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Little things like this make me feel there is goodness in the human race, even if “spilled coffee” was picked up by a bot somewhere.

Interesting that @twesent allows users to give others gifts similar to Facebook. Honestly, I was very tempted to give @higlak a beer. I think if they gave people the ability to send one free gift it would help spread awareness (as well as give generous people an opportunity to get locked in a twesent exchange cycle).

I have just been directed to cornify.com, a site that will add unicorns to your site. And yes, yes that is Starlight from Rainbow Brite in the picture below!

There was a fire east of where I work, and interestingly @Wendy and @wintr both twittered about it simultaneously. Both of them took pictures of where the fire, and I’m sure if I got their locations we could triangulate the location of the burning. This type of instantaneous anonymous connection isn’t new for Twitter, but this was definitely my first fascinating experience with it.

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Edit (immediately after initial post): See, nothing new for Twitter. @muunkky posted a link to results of the fire. I’m convinced that Twitter to us is like pheromones for ants. We just fire signals randomly but if a similar signal is caught by another individual, the strength of the signal increases and we are able to increase our knowledge. Through collaboration and emergence we are able to pinpoint something better than an individual ever could.

In changing the water cooler jug, my leg brushed up against the tap and I accidentally spilled water on myself. Using my creativity I sought a solution.

Problem:

Solution:

But wait a sec, I’ve seen this before:

(In case you were wondering what the Filipino Barrel Man is.)