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oh man that 'foods i have eaten' log

jergins, Friday, 5 June 2009 04:37 (fifteen years ago) link

i found that guy through my reader (he's the one who did the funny jello and popcorn animations i posted elsewhere), and i just discovered he follows jon williams' (wizard is hungry) twitter.

small lolworld.

i always figured that would happen sometime, worlds collide, convergence. nevertheless i'm shocked and sort of amazed now that it has.

lxy, Friday, 5 June 2009 15:39 (fifteen years ago) link

http://christopherbaker.net/projects/murmur-study/

lxy, Wednesday, 10 June 2009 15:20 (fifteen years ago) link

tweeter i've been reading re. iran:

@StopAhmadi

pretty interesting to watch the real-time reporting and engagement of twitter users all over the world

it's kind of beautiful

lxy, Monday, 15 June 2009 19:20 (fifteen years ago) link

"Please @Twitter and @ev don't take down twitter, for the iranian ppl #iranelection"

lxy, Monday, 15 June 2009 21:07 (fifteen years ago) link

#nomaintenance hash worked: they've postponed the outage.

lxy, Monday, 15 June 2009 23:17 (fifteen years ago) link

From Twitter Blog:

Down Time Rescheduled
A critical network upgrade must be performed to ensure continued operation of Twitter. In coordination with Twitter, our network host had planned this upgrade for tonight. However, our network partners at NTT America recognize the role Twitter is currently playing as an important communication tool in Iran. Tonight's planned maintenance has been rescheduled to tomorrow between 2-3p PST (1:30a in Iran).

Our partners are taking a huge risk not just for Twitter but also the other services they support worldwide—we commend them for being flexible in what is essentially an inflexible situation. We chose NTT America Enterprise Hosting Services early last year specifically because of their impeccable history of reliability and global perspective. Today's decision and actions continue to prove why NTT America is such a powerful partner for Twitter.

lxy, Monday, 15 June 2009 23:38 (fifteen years ago) link

can't find any of my iranian friends on twitter today. search says they don't exist. :::(((

lxy, Tuesday, 16 June 2009 15:31 (fifteen years ago) link

oh okay i found my main guy through google. wtf twitter don't fuck with me like that.

lxy, Tuesday, 16 June 2009 15:33 (fifteen years ago) link

little lol from naseemfaqihi, girl in dubai who is connected with iran people and twittering lots of info about the goings-on:

In non-Iran news, Paris Hilton just landed in Dubai. Entire city now instantaneously infested with STDs26 minutes ago from UberTwitter

lxy, Tuesday, 16 June 2009 17:26 (fifteen years ago) link

BBC just went green! http://www.bbc.co.uk/ #iranelection #gr881 minute ago from Seesmic Desktop

(green to represent the opposition. don't know what color it normally is but it's kind of fucking awesome huh?)

lxy, Tuesday, 16 June 2009 17:34 (fifteen years ago) link

okay retraction, i guess. apparently the bbc site changes their color all the time.

lxy, Wednesday, 17 June 2009 03:05 (fifteen years ago) link

TEHRAN, Iran (CNN) -- Members of Iran's national soccer team wore green arm and wrist bands Wednesday during their World Cup qualifying match against South Korea.

The team does not normally wear green bands.

Many Iranians are viewing the team's bands as a sign of support for Iranian opposition leader Mir Hossein Moussavi, although that has not been confirmed.

Green is the campaign color of Moussavi and has been widely worn by his supporters who have staged massive rallies in Tehran before and after last week's presidential election.

lxy, Wednesday, 17 June 2009 15:43 (fifteen years ago) link

(presumably the soccer team doesn't change their wrist band colors all the time like bbc changes)

lxy, Wednesday, 17 June 2009 15:44 (fifteen years ago) link

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00574/3-385_574945a.jpg

lxy, Wednesday, 17 June 2009 15:47 (fifteen years ago) link

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8104318.stm

lxy, Wednesday, 17 June 2009 16:03 (fifteen years ago) link

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/17/world/middleeast/17media.html?_r=1

lxy, Wednesday, 17 June 2009 16:58 (fifteen years ago) link

http://tr.im/oOIT
today

lxy, Wednesday, 17 June 2009 17:26 (fifteen years ago) link

TIME Magazine:

It's unknown whether the game was watched by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. But he is known to be a passionate soccer fan who closely follows the fortunes of Iran's national team.

lxy, Wednesday, 17 June 2009 21:12 (fifteen years ago) link

StopAhmadi had abt 5300 followers when i first started reading (saturday); now, wednesday, 11,781.

lxy, Wednesday, 17 June 2009 21:17 (fifteen years ago) link

evidence that state media are shopping rally photos to make them appear larger than they are:

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2458/3635554738_a4b212f45f.jpg?v=0

lxy, Thursday, 18 June 2009 01:45 (fifteen years ago) link

also, some election returns, which even i know are dubious:

Taft, a town in the central province of Yazd, had a turnout of 141%, the site said, quoting an unnamed “political expert”. Kouhrang, in Chahar Mahaal Bakhtiari province, recorded a 132% turnout while Chadegan, in Isfahan province, had 120%.

lxy, Thursday, 18 June 2009 01:47 (fifteen years ago) link

The following is a short text on the situation in Iran by Ali Alizadeh, researcher at the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy, Middlesex University in London.

excerpt

...[twitter, facebook,youtube, etc.] have come to play a significant role in sending the messages and images of the movement to the outside world. However, the creative self-organization of the movement is using a manifold of methods and channels, many of them simple and traditional, depending on their availability: shouting ‘death to dictator’ from rooftops, calling landlines, at the end of one rally chanting the time and place of the next one, and by jeopardizing oneself by physically standing on streets and distributing news to every passing car. The appearance of the movement which is being sold by the media to the western gaze – the cyber-fantasy of the western societies which has already labelled our movement a twitter revolution, seems to have completely missed the reality of those bodies which are shot dead, injured or ready to be endangered by non-virtual bullets.

lxy, Saturday, 20 June 2009 21:21 (fifteen years ago) link

stopahmadi now at 14,253 followers (11,781 on last wednesday)

lxy, Monday, 22 June 2009 17:11 (fifteen years ago) link

i love the world more all the time

http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2009/06/imagery-update-for-tehran.html

lxy, Monday, 22 June 2009 19:59 (fifteen years ago) link

cheesy like you'd expect it to be, but this cnn segment regarding youtube has some good info

lxy, Monday, 22 June 2009 20:13 (fifteen years ago) link

oh dear. the twitter trend spells his name "micheal jackson."

lxy, Thursday, 25 June 2009 22:08 (fifteen years ago) link

17,000+ tweets in about 3 minutes

lxy, Thursday, 25 June 2009 22:08 (fifteen years ago) link

twitter fixed the misspelling i think. that was nice of them.

lxy, Thursday, 25 June 2009 22:14 (fifteen years ago) link

oh shit mj totally knocked #iranelection off the trends

lxy, Thursday, 25 June 2009 23:03 (fifteen years ago) link

http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitpic/photos/large/14320942.jpg?AWSAccessKeyId=0ZRYP5X5F6FSMBCCSE82&Expires=1246118269&Signature=nM9mZN%2BZr6RL0tSHld7pkCeGxGI%3D
From Spokane to Tehran same color sky same color balloon #iranelection

via StopAhmadi

lxy, Saturday, 27 June 2009 15:42 (fifteen years ago) link

http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitpic/photos/large/14298008.jpg?AWSAccessKeyId=0ZRYP5X5F6FSMBCCSE82&Expires=1246118395&Signature=i9gYPYaQ4d7DQ3aJybBknNXDTQc%3D
Paris 26/6/2009 soutien au peuple iranien 06/26/2009 Paris support to the Iranian People #iranelection

lxy, Saturday, 27 June 2009 15:44 (fifteen years ago) link

yay #iranelection making the best of the mj news capture with this video photo montage set to "beat it"

lyrics are perfect.

recommended watching at least through first chorus. don't watch past 0:54 if you don't want to see injured protesters. never gets too terrible though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvOx4avw8WY

lxy, Saturday, 27 June 2009 15:56 (fifteen years ago) link

i like this editorial by the daughter of the azadi monument architect, it's just plain nice.

http://www.iranpresswatch.org/post/4051

lxy, Saturday, 27 June 2009 16:44 (fifteen years ago) link

"hacktivism"

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090627/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_iran_hack_backlash

lxy, Sunday, 28 June 2009 17:26 (fifteen years ago) link

trending topic: TIM HOWARD

guess he's doing a bang-up job and good for him

lxy, Sunday, 28 June 2009 20:06 (fifteen years ago) link

every1's favorite GK w/ tourette's

buttimore (jergins), Sunday, 28 June 2009 20:24 (fifteen years ago) link

whoa, check it:

* BET Awards
* Beyonce
* Ne-Yo
* Mary Mary
* BBD
* Keith Sweat
* Jamie Foxx
* Tiny
* TOYA
* True Blood

lxy, Monday, 29 June 2009 03:41 (fifteen years ago) link

keith sweat straight trendin'

buttimore (jergins), Monday, 29 June 2009 03:43 (fifteen years ago) link

two weeks pass...

http://twitter.com/ApolloPlus40

"Nature News twitters the Apollo 11 moon mission as it happened -- 40 years on"

LOL:

Location The Moon

lxy, Thursday, 16 July 2009 18:27 (fifteen years ago) link

neat:

http://www.mightierthan.com/2009/07/rooftop/

lxy, Monday, 20 July 2009 02:09 (fifteen years ago) link

i kind of hate trending topics now

lxy, Monday, 27 July 2009 21:44 (fifteen years ago) link

wait why

jergins, Monday, 27 July 2009 21:56 (fifteen years ago) link

cuz lots of people tweet trending topics just so they get their names on the list. they don't even say anything, just #trendingtopic1 #trendingtopic2, etc.

also the topics are mostly really dumb, like "poor joe jonas cried on stage cuz camilla broke up wit him"

don't mean to be a twitter snob. i just like it so much better when it's interesting, and not just about boring celebrities.

lxy, Tuesday, 28 July 2009 03:43 (fifteen years ago) link

but you love that jonas brother

jergins, Tuesday, 28 July 2009 03:47 (fifteen years ago) link

oh it was THAT brother? well then never mind.

lxy that #camilla is such a cruel bitch how dare she do that to poor #joe?! 28 seconds ago from web

lxy, Tuesday, 28 July 2009 03:51 (fifteen years ago) link

don't know if this is any better but
http://tweetmeme.com/

jergins, Tuesday, 28 July 2009 04:19 (fifteen years ago) link

COUNT Kid Rock out as a fan of Twitter. "It's gay. If one more person asks me if I have a Twitter, I'm going to tell them, 'Twitter this shit, motherfucker,' " the shaggy-haired rocker tells Rolling Stone. "I don't have anything to say, and what I have to say is not that relevant. Anything that is relevant, I'm going to bottle it up and then squeeze it onto a record somewhere."

jergins, Thursday, 6 August 2009 21:46 (fifteen years ago) link

four weeks pass...

Something is technically wrong.
Thanks for noticing—we're going to fix it up and have things back to normal soon.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3444/3884996632_3e3391873e.jpg

lxy, Thursday, 3 September 2009 17:37 (fifteen years ago) link

twitter. it teaches.

birmania = birmanie = burma

tailandia = thailand

lxy, Thursday, 24 March 2011 16:50 (thirteen years ago) link

(remember in cologne when we kept seeing maitland and you figured out it meant milan? you smart!)

lxy, Thursday, 24 March 2011 16:51 (thirteen years ago) link

nine years pass...

bzzzz.

toadstool might (tehresa), Thursday, 8 October 2020 03:26 (four years ago) link


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