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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-05-30

Posted on May 30, 2010 by Chris Samuel
  • Nouvelle Vague have a wonderfully atmospheric cover of #Bauhaus #039;s classic "Bela Lugosi's Dead" http://bit.ly/cgCjyQ #
  • Lake Tanganyika, 2nd oldest lake, is warmest it's been for 1,500 years, biggest rise in C20th – http://bit.ly/bplsvi #
  • In 1975 South Africa solicited #nuclear weapons from Israel, and Israel agreed it could supply them http://bit.ly/a32li7 #
  • .@markbate what's Lost ? #
  • Starting to wonder about #Apple #039;s rep for good hardware, Donna is on her 3rd iMac screen and now her MacBook HD has died! #
  • #autism RT @newscientist: The GMC panel have recommended that Andrew Wakefield be struck off: he has 28 days to appeal #
  • Looks like Donna's #Apple MacBook has suffered this failure 🙁 http://www.apple.com/support/macbook/hd/repairextension/ #
  • d'oh! 🙁 RT @andydiggle: Daily Mail thinks Twitter pics "are placed in the public domain" http://bit.ly/dg3Ppr @NUJPhoto #
  • RT @newscientist: Also this, from 2002: Study of 500,000 children finds MMR and #autism not linked http://bit.ly/aJXNWB #
  • RT @GetUp: Conroy delays filter bill http://is.gd/cn4lZ All thanks 2 u! Watch our homage 2 #openinternet crew vid http://is.gd/cn4kL #
  • "If I ever see you in public, I'll just tell my friends its Chuck Norris." comment on Schneier's blog http://bit.ly/bh0uQu #
  • Thanks to @bbart to a pointer to Bruce Schneier's blog on being recognised by a TSA official 🙂 http://bit.ly/bh0uQu #
  • RT @newscientist: Ban for Andrew Wakefield: doctor who linked MMR vaccine with #autism http://bit.ly/c51gFV #
  • GMC "points out that Wakefield's patent on an alternative to MMR called Transfer Factor meant he stood to gain financially" #
  • UK higher education budget will be cut by £200 million – ouch for #science – http://bit.ly/dAQmAp (@newscientist) #
  • Just used #git #039;s interactive add functionality to commit only part of a change, very cute! http://bit.ly/cwkWXs #
  • .@googledownunder now if only Chromium would encrypt passwords it stored on disk in Linux! http://bit.ly/9mGLop #
  • RT @stephenfry: In memory of a dear friend and very great man. Today is Towel Day http://towelday.org/ #towelday #
  • RT @cubit42: I signed the "Ask Google to recognize Towel Day" petition! http://petol.org/towelday #petol #towelday #
  • #RIP Pascal Brisset, leader of Paparazzi project working on creating FOSS autonomous flying vehicles http://bit.ly/aDfYou #
  • #VLSCI cluster and website are offline due to an unplanned power outage in entire University of Melbourne data centre #
  • This pretty much fits my feelings about Conroy's pronouncements on Google and Wifi http://bit.ly/9wo3r4 (via @arjenlentz) #
  • #VLSCI cluster Bruce is back online after this mornings power outage in the University of Melbourne data centre #
  • RT @mpesce: SMH: 'Put your money where your mouth is', Conroy told – http://tinyurl.com/27rm8nf #google #nocleanfeed #
  • Congrats! RT @kattekrab: Somehow just got myself seconded to the state council of ICT in Education Victoria. #
  • 🙁 RT @BirdLife_News Today we announced that Alaotra Grebe is officially #extinct http://bit.ly/ciO26s #
  • My #N900 is currently downloading #Maemo 5 PR1.2 before upgrading.. #
  • Yay, with PR1.2 my #N900 now syncs calendar items with the Uni exchange server again! #
  • Wondering why #N900 PR1.2 #Skype video calls don't work? It needs H.264 and that's only in latest Windoze Skype build #
  • Obviously #N900 to N900 #Skype video calls will work because it supports H.264 #
  • RT @BreakingNews: Apple overtakes Microsoft as most valuable technology company http://nyti.ms/bkHTBP #
  • oops.. 🙁 RT @stewartsmith: New blog post: A warning to Solaris users…. (fsync possibly doesn't) http://bit.ly/9ZYi1h #
  • RT @GetUp: People aren't political pawns. @TonyAbbottMHR Seeking asylum ISN'T illegal. Check out the FACTS: http://is.gd/cgZn6 #
  • #sequelsongs One Minute to Midnight (after Iron Maiden's Two Minutes to Midnight) #
  • #Nokia and #Intel #039;s #Meego has Chromium, I guess this stores passwords in the clear in SQLite DB as on other Linux's 🙁 #
  • Happy Birthday to @WordPress, 7 years old today! #
  • #VLSCI calls for Victorian life sciences researchers to apply for time at VLSCI including 'Blue Gene' http://bit.ly/9QWO2b #HPC #
  • Thanks @SciMelb for the RT, good to get the word out about #VLSCI at Melbourne! #
  • RT @KSC_MOCOP: Next launch from #KSC #CCAS ~June 2; SLC-40. Launch window 11:00am-3:00pm EDT. Demo flight for #SpaceX #Falcon9. #ISS #
  • drug laws need science base: RT @newscientist: Teenagers who died DID NOT take Miaow Miaow http://bit.ly/9MW8fy #mephedrone #
  • If you are interested in #photography the 3rd Annual Scott Kelby Worldwide Photo Walk is coming up http://bit.ly/ayHA4m #
  • Jeremy Visser has packaged his python-iview program for Ubuntu with a PPA – http://bit.ly/daMNhp #
  • Jeremy's python-iview application is the only way I can watch #ABC #iView as their website just doesn't work for me 🙁 #
  • Wow! RT@ VAXHeadroom RT @Makemagazine Stunning hyperrealistic glass flower models at Harvard http://bit.ly/bQQ9Yr #Make #
  • Wow! RT @VAXHeadroom RT @Makemagazine Stunning hyperrealistic glass flower models at Harvard http://bit.ly/bQQ9Yr #Make #
  • I'm going – are you ? RT @linuxusersvic: New event: LUV June Meeting (http://luv.asn.au/2010/06/01) #

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