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   Android Market has no “Update All” button. It takes four taps to update one app. So if you have seven updates, 28 taps to install them all.
   [22 hours, 17 minutes ago, faved by 1] [at twitter]

    
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   First thing I do with a new calculator app: attempt divide by zero.
   
   2nd: Ask myself why I have a list of things to do with new calculators.
   [22 hours, 23 minutes ago, faved by 9] [at twitter]

    
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   Easy tip to make the whole web look better on your Mac: Turn off Arial in Font Book.
   [23 hours, 37 minutes ago, faved by 16] [at twitter]

    
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   Carlos Slim now #1 on list of richest people in the world. He's been #1 on list of coolest names in the world ever since Steve McQueen died.
   [1 day, 1 hour ago, faved by 2] [at twitter]

    
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   How big a cliché is it to name your SSD boot drive “Executor”?
   [1 day, 3 hours ago, faved by 2] [at twitter]

    
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   Liquid Plumr is some seriously scary-ass shit.
   [1 day, 13 hours ago, faved by 1] [at twitter]

    
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   My apologies to everyone similarly afflicted by a shadowless arrow cursor but who'd never noticed it before.
   [2 days ago, faved by 1] [at twitter]

    
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   @jimray Sorry I wished you choked. Please put them behind the others in the fridge. Thanks. http://yfrog.com/4jo27j
   [3 days, 10 hours ago, faved by 1] [at twitter]

    
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   ““Peeling a carrot.””
   [3 days, 13 hours ago, faved by 1] [at twitter]

    
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    So proud that a woman has finally won Best Director and Best Picture, and that the movie she made featured huge explosions.
    [4 days, 11 hours ago, faved by 10] [at twitter]

     
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    Me: John Lasseter looks happy.
    
    Her: John Lasseter is looking for a sandwich.
    [4 days, 12 hours ago, faved by 2] [at twitter]

     
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    The question was: Is that the fattest person ever at the Academy Awards?
    [4 days, 12 hours ago, faved by 1] [at twitter]

     
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    "Alice in Wonderland": like a two-hour trailer for a movie, rather than a movie itself.
    [5 days, 12 hours ago, faved by 3] [at twitter]

     
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    Philip Stone — Delbert Grady in The Shining and Alex's father in A Clockwork Orange — is SPECTRE #5 in Thunderball.
    [6 days, 11 hours ago, faved by 4] [at twitter]

     
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    @Moltz Don't make me publish your pleas for DF logo underpants.
    [6 days, 11 hours ago, faved by 2] [at twitter]

     
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    @jsnell Unpaid!
    [6 days, 14 hours ago, faved by 1] [at twitter]

     
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    Found a store that sells bound printouts of e-books. Is this legal?
    [6 days, 18 hours ago, faved by 9] [at twitter]

     
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    How sure are we that *all* the laughter on The Tonight Show isn't from a laugh track? Would explain a lot.
    [6 days, 23 hours ago, faved by 8] [at twitter]

     
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    Twitter: The Criterion Collection: http://vimeo.com/9917412
    [1 week ago, faved by 21] [at twitter]

     
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    @johnrust It was hard.
    [1 week, 1 day ago, faved by 1] [at twitter]

     
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