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Tough to sum up almost ten years at MeFi in a tweet. We have cameras. https://t.co/A34N0vj1ny

— Paul Bausch (@pbausch) April 26, 2016

whoa, if you rearrange the letters in instagram you get "ignore sun", "I'm staged", and "sponsored image".

— Paul Bausch (@pbausch) March 22, 2016

Happy calendar hack day. It's a good time to listen to this 99% Invisible episode about calendars: https://t.co/l3yUgLXM9P

— Paul Bausch (@pbausch) February 29, 2016

What is the Pope's favorite low value chess piece and computer graphics format? pawn tiff. (workshop note: not how it's spelled.)

— Paul Bausch (@pbausch) September 25, 2015

Dad brain: titles of TV shows I haven't heard of sound like Pokemon. "Critics are raving about Kyurem. It's poised to be the next Rayquaza."

— Paul Bausch (@pbausch) September 22, 2015

Encouragement. pic.twitter.com/Be8Yxx1pnA

— Paul Bausch (@pbausch) September 15, 2015

Oregon is broken. pic.twitter.com/MUwTRtD0uD

— Paul Bausch (@pbausch) July 30, 2015

Facebook only includes top-level, non-reply comments in their comment counts. So a post can say '5 comments' but there are 75. *disapproves*

— Paul Bausch (@pbausch) July 16, 2015

• Hossein Derakhshan: The Web We Have to Save
  (MeFi's own) hoder became a human time capsule spending six years in an Iranian prison for blogging. He's shocked by the state of the Web: "The web was not envisioned as a form of television when it was invented. But, like it or not, it is rapidly resembling TV: linear, passive, programmed and inward-looking."

Me: We're getting new pictures of Pluto and that's a big deal because it's so far away. Sam: Yeah, it's in Disneyland!

— Paul Bausch (@pbausch) June 14, 2015

My children are not "springing forward" as expected and there is zero customer support. Please advise.

— Paul Bausch (@pbausch) March 8, 2015

• The Future of the Web Is 100 Years Old
  Dang, we ended up with a top-down Internet anyway. "Today, Google and a handful of other major Internet corporations like Facebook, Twitter, and Amazon fulfill much the same role that Otlet envisioned for the Mundaneum—channeling the world’s intellectual output." [via RF]