I follow #CERN; so I will know first when the world ends.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 12:57 PM, Jim Philips <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:briarpatch.jim@gmail.com">briarpatch.jim@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><font face="tahoma,sans-serif"><br></font><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="im">On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 12:37 PM, Jim Kinney <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jim.kinney@gmail.com" target="_blank">jim.kinney@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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"Seven billion drooling twitter-junkies is not a goal any species should strive for"<br><br>Maybe I'm just a curmudgeon but that statement really hit home for me. :-)<br><br>Flagrantly copied from the first reply post to:<br>
<a href="http://www.itworld.com/operating-systems/93304/the-top-ten-general-operating-systems-rants?page=0%2C0&source=peer2peerpromo" target="_blank">http://www.itworld.com/operating-systems/93304/the-top-ten-general-operating-systems-rants?page=0%2C0&source=peer2peerpromo</a><br>
<br>where the author has spelling errors interspersed with his gripes.<br></blockquote></div><div><br>Moderation in all things. If you're picky about who you follow on Twitter, you learn some interesting things...and a lot faster than you would otherwise. For instance: I'm a big fan of Cyanogen, who writes the custom ROM for Android phones. When he has a new update, I usually learn about it first on Twitter. I follow New Scientist too, just because it's a great magazine.<br>
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