass time by eating thei...

Meant to post this sooner, but huge congrats to my friend @parand on Xpenser being acquired by Coupa. http://t.co/nvfUj3bRVl -> Nicely done new Bloomberg site on technology companies around the world (and outside U.S.) http://t.co/U2eXriPx3a -> Nice! MT @chr1sa: New @3DRobotics site, store, manuals. http://t.co/TYjGldMBrm (obDisc: Investor)...

Applies to all conferences: Why Are International Conferences so Bad, and What Can Be Done about It? – http://t.co/mR9B3jsOiU -> Vaccine development for H7N9 flu problematic – http://t.co/mDEKYu6cXe -> Job Growth vs Economic Growth in California http://t.co/DlegFiXZ4s -> In happier non-tax news, excited about a couple of inv...

Another day, another cloud security breach: Linode hosting service resets all passwords http://t.co/0qJyX8YlQj -> Notes from meetings. http://t.co/WOqIlFwWlt -> Loneliness, anxiousness, and substance use as predictors of Facebook use http://t.co/n9c6upzOVP -> The zoo hypothesis: We are in an extraterrestrial's petting zoo – h...

Cheap Mortgages Are Hiding the Truth About Home Prices – Businessweek http://t.co/kWTobjdOPH -> Amusing that a new currency whose main supposed advantage is its decentralized nature is flailing because it?s too centralized. -> For my many sins, I am on a packed, 3.5 hour Southwest flight. Again. -> Laughing in the Face of Death: A...

Last night?s episode of Game of Thrones was like Mickey and Mallory Knox joining the Society for Creative Anachronism -> 100 mi/h+ wind gusts on Mammoth Mtn last night. Fun. http://t.co/zMNMujX3cc -> Animals, influenza and humans as 8% virus – http://t.co/QHbRxfkBYV -> Truly impressed at how iTunes so regularly finds ways to under...

Wonderful documentary: Rise of Silicon Valley http://t.co/ESFWKnP9sB -> From a Japanese TV gameshow, Lionel Messi vs "RobotKeeper". How could it not be … strange. http://t.co/XCJHC14CVc -> A central puzzle in behavioral finance is why behavioral finance nags won?t shut up about behavioral finance. -> It would be about 20 m...

Breaking the 4th Wall – Movie Supercut – http://t.co/aoWihEyTDV -> Peaking at 25.6 ft, US NE swells were larger during last week?s storm than during Hurricane Sandy http://t.co/SyhdeW8upj -> Luis Suarez will be best player not to win if overlooked for EPL Player of the Year award. Discuss. http://t.co/mGRj461pwZ -> Neither. ...

Martinussen er ikke her akkurat n?. Ringe tilbake senere, takk. -> There is a sub species of highly evolved Wordament players out there. If attacked by 4×4 grids of scrambled letters I know where to turn. -> Some say he knows two facts about ducks, and that both of them are wrong … -> A

Here?s news reporting for you: ?It?s snowing and it sucks here? http://t.co/HW26kUjUd1 /v @briantimoney -> Just when things were getting fun: Oaktree's Marks Warns Pre-Crisis Behavior is Back – http://t.co/GJTEgbCaMj /v @stockjockey -> I have this longstanding grudge against Lange ski boots. Think I need some sort of intervention...

The Mesh of Civilizations and International Email Flows http://t.co/YO6SUTkVnA -> Hold me closer, Tony Danza / A year has passed since I broke my nose – http://t.co/HeLuYGtZf1! -> Thanks. Decent Blockbuster store count graphic here. RT @ssotka: @pkedrosky til 2009: http://t.co/Jt027JZutd -> LazyTwitter: Trying to find a decent gra...

Killer rabbits: Bunnies implicated in the demise of Neanderthals – http://t.co/LhJDoNA28d -> With Scott Weiland "fired" from STP, a handy list of "other disorderly rock ?terminations? http://t.co/otxNtzCDKH -> Nate Silver Gets Hero's Welcome From Sports Nerds – http://t.co/gfipmgY4zz -> National Archives: Se...

It?s not even end of February and multiple brushfires in SoCal today. Perils of a dry winter. -> Serious play: Impact of Nintendo WII Training on Laparoscopic Skills http://t.co/lp9JPM7j3H -> SoCal-specific, so hyperlocal, but good map of trajectory of tonight?s ISS fly-by starting at 7:10pm http://t.co/86akOQwraj -> The upside of Maris...

A Siberian Winter – In Focus-The Atlantic http://t.co/EWBtOFvzWi -> Good summary: Elon Musk at TED2013 – http://t.co/CWq0SLjsCn -> Groupon QotD: ?"We had hundreds of people spending their days copying and pasting data into our customer relationship management system." -> What?s fun about Groupon is how it?s doing a r...

I'm not normally a Seth Godin guy, but ? Real-time news is neither http://t.co/T6rlxyCdGs -> Breathtaking: Dean Potter's "moonwalk" on a highline at Cathedral Peak – http://t.co/qNWd6i1aZJ -> Good @tableau viz: World GDP over time – http://t.co/XYsHtH6bKg -> Brushing and flossing covers problem that we don?...

Tips for Public Speaking. Think Plagues. http://t.co/gwCpGySE8L -> App Show Where Your Town Was 60 Million Years Ago – http://t.co/ELNuDRZFPT -> Wonderful: The Holtermann photos reveal 1872 gold boom Australia – http://t.co/CHATX2W4cz More – http://t.co/ofpGXbUcrW -> Faster, cheaper & smarter: The package wars betw...

Wikipedia is so helpful: List of lost mines in the United States. Get at it. http://t.co/kI3rSYcxaz -> Darn humans: Rescuers save for second time woman (sent by God) searching for Lost Dutchman's gold mine – http://t.co/7dQoZrDIGE -> Mag 4.3 undersea earthquake 62km WSW of Rosarito, Mexico. Felt lt in San DIego. http://t.co/qxzsr...

I can only assume HBO hasn?t read the subsequent GoT books, because, you know, they get much worse. -> First Neilsen tracks streaming TV, and now Billboard tracks YouTube music plays – http://t.co/7DSYaTsx3F -> Sad that I don?t care about Game of Thrones, S3. Liked brilliant S1, but lost it a couple of episodes into

There are two hard things in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors. -> Just finished re-watching Lost Season 4 episode ?The Constant?. Classic. Why did that episode have to stop, ever? -> Wacky story: Houston's Hotel ZaZa's room 322 – http://t.co/amMuESfC -> New species are being disc...

Speaking of movies better than the book they?re based on, fun list of 50 here – http://t.co/aJRrNLpR -> Many movies are better than the book, but how many are as crushingly better as The Godfather? Movie: art; Puzo book: shlock. -> Floyd Landis bringing the heat: Calls pro cycling 'organized crime' http://t.co/tuPLxOuS ->...

Someone else is going to have to read this for me: There's a creepy doll, that always follows you – http://t.co/jLfk4onA -> If only it was a Wikipedia list. RT @felixsalmon: @pkedrosky not half as awesome as http://t.co/6OaqJM40 -> In top ten of Strange Wikipedia Lists: List of sexually active popes – http://t.co/w6D4ufRk -...

Busily exploding old balls while trying to embed 3-axis accelerometers in them? Why yes, I?m working on my son?s science project. -> Taking a weekend off from skiing as experiment. Convincingly proven to me it was an even worse idea than hypothesized. -> finished Light and Shade: Conversations with Jimmy Page by Brad Tolinski http://t.co/7T...