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…Your office chair is a tattletale?
Many people are still unsure of the value of Twitter, but if there’s one thing that will convince the masses it’s this: An office chair that tweets when you toot.
The Twittering Office Chair is a… unique project that uses a standard office chair and a bunch of fancy electronics to detect the presence of flatulence, and then tweet wirelessly whenever it sense a stinker.
The chair was made to help accurately document life as it happens, and thankfully, if you want to make one of your own, there’s a full set of instructions on Instructables for you to follow.
…South by Southwest wants to give you free music?
If you couldn’t make it to South by Southwest (aka #SXSW for the Twitter-ites) but you still want to keep up with all the latest and greatest in the semi-undiscovered music scene, then check out the fully legal, DRM-free, RIA-safe collection of music that’s been released by the festival’s promoters through the torrent world.
The torrent, which is the fifth such collection to be put out on the ‘net, contains more than 6 GB of music, or 1267 MP3s spanning multiple genres and levels of famous-ity.
Granted, not everything is going to match your specific tastes, but there are plenty of songs to try out, so open your mind and be prepared to discover, because you never know what’s going to be the next big thing.
(Just one warning: There are so many songs here that it will probably crush your current collection of music, and if you try to use the random function on your MP3 player ever again, you’ll still end up listening to 10 SXSW songs between every normal song, so be prepared. Not that that’s a bad thing, just don’t expect your best of Michael Jackson collection to string together like it used to ever again.)
[Via: Torrent Freak]
…There are five signs of Twitter addiction?
Everyone seems to be jumping on the Twitter bandwagon lately (including Shaq, Ashton Kutcher, Lance Armstrong and Britney Spears) and it’s definitely a great way to keep in touch with friends and family, but can you ever love Twitter too much?
Here are five signs that you might be a little too addicted to Twitter:
- You’ve created a Twitter account for your dog, like Ridley and Vivj.
- You’ve created a Twitter account so that you can impersonate a fictitious TV personality, like Borat and Roger_Sterling.
- You’ve created a Twitter account so that you can remember to water your plants.
- You refuse to buy from companies that don’t have a Twitter account, because Zappos, Starbucks and Comcast just ‘get’ you.
- The first thing you do after reading this post is tweet a link to it.
- (Bonus points if you arrived here from a link in a tweet.)
Have any other suggestions for signs you might be addicted to Twitter? Post them in the comments below and help others on their path to recovery.
…Twitter went wild during the Super Bowl?
If you haven’t already, be sure to go play around with the Twitter Super Bowl Chatter Map on The New York Times.
The map itself shows the location and frequency of commonly used words in Super Bowl related tweets, and you can compare things like player names and emoticons to specific milestones in the game to see where people were talking about what, for how long and how intensely.
[The New York Times – Twitter Chatter During The Super Bowl]
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