Re: last Friday's little internet contretemps: the author of the BuzzFeed post apologized and changed the post to reflect the origin of the work. So everything is not only hunky, it's positively dory. Now don't you want to know the origin of the phrase? You're not alone.

TWITBOT UPRISING Twitter Frankensteins live in a shadow world, scavenging the stale words of others and passing them along to undead robots. Jason Snell explains:

The Techhive article says Twitter ought to do a better job of weeding out these sites, but

That's for sure. Here are some of the many quotable tweets of Horse_Ebooks.

URBAN DESIGN This editorial in the Strib praises the new vision of Nicollet Mall, and sings its current virtues:

This suggests that a public place without the mentally ill is not as valid and less authentic. Letting the mentally ill live on the streets is not a good thing that bestows upon a public place a quality whose regrettable manifestations make it better than, say, Southdale.

The proposals are thus far rather vague. There's the new-sidewalks-and-trees approach:

And there's this ambitious proposal, which requires building huge new structures and moving the Wells Fargo Tower:

I have been trying to get my brain around that picture for most of the morning. It's like a picture of New York with the Empire State Building on the tip of Manhattan and the Grand Central Station facade situated north-south.

Unless this is set in the Fringe alternate world.