My Daily Tweets 01.27.12

• NASA’s Kepler Mission Discovers 11 New Extrasolar Systems with 26 Exoplanets wp.me/pWvW-6CE 1 minute ago
  
• Ultracold Neutrons Could Escape to Another Braneworld wp.me/pWvW-6CB 3 minutes ago
  
• Worldwide Rise in Type 1 Diabetes Could Be Linked to Obesity wp.me/pWvW-6Cz 5 minutes ago
  
• Prion Diseases Hidden in Spleens Could Mean Thousands of Infected wp.me/pWvW-6Cw 7 minutes ago
  
• Love Box iPhone Analog Video Mixer: Done with Mirrors wp.me/pWvW-6Cu 9 minutes ago
  
• Ultrasone Signature PRO Headphones: Big Sound, Big Money wp.me/pWvW-6Cs 11 minutes ago
  
• iTunes Wireless Sync & MacBook Battery Calibration wp.me/pWvW-6Cq 13 minutes ago
  
• I think I met a girl named Enya but I’m not sure. Facebooked her later when I got home. 7 hours ago
  
• Other than me there were a couple of foreigners. They were annoying except Lily. They kept twirling their girlfriends bumping everybody 7 hours ago
  
• “and I freelance” “model?” “no, freelance writer.” me and Lily earlier tonight. Count me flattered. 7 hours ago
  
• Met up w Tracy and Howard as well as a couple of others. Sound was really good. Laser kept being aimed at my face 7 hours ago
  
• There was a fight late. It’s kind of funny because the dudes were quite short 7 hours ago
• Cloud 5 @ China White was fun. Friends went 2 Revolver but I had my ticket already, it was cool. Hung out w some other DJs 7 hours ago
  
• Les gens qui critiquent Twitter et qui mettent des hashtag dans leur status Facebook. #LesGens 8 hours ago
  
• My daughter took my wife’s make up and painted my bulldogs face. This is the result. (at Top Of The Hill) [pic] — path.com/p/1jNHkp 9 hours ago
  
• Torrential morning, but at least my tights are cute. twitpic.com/8cbnjt 14 hours ago
  
• When I was young, I’d walk home drunk. Now, I get home drunk, and walk my dog. 14 hours ago
  
• Des relations sexuelles sur une courte période peuvent débloquer un nez bouché en agissant comme antihistaminique naturel. #MinuteSexe 13 hours ago
  
• Post-breakup reading, comma stutters, and city lit in this week’s advice column: tpr.ly/ycf33n 11 hours ago
  
• RT @TMZ: If THIS tweet gets 1,000 RTs, we’ll never tweet about Kim Kardashian again 7 hours ago
  
• New UW Post: French underground restoration artists goo.gl/fb/c5jOP10 hours ago
  
• I should think about girls. That will sort me out. Yeah, lots of hotties tonight probably at China White. 15 hours ago
  
• I blame #DarkEnergy for today’s mishaps. Too much reading in astrophysics and cosmology might be the culprits as well.15 hours ago
  
• Kind of out of it, but I’m going to get ready now. Feel like it’s in the afternoon when it’s actually past 10PM 15 hours ago
  
• Saudi prince buys into Twitter; now Twittr says it’ll limit tweets frm countries w ‘diff. ideas on contours of freedom’ bbc.in/zlB2c518 hours ago
  
• So Google replaces 60 different policies with one?.. Can’t help remembering: “one ring to rule them all..” 17 hours ago
  
• Polish MPs wear Guy Fawkes masks to protest #ACTA boingboing.net/2012/01/27/pol…16 hours ago
  
• Mmmm, Snowspeeder I love you. hammerandcode.tumblr.com/post/165761169…16 hours ago
  
• I had a headache, but it abated after having some food. Didn’t have much today, as usual. I tend to eat after work. 18 hours ago
  
• After a macchiato, I had a Dekavita C (Taiwanese energy drink) and now I’m having a iced coffee. 18 hours ago
  
• Final post of the day. it’s past 7PM. Need to eat something. Blue cheese, ham, Dijon mustard sandwich. 19 hours ago
  
• USA & UK have both fallen in Reporters Without Borders annual press freedom ranking dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2… 19 hours ago
  
• Onto my 6th post of the day. 1 more after that and I’m done for today. 19 hours ago
  
• McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: The Long Walk: A Column About Washington: “Ha Ha,” He Stated.: mcsweeneys.net/articles/ha-ha… via @AddThis 19 hours ago
  
• Exploring the dark universe americanscientist.org/bookshelf/pub/… 20 hours ago
  
• Funny how Alastair Reynolds’ short story #FortheAges was also about #DarkEnergy20 hours ago
  
• #darkenergy might be a side-effect of our own universe in motion 20 hours ago
  
• There’s also something strange happening at vas cosmological scales, ie the width of the observable universe vs its actual age. 20 hours ago
  
• The Sloan Great Wall, the Great Attractor, and the Pisces-Cetus Supercluster Complex were also very interesting reads 20 hours ago
  
• Spent a lot of last night reading up on #darkenergy. I’m particularly intrigued by the cosmic structures of the early universe 20 hours ago
  
• Back in the game. Only 4 more posts to go. 20 hours ago
  
• Day is proceeding too slowly. I need a macchiato. Then, things will go smoother 21 hours ago
  
• 2nd FF crash of the day. FU #Mozilla 21 hours ago
  
• Every second, 1 hour of video is uploaded to YouTube. That’s a decade every single day! More time-bending stats bit.ly/zSHaGs #YT1HS 21 hours ago
  
• Candice Swanepoel by Daniel Jackson for Vogue China February 2012 fashiongonerogue.com/candice-swanep… via @fashgonerogue 21 hours ago
  
• I’m running about 2hrs behind schedule. I still have lots of stuff to read and write. 22 hours ago
  
• First FF crash of the day. Expecting lots more. #FireFox #Mozilla #Greader #Crash 22 hours ago
  
• ZAC FASHION: Lily Cole by Anthony Maule for Vogue Russia January 2012, zac-fashion.com/lily-cole-anth… 22 hours ago
  
• Field of dust on my MacBook Pro’s Screen instagr.am/p/lDMc_/ 22 hours ago
  
• ZAC FASHION: Christina Ricci by Gregory Harris for Oyster #97, zac-fashion.com/christina-ricc… 22 hours ago
  
• zhenjie dong: QR code photo critique of chinese censorship: designboom.com/weblog/cat/10/… via @addthis 22 hours ago
  
• Didn’t think much of #Touch to be honest. It was OK, nothing spectacular. 22 hours ago
  
• @Fabin_H both my cat and dog like boxes too. Dog usually bullies the cat out, but she’s got one on the shrine just for her 23 hours ago
  
• People who have sex about three times a week are perceived to look four to seven years younger. 22 Jan
  
• A weakness for the heroic couplet, and anything comical: Angus Trumble on the poem in his head. tpr.ly/w6HzMV 27 Jan
  
• @scalzi one word: headphones, expensive ones w an amp and you’ll never hear Katy Perry again 23 hours ago
  
• I’m not happy with my daughter for playing Katy Perry enough that I now recognize all her songs. 27 Jan
  
• Twitter caves to global censorship, will block content on country-specific basis as required. boingboing.net/2012/01/26/twi… (via @syoungreports) 27 Jan
  
• Bruce decided this basket would make a good bed so all the hats and scarves that were in it had to go. So cute. instagr.am/p/k7-Bl/ 27 Jan
  
• Nice new Sleigh Bells single (“Comeback Kid”) and video: spin.com/articles/gunsn… 27 Jan
  
• Botticelli $4.6 Million Follows Martini’s Record $4.1 Million at Sotheby’s bloom.bg/ynPbG9 #art #auction 27 Jan
  
• I’ve decided to self-deport. I think to Rick Santorum’s Fantasy Island. Or maybe Mitt’s Penal Slave Labor Colony. 27 Jan
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NASA’s Kepler Mission Discovers 11 New Extrasolar Systems with 26 Exoplanets

NASA’s Kepler mission has discovered 11 new planetary systems, with an additional 26 confirmed planets, which actually doubles the number of verified Kepler planets and triples the number of stars known to have more than one planet. It’s hoped that such systems might elucidate how planets are formed.

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Ultracold Neutrons Could Escape to Another Braneworld

While it might sound like science-fiction, the idea that the Universe is embedded in a broader multidimensional space is something that cosmologists have been pondering. The cosmos might exist in parallel with outer universes in other sets of dimensions. These universes are called braneworlds. If this is an accurate description of what’s happening, then the Universe could end up inside another one.

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Worldwide Rise in Type 1 Diabetes Could Be Linked to Obesity

As obesity rises in the worldwide population, so does its effect on health, which includes joint damage, heart disease, stroke, diabetes and its complications. However, while it’s expected that type 2 diabetes is on the rise, the variant that’s linked to obesity, type 1 diabetes, the autoimmune disease with childhood onset, is on the global rise as well.

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Prion Diseases Hidden in Spleens Could Mean Thousands of Infected

A new study published in Science shows that prion diseases, such as bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) and variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD), are able to jump species a lot easier than previously thought, because they can replicate in the spleen without necessarily affecting the brain.

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Love Box iPhone Analog Video Mixer: Done with Mirrors

The Love Box is an analog video mixer for iPhones and it’s not an app or add-on, nor is it filled with complex buttons and dials. Nope, it’s a box with some mirrors. That’s all there is to it.

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Ultrasone Signature PRO Headphones: Big Sound, Big Money

Every time I upgrade my headphones, I rediscover parts of my large music collection. Since I can’t get any big speakers because of where I live, I’ve resigned myself to exploring the realm of audiophile headphones. From Sennheiser to Grado, there are a handful of names in that area, including Germany’s Ultrasone. Ultrasone is a well-known brand in the high-end headphone market, and they’ve just released a new line called Signature PRO.

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iTunes Wireless Sync & MacBook Battery Calibration

There’s definitely something awesome about wireless syncing. Although syncing isn’t that time consuming, depending on the amount of data that you want to share with your iOS device, the wireless option just makes everything easier. And if you haven’t calibrated your MacBook’s battery in a while, here are a few more tricks to drain that battery faster.

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My Daily Tweets 01.26.12

• Lasers Mimic Supernova to Explain Cosmic Magnetic Fields wp.me/pWvW-6Ck 9 minutes ago
  
• Reprogrammed Cells Suggest Path towards Alzheimer’s Early Diagnosis wp.me/pWvW-6Ci 11 minutes ago
  
• Prehistoric Human Social Networks Resemble Modern Ones wp.me/pWvW-6Cg 13 minutes ago
  
• Scientists Make 3D Objects Invisible to Microwave Wavelengths wp.me/pWvW-6Ce 14 minutes ago
  
• QR Code Super Mario: Unscannable Plumber wp.me/pWvW-6Cc 17 minutes ago
  
• DoubleStar Zombie-X AK-47: The Last Gun You’ll Need for the Zombie Apocalypse wp.me/pWvW-6Ca 18 minutes ago
  
• 8 min of battery power remaining and 23 videos of iTunesU to download. It’s taking a long time. Will pick it up tomorrow. 11 hours ago
  
• There are 9 iTunesU textbooks. One of them is free. Am I missing something? 11 hours ago
  
• The biggest accomplishment of my career was convincing @gaberivera to get rid of the underlines for his links. techmeme.com 12 hours ago
  
• @mathowie From what I recall, you might also find some German porn. 11 hours ago
  
• @tung_angela @CatherineShu misquake sounds better and shorter 12 hours ago
  
• Need a word for mistakenly thinking there’s an earthquake when it’s just a vibration from a truck or someone walking. Mistake-quake? 13 hours ago
  
• Nice idents, @gray just mentioned them. “@andyweak: MvsM / More4 Idents” vimeo.com/35502093” 13 hours ago
  
• “It’s like you’re an alias savant” #WhiteCollar Peter to Neal 13 hours ago
  
• Ngong Ping 360 (昂坪360) breaks down for 4th time in 6 weeks, stranding passengers in freezing cold. google.com/hostednews/afp… #HongKong #HK #香港 23 hours ago
  
• Are you a press/PR person? If not, do you know somebody that is? There’s a rather exciting job with their name on it harrogatetheatre.co.uk/job_vacancies_… 13 hours ago
  
• @_MrsScarlett @_pushupbra 14 hours ago
  
• @_MrsScarlett @_pushupbra c vous qui avez commencees, pis me semble que vs etiez supposes den composer des nouvelle a soir? 14 hours ago
  
• I whinge about the Beats Studio but I use them all of the time. 14 hours ago
  
• @_PushUpBra @_mrsscarlett #snackasperme ce soir? faut les recettes! 14 hours ago
  
• @bordy my condolences dude 14 hours ago
  
• @mathowie why would you want to sleep in someone else’s sheets and use those towels? It’s the same in other places in the world. 14 hours ago
  
• Noticed that my cat Yoda doesn’t drinking Spike’s grubby water, so I have to clean it up. 14 hours ago
  
• @annebgodbout c de la marde pis ca tenvoye plein de virus. 14 hours ago
  
• @purplelime nice! 14 hours ago
  
• Spike is snorting quite loudly, time to walk him. 14 hours ago
  
• Season finale of #Leverage was pretty good. 15 hours ago
  
• @gray sounds pretty cool, if I do say so myself. 15 hours ago
  
• I made a mistake in writing my first novel: all the characters I had introduced were dead at the end of the first chapter. – Günter Grass 15 hours ago
  
• “You can now gloat me to death” Victor #Leverage 15 hours ago
  
• I like free books, I like free education, #sueme 15 hours ago
  
• Seriously though, #darkenergy is mindblowing. I wrote about it a few times, but I hadn’t yet read about the cosmic structure. 15 hours ago
  
• Downloading two iTunesU courses: Astrophysics Frontiers & Controversies and Topics in String Theory. Dark energy, you’re about to get owned. 15 hours ago
  
• iTunes just asked me to wirelessly transfer over some books to my iPad. I like that. 15 hours ago
  
• “I dream you’ve died and I wake up laughing” @wilw #Leverage 15 hours ago
  
• “They are ready for your kung fu. They are completely unprepared for my drunken mastery” @wilw #Leverage 15 hours ago
  
• @scalzi holy crap. I have strong milk tea w milk, no sugar for breakfast. Nothing else. 15 hours ago
  
• @wilw getting tasered by Richard Chamberlain in #Leverage, #priceless 15 hours ago
  
• @scalzi are you sure you’re a grown man? coz Athena is totally right, way too sweet in the mornings. 15 hours ago
  
• I did offer my daughter chocolate cake for breakfast too; she looked at me as if I were insane. 15 hours ago
  
• “You made it impossible for Hardison to hack us so he hacked us with a clam?” #Leverage 15 hours ago
  
• Next up, #SolarisRising. Alastair Reynolds and Peter F. Hamilton wrote stories for that anthology 15 hours ago
  
• I think I’m in the mood for more scifi. #TheColdCommands is taking forever to finish. I still have 150p. Might finish it tonight. 15 hours ago
  
• Just had 600ml of tangelo + tangerine juice. It’s pretty good. Squeeze it myself. 15 hours ago
  
• @Fabin_H yeah, I agree. Small screens are a bummer. 15 hours ago
  
• @Fabin_H I want o compare an iPhone vs a Lumia 800 or 900, strictly speaking is an OS comparison 15 hours ago
  
• “I’ve already got one asshole in my life, I don’t need another” 16 hours ago
  
• @Fabin_H once you get used to the touchscreen, physical keys are unnecessary most of the time 16 hours ago
  
• A graphic breakdown of a Murakami novel. Note: the entire graph is a well. (bit.ly/yludUS) 16 hours ago
  
• Hot off the press Black & blind deboss on 700gsm Colorplan Duplex #letterpress business cards instagr.am/p/kye_E/ 17 hours ago
  
• @wobblesmccoy to each his own 17 hours ago
  
• @wobblesmccoy what shows are unwatchable? 17 hours ago
  
• Subtle smile #walkingtoworktoday instagr.am/p/kx_Ko/ 18 hours ago
  
• Time to calibrate my MBP17′s battery 18 hours ago
  
• All these #CSI shows are too gory imho.18 hours ago
  
• “Working a pole is working guys” Katherine in #CSI 18 hours ago
  
• I find it stupid when they show stripclubs in PG-rated TV shows. The strippers are usually not wearing the right attire. 18 hours ago
  
• #Blendr is dead compared to #Skout 18 hours ago
  
• I like the uber black op squad in #CSI this and last week. Pretty cool.18 hours ago
  
• Getty #Museum announces acquisition of rare early Renaissance drawing attributed to Piero del Pollaiuolo bit.ly/zNz92q #art 19 hours ago
  
• It’s gotten somewhat colder over the last 2 or so weeks. 19 hours ago
  
• Feb will be an iPhone. when the Lumia 900 goes on sale, I might get one. The Galaxy is being released in a couple of months. 20 hours ago
  
• In a perfect world, I’d have a Lumia 900, iPhone 4S, and the new Galaxy 3. That would be swell. 20 hours ago
  
• It’s slightly off-putting. 20 hours ago
  
• Some of the Taiwanese girls have the strangest expressions while taking pics, they’re trying to emulate rabbits or something like that. 20 hours ago
  
• Finished writing for the day. Time for food, probably MOS Burger, walking the dog and general R&R 21 hours ago
  
• To succeed as a TV station, you need an audience of 1m+, as a paper, 250k+, as a writer, 50k+ and as an artist, a mere 10+. 24 Jan
  
• J’aurai besoin d’un dev mobile sur Paris pour de la formation, @ moi si interesse (plz RT) 22 hours ago
  
• Right, just closed Greader so FF shouldn’t crash anymore, hopefully 23 hours ago
  
• Egyptians gather in Tahrir Square to mark anniversary of uprising boston.com/bigpicture/201… 26 Jan
  
• Transferred my exes blogs away from my dashboard. Felt good bc I don’t want any contact anymore. She was trolling my FB, unfriended her. 26 Jan
  
• Rocio Aguirre Photography | vectroave.com/2012/01/rocio-… via @vectroave 26 Jan
  
• First FF crash of the day. It’s become the twice daily occurrence. #Mozilla #unstable #FireFox #Greader 26 Jan
  
• @typefiend That was the complaint by the user. Most of the apps that I take for granted in iOS probably 26 Jan
  
• @yiiee the sound of music cast “before and after” img.ly/d93o 26 Jan
  
• Saw a Lumia 800 last night, the Windows 7 Phone OS is very slick. Too bad they don’t have the apps. 26 Jan
  
• Heide Lindgren & Klara Wester for Guess by Marciano Spring 2012 Campaign by Hunter & Gatti fashiongonerogue.com/heidi-lindgren… via @fashgonerogue 26 Jan
  
• Kate Moss for Mango Spring 2012 Campaign by Terry Richardson fashiongonerogue.com/kate-moss-mang… via @fashgonerogue 26 Jan
• U.S. returns stolen Pissarro artwork to France reut.rs/xx5lr9 #art 26 Jan
  
• Seriously you can’t be female and make accidental eye contact in Montreal. Fuck the men here are creeps/really horny. 26 Jan
  
• Debunking the Manhattan skyscraper bedrock myth kottke.org/x/4qbw 26 Jan
  
• Aurora Borealis 2012 gallery – exceptionally intense photos of the Northern Lights from the Arctic Circle share.yhoo.it/Xm3 26 Jan
  
• So funny guys think that because they’re getting married they’ll get mad pussy whenever they want only to find out later wives don’t fuck. 26 Jan
  
• A spectacular view of the aurora borealis near the city of Tromsoe in northern Norway bit.ly/wBjiLx 26 Jan
  
• I mean, what would a holiday in #China be without getting food poisoning at least once? 26 Jan
  My Daily Tweets 01.25.12 wp.me/pWvW-6C4 26 Jan

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Lasers Mimic Supernova to Explain Cosmic Magnetic Fields

Scientists are using powerful lasers to mimic the effects of supernovae, which are helping to reveal how the magnetic fields of galaxies may have been formed in the early universe. All galaxies have magnetic fields, ones that might affect how fast stars are born, but it hasn’t been discovered where these magnetic fields come from.

Read more @ SciTechDaily