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Wednesday, August 27, 2008

Tweetlog for Tuesday, August 26, 2008

  • Bob Casey: "John McCain says he's a maverick. But he's voted with Bush over 90% of the time. That's not a maverick. That's a sidekick!"
  • Twitterland reactions to Mark Warner - falls short of expectations
  • Getting "trout" AIM spam? You're not alone. It's an AIM bot called TheGreatHatsby. http://tinyurl.com/po57y
  • Charles Barkley interviewed by CNN: expresses interest in running for Governor of Alabama - reassures viewers that he can't screw up Alabama
  • The Onion launches "Decider" - a local entertainment site with event information and restaurant reviews first in Chicago, more cities coming
  • Twitterland reactions to Dennis Kucinich - he wow'ed the crowd
  • Washington, DC appears much quieter than usual. Did all the pols disappear? Oh wait, #DNC08 almost forgot.
  • Twitter speak: "tweep" - your Twitter peeps (friends)
  • Four person arrested in plot to assassinate Barack Obama during his acceptance speech at Invesco Field on Thursday night
  • FAA computer problems causing flight delays throughout the United States. Radar systems are in tact, contact with aircraft not lost.
  • Hoax alert: Tomorrow, August 27 - Mars will *not* appear as large as a second moon. This hoax has been making the rounds since 2003.
  • Panic releases upgrade of Coda - its Web development product - to version 1.5http://is.gd/1hvZ
  • Mozilla Labs announced Ubiquity today -- a new solution to bring together dis-jointed Web services http://is.gd/1Wns
  • Retweet @dannysullivan: nice, map of all the olympics medalilists http://tinyurl.com/65k2b2
  • The Huffington Post is twittering live from #DNC08 ... http://is.gd/1Wdv
  • Tornado warning issued for Bladen County in North Carolina.
  • Overheard on Twitter from @rm: Stunning idea for a bumper sticker: "My other Twitter is a Tumblr." http://is.gd/1W9i [funny]
  • Elizabeth Edwards, wife of John Edwards, taking heat from some Democrats for trying to keep hubby's affair a private matter.
  • Speaking of hijackings, a new type of spam claims to have "hijacked your baby" and demands $50,000 (US dollars? -- it didn't say)
  • A Sudanese plane bound for Khartoum was hijacked shortly after take-off from Nyala. It landed in Libya after first trying to land in Cairo.
  • Another free game is pulled for copyright violations. Tetris type app for iPhone know as Tris has been pulled.
  • Gorgeous weather reports coming from across the country: Denver, Chicago, Wash DC and everything in between. Sorry SC
  • Tweetonians tuning into Mur Lafferty @mightmur speaking on http://www.wunc.org
  • TechCrunch article about Dexter ad ripping off Wired magazine cover generating plenty of Twitter feed spam
  • Facebook app Scrabulous removed world-wide (except in India where Scrabulous was created)
  • Former Portland Trail Blazer Kevin Duckworth dies in Oregon. He was 44.
  • Tuesday's #DNC08 schedule posted: http://is.gd/1VKx
  • From Birmingham, AL: Tanker crash closes westbound lanes of I-20
  • South Carolina is under a tornado watch as Hurricane Fay moves northeast
  • Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe was heckled as he opened a new session of Parliament
  • Hurricane Gustav to hit Haiti any minute now packing winds near 90 mph. Then moving west past Cuba.
  • Tweetlog for Monday, August 25, 2008 http://is.gd/1UVi
  • Twitterland reactions to Michelle Obama - very impressive
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