While on vacation in St. Bart’s himself, Murdoch tweeted, “Maybe Brits have too many holidays for broke country!”
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While on vacation in St. Bart’s himself, Murdoch tweeted, “Maybe Brits have too many holidays for broke country!”
His own wife, who began tweeting as @Wendi_Deng, was among the first to react, replying, “RUPERT!! Delete tweet!!” He did.
“While on vacation in St. Bart’s himself, Murdoch tweeted, “Maybe Brits have too many holidays for broke country!” His own wife, who began tweeting as @Wendi_Deng, was among the first to react, replying, “RUPERT!! Delete tweet!!” He did.” — Rupert Murdoch on Twitter: tweets from @rupertmurdoch
Incredible Things That Happen Every 60 Seconds On The Internet -
As we were patching some code this morning to fix an error caused by various web bots’ brutally efficient polling of thingsthatnolongerexist, my friend Jonathan happened to share this cool pair of infrographics that illustrate just how noisy the internet is becoming:
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April Ludgate slaying the Black Eyed Peas.
I’ve been doing more coding on OS X lately, and have been happily reunited by my old friend TextMate, which has been my personal heir to BBEdit, which I used to love but is way too long in the tooth now.
How happy was I to find out that after several years, they’re finally working on a major version update! It still looks a little ways off, but I’m glad to see movement here. In the meantime, I still heartily recommend the current version.
($49, 30-day demo avail)
Devastating Explosions, at the Touch of a Button -
This is why the internet exists.
(Yes, it’s a promoton for Old Spice, but it’s a good one)
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Earlier this week, 30 Rock star Alec Baldwin was kicked off of a flight for refusing to stop playing the Scrabble-like “Words With Friends” on his cell phone while his delayed plane sat at the gate. Now, both American Airlines and Alec Baldwin have taken to the Internet to post their versions of the incident.
On this day in 1933, America ended its silly dalliance with temperance, rolling back Prohibition with the 21st Amendment.
Also, I just spoiled the end of Boardwalk Empire for you.