"Where once physics was only the study of matter & fundamental laws, it has graduated into the study of organization in all its forms."
"Where once physics was only the study of matter & fundamental laws, it has graduated into the study of organization in all its forms."
That quotation was from Nexus by @Mark__Buchanan, which is about small-world networks, ie ones with clusters & weaker long distance links.
.@bjfogg in my case I just have a minimum enjoyable action... kind of like @NirEyal's version of tinyhabits. nirandfar.com/2012/01/your-n…
@bjfogg @nireyal oh, this seems to have lost the original tweet. Anyway, for exercise, first thing everyday I go outside & lift both feet
@XplodingUnicorn I wonder if #FloridaMan had anything to do with it...
What's Not Being Said About Bitcoin by @brian_armstrong nzzl.me/1hzfDac via @Nuzzel
I have a new twitter handle! It's @Malcolm_Ocean. Last time I did this, I needed to notify people, but twitter's autocomplete is better now
Accidentally locked myself out of my own site because wordpress thinks it's on my old domain... which redirects to my new one. #awkward
@fotobetty @BManTickets @burningman Haha: "Delivery: Estimated between Thu. Mar. 6 and Mon. Mar. 10" ...yeah that's not going to happen.
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The Beat is my native Language youtube.com/watch?v=2b03ho…
.@Ramez Naam's More Than Human on the ridiculousness of drug vs supplement regulation.

Retweeted @HistoryInPics
The Future of Gaming

I'm looking for a more commonly-used synonym for "idiolect". Anyone? @GretchenAMcC?
Google voice rec... What? I said "remind me to put looseleaf in my binders"

I like using the word "technology" to refer to stuff humans invented decades ago and which now feel passé. Like telephones.
It's hard to choose all-time "favorite Xs" because that also requires choosing a method for assessing their value on a single scale.
.@nireyal That is by far the most extreme pareto-style breakdown I've ever seen.
.@noahlt Second-worst line of copy: "Not just another Wordpress blog" Because nobody's thought of THAT Before...
.@aymannadeem Is it kind of like how when you do something in a more-challenging way than necessary, you can't complain? #idothatsometimes
.@spritzinc Can you add faster options for those of us who can already read at 500wpm easily? I can do 800wpm on spreeder.
Fantastic comparison of newbs on a support forum and people asking activists etc banal questions, and of group norms. buff.ly/1f9gQAx
.@robrhinehart Rob. Rob. Fiat lux. kickstarter.com/projects/17616…
January!Malcolm sent today!Malcolm an email. Subject: "so dst. much zone. very time. wow" Oh, fads.
@XplodingUnicorn I thought Resistance held that honor?
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“This Should Not Be Hard Between Two Sane, Consenting Adults.” | Ferrett Steinmetz buff.ly/1f98rBK
Confessions of an Uber Cab driver. Reminds me of a pretty wild not-a-cab ride I had once. gq.com/news-politics/…
.@GoogleChrome, where did you put my recently closed tabs?!
.@couragemylove "you're all I need & it's never been clearer, 'cuz baby you're all I see when I look in the mirror"... is this a twin thing?
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(I don't like that word, I prefer "clothes", as in "wore clothes")
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A lot of pickup artist "advice" is like commonsense advice paired with evil. Like saying "you should stay fit" ... "so you …
@kerri_shore Yay!! Also I saw you got a new patron! #winning
I scored 843 on #threesjs! ^_____^ threesjs.com I'd wanted to give this a try but I'm android. Thanks @angelaconstance
Want to ruin your kid's potential career in academia? Change your last name to Ibid.
Retweeted @codinghorror
It's all part of God's plan. piecomic.tumblr.com/post/786806667…
As a Canadian, I always put the snapchat text bar across my mouth. Because South Park. I don't even watch that show.
Every time, @AmazonSES. Every time.

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A high-school student is running for Mayor of Toronto. She's definitely more articulate than the current mayor. http:/…
.@conradhackett @MikeAnissimov @BenedictEvans Me interviewing for "ninja software devr" mid2011, taken by interviewer

I BEAT #2048game gabrielecirulli.github.io/2048/ via @gabrielecirulli

.@svenardocom I love your Real-time chess play.svenardo.com/chess/ . Know where I might play against friends? Is that on your todo list?
.@rjgoodin I'm sad. For something so deterministic as #GameOfLife, they went and made the initial state wildly dependent on screen-rez.
It's Pi-day, Pi-day, gotta get round on Pi-day ♪
If you havin' coin problems I feel bad for you son, I got 99 wallets but @MtGox ain't one. #BTC
I like watching drive.google.com and dropbox.com compete for who gets autocompleted when I type dr[ENTER] into Chrome.
Retweeted @StartupYou
Test Your Startup Idea with a Minimum Viable Transaction bit.ly/1gqgMN9
A feature for @gmail like the forgotten attachment one that detects if you say eg. wednesday march18 and march18 is tuesday. #ideaoftheday
WhatsApp claims that facebook acq isn't going to change their privacy policy. Sure, maybe not this year. Maybe. nzzl.me/1gyHJyc
Somebody hook a DDR mat up to 2048, right now. #2048game
Retweeted @russelltovey
Never apologise for enthusiasm x
@VanguardVivian @Jennimason0990 "my body is still laying bone" sounds like a euphemism to me...
My #FirstTweet - trying to help out Iran in 2009 twitter.com/Malcolm_Ocean/…. What was yours? first-tweets.com

Just went to type "2014" and typed "2048" instead. WTF.
@XplodingUnicorn yeah no kidding.

Unicode character of the day: U+2324 GRUMPY CAT ⌤
Retweeted @JasonSilva
"Cell phone calls warp cyberspace in the same way wormholes warp physical space: the two minds at… instagram.com/p/l5sN5dx6dp/
"I don't eat vegetarian. It's ethical. I don't think humans should be treated like this" Mitchell&Webb - Dinner Party buff.ly/1dmgigA
Team FocusFlyer got 3rd place in the #SYDE 3rdyear #designsymposium at @uwaterloo with our neurosky ADHD focus training game :D
@princess_cafe Is the band "we've got each other" or just "each other"? Some capital letters might help :P #syntacticambiguity
Wow, the BMO mastercard password has to be exactly 6 numbers and letters. So that's... 62^6 = 36 bits of info. #insecure #wtf
.@Malcolm_Ocean Aaaaaaaaaaaand the security answers are also only alphanumeric. Seriously, @BMO, this is ridiculous.
.@BMO Also you got my email wrong. I dunno who transcribed it, but if you email the one in the system, the delivery fails. #sounimpressed
@anildash @thinkup I'm really unimpressed with the service so far. Like all evidence points to it being great, but the insights haven't been
@anildash @thinkup Am I not the target market or something? I'm actually confused about this, because it looked really cool...
@LindeeXie my twitter feed right now

Huh, I can't fork my own repo on github? Weird.
Two questions. One, is there a band called The Bad News Bears yet? Two, if not, does anyone wanna play lead guitar?
Retweeted @ramez
Wow! MT @angryrobotbooks: Ramez Naam Shortlists with BOTH Nexus and Crux for Prometheus Best Novel - bit.ly/1gVBGnI Als…
Retweeted @jefftiedrich
The Little Engine That Can't Even Right Now #RuinAChildrensBook
@DanKCharnley you forgot bation.
@jeyjey that's like the opposite of javascript :P
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Founders Fund should sell t-shirts with their tagline "We wanted flying cars, instead we got 140 characters." …
On a whim, "it's my birthday, so... ice cream for supper" ...turns out that at @marbleslab it's on the house!!

...but it feels really weird to be holding an ice cream cone with my winter gloves on. @MarbleSlab

@AyersZachary dude you need a profile pic. You're not an egg.
I GOT THE BEST BIRTHDAY CAKE EVER. #2048game Thanks @tralexanian and @anjali_gopal :D

LISTEN UP. TIL that you can drag something directly from Chrome's download bar onto an upload box. WHAT. #winning
#Helios is going to charge your phone using energy emitted from the display? Dubious... #2ndLawOfThermodynamics #VFFW14 @UWvelocity
So many medical techs at the #VFFW14 $1k this year! #embla #chemotracker #newallergy @UWvelocity
.@rap_pad dominates with traction. Approaching a million views. #VFFW14 @UWvelocity
I can't wait for #TapToTell to come out for Android
Good morning @bmndr!

Just saw a couple walking arm in arm, both tapping white canes in front. & I'm struck by how, arms linked, they've got more senses together.
@Malcolm_Ocean They are augmenting each other. And that's so human.
.@UWvelocity A wild grant appears! Level 10000. Wait, what? @mmccauley @palettegear
@pomeranian99 if you reply to your own tweets, it works pretty well. You can even remove your username, and as long as you hit reply first
@aydaring You going to colloquium today? I'm planning to :)
@pomeranian99 Yeah! It has the other curious effect of pulling the old tweet to the top of people's timelines, with that blue bar.
@SlingbotApp Hey, loop me in when it's fixed :)
Aaaaaand the @greyhoundBus site is down.
Bussing to Toronto for #GottaBeGood by @givegetwin!

@JosefWasinski So many Ms...
@CoreySmith54 I'm currently biphasic; I sleep ~6h per night and take a REM nap around noon. This works way better for me than 7.5-8h @ night
@JosefWasinski check out what my deals include this week: frozen blueberries and broccoli. I'm taking your advice!

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@psobot USPS in particular is amazing; have you seen improbable.com/airchives/pape…?
@psobot I started writing a song about this at one point. I'll sing the verse I've got for you sometime.