Twitter to the Editor

While recently ranting about the office in my usual manner, I conceived of a scheme to write a series of one-phrase letters to the editor of our local paper. The purpose was vague, but the results would be hilarious. If only I had the attention span top follow through on such schemes.

Twitter to the Editor A friend and co-worker took the idea a step further. Why compose a complete and coherent “Letter to the Editor” 140 thoughtless characters will do the trick? He termed it “Twitter to the Editor”.

Somehow, despite not having the attention span to compose an email, we built a website for the idea. Thus, TwitterToTheEdtitor.com.

Just send a Twitter or Identi.ca message starting with @ttte and in a few minutes, it will be collected on our stately one-page website.

Don’t think too hard about it. Here’s a few Twitters’ to the Editor that we’ve started off with:

  • @ttte it feels like fall today – global warming is obviously a lie.
  • @ttte tim hortons gave me half a coffee with too much sugar.
  • @ttte Potholes are bad!
  • @ttte Stamps taste gross.
  • @ttte Kids these days are too loud.
 

Photoshop Retouching: Start ’em Young

While in the hospital with our perfect new baby, we were given a catalogue for a photographer that takes baby pictures. One of the services offered is creepy beauty-magazine-like, skin smoothing, blemish removing, photo retouching.

Creepy Baby Photo re-touching Service

Just in case your baby wasn’t already born with a body-image problem.

 

Rock Slide Bugzilla Humour

The 2008 Mozilla Summit is happening in Whistler, British Columbia, this week (I was going to be there but had a baby instead). A massive rock-slide has closed the road from Whistler to Vancouver, stranding loads of travellers.

Resourceful nerds that they are, the Mozillians have filed a bug in Bugzilla to address the situation.

 

Acts of Volition Radio: Session 32

Acts of Volition Radio: Session 32

A summer session of Acts of Volition Radio with 2/3rds Canadian content.

Acts of Volition Radio: Session 32 (53MB Ogg Vorbis) (or 48MB MP3)
2/3rds Canadian content. Recorded Sunday, July 20, 2008 by Steven Garrity. Run time: 64min.
  1. Matt Mays – Building a Boat
  2. Sloan – Witches Wand
  3. Bell X1 – Rocky Took a Lover
  4. Buck 65 – Cries a Girl
  5. Guided By Voices – I am a Tree
  6. Bruce Springsteen – Radio Nowhere
  7. The Awkward Stage – The Morons Are Winning
  8. Tokyo Police Club – Tessellate
  9. Hey Rosetta! – The Simplest Thing

For more, see the previous Acts of Volition Radio sessions or subscribe to the Acts of Volition Radio podcast feed.

Acts of Volition Radio
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Speakergeek (or “Dennis”, as I call him) has written a lovely letter and playlist for the guy who stole his iPod.

 

Feist on Sesame Street: “1, 2, 3, 4, chickens just back from the shore”

 

Saddam Hussein’s Music

Spotted in iTunes on wifi in the San Francisco International Airport:

Saddam's Music

The plane was boarding and I didn’t have time to open his collection to see what he likes.

 

Feature Suggestion for YouTube: Double-Time

I think almost any video on YouTube would benefit from having a “play at double-speed” button. Who has time to watch a full 25-second video in real-time?

While I’m (mostly) joking here, this is the kind of thing you’d actually be able to do if the video weren’t in a proprietary Flash player/format – though we don’t have a standard alternative, yet.

 

I’ve got a nice ergonomic laptop bag I don’t need for sale on eBay. Buy it! Update: SOLD!

 

BoingBoing asks “Are musicians owed royalties for performance of their music in torture chambers?