Here come the twits

[trochee]

In brief:

• 10:11 today's favorite aptronym: W.M. Rand, published (inter alia) in the J. Am. Statistical Association. #
• 10:13 Twitter's failwhale running silent & deep: RT @Yendi ... the result of a bug and Twitter's attempt to shut it down: bit.ly/abzIZk #
• 13:20 editor! Palin said 'Bible' not 'bible'. OTOH, she confuses 10 commandments with Bill of Rights ping.fm/w1UaB #team1stamendment #
• 16:47 via @emckean: Aussie notices 99-year-old OED error on 'siphon' bit.ly/9BrJje; edit war at wikipedia/Siphon kicks off five min later #
• 17:22 RT @eldang original research is inadmissible... // oh, that's a good point! #

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