The Twitter account exists no longer, but I did make some worthwhile points during my brief foray, so I submit this "tweet dump" here so I can save it for posterity:
POPULAR CULTURE
- Listened to Top 40 music today. Q: does anyone NOT use digital pitch modulation? Has this replaced real singing?
- January Jones is on SNL and seems terrified! It looks like a potential choke job. Very entertaining.
- Peter Bagge cartoon on the conflicts caused by reading Ayn Rand http://bit.ly/3FOEz2
- Terrell Owens is all growns up http://bit.ly/1pRECA
- Do gradeschools really have those kids-dressed-up-as-historical-figures stage plays, as depicted in movies? I never had'em in school.
- Zombieland is fun, if not a HBWoSG. The Informant! sports a goofball Hamlisch score that makes the 90s feel like th 70s.
- That chick from Thirst (Bakjwi) was bat-shit crazy! http://bit.ly/1WGYaT Movie was OK, but half-hour too long. Not Chan-wook Park's best.
- Funny People: We get it, Apatow, you love your hot wife and talented kids. Jeesh. http://bit.ly/10lPp9
- A logical look at the Patrick Ewing Paradox http://bit.ly/eGpHD
- Maira Kalman on Ben Franklin on the American spirit of invention: http://bit.ly/2m9zeA
- geographic depiction of the seven deadly sins in America http://bit.ly/oUBs2 not scientifically worthwhile, but entertaining nonetheless
- WikiTrust coming this fall - feature will color-code unreliable info http://bit.ly/2FthLl
- 8-Story Antigravity Forest http://bit.ly/2yDrEg I love plant-decorated edifices from ivy covered brick to grass roofed huts.
- Rapture pet-care insurance! http://bit.ly/fOcy4 Gotta love it.
- Inglourious Basterds is a masterpiece! http://shar.es/BzS2
- Michael Haneke (Funny Games) is totally ripping off Edgar Wright! (Hot Fuzz) http://bit.ly/1WGYaT
- OMG! Finnegans Wake THE MOVIE! http://bit.ly/MHVkT
- Must See: A Perfect Getaway, if only for Zahn and Olyphant's dueling crazy eyes. http://bit.ly/nmMAu
- The Beer Summit, as told by Shakespeare: http://bit.ly/8PuZf
- Was Michael Jackson really a reincarnated Egyptian; or better, was he living in two times concurrently a la VALIS? http://bit.ly/3RDsu6
POLITICS
- Barney Frank, habitual bubble-inflater, wants to grant the govt perpetual bailout authority. Great idea [sarcasm] http://bit.ly/7uztB
- How the distribution of stimulus funds is an implicit admission by govt that it can'r create jobs http://bit.ly/yj0uh
- Senate ready to extend first-time homebuyer credit. Thumbs down for more subsidy-driven bubble-building http://bit.ly/3N5gud
- Please nanny state, don't ban pseudophedrine. http://bit.ly/1iUOIR
- Dept of unintended consequences - Credit card "helpful" legislation leads to punishing prudent spenders http://bit.ly/NLpPg
- Wisdom on how the redundancy effect of the 17th Amendment has contributed to bad government http://bit.ly/6yKVt
- CFC is just a subsidy to a special sub-class of the middle class and the auto industry http://bit.ly/1SK5f. Corporate welfare at its worst
- "Joker" Obama: maybe intended to evoke the image of the Joker burning that gigantic pile of money in Dark Knight? http://bit.ly/4Ewzhz
- Villification and mockery of fringe by the left may derail its own agenda. http://bit.ly/2sBLyU You have to choose: policy or smugness.
- The more things change . . . http://bit.ly/QqOnO
- one clerk might mean J.P. Stevens is going to retire http://bit.ly/wNx1x
- Federal pay vs private sector just a reflection of life in a nepotistic and clientelist state http://bit.ly/2ZSfpZ
- Gee, I sure wish I could get $75k to be the Director of Scheduling and Advance for the First Lady. Is that on USAjobs? http://bit.ly/4zwCH0
- Arnold Kling makes a compelling case that 'real freedom' is the absence of monopoly: http://bit.ly/zheDd
- John McWhorter on the decrease in violence that would result from the end of the drug prohibition http://bit.ly/8czzdm
- Some cops come out against the drug prohibition http://bit.ly/kASVS their answer? The laboratory of democracy: Federalism
- Q: why stay in Afghanistan till 2017? Just to police poppies? Democracy has failed, led to islamist policy. Let's go. http://bit.ly/5xpyUd
- Bizarro Obama http://bit.ly/1Psfkl I guess people must think war isn't the problem as long as someone they like is calling the shots
- Al-Qaeda, meet the Large Hadron Collider. http://bit.ly/gEqZ1
SCIENCE
- Why will they spend trillions to stop AGW, but no one cares about asteroid deflection? http://bit.ly/5l7UQX
- Tales of Inconsistency: Govt subsidizes activities that cause higher CO2 emissions http://bit.ly/1fcdDw
- On the Politics of Science: Or How To Stop Worrying and Learn to Love Fantastic Predictions http://bit.ly/1ibJRp
- Unconventional yet compelling data on the effectiveness of flu shots http://bit.ly/32eWr5
- CarbFix, another good idea on carbon capture http://bit.ly/3wPMqf a lot of volcanic rock in Hawaii and Alaska, no? Where're the subsidies?
- Hansen is an alarmist, but at least he understands policy incentives and effects http://bit.ly/2iVras
- what does a molecule look like up close? http://bit.ly/y94gd
- Perspective:Comparing cost and concern between AGW and an earth-killing asteroid http://bit.ly/B2tMl
- Apparently flash cookies can reinstate cookies you deleted! Go to the adobe website to control how you're tracked: http://bit.ly/1CpDqF
- Finally, some creativity on climate change: http://bit.ly/v3jMz
- High-tech swimsuits getting banned, Michael Phelps will finally be exposed as overrated http://bit.ly/bSkja
HEALTH CARE REFORM
- Will the mandate to purchase insurance be deemed unconstitutional, if it passes? http://bit.ly/882ue2 It's possible.
- Unintended consequences: Obamacare will price middle-income urbanites out of the insurance market http://bit.ly/2K8dIY
- How doctors and Medicare set prices according to the labor theory of value! http://bit.ly/S3bnv
- alternative health care reform ideas do exist http://bit.ly/EBdcw too bad none of them benefits any privileged special interests
- Whole Foods on health care reform: labor mobility, labor mobility, labor mobility! http://bit.ly/DxL9w
- Looking for balance: EITHER huge deficits OR incentivizing activities to shorten the avg age of mortality? http://bit.ly/K91Bm
- Robert Reich and I agree that the Obama-Pharma deal is unhealthy anti-democratic corporatism: http://bit.ly/2G4TJW
THE ECONOMY
- Warren Buffett, intervention profiteer http://bit.ly/3862lZ
- Using game theory to sell a dollar for more than a dollar http://bit.ly/2A8quc The all pay auction! Genius!
- http://bit.ly/1JfERU - On the anomaly of pricing for movies. Why does all entertainment priced the same, regardless of how much it costs?
- Interesting: using game theory to fight crime http://bit.ly/5Tioe Nice, but it might be simplier to just end the drug prohibition.
- Buy a house, get a visa. http://bit.ly/NfJqu Why have no politicians bitten on this idea?
- In a competitive market, high profits should only exist temporarily and linked to innovation or efficiency: http://bit.ly/z2tH3
- College is the next bubble: http://bit.ly/P8vwD Solution: only allow financing for specialties in shortage.
NEWS
- 2009 Gender Equality Rankings: South Africa #6, with a rapist polygamist president, USA #31, female Secretary of State http://bit.ly/i7ocq
- DID YOU KNOW that there are thousands of incomplete buildings all around Cairo, in part b/c of cultural rejection of mortgage finance?
- Panfilo got convicted of "pre-criminal social endangerment" http://bit.ly/k4DfC Ain't Cuba great?
- UK apologizes to Turing: too little, too late http://bit.ly/2QR21c
- Doesn't it occur to anyone that Blago staged that robbery to fabricate an aura of political persecution?
- How can the int'l community take Qaddafi seriously?http://bit.ly/1Z2Bre He wants to dismember Switzerland
- obscured fact? avg U.S. life span would rank #1 among nations if auto and homicide fatalities were factored out http://bit.ly/89xBA
- Nanny state or big brother? England pulls a 1984 on 20k shitty families. http://bit.ly/10Rq0j Get thy kids to bed on time!
- Good luck with all that, Rupert, but you can't copyright truth and you can't chill communication, so you're SOL: http://bit.ly/48tVTY