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About a week back I downloaded an app for my iPhone called Twinkle. It’s a Twitter client with two catches: It allows you to geotag posts, and it allows you to take attach photo snaphots of whatever it is you are doing. Both of these features make Twinkle a real great toy. It is a lot of fun browsing the twitters within a one mile radius, and trying to make out from the photos where the picture was taken. It really puts a whole new dimension to social networking.

The downside is that there is no way to relay this experience to non-iPhone users. So I made a few Yahoo pipes that mash up the photo with the proper twitters. This is my personal feed.

You could create new feeds from my pipes page.

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It used to be that when you used the Planet GNOME feed, you would get the faces and and names of the folks who were posting. For some reason this hasn’t been the case lately. Sometimes I see posts with no author names at all, and I have to click through to see who’s post it is.

This is unfortunate, because I rarely remember names, but I always remember faces. And there are a bunch of faces on the planet that I love reading.

Does anyone know why the hakergotchi and author names dissapeared from the Atom and RSS2 feeds?

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BoingBoing today posted a link to one of my favorite Muppet clips of all time. I even saved it on my laptop a while back so I could watch it frequently. Here is a direct link.

Happy Ireland Day.

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I spent most of this week at CSUN. It’s been fun, I am really happy to finally meet a bunch of people, and to meet new folks. Manning the Mozilla booth is easy: every passerby is a grateful user. A lot of subdued dogs.

Update: I Made that sound like past tense. I still am at CSUN, and I will be here till tomorrow.

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Barack, when someone accuses you of being Muslim, and catches you in non-Western garb. Why don’t you call out their racism and bigotry, instead of hiding behind your family bible? After the embarrassment we had in the last 8 years, I would hope the next leader of the free world could call out hate and xenophobia when she/he sees it.

For the last year I have been patiently waiting for the presidential candidates to be more eloquent about their mid-east peace policy, and to abandon the empty AIPAC rhetoric that every presidential hopeful must adopt. The truth of the matter is that up until now, their amorphism on the subject has been unchallenged by the media or their rivals. No more!

Ralph joined the race, and hopefully will help bring the debate up a notch. In the first few minutes of his presidential bid, Nader managed to challange Obama’s mid-east stance.

I don’t have much hope that Nader will be our next president, but I am hopeful that he will help keep the Democrat candidate honest, or at least make the hypocrisies clear. Ralph, I’m glad you are in my neighborhood.

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