Twitter has grabbed a small gardening spade and waded into the Augean stables. AFP:
Good luck. In related news, here's why I like Louis C.K.: He realized he was being a jerk on Twitter, apologized personally to the object of some stupid and infantile tweets, and realized that whatever you write while stoned is probably junk:
I'm still on season 4 As for those who think Twitter is useless nonsense, well, your opinion is nonsense, and useless. It's all who you follow. The coolest tweet of the week:
If someone had told my 12-year-old self that I would be seeing messages like this on my pocket global communication device, I would have been very happy: so it's true! The future is going to be just as cool as I hoped!
Well, no moon base. But then there are sentences like this, which is absolutely true: As one of our spacecraft approaches Pluto, our probe around Mercury is reaching the end of its life.
There's a countdown here at Messenger's home page. By the way, MESSENGER is all caps because it's a long way to Earth so it has to shout. Actually, no. It's this: "MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging." Which happened to spell Messenger.
It's done great work.
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