From ADD to Virtual Eschatonism: Twitter and random websites I found

Submitted by HongPong on Wed, 2009-03-25 05:10

First up! Fargo flood. 'We will beat this challenge,' flood battle continues as officials plead for help | INFORUM | Fargo, ND

Advanced Hydrologic Prediction Service: Eastern North Dakota/Grand Forks: Red River of the North at Fargo

One of my stronger memories from back in school was cleaning up in the Grand Forks area after that last big one. What a mess...

Alright - so here's a good one. New rightwing venture dubbed the Dillard Report - its landing page doesn't even have a title. A good example of the new crop of stuff coming up. Quizzically asks "Where Does This Stop". Fair enough. The misproportioned Franken photo rounds out the look.

Bad Flickr! Jesus and He-Man roll a joint.

Twitter is utterly dumb--but somehow it took over anyway. One of the side effects of monitoring Twitter for long periods of time is the stuff about twitter. Supernews Twouble with Twitters (flash cartoon). Awesome narration for it'd be like if people Twittered around you by shouting.

As you may have deduced I have been messing around with twitter.com/hongpong, and if you aren't getting it then you're missing such gems of mine as:
AHA rt @SOTTnet Science&Tech: Study: brain switches off rationality when given 'expert advice': Financial advic..http://tinyurl.com/dxelbr

Amazing.
There are some useful dimensions - it's good for phone text alert networks, and it does force brevity upon authority figures. It seems to be working as both a leveler of ontological hierarchies and a disruptor of traditional decision-making loops. On a good day that's pretty sweet, but the whole thing is hampered by the decidedly unimpressive main web interface. You basically have to have TweetDeck to get something good out of it.
Joke? Economist Blames Twitter for Down Economy - Twitter Moratorium
"We see the rapid rise of Twitter usage in 2008 correlating very strongly with a tremendous decrease in American productivity," said Schmeldon. "Our regression analysis on the data suggests a causal relationship that may actually be larger than the impact of the much-touted subprime collateral debt refinancing triggers."
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