Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-07-19

• At Inception with @sunshineamonra. Attempt 2 and got a seat this time, but theater is packed even on a Sumday night. #
• http://bit.ly/cQ7Idc ROILA: Spoken lang. (words from English, Dutch, & var. African langs.) for Human-Robot InterXn. » Was e-Speranto taken? #
• DARPA planning human trials for prosthetic arm operated via neural interface: http://bit.ly/d3VpVT /via @wired #
• RT @nytimes: BP Says Oil Flow from Well Has Stopped as Cap is Tested http://nyti.ms/9liVdn #oilspill /via @edchi #
• Congrats to @grammarnerd on your Google PhD Fellowship! http://bit.ly/googphd #
• Amazing idea! Recycled Island: a plan to convert the Great Pacific Garbage Patch http://bit.ly/9VKvv2 into http://www.recycledisland.com/ #
• @redlog @yardi Thought Leskovec/Kleinberg disc. of status theory was v. compelling – cool to see it modeled this way for indiv. tie choices. #
• P.S. Once a few people get roped in, 140-char Twitter discussions start getting really unwieldy… #
• @sharoda Other solution: eschew humans altogether; spend thesis time on building robot partner /cc @msbernst @yardi @katrina_ @redlog et al. #
• @katrina_ @msbernst @yardi @drewwww Be happy u'r not polyamorous; even physicists can't solve the 3-body prob. (Insp. http://xkcd.com/613/) #
• @katrina_ Re: Two-body problem, just spent plenty of time talking about it this past April & no females involved. #
• Okay, Eclipse is poss. on my list of the worst movies I have ever seen in theaters – wish I had more than 140 chars to express my WRATH #
• RT @Loofadisc: info graphic on the trust-worthiness of beards. awesome. http://pixelspread.com/images/beards_trust_2.jpg #
• I just joined Feastery – seems like an interesting foodie-twist on the Woot/Gilt/Groupon/Zozi/EVERYONE model: http://bit.ly/dkmvL2 (to join) #
• Twitter now returning users in search result – curious how these are being computed: http://tcrn.ch/cL1d0W /via @parislemon #
• @chrismessina Ah, my bad – I signed up so long ago – it looks like only a certain set of buildings are wired for Webpass. #
• @chrismessina We use WebPass and it seems to work pretty well. Fast & none of the outages I used to have w/ Comcast: http://bit.ly/aSebpO #
• @sharoda Congrats on CI Fellowship! ASC is a great group and you'll have a great time at @PARCinc! /cc @edchi #
• .@chockenberry CHOCKLOCK AND TWO SMOKING BARRELS #MOVIESWITHCHOCKLOCK #
• So if the new containment cap appears to be in place, when do we hear whether the oil has stopped or not? http://bit.ly/9BquDX #bp #
• RT @parislemon: With the BP leak containment, is someone going to have to enter "4 8 15 16 23 42" every 108 minutes? http://bit.ly/ajKyqL #

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