Twitter postings

A few quick hits here from my Twitter feed before I go back to being productive on the one precious day I have in the office here this week:

Steele sounds sensible, or steps in it, depending on vantage: http://voices.washingtonpost.com/thefix/2009/03/steele_steps_in_it_again.html (from The Fix, one of my favorite politics blogs, by Chris Cillizza of the WashPost)

Michael Pollan would be proud: http://tinyurl.com/bsdwxg

Almost set to gain "aspirant" ministerial status :)

Still riding the high from the Activist Right There concert at UCB. Brwn Bflo, K'Salaam, Bambu and Los Rakas worth a listen!

following Shaq on Twitter is like driving by a car crash- it's awful but I can't look away.

Sign of the apocalypse: The Economist agreeing with SSDP- http://tinyurl.com/d7zz46

Well if you hate the genie so much explain why one of our kids is blue! http://tinyurl.com/a8eyrc

museum guy: we have bugs and dinosaurs! (Bucky gets excited) museum guy: well, dinosaur bones... (Bucky gets let down...again...)


So, yeah, the primary advantages of Twitter are for sharing links and one-liners. A lot of media attention has focused on the vapid "status" updates, which I try to avoid. I stopped following Shaq because he got annoying, but he did offer free tickets at one point for a game to anyone who could locate him on Miami Beach while he was eating lunch, thought that was pretty cool. At any rate, that's something that I'm doing with my life at the moment so I thought I would share.