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Big Sparklers
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I have been having a lot of fun with time-lapse video lately and so I took for Flip Mino out to the Columbia, Mo., fireworks last week. I sped it up to 10,000% on my iMac with Final Cut Express and kept the nat sound.
Veritas?
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Harvard Yard
There must be more snow there this morning but I grabbed these photos as flurries dusted Harvard Yard as I was leaving Sunday. Harvard’s Veritas motto can be translated to “truth,” but the John Harvard statue is also called the Statue of Three Lies; it’s not John Harvard, he wasn’t the Founder, and the date’s wrong.
Twacked!
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What do Barack Obama, Bill O’Reilly and Britney Spears have in common?
According to the Twitter Blog, at least 33 “prominent” Twitter accounts had been “hacked” – apparently explaining some unusual posts today – but were soon locked down and under control again.
PCWorld has a good overview, and TechCrunch has the memorable screenshots but I won’t be posting them here.
Responses that followed when I Twittered the news varied from “freakin’ great” to “just plain mean.”
Twitter says this was unrelated to the Twitter phishing scam we heard about over the weekend.
