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1. 1. tovX 08:37 AM 4/23/10

   JimAlEwing @HairyAlbert E's McTwo

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2. 2. tovX 08:38 AM 4/23/10

   JimAlEwing @HairyAlbert E's McTwo

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3. 3. benonemusic 09:01 AM 4/23/10

   Great piece! I also appreciated your reference to the Odd Couple episode in which Felix and Oscar were on the Password game show (Aristophanes=Ridiculous)

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4. 4. weltschmerz 10:31 AM 4/23/10

   Yeah, nice one. But you're missing an important fact. 99.999% percent of tweets are completely irrelevant to human history, and 99.9% of tweeters are people who just don't matter. Most real scientists don't tweet on their findings like that. I know you know that, but I just don't like Tweeter being given an importance it clearly doesn't have and will never have.

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5. 5. quantumgravity666 11:47 AM 4/23/10

   One of your finest pieces. You could put in something like the following.
   Plancksalot @ hairy albert: did you get my packet (In reference to the fundamental notion of quantum of energy Max Planck came up with in 1900).
   But it still is the most elegant burlesque of Twitter.

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6. 6. galaxy_man 01:49 PM 4/23/10

   LikeAShroed @ Plancksalot: Have you seen my cat?

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7. 7. nolsen311 in reply to weltschmerz 02:04 PM 4/23/10

   @weltschmerz
   You're missing an important fact: 99.9% of Human History is irrelevant to human history.
   
   Twitter is just a tool, don't disparage just because you don't see any use for it. So what? Don't use it.
   
   Great article...but a real pain to view on the Droid. The pop-over subscription ad really gets in the way and isn't easy to close.

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8. 8. danshil 12:53 AM 4/24/10

   Fun article. Loved the Gretzky reference.

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9. 9. danshil 12:53 AM 4/24/10

   Fun article. Loved the Gretzky reference.

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10. 10. HowDidYouGetThere 05:54 AM 4/24/10

    Brilliant - you're the Master of the Universe for laugh out loud comedy that manages to by-pass all gastric bodily functions, and make its way to the neuro-circuitry.

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11. 11. biggus56 05:58 AM 4/24/10

    I don't know which made me smile more: the article, or my embarrassment at spending *far* too long working out who OzAScarecrow is... I'm just glad I didn't try to prove his "theorem".

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12. 12. quantumgravity666 11:40 AM 4/24/10

    hairy albert@ likeashroed: It is very fuzzy, much like my hair. I'm off to be the head of Israel. Aaaah, Nazi's!
    
    @galaxy_man: you could call him 'likeashroedingstone'.

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13. 13. Tupars 04:38 PM 4/25/10

    Very similar thing here: http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=1198

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14. 14. Dr_PO 02:01 AM 4/29/10

    I wrote this a couple of months ago on the same theme http://thirdopinion.nu/2010/01/twitter-philosophy/
    
    /P.O.

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15. 15. Vagrantseeker 01:11 PM 5/3/10

    Brilliant. Loved the "let's make applesauce" line. And wow, there's SJGould too. :)
    
    
    I'm confused which Plancksalot one I like more. @quantumgravity666 @galaxy_man :P

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16. 16. Lucian 03:23 PM 5/3/10

    Love it. A shot the Huffington Post, too. "seriously, you're embarrassing us." hahaha

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17. 17. MensaJeff in reply to weltschmerz 10:06 PM 5/3/10

    "People who just don't matter"?
    Wow. Is there still room in your fan club? Oh, I'll bet you have SO many friends already.
    
    I wish I could be like you, so I could do the right thing and kill myself.

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18. 18. sueksen in reply to weltschmerz 06:34 PM 5/7/10

    99.9% of tweeters are people that don't matter?? I'm not a tweeter . . . do you have a rate of importance on non tweeters?

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19. 19. PeteRonai in reply to weltschmerz 05:58 PM 6/22/10

    @Weltschmerz
    Don't you know that 99.999% of statistics are erroneous?

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20. 20. PeteRonai in reply to weltschmerz 06:04 PM 6/22/10

    @Weltschmerz
    Don't you know that 99.999% of statistics are erroneous?

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