Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-05-03

• News on failed Times Square bomb still coming in – scary, but glad it was handled without incident! Go go NYPD/NYFD! http://bit.ly/cSeVbo #
• Just closed up on a solid formatted draft for the Social Com paper – is this what every Friday night is going to be like in grad school? #
• IEEE Word Template has extremely useful figure-wrangling tip – put inside text boxes! Saving me from computercide right now. #
• RT @msbernst: Holy cow — Eddi is on ReadWriteWeb now! http://bit.ly/apDDIF /cc @edchi @PARCInc #
• Wow Continental / United Merger in the works? Feel like we're just going to have one uber-airline soon: http://bit.ly/aAPhRA #
• Racing to totally reorganize this paper before the SocialCom deadline (May 1) – go go gadget brain! #
• Work with ASC at @PARCinc! » RT @edchi: Who wants to do a post-doc in my lab? CIFellows: http://bit.ly/b6OxKU #
• RT @etlovett: So apparently it's HP that's buying Palm. http://bit.ly/c6Jahg » Wow, huge news! #
• @resurgens @katrina_ Not from us (I assume), but Tea Party has frighteningly large support according to Gallup poll: http://bit.ly/cm08bS #
• @katrina Well, I think the two are linked: oppression -> more reason to protest & voice viewed as less valid / more dangerous. #
• How would the country react if the Tea Partiers were black (or non-white, in general)? http://bit.ly/b88MAl #
• RT @Techmeme: Siri bought by Apple (/via @scobleizer) http://bit.ly/9azCcr #
• The revolution will be televised…with a time delay for profanity and wardrobe malfunctions. #
• @yardi Haha – I meant like X's PhD advisor was Y – though the other chart would probably be more interesting. #
• @yardi An academic genealogy of advisor/advisee relationships would be pretty interesting though, no? #
• For those of you like me who keep dozens of FFX tabs open for "future reading": Some day soon, the Tabpocalypse will come. #
• Nobody Can Stop FB Because Nobody Understands FB – http://bit.ly/cHzlrH /via @xamat, @mashable » Will they want the old Fafebook back? #
• Why does it matter what the pope has to say about abusive clergy members – shouldn't they be in jail either way? #
• Just finished my page for the class book for my 5 year reunion. On a related note, I now feel tremendously old. #
• Auto-detecting musical notes and generating sheet music (wav > midi): http://bit.ly/a1L0zF #
• @sharoda @EvanMPeck Keynote's worked well for me in the past both for figures and for posters. #
• Just discovered http://www.smbc-comics.com/ – Much of the same nerdy charm as XKCD. #

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