Tweets for Today

  • 20:43 @aeioux not sure with distance and resolution that it would be possible to read anything. cams round town reacting to movement? #
  • 22:04 #rotunda well of course it should have a big advert for coke. Or show the sky on the other side. Rendering it invisible. Or lolcats #
  • 22:23 #rotunda emotional wellbeing beacon. Worked out from brum tweens, blog tags, news stories, etc. Or lolcats. Display lolcats if we’re unhappy #
  • 22:33 @mawhin loldeiridre.tumblr.com may explain better. #
  • 22:37 @marcreeves or peter enkleman on constant loop… I really wish I didn’t know how to watch footy on chinese tv over the interweb. #
  • 09:17 @probablydrunk definately worth it, self-host rather than use wordpress.com (for flexibitiy and embeding flash), 1&1 are fairly painless #
  • 09:49 @ChrisUnitt couldn’t they find anyone who blogged or twittered? ;) #
  • 10:00 @ChrisUnitt the RSS on the stirrer site? hasn’t ever worked to my knowledge. thestirrer came on twitter on Sat I think "Haven’t Updated yet" #
  • 12:27 Got to a meeting, can’t work out if i’ve got the wrong time, day or both (or niether). Will hang around for a bit… #
  • 14:28 @peteashton not sure "bastards" will help w’ the media… but not a bad call (although not sure they really want people who _know_ stuff) #
  • 14:38 @twm_driver for once i was right, guy i was meeting had a good excuse – nice relaxing hour or so off in the end #
  • 14:43 @peteashton i’ll say "bastards" if it helps ;) #

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Tweets for Today

  • 13:05 spent 10 mins finding a P2P stream of the blues game (BEN sports is working on sopcast) – wish I hadn’t bothered really #

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Tweets for Today

  • 18:02 @birminghampost go on, you know you want to… www.plesiosauria.com/paddy.jpg #
  • 18:14 @podnosh sillyold hector, hadn’t thought it that way – first non-porn cartoon ‘p’ google images provides, @birminghampost is very modern ;) #
  • 22:18 @paulbradshaw @simviral is woody woodpecker? #
  • 08:52 Off on a jolly boys outing, tweets – if there are any – may become incoherrant later #

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Tweets for Today

  • 18:15 @davebriggs Pipe? #
  • 18:42 is @birminghampost just RSS updates? Or will there be more? #
  • 18:47 @birminghampost personalised tweets, i’m in #
  • 20:16 @podnosh can’t find it on the site – is that the problem? #
  • 20:50 @podnosh @davebriggs it is indeed drupal – looks like a glitch at google rather than the site (only guessing tho’) feel free to look dave.. #
  • 22:57 @dubber full track streaming previews? #
  • 23:04 @dubber second hand mp3 section #
  • 00:03 Retweeting @peteashton: WordCampUK is coming to Brum in July! Need to know numbers so sign up on wiki today pls! uk.wordcamp.org/ #
  • 10:36 Just seen off @catnip and her BBC1 doccumentary crew, currently fliming her driving up the road from 20 angles – truth in TV, pah! #
  • 10:45 @paulbradshaw fat ginger cat, it’s hardly like changing the avatar at all #
  • 10:45 @probablydrunk @joannageary car crime, she runs stopillegalnumberplates.co.uk #
  • 10:48 Retweeting @paulbradshaw: Please pass on the word about Twitter Cartoon Day. twurl.nl/d2uoof #
  • 12:11 Have swaped avatars for a bit of Drive By Abuse twurl.nl/d2uoof #
  • 12:16 @paulbradshaw "what are you doing, promoting a fun cartoon meme? Look’s like it an all" (DBA – snurl.com/24v9v) #
  • 12:25 @leonardomorgado I wish I too was ignorant of the vile radio presense of Goerge Lamb #
  • 12:40 @podnosh politocal old hector ;) #
  • 13:19 here’s a cartoon for @DowningStreet snurl.com/24vgu – go on, just a quick flash, no one will know #
  • 14:38 @paulbradshaw Dugg – tinyurl.com/6pfppx #
  • 14:58 My followees as catoons – still some way to go :www.hampstr.co.uk/admin/2008/04/18/twitter-cartoon-day #
  • 15:42 @nicklockey that’s really fantastic, you know it is, it really is… #

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Twitter Cartoon Day


Normally my twitter followers are a, fairly, sane bunch of humans – but today I’ve been watching then all turn to toons. Today has been declared ‘Twitter Cartoon Day’

“Brighten up the lives of your fellow Twitterers today by changing your avatar (picture) to a cartoon character.”

Tweets for Today

  • 18:11 i’m not on the bus #
  • 18:31 what happens if you’re "on the bus" but use spaces when typing ? #
  • 18:57 tweetsonthebus.wordpress.com/ #
  • 19:33 Some integestion remedy has ripped off the OK GO! treadmills video for an advert. Gah. they should get on the bus and complain. #
  • 19:52 @twm_driver think you should answer one question a week #
  • 19:56 @twm_driver although it would be funny if they were all "how much to town, mate?" #
  • 21:24 #IMAP Support Disappears From #Gmail (snurl.com/24nru), shite that knackers up me #iPhone – please let it be a glitch #
  • 21:30 #IMAP Support Disappears From #Gmail (snurl.com/24nru) – glitch I think, have been testing #
  • 22:12 @simonhowes always have had, rumour was that they’s switched it off #
  • 09:24 My fave tweet on the b*s so far: tinyurl.com/636voq #
  • 10:41 @TomScotney I worked on (and learned from) earlier books in this series snurl.com/24pv6 Haven’t read the latest one. #
  • 11:45 @simonhowes how so? weird and fantastical #
  • 13:02 #skipwatch snurl.com/24q7g #
  • 14:47 cribbed the Wikipedia entry for Chinny as the basis of the one for brumguide.com "spent 3 years wandering aimlessly through the Himalayas" #

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Tweets for Today

  • 21:29 Watching ‘American Inventor’ on Virgin 1 – it’s everything a parody of a US Dragons Den should be – bloody hillarious #
  • 09:45 @peteashton have you turned them inside-out to prolong use? #
  • 10:24 thinking upquestions to ask Stafford’s Town Crier. #
  • 10:40 @editorialgirl i was offered a free ticket to see that, but didn’t want to go all the way to Belgium to watch a film. Now, I realise… #
  • 11:07 @joannageary @alexhughes wants a bus passenger’s blog, you could start it now #
  • 11:22 @joannageary erm, I’m sure it’s possible. My mind imediately springs to geotegged tweets about where the damn things are #
  • 11:22 @sixball I actually know a bloke that owns an open-topped bus. One for the summer tho’ #
  • 12:17 @Rillbert There’s one by the Selly Park Taven – and one on the Straford Rd in Hall Grn (opp Wickes), not recommending, as I’ve not used them #
  • 12:32 @probablydrunk is this housemate in the "I’ve got a friend who.." sence? #
  • 13:09 MoseleyGolf C have appealed against planning decision that stopped them taking over the alottments. Am I wrong in thinking golf=bad per se? #
  • 13:23 @twm_driver yup i remember 2p as well – I used to get 9p a day to go to school 5p was for squash at playtime #
  • 13:30 @aeioux education shouldn’t be doing anything for any industry it should be doing it for the kids. How can CIs help learning ? #
  • 14:31 @tobybarnes don’t think we dissagree – I’m annoyed when industrytalks about what education should provide for it – it’s for the individuals #
  • 15:10 @TomScotney the mountaineer? #
  • 15:19 @TomScotney odd, but in a way I’m glad there isn’t a logistics focussed googleganger I was supposed to be aware of #
  • 16:26 @aeioux is the People’s vote final or do the judges take some part? #
  • 16:46 The Coventry Telegraph has a flickr account – –snurl.com/24mma – they’re helpfully tagging images of coventry "birmingham" #

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Propose by DS


Via Neatorama

To propose to his girlfriend Tammy Li, Bernie Peng wrote a game (from scratch!) for her Nintendo DS. After she reached a certain score, the screen cleared and a ring dropped down (she said yes).

Tweets for Today

  • 19:36 @peteashton of course @catnip will be jealous i not asked too #
  • 10:44 @joannageary there’s an update to AIR available, may sort your #twhirl out #
  • 11:51 @joannageary @tomscotney surelyno more difficulties than marketing Birmingham seems to cause them #
  • 15:55 @dubber spam, unless on a separate ID #

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Tweets for Today

  • 10:12 @LloydDavis that program (in connection to computers) isn’t spelt "programme" #
  • 10:40 @BhamPostJoanna no video for me either #
  • 10:46 @aeioux yes – i can see you #
  • 12:43 @aeioux a city is a machine for living in (with apoligies to Le Corbussier) #
  • 12:49 @aeioux fashions change – there would have been thousands in the 1800s #
  • 13:50 @simonhowes we’ve hosted it for years – a friend of @catnip made it tinyurl.com/5smvkm #
  • 13:57 @BhamPostJoanna you can ignore it without people getting narky (unlike email or phonecalls) #
  • 14:20 @hanuman some spam, some bots, some will be the people who just want to get thousands of these new angled "interweb friends" #
  • 14:39 @aeioux go and sit in the very quiet BBC cafe – gusto’s wifi just reaches there ;) #

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