44 tweets for 2009-7-10

[azurelunatic]

In the last 24 hours, I posted the following to Twitter:

• Friday, 0034: @MercuryBlue Are you familiar with synecdochic's JD Neilson?
• Friday, 0035: @pir_anha actual questions asked of me, and my answer: "What's that cheese doing in the bottom drawer?" "Sharpening."
• Friday, 0138: I'm at Pacifica - http://bkite.com/09r1X
• Friday, 0343: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8139322.stm
• Friday, 0349: http://www.badscience.net/2009/07/asking-for-it/
  (still angry)
• Friday, 0354: @mayerman Hey, facebook me!
• Friday, 0404: Star Trek Reboot: "Eyes Like An Impossible Storm" Gen: Winona, Jim. http://waldorph.dreamwidth.org/96940.html
• Friday, 0436: Today Mike freaked me out by asking if Connie had written any of the fics that he'd read. Oh, Mike.
• Friday, 0442: Required: delicate sledgehammer (of tact) for @zarhooie. (note: may be related to subtle knife)
• Friday, 0449: @MercuryBlue She's given up denying that she's writing a jdn/SPN crossover, in an AU where jdn stayed with the monks. Thus my shouting.
• Friday, 0454: Oh, the Unitarian Jihad <3 http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2005/04/08/DDG27BCFLG1.DTL
• Friday, 0455: Unitarian Jihad Name Generator (hooray for whump!) http://www.whump.com/dropbox/other/ujname.html
• Friday, 0456: "Sister Neutron Bomb of Reasoned Discussion" sounds very much like a certain person. :D
• Friday, 0457: Because people other than IRC may want to see this: Jack/Sam/Daniel SG1 recs (not from me) http://infanity.ficlaundering.com/threescompany/
• Friday, 1103: Supposing gary mitchell had been from Clan Mitchell?
• Friday, 1116: #hownerdsflirt? Pizza and a #mythbusters marathon.
• Friday, 1118: @isabeautiful Oh, hooray!
• Friday, 1121: Geeks say "What book are you reading? It looks interesting!" ... and *mean* it. #hownerdsflirt
• Friday, 1122: RT @oxfordgirl:need to discuss what comes next or we will get another load tyrants. If on FB see neither Shah nor Mullah group #iranelection
• Friday, 1125: RT: @oxfordgirl: remember it is imp to prove date of picss/video. Show paper or shout the date as u chant. RT RT #iranelection #gr88
• Friday, 1127: RT@oxfordgirl UNconfirmed frm grn brf: repts suggest head of Judiciary halted all death sentences until further notice. #iranelection #gr88
• Friday, 1128: RT @oxfordgirl: Protests yesterday in Isfahan Dezfol Babol Tabriz Rasht Kerman Sari Hamadan Kerman Shiraz Isfahan Ahvaz #iranelection #gr88
• Friday, 1156: Learned v. important thing about The Girl Who Owned a City. Apparently I have been maligning it! ALL IS RESOLVED. http://seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com/128034.html?thread=3089698#t3089698
• Friday, 1157: @ataniell93 Thank you.
• Friday, 1251: I'm at Pacifica - http://bkite.com/09s5F
• Friday, 1309: @sleevewornheart Will she hammer in the morning?
• Friday, 1336: Star Trek Reboot AU (Lenore McCoy): "How to Say Pig in Orion" Gaila gets mad. SFW, relationships http://telesilla.dreamwidth.org/53297.html
• Friday, 1346: Star Trek Reboot AU (modern): "Faking Christmas" part 3: cutting the tree! Kirk/McCoy. http://acaramelmacchiato.dreamwidth.org/2169.html
• Friday, 1414: Smallville moment: http://rivkat.dreamwidth.org/232115.html
• Friday, 1435: Star Trek Reboot: "I Bring the Fire", NSFW, K/S/U, pon farr, hooooooot. http://ninhursag.dreamwidth.org/244736.html
• Friday, 1437: Writing you fic. #hownerdsflirt
• Friday, 1527: Deacon sticks his head into the cone of shame voluntarily and enthusiastically if there are treats on the other side.
• Friday, 1531: Star Trek: image: Spock: "Screw them." <3 <3 <3 http://pics.livejournal.com/mullenkamp/pic/000spe61
• Friday, 1541: http://waketosleep.dreamwidth.org/9809.html#cutid1
• Friday, 1554: http://star-trek-flashfic.dreamwidth.org/7500.html
• Friday, 1600: Unsure why Deacon felt it necessary to lick the dog bed extensively after emerging from the cone of shame.
• Friday, 1744: @mamajoan She just needs a Farmer and a Gatherer!
• Friday, 1926: @skramer http://www.kawaiinot.com/?p=238
• Friday, 1929: http://www.kawaiinot.com/?p=255 also for @skramer
• Friday, 2119: http://www.despair.com/somevedi.html
• Friday, 2201: todo: tagging, tags are separate tags in teh suggestions. why?
• Friday, 2201: @ladyofthelog And send him on his way?
• Friday, 2241: heeee http://icanhascheezburger.com/?p=165464 kitty!
• Friday, 2344: " 'zend optimizer and you' sounds like a pamphlet you would pick up in a Linux addiction recovery lobby" (from work, 2008 08 30)

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Comments

[trixieleitz]

Re: Asking for it, I came across (and commented on) this blog. It has been substantially re-written since then, but the original text is still in Google's cache. A perfect illustration of the dangers of such irresponsible reporting - so many influential people take the mainstream media at face value.

As a related aside, I went behind the paywall and dug out the paper on which the monkey grammar story is based. While I'm not qualified to critique the design of the study itself, I am satisfied that the BBC article fairly represents the authors' conclusions.

[pauamma]

That would be a first for BBC reporting about language issues. (See Language Log for a long list.)