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Twitter Digest for Week Ending 2012-05-13

RT @jakemarsh: This is a genius tactic to encourage users to buy your app: http://t.co/lTXJixd9 #
RT @bdwassom: "Diminished reality can reconnect us to nature by deleting phone lines and billboards." @fianxu from @daqri #are2012 #
RT @designtaxi: Vienna gets its first cat café http://t.co/QANbgoz4 #

RT @dtnick: Over nine months with Lion and I still think the save/duplicate workflow is broken. #blamelion #
Spotify has some terrible UI design for a service that I love… Can't even find volume control in their iPad app. #

Didn't think it was possible, but Skype for Mac is still getting worse… #
RT @epstein: Walked past pair of Russian tourists (I think) who marveled how cheap every thing in New York City is. #
RT @claytoncubitt: The concept of "not selling out" is inherently elitist, as it would reduce the ranks of "authentic" artists to only t … #
RT @sdw: No big deal, just a check Hunter S. Thompson wrote out for two million dollars worth of cocaine. http://t.co/JWbUOsLH #
I would be kinda terrified if people gave me$3.5m+ after having asked for a mere $100k… http://t.co/E1Qz9uNu #
Tweets in iambic pentameter: http://t.co/MisPGKOQ #
RT @rafeco: In the end it seems like all of the problems are UX problems. Except for scaling. #

RT @seb_sears: Perhaps the best BBC News caption you will ever, ever see http://t.co/5hUogDJW #
RT @tomcoates: If I worked at Apple, I'd go around favouriting people's tweets about future Apple products, just to fuck with people. #
RT @marcoarment: Never get any work done on your house.
Making decisions and babysitting contractors has been my full-time job for months. #
RT @jkolko: Sony lost 6.4 instagrams last year! http://t.co/Fzxwqa5z #
RT @Mike_FTW: “In terms of user experience, Facebook is like an NYPD police van crashing into an IKEA, forever.” Fucking @ftrain. http:/ … #
RT @LenKendall: Facebook's next acquisitions will be Pantone, Muji and Moleskine, thus completing Operation Infuriate Hipster. #
RT @Mike_FTW: Jesus only had 12 followers. #

RT @transarchitect: Bureaucracy is the art of making the possible impossible. #
RT @genebecker: As usual, revolutionary new ideas in computing have a 20+ year history (cf. Internet, tablets, AR, agents, context, wear … #
RT @marcoarment: Gotta hand it to Chase's iOS app for having this great dialog: http://t.co/lRcptOcP #
RT @quinnnorton: Also, suicide not only kills more people than terrorism, it kills more than war. Misery should be a safety priority! An … #
RT @tomcoates: One of the hardest things to remember when designing for the iPhone is that whenever you do a search, half the screen rea … #
RT @Mike_FTW: Happy Good Friday, everybody! It’s almost the weekend. Hang in there! #
RT @ev: Clay Shirky: “But now it is an act of significant discipline to say, 'I’m going to stare out the window.'” http://t.co/0fTcV5IR #
RT @wmmna: i'm sad, outraged, disgusted: Netherlands Media Art Institute closes end of 2012 http://t.co/wDiiNH0X #
RT @agpublic: RT @ReynerBanham: “And the future? Not so much cancelled as postponed while coping with the present.” #
RT @rafeco: Checking in broken code is a great way to meet new people in the office. #
FF XIII-2 characters model for Prada: http://t.co/3xT6uhFv #

RT @JPBarlow: What's the point of being 1% in a country where everything you see that isn't yours looks dilapidated and run-down? #
RT @bashford: Best quote of the night: "we thought it was brilliant that everyone could make music – and then they did". #
RT @moleitau: "sometimes you have to make things like rain makes roofs" #
RT @ev: "Leaving something incomplete makes it interesting and gives one the feeling that there is room for growth.” – Yoshida Kenko #
Analyzing language usage in Mad Men using Google Ngram: http://t.co/Z4WuukYS #
RT @arhomberg: Once upon a time, when taxi drivers provided stock tips you knew there was a bubble, now they talk about starting a compa … #
RT @matthewbaldwin: Any sufficiently advanced bullshit is indistinguishable from truth. #
Apparently we have trailers for trailers now: http://t.co/mRiTeHhx #

RT @Mike_FTW: Today was a great day to keep your mouth shut. #
I guess i'm just disappointed in mass media and public opinion building in general… #
… now i think the same about the initial public reactions to the "This American Life" / Daisey redaction. #
I thought the media portrayal of Apple responsible for terrible manufacturing conditions in China was limited in perspective… #
RT @jessicadelfino: Saw a girl running and smoking at the same time. Some people just have life all figured out. #
RT @paleofuture: "What makes this a little complicated is that the things Daisey lied about seeing are things that have actually happene … #
RT @kellan: It is one of the stranger choices we make as a society: that activists must be perfect, but everyone else can be quietly, de … #
Don't worry, that doesn't mean i'll share all of them. #
The past few months i seem to have suffered from a peculiar form of writers block. Now i can't stop the words from spilling onto my screen. #
I just wrote a thousand words about text highlighting in iBooks 2.1: http://t.co/1YMKBuRQ Feels good to do some writing for pleasure again. #
RT @danbenjamin: My FedEx guy: "We had 380,000 come through Memphis, 2,800 at the local office, I've delivered about 300, and EVERYBODY … #
I hate it when they use Marimba as Hank's ringtone on Californication… Always feels like my morning alarm going off. #

I really don't understand why Photos and iPhoto for iOS are split into two different apps #
Prediction: iPad 3 WiFi won't include Siri, bc it requires data connectivity in a non-obvious way for the user. Let's see about 3G though. #