Today in 2011, UK politician Ed Balls sent a tweet that just said "Ed Balls." He was trying to search for his name, not post it, but the inadvertent self-rep turned into a meme and a wonderfully weird annual tradition.
Today in 2006, Twttr launched; and in its early days the social media platform gained vowels in its name and fame for a cute whale that would show up during its then-regular outages.
27 clumsy years in cyberspace
By now I should know better than to keep tweeting, right? I keep getting into situations.
Researchers at Penn State University have created liquid-entrenched smooth surface, or LESS. Why? To coat our toilets. Why? So stuff can't stick to them. Why? To save water, which we use by the tens of billions of gallons each day just to re-flush that stuck stuff. Why? Because life is unfair sometimes.
Once again I turned to Twitter to distract myself and asked something important of them:
Lots of stories involving presidents and/or crime today.
Check out who just got added to the NPRmaggedon feed:
I was apparently stylin' and profilin' on the Atlanta Journal-Constitution's website yesterday.
Sounds about right
