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Using Twitter?

Had worries about LoudTwitter's lack of legal protection stuff?

Worry no more! The guy who runs it had a great response to my e-mail yesterday and has put up real legal information now!

(He has broken English because he's not a native English speaker)

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> Just wanted to thank you for LoudTwitter, I think it's brilliant.
>
> Is there any chance you'll be changing your fake Terms of Service any time soon?
>
> If you're willing to put in there that you won't use our personal information for anything, then I know
> that I—and several of my friends—would be more comfortable donating money to you.
>
> Again, we love your site, but we're scared of lines like "[      ] <- you allow me to use this blank
> with anything."

Hi,

Sorry about that, users take that way too much seriously :) If I were a scammer I would put something that would look legitimate in the first place. I'll change it right away anyway... My goal is to provide a useful service in the first place and not to scare people away!

Thanks,

--
$2 is not much but it helps pay the bills! Thanks for supporting
loudtwitter http://www.loudtwitter.com/donate/

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Thirty-one minutes later and I got another e-mail saying "it's now done :)"

Spread the word if it's something you were worried about or know people who were previously worried about it.

And if you use the service, throw the guy a few bucks. I think the service is worth it.

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Via uminthecoil, a high school teacher presents the best argument I've heard about taking action against Global Warming Massive Atmospheric Upheaval That Will Kill Us But Not The Planet that I've ever heard.

Seriously, this is the video people should be watching, and showing to their skeptic friends.

This and the subsequent videos that he's made, as this one is just a simple intro to how somebody so "small" can spread the word.

As impressed as I was?

Spread the word.

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Back in the early 1970's, the comic book title Green Lantern was suffering from bad sales and was slated to be canceled when new-to-the-industry Denny O'Neil took over writing duties with Neal Adams doing the illustrations.

O'Neil had been heavily influenced by the activism of the sixies and threw Green Arrow into the book as an activist foil to Green Lantern, who had been portrayed as a sort of cosmic cop with no idea of what was going on in the world.

The three panels here are what really got the ball rolling, with race addressed in a way it never comic books had never before attempted. The title would later tackle issues like drug abuse and sexism, but this is where it really all began:

( So you've helped all these people, Green Lantern... )

My daily URL / pithy comment dump from Twitter...

( You want these links...don't you? THEY WILL AMUSE YOU. Click them for the children. You know the ones. )

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Well, I'm gonna be in Chicago for the weekend and free tomorrow afternoon and evening.

Lovely Wife Sara is going to be babysitting some of her nieces and/or nephews, but I'm going to be free.

Tell me what we're gonna do.

You and me and who else? What's in our cards?

It can't be Iron Man, cause I'm gonna see that on Sunday afternoon.

Leave a comment here or e-mail me at moxy@tmbg.org.

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Flickr told me on Sunday that I had photos in my account that weren't mine.

I come home today and my account is gone.

I didn't do what they wanted within FIVE DAYS and they destroyed everything that I've done for five years.

Now I'll have to start a new account, re-link all of my important photos from a back-up I made...

Every photo in my journal is now gone, left with a dead link.

This is...

Wow.

I'm angry and sad.
And sad and angry.

Seriously.

This is going to take a long time.

And DO NOT TELL ME THAT I SHOULD HAVE KNOWN BETTER.

Do. Not.

FUCK.

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They "graciously" allowed me to keep my username after some protesting.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/benchilada/

*sigh*

Feel free to refriend me.