Zeronomy

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Wednesday
Oct 28,2009

I did a quick search in Google news and found this headline, which caught my attention quickly as it could have a pejorative slant with respect to Chinese-made stuff (which I would suggest is totally wrong-headed considering the volume and diversity of stuff made in China, or in any country really):

Cables snap and close SF Bay Bridge. Are cables made in China?

San Francisco Chronicle - ?2 hours ago?
The lesser cousin of the iconic Golden Gate Bridge (no less important and critical), the San Francisco Bay Bridge’s steel components have snapped…
When you visit the link however, there is nothing - the blog entry/article was pulled and just the author’s page is there - Yobie Benjamin, with a blank entry and a message “Comments have been removed from this entry.” Oops - guess some people got upset about it.
Monday
Dec 29,2008

Would be interesting to hear about other weird stuff that has been twittered live, like the guy who was in a plane crash - as it turns out I saw an interesting police chase that I twittered at one point last year and funnily enough I also used the “holy shit” version:

There are 8 cruisers at jessie str 12:05 PM Jun 4th, 2007

The one cop tripped over his own feet when he drew his weapon! 12:03 PM Jun 4th, 2007

Holy shit.. Cops weapons drawn in sf. 2nd and market 12:01 PM Jun 4th, 2007