Bieberville on Twitter

This stuff scares me.


It's not a secret that Justin Bieber is a tween superstar. But ever since they changed the Twitter homepage to scroll through seemingly random tweets as I log in, I've seen a Bieber devotee posting their love every time I go to the site. I had to click through to a user named "DaBieberVille," and their feed started to scare me.

Then I saw something interesting... the above tweet, posted from the web, which looked like a picture. I didn't know you could do that! I clicked the tweet, and it popped up here. So... someone made an ASCII type post that only makes sense when you view it in a Twitter feed?

Now that's dedication.

Also, check out the bottommost tweet on this screen capture:

"Retweet if you're █████████████████████ 100% Belieber (If you don't retweet, you're not one)"

I have no idea what that thick bar is doing in that tweet. Is it some foreign characters that won't render properly on my computer? Or are you supposed to fill in the blank?

I think the generation gaps are getting smaller... I'm 24, and these 13-yr-olds are stumping me on this Twitter shit.

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Update:


Saw this today on the Twitter homepage (@TheJonasSource). Lazy, or resourceful?

These Gnarly Beasts

An online music collective that I formed in February has finally released its debut album. You can download it here:

http://thesegnarlybeasts.bandcamp.com/

I wrote a blog post about it on the group's Tumblr page here:

http://thesegnarlybeasts.tumblr.com/post/543218398/these-gnarly-beasts

Feel free to stream, download, share with friends, and comment. You can email the group: thesegnarlybeasts [at] gmail [dot] com.

Enjoy!

A Supposedly Fun Trick I'll Try Again Sometime

The internet is very quick at changing, so this little ditty might not last for long.

I went to Google "Wind wind etc. etc." --- a sentence from one of David Foster Wallace's essays. One of the links that showed up was the full essay, hosted on the New York Times website. When I clicked on the link, it took me to the full essay.

But I usually compulsively open a new browser window and feed a link in directly before sharing it on Facebook or Google Reader. To see if anything changes.

Which. Well, if you go to this link directly, it will ask you to log into NYT:

http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/w/wallace-fun.html

BUT, if you click over from the Google search returns page, it should let you view the page without logging in:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=active&q=%22wind+wind+etc.+etc.%22&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=

Furthermore, though, you could simply hit the "Cached" button on the Google link and see Google's downloaded version of the page, complete with highlighting of your search terms:

http://74.125.45.132/search?q=cache:eKyib1pynXAJ:www.nytimes.com/books/first/w/wallace-fun.html+%22wind+wind+etc.+etc.%22&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us

Because, I don't know if everyone knows this, but Google downloads the internet. This was the main part of their search idea that has allowed them to return search results very quickly. I don't know how long Google caches stay intact (or if they move them around their server space), but in case the internet ever disappears, there will probably be a copy of at least half of it at Google.