i believe i can fly

Anthony Gardiner of Wellington, New Zealand bought an engagement ring for his girlfriend, but she turned him down. He can’t return the ring and doesn’t want to keep it as he considers it bad luck, so he’s staging a treasure hunt!

Anyone keen to pick up the ring, valued at NZ$5,000 ($3,268), will need to be in New Zealand’s capital city, Wellington, on Saturday to join the hunt, the Dominion Post newspaper reported.

Clues to the ring’s whereabouts will start being posted on social networking site Twitter (http:/twitter.com/donoogle_com) at 8 a.m. local time on Saturday (2000 GMT on Friday).

oh man that 'foods i have eaten' log

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.

http://blogs.harvardbusiness.org/cs/2009/06/new_twitter_research_men_follo.html

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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?)

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

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.

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

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

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

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

http://tr.im/oOIT
today

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.

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

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

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%.

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.

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

i love the world more all the time

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

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

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

17,000+ tweets in about 3 minutes

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

oh shit mj totally knocked #iranelection off the trends

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

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

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

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

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

"hacktivism"

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

trending topic: TIM HOWARD

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

every1's favorite GK w/ tourette's

whoa, check it:

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

keith sweat straight trendin'

http://twitter.com/ApolloPlus40

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

LOL:

Location The Moon

neat:

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

i kind of hate trending topics now

wait why

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.

but you love that jonas brother

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

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

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."

haaa:

Libyan4life Jeel Ghathub
by ShababLibya
There is a hair in my pasta #ItsAlQaeda !!

twitter. it teaches.

birmania = birmanie = burma

tailandia = thailand

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

bzzzz.