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Book Review: "Turing's Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe" by George Dyson http://t.co/wKIVdhex

xkcd: The problem with posting comments in the order they're submitted – http://t.co/hglJZp23

Higher social class predicts increased unethical behavior, motivated by positive attitudes to greed – http://t.co/Tz31Ihjo

The last of the glass eye makers – http://t.co/wBHdR4eO

How the #Lorax Got Polluted – http://t.co/fr2Hilxu

Funny: In Which I Fix My Girlfriend’s Grandparents’ WiFi and Am Hailed as a Conquering Hero – http://t.co/2H6drb3s

Great article from @FelixSalmon – Why journalists need to link – http://t.co/f297dQE7

Flipping Positive on the LinkedIn Story – @ReformedBroker – http://t.co/6KIymhT2

Trillion-Dollar Stealth Fighter Cleared for Flight Training http://t.co/8fkoSvYm #tcm

How I Became a Troll: "Minds are changing far more slowly than social reality itself is" – http://t.co/el3r6JOb #tcm

Tim Geithner: Financial Crisis Amnesia – http://t.co/jax3kkH2 #tcm

The economic problems with cryogenically freezing your body – http://t.co/NEdmni3B #tcm

MT @MarkThoma: America's 'great moral decline' – The Economist http://t.co/v5KwHvTx

Aldous Huxley letter to George Orwell about 1984 – http://t.co/hD9bITyr

That Windows 8 experience? Confusing. Confusing as hell

http://t.co/4nFrYFBM

"This is just wrong. Dr. Seuss hated the Japs" – Judging by the comments Mazda have scored a bit of an own goal http://t.co/IFxWj8wB

Corruption, Lies, and Death Threats: The Crazy Story of the Man Who Pretended to Invent Email – http://t.co/JO28aBdx

Alistair Reynolds (@aquilarift) reviews Silent Running http://t.co/oWL7HkiS – #scifi

Social Networking, Personality Ratings, & the Organizational Context: More Than Meets the Eye http://t.co/qQuAyAWH #socialmedia @wb_finance

Spiders! http://t.co/dOsrpZ4S

For tablet computer visionary Roger Fidler, a lot of what-ifs – http://t.co/c6XqbGv5

William Golding's crisis: One of Britain's most original writers was also one of the most troubled – http://t.co/owsF9R6A

Christian card counters, goddamit. http://t.co/O7LgnfJi via @margrev

Porn correlations – http://t.co/8xp91Ael

Narcissism impairs ethical judgment even among the highly religious http://t.co/bBgGVPWA

Have Online comments sections become specious – http://t.co/ZDX765Te

Pacific island to buy piece of Fiji as climate plan – http://t.co/gsTQ1UGj #tcm

@mattlanger says "Stop Calling it Curation" http://t.co/p0fNgYym

http://t.co/BFw5G5dK – messing around with Fractoid App on my Archos G9. Super.

http://t.co/Sa3t1Vsj – and here's another #fractal. #Android functionality is so good for sharing.

Researchers send 'wireless' message using neutrinos – how's that for low latency? http://t.co/PtV3S2Mk #hft

Funny – Why I am leaving the Empire, by Darth Vader http://t.co/z33aRJ5j #tcm

Winifred Edgerton Merrill (1862-1951) was the first woman to receive a PhD in mathematics in the US http://t.co/Jd9D4b4T #tcm

I'm surprised I haven't seen this tweeted more: – Am I a Muppet or a Man? The Muppets. http://t.co/ND7IebrM #tcm #tragicallyfunny

Meet Don Johnson, The Man Who Broke Atlantic City: http://t.co/hMMFcanb

Remarkable: How one man escaped from a North Korean prison camp – http://t.co/ZIb3zCgJ

"The largest, most covert, and potentially most intrusive intelligence agency ever created." http://t.co/lReWBSNU #tcm

Quine's "Two Dogmas of Empiricism" (1951): Paper http://t.co/P4sKDUZb and Wikipedia entry http://t.co/exHGmZ5r #tcm #philosophy

RT @philoquotes: We should not teach children the sciences; but give them a taste for them. ~ Rousseau http://t.co/cehkw1uA

Rebranding is the Last Refuge of Terrorists – http://t.co/xFmrcTXJ

Pretty darn cool: New Prometheus Trailer – http://t.co/mLobMxNg #scifi

Rocket entrepreneur Elon Musk believes he can get the cost of a round trip to Mars down to about 1/2 million dollars. http://t.co/20hp32Xs

RT @BellaPagan The BBC marks death of HP Lovecraft 75yrs ago … http://t.co/ciLlwH9M #scifi

RT @cstross New blog entry: to The Pirate Bay, a modest proposal: http://t.co/fewekk2O

#MathBabe on Russian Mathematician, Sonia Kovalevsky who died in 1891 – http://t.co/o2oq2LcV #tcm

@TimHarford might like Misused Statistics Do Not Help Entrepreneurs – http://t.co/gP2TIJC7

MPs try to overturn 'God can heal' ad ban – http://t.co/ud9muxK7

RT @SLSingh: Paul Erdos, who would've been 99 today, discusses growing old http://t.co/PddXKXYf

Leading the fight against dementia, David Cameron http://t.co/CFtRPxHJ

Crumbs. A 16-year-old builds a working scientific calculator in Minecraft – http://t.co/wJ9uStjz

MT @arusbridger: #gdnopenweekend ideas about #openjournalism 6. It aggregates and/or curates the work of others

Institute for Public Policy Research: The Case for Austerity Among the Rich (pdf) http://t.co/ZxjtebQO @IPPR

Don't be fooled. Europe's racists are not discerning – http://t.co/4sVpIvUW

Nifty Lego Galactica – http://t.co/NMLAkZfG #scifi

Rather enjoying unpublished hard #scifi novel by a physicist/quant about interplanetary trading and the race for ftl coms.

Curious if this sounds interesting to you @AquilaRift @bruces @cstross @PeterFHamilton1 @GreatDismal @spacegriz http://t.co/dqeVVqHA

1 billion stars – http://t.co/TKVOFn6C

The 1 millionth Photo taken from the International Space Station http://t.co/3Xh1rscj

The Family Hour: An Oral History of The Sopranos – http://t.co/WdKxZQOg

A series of Nanotechnology features in The Guardian http://t.co/vRjk78t1

@rszbt Hi Beate. Thanks so much for the RTs, really appreciated.

@ian_fraser – apologies, I was being a little flippant. Poor stewardship is conceptually interesting, though. I assume someone benefited.

@AquilaRift – 'titanoboa' – reminds me of a Hamadryad – http://t.co/1zNEJEuR

Institute for New Economic Thinking awards $4m in Research Grants to Fund 29 projects: Here's a list http://t.co/ha3rrpWc @ineteconomics

A new solution to the Fermi Paradox? http://t.co/z71z8qYQ (pdf)

Adrienne Rich obituary – http://t.co/rV5xVl10

Nadine Dorries and her blog http://t.co/uHQWxLh8 @newhumanist

Amazon is discounting us to death – Tim Waterstone – http://t.co/mgpsAM0p

Bloomberg and Reuters: The Future of News? http://t.co/kmJ7ElMv #tcm

Why 'class warrior' brought the Boat Race to a standstill – http://t.co/XkhLKDm7

http://t.co/IQjHkNOe A Tale of Two Blogospheres – Discursive Practices on the Left and Right

Extreme Tech: A single porn site accounts for almost 2% of the internet’s total traffic – http://t.co/7FHIlcpO

The Rise of the 'Brogrammer' – http://t.co/gf7rhCMQ #tcm

RT @sclopit Mathematicians take a stand. http://t.co/Wosw3p4I survey of the reasons for the ongoing boycott of publisher Elsevier #tcm

"Science must be liberated from the paywalls of publishers" – http://t.co/vma9dpOP

Baby Boy Bettany, born 10/4/2012, 1400 hours, 8lb 9ozs. Crumbs. http://t.co/DPMTSpNl

And while I'm at it on #FractalFriday – a video to celebrate the birth of my second son on Tuesday: http://t.co/Na0DlOSN

Political messaging and 'the infrastructure of opportunity' – http://t.co/raspkcw0 #tcm @theeconomist

RT @PaulHulbert: 20 out of 56 journalist jobs to be cut as Bristol Evening Post drops Saturday edition – can't be good for local news ht …

No surprises here: Meme proliferation on #Twitter is arbitrary http://t.co/9Slm3epQ #tcm