{"id":4714,"date":"2011-02-12T12:59:56","date_gmt":"2011-02-12T19:59:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/josemarquez.com\/xsml\/?p=4714"},"modified":"2011-02-12T12:59:56","modified_gmt":"2011-02-12T19:59:56","slug":"about-a-year-of-tweets-archived-here-for-posterity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/2011\/02\/12\/about-a-year-of-tweets-archived-here-for-posterity\/","title":{"rendered":"About a year of tweets, archived here for posterity."},"content":{"rendered":"

I began this current journal, XSML, with the intent of reducing my own notes to extra small, XML-friendly updates. Increasingly, I have been drawn by the allure of the 140 character limit of Twitter. I may get a round Tuit<\/a> and synchronize my use of Twitter with this blog. For now, here’s a dump of about a year’s worth of tweets in a single post:<\/p>\n

  • Xavier: Glowing at the OK Corral http:\/\/bit.ly\/f8NCX8<\/a><\/li>\n
  • \u201cBooks don\u2019t become best sellers because they are ahead of their time.\u201d Stephanie Coontz on Friedan via Louis Menand, http:\/\/t.co\/ZEeKRgK<\/a><\/li>\n
  • Belgian students riot on Ryanair flight: http:\/\/bbc.in\/epBVc3<\/a> Was civility a victim of more bad price signaling? http:\/\/abcn.ws\/gu1HOK<\/a><\/li>\n
  • A juicy, meaty, tasty read on football, concussions, televised sports, journalism, money, race\u2026 etc! http:\/\/t.co\/JtjR6yO<\/a> in The New Yorker<\/li>\n
  • on dictatorships harnessing “self-pitying, bullying shitheads.” http:\/\/bit.ly\/idxANe<\/a> cf. Cuba’s “actos de repudio,” via Matthew Yglesias<\/li>\n
  • “Three takes on JP Morgan and Madoff” http:\/\/reut.rs\/f3oZEN<\/a> is also a fresh take on how online competition is sharpening analysis in news.<\/li>\n
  • yellow is the next purple. i’m pretty sure it’s not but i’m going to pretend it is and hope things break my way.<\/li>\n
  • UCSB prof. on Egypt: “a return of very powerful and vastly organized labor movements, principally among youth.” http:\/\/bit.ly\/hZB47J<\/a> via TPM<\/li>\n
  • “As pro-Mubarak demonstrators roam Cairo, Egypt’s Internet roars back to life” http:\/\/bit.ly\/f2NEHW<\/a> \u2013 Foreign Policy’s Passport<\/li>\n
  • A history of ideas: In the 19th century, scientists pointed an elaborate telescope at distant societies. In the 20th, they turned it around.<\/li>\n
  • The Internet is not enough: Matthew Yglesias chimes in on stunted technological progress and economic bubbles. http:\/\/bit.ly\/hLHZBe<\/a><\/li>\n
  • The U.S. is often criticized for its military aid to illiberal regimes but with Egypt it’s been a progressive tactic http:\/\/nyti.ms\/ece00P<\/a><\/li>\n
  • Why do we say “my God” and not “our God”? #foxholes<\/li>\n
  • want to bite your nails to the raw? watch the astoundingly tense The Verdict with Paul Newman: http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0084855\/<\/a><\/li>\n
  • Magical. Chris Matthews grilling Tea Party Express co-founder Russo on Rep. Bachmann’s slavery denialism: http:\/\/on.msnbc.com\/fRJnCg<\/a><\/li>\n
  • Did the Obama White House, as headed by Michelle and Barack, just launch what will be their legacy? WalMart goes healthy and localvore?<\/li>\n
  • If heterosexuality is the key to raising healthy children, time to close every school and home run by asexual priests and nuns.<\/li>\n
  • 10,000 species. Most of us can’t even keep eight things in mind.Climate Threatens Birds From Tropics to Mountaintops – http:\/\/nyti.ms\/i6Pcr1<\/a><\/li>\n
  • Pro tip to high schoolers: consider a career in http:\/\/www.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Geotechnical_engineering<\/a> & profit from global warming floods.<\/li>\n
  • Lazy food service analogy: linear TV is omakase. Video on demand is buffet.<\/li>\n
  • When all cars have smartphone jacks, how will broadcast radio (antenna and\/or satellite) compare to personalized radio via mobile web?<\/li>\n
  • Morbid coincidence: ill person shoots embattled healthcare access advocate, others. Are victims externalities of a patchy health safety net?<\/li>\n
  • i love the days when everyone jokes “see you next year” or “see you in [currentYear+1]”. it’s like a big carnaval for the fiction of time.<\/li>\n
  • In Hollywood and then Highland Park, passed two billboards en espa\u00f1ol for American Idol. The great brown hope.<\/li>\n
  • El Bulli or Marinetti? Pieces of olive, fennel, and kumquat are eaten with right hand while the left caresses sandpaper, velvet, and silk.<\/li>\n
  • Google Ngram for “father, mother” http:\/\/t.co\/N4gnvoV<\/a><\/li>\n
  • Hunter climbs into bear’s den, kills bear, boasts about it. Controversy ensues: http:\/\/bit.ly\/eZJA8U<\/a><\/li>\n
  • Rainy weeks are first disorienting in Los Angeles. Then familiar. We are returning. The water drenched clouds envelop the earth like a womb.<\/li>\n
  • Thoughtful, fun read on computer languages \u2013\u00a0really, on computer programmers and their dogmatism: The Semicolon Wars http:\/\/bit.ly\/hBzLAU<\/a><\/li>\n
  • Can the curiosity of different cities be compared by the length of delays caused by rubbernecking on its highways?<\/li>\n
  • The ending of American Psycho the movie is even better than I remembered. The commercials that followed it were creepier.<\/li>\n
  • Russia as the Baltimore depicted in The Wire, only with nukes and vast energy reserves: NYT on leaked cables http:\/\/bit.ly\/fTEeQK<\/a><\/li>\n
  • Some heavy, fun ish: Why Farmers Are Flocking to Manure | Atlantic http:\/\/t.co\/7D5vO4o<\/a><\/li>\n
  • “Are you ready for an uneventful flight?” the passenger asked the captain. Wouldn’t it be better if he were ready for an eventful one?<\/li>\n
  • One of the major political movements of our time is an effort to redefine selfishness as patriotic. Maybe that’s nothing new.<\/li>\n
  • check the angle of repose: feeling awfully like this “fat monkey made of flip flops” http:\/\/bit.ly\/bwCC9O<\/a><\/li>\n
  • so very sad, Google StreetView images curated by Jon Rafman via @waxpancake http:\/\/9eyes.tumblr.com\/<\/a><\/li>\n
  • The majority of the audience at the Foals show was born after Nirvana’s Nevermind. #recalibrating<\/li>\n
  • The more Spanish language TV shows Whitman’s former maid bawling, the more Whitman’s campaign has to pump money into Spanish language TV.<\/li>\n
  • The singer for Junior Boys sounds a little like Don Henley after a swallow of helium.<\/li>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    I began this current journal, XSML, with the intent of reducing my own notes to extra small, XML-friendly updates. Increasingly, I have been drawn by the allure of the 140 character limit of Twitter. I may get a round Tuit and synchronize my use of Twitter with this blog. For now, here’s a dump of…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4714"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4714\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}