Week ending Sunday 2014/01/26

Monday 19:56 · Ha, I was into toast before toast was cool: https://t.co/CkPhPXAcuV [Original.]

Monday 19:59 · Having said that, this is a fantastic story: www.psmag.com/navigation/health-and-behavior/toast-story-latest-artisanal-food-craze-72676/ [Original.]

Tuesday 10:24 · Subtle federated-sign-in issues: www.laurenwood.org/anyway/2014/01/no-password-issues/ [Original.]

Tuesday 22:25 · @marcoarment Call me T1m [Original, responding to @marcoarment.]

Wednesday 16:07 · Yow... drop what you’re doing and watch live video feed from Ukraine: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrZcAsPKK74#t=759490 [Original.]

Wednesday 21:36 · @AllysonMcGrane All the major food groups! [Original, responding to @AllysonMcGrane.]

Thursday 10:14 · Looking at the available templating options in the Sinatra Readme. Mind boggling. [Original.]

Thursday 10:22 · Email client market share, from the POV of marketers who use “email designers”: https://t.co/stB7ZNhZCQ [Original.]

Thursday 14:01 · Live Q&A transcript with Ed Snowden, transcript here: www.freesnowden.is/asksnowden.html [Original.]

Thursday 17:02 · Very mixed review of the much-ballyhooed Sony Alpha 7. www.dpreview.com/reviews/sony-alpha-a7 [Original.]

Friday 11:13 · If Twitter goes down at this point, we’re back to stone axes and mammoth hunting, right? [Original.]

Friday 13:28 · Live from Kyiv at www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrZcAsPKK74#t=759490 [Original.]

Friday 18:59 · @Pogue My fave’s long been EVIL. [Original, responding to @Pogue.]

Saturday 08:16 · @colbycosh I think paying attention to diversity usually improves "overall institutional quality". Your last 2 paras are weird. [Original, responding to @colbycosh.]

Saturday 09:12 · @AllysonMcGrane Take him/her on a walk round the graveyard... it’s a beautiful day. Farming in the south, loads of AP in center/north. [Original, responding to @AllysonMcGrane.]

Saturday 10:04 · @Ookla speedtest doesn't work on my Nexus 7 on Telus in Vancouver. Known issue? [Original, responding to @Ookla.]

Saturday 10:25 · @TELUSsupport It says 4G in the status bar [Original, responding to @TELUSsupport.]

Saturday 11:09 · @TELUSsupport Yes, Internet works great with my Telus SIM. Weird that speedtest doesn't work [Original, responding to @TELUSsupport.]

Saturday 11:39 · @TELUSsupport Standard Chrome. But speedtest is an android native app. Works fine on Wi-Fi [Original, responding to @TELUSsupport.]

Saturday 11:41 · @TELUSsupport I'm assuming it's a speedtest bug, hope @Ookla takes a look [Original, responding to @TELUSsupport.]

Saturday 20:21 · RT @BBCBreaking: Chinese anti-corruption campaigner Xu Zhiyong jailed for 4 years on charges of disrupting public order. t.co/coeyfQ… [Original.]

Sunday 10:14 · A tasty educational treat for your Sunday morning: Exonym and Endonym - https://t.co/lgua17TOHI [Original.]

Sunday 10:16 · Android Feedly & twitter client Falcon both want to use a captive webview for links I follow. I wish they’d just use the default browser. [Original.]

Sunday 10:41 · @iamthecosmos900 @obra Thanks! [Original, responding to @iamthecosmos900.]

Sunday 10:41 · @edwk Excellent, thanks. You also going to fix the back button in Android feedly? [Original, responding to @edwk.]

Sunday 11:30 · @achrafkassioui I've never understood who reads my stuff, or why. But lots of people read that one. [Original, responding to @achrafkassioui.]

Sunday 15:53 · @FallenPegasus Hm? Back works fine. [Original, responding to @FallenPegasus.]

Sunday 21:37 · @Skud In Canada, the Macdonald Institute, founded 1903, but there’s not a lot online: www.uoguelph.ca/info/history/ [Original, responding to @Skud.]


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