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A surplus of geekery by :: Fred Abercrombie

Random/Addictive: Try Haikus for Humbugs

Kinda like payin’ the toll for the car behind you, only this doesn’t cost you a dime (or six freakin’ bucks like the Golden Gate).

As this year’s agency holiday card, G2 built this site that pipes in cranky, humbug-ian tweets so you can peruse and pick ones to respond to—with a random, cheery haiku. A “totally random way to cheer up someone totally random” indeed. Pretty simple. Pretty addictive, too. You don’t even have to be a word nerd. Go give it a try.

Maybe you can send one to the Freaky Snowman? I hear he’s got his own Twitter.

www.HAIKUSforHUMBUGS.com

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Twitter: Why is it Drunk Hulk Make Sweetest Andy Rooney Sentiment?

With a 60 year career and being 60 Minutes‘ most famous commentator/curmudgeon, it’s fitting that the weekend Andy Rooney passes we fall back sixty minutes.

Credit goes to Twitter‘s own Drunk Hulk (aka) for making the Daylight Savings connection. (Thanks, Jeff!)

RIP ANDY ROONEY 1919–2011

Gizmodo has Andy’s best tech essays while Time has the 10 grumpiest Andy Rooney segments.

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Whoa: Josh Groban Sings Kanye (Tweets)
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Whoa: Josh Groban Sings Kanye (Tweets)

Your Mom’s favorite singer actually did something you’ll find awesome, too.

Like some bizarre mix of 50 Cent Tweets in Queen’s English and Kanye Tweets as New Yorker Cartoons, with a touch of Charlton Heston reading Ice-T lyrics thrown in for the hell of it. Pretty damn funny. (Thanks, Mel)

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Remix: Kanye Tweets as New Yorker Cartoons

Much like the existential effect Garfield remixes had, Kanye West tweets done as New Yorker Cartoons are bizarro improvements. The difference is Garfield cartoons are funny to begin with. Kanye tweets are like Garfield The Movie. Sorry, Bill Murray.

Thanks, MattO!

More at #kanyenewyorkertweets.

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Video: Socialnomics Makes The Case For Social Media

Interesting. I’d like to see how these stats compare in just another year. Either way, Socialnomics‘ point is well taken: social media is bigger than you think. So? (via AllThingsD)

Just another reason to stay on top of the Umlaut!
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*UPDATE*
He made the shit up (via Dog & Pony Show)

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Ad Man Creates Crash-Course Crowd-Source Twitter Diet

Invent: Ad Man Creates Crash-Course Crowd-Source Twitter Diet

World's First Twitter Diet

A former Creative Director of mine moved to NYC a few years ago and has been steadily packin’ on the poundage ever since. So to go on a diet he can actually stick to, the man’s gone public. Witness The Twitter Diet. ‘Cuz everyone knows you can ignore yourself. You can’t ignore strangers on the interwebs.

We’re all pullin’ for you down at the factory!
Now put a shirt on fer’chrissakes.

Root for / heckle him here: twitterdiet.blogspot.com.

Here’s another guy who’s come up with the idea. Three days too late.