February 2012
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Twitter partners with Datasift to unlock tweet... →
Companies are now able to search and analyse up to two years of Twitter updates for market research purposes.
Firms can search tweets back to January 2010 in order to plan marketing campaigns, target influential users or even try to predict certain events.
Until today, only the previous 30 days of tweets were available for companies to search. Regular users can access posts from the past...
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"There are no mushrooms; why are you here?"
“There’s no point being there if there are no mushrooms.”
This is what I was reliably told this morning by a student who is far too smart for themselves, and for me. The conversation did not start out about illegal fungi, but rather about where I grew up: in the middle of a forest beside a loch…with a lack hallucinogenics nearby.
Having not lived there for about...
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I'm spontaneous.....I didn't plan that.
Despite the fact that my life is fully scheduled to within an hour for at least the next 6 months, it turn out I’m spontaneous. Personally I think something went wrong somewhere.
I did a kind of personality test which tells you what kind of work environment and kind of work suits you best. It included the kind of person you are (obviously!) your strengths and weaknesses and a kind of ...
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Why does it matter if a child has a same-sex... →
Who is to say what psychological effect this childhood burden has on gay adults in later life? One thing we do know is that studies have shown young LGBT people are five times more likely to attempt suicide than their straight peers. We need to understand that homosexuality is as much about romance as it is about sex, get over our panic about children knowing that some people are gay and make...
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“We are all unique
“For you to be here now trillions of drifting atoms had...”
– Bill Bryson - “A Short History of Nearly Everything”
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Attacks paid for by big business are 'driving... →
Most scientists, on achieving high office, keep their public remarks to the bland and reassuring. Last week Nina Fedoroff, the president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), broke ranks in a spectacular manner.
She confessed that she was now “scared to death” by the anti-science movement that was spreading, uncontrolled, across the US and the rest of ...
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Why is it that some people are just wonderful to...
You can be down and they bring you up. You can be up and they make sure you don’t fly too high. When you don’t want to think, they challenge you. When you are in a group in their company it’s like they’re talking to you alone and you’re talking to them. In a group conversation you find yourself in a parallel conversation that is lost on everyone else. You can tell them exactly what...
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“Always forgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them more.”
– Oscar Wilde
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Words of Wisdom
Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit.
Wisdom is not putting it on fruit salad
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In Case You Were Wondering, Chris Brown Is Still... →
motherjones:
If you haven’t read the old police report lately or seen Brown’s tweets from Grammy night, you owe it to yourself to check this out.
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There are some people who may not stay in your life, but you’re always glad you got the chance to meet them as they passed through.
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Performing Monkey: German Stereotypes: Berlin →
performmonkey:
“Hard work, efficiency and discipline maybe typical German characteristics but I’ve never heard they are traits for Germans living in the capital. Most Germans view Berliners as the Latin Americans of Germany. Obviously, it’s not down to the weather, rather the more relaxed attitude towards…
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