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   Top 10 suggested spellings for "Bing" from Mac OS X:
   
   10. Binge
   9. Bingo
   8. Ing
   7. Big
   6. Bin
   5. King
   4. Ming
   3. Ning
   2. Ding
   1. Ling
   [15 hours, 9 minutes ago, faved by 1] [at twitter]

    
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   Nick Douglas: "SXSW Interactive Is Dead" http://j.mp/b0zUCz
   
   So, Nick Douglas won't be at SXSW next year, right?
   [1 day, 10 hours ago, faved by 5] [at twitter]

    
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   @dmoren The rest of us call you The Illiterates, which is great because you don't know what it means.
   [2 days, 11 hours ago, faved by 2] [at twitter]

    
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   So, guess who’s coaching age 5-6 teeball?
   
   We’ll see who doesn’t keep score.
   [2 days, 17 hours ago, faved by 5] [at twitter]

    
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   The thing that always gets me about "Unforgiven" is the very last line in the end credits: "To Sergio and Don".
   [3 days, 6 hours ago, faved by 2] [at twitter]

    
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   "Who's the fellow who owns this shithole?"
   [3 days, 6 hours ago, faved by 3] [at twitter]

    
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   ‘No English word I use contains more than one “q”’.
   
   Talk about a guy with a shitty vocabulary.
   [3 days, 10 hours ago, faved by 3] [at twitter]

    
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   I prefer my YNLT guys in order of height.
   [6 days, 10 hours ago, faved by 1] [at twitter]

    
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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.
   [1 week, 1 day 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.
    [1 week, 1 day ago, faved by 15] [at twitter]

     
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    Easy tip to make the whole web look better on your Mac: Turn off Arial in Font Book.
    [1 week, 1 day ago, faved by 31] [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 week, 1 day ago, faved by 3] [at twitter]

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

     
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    Liquid Plumr is some seriously scary-ass shit.
    [1 week, 2 days 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.
    [1 week, 2 days ago, faved by 2] [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
    [1 week, 4 days ago, faved by 1] [at twitter]

     
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    ““Peeling a carrot.””
    [1 week, 4 days ago, faved by 2] [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.
    [1 week, 5 days ago, faved by 15] [at twitter]

     
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    Me: John Lasseter looks happy.
    
    Her: John Lasseter is looking for a sandwich.
    [1 week, 5 days ago, faved by 2] [at twitter]

     
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    The question was: Is that the fattest person ever at the Academy Awards?
    [1 week, 5 days ago, faved by 2] [at twitter]

     
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