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You should consider switching to another service like Pownce or Friendfeed.

This is a major corporation bullying ordinary people out of their usernames with Twitter as an accomplice, forcing them all to fight to recover what was theirs.

It’s the exact opposite of what is the right way to do this. If Twitter cannot afford the time to review user account complaints on a case-by-case basis, then they shouldn’t accept such complaints at all. Just taking companies like MTV at their word and doing a blanket list-based ban is hostile to their user base, essentially opening it up to capricious raping by third parties.

Twitter has handled this terribly, and considering the way they shot themselves in the foot with the whole Ariel Waldman fiasco, it’s obvious that the people at Twitter have no clue how to protect their users and shouldn’t be in the business they’re in. Other online entities get this right — it isn’t rocket science.

That doesn’t sound like the previously described situation (being informed that your username was changed). The email from Twitter makes it sound like people were ASKED to change usernames.

In the Age of TiVo and Web Video, What Is Prime Time?
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/12/business/media/12ratings.html

Money quote:

““The Office” is a hit with those most likely to delay watching.”

However, I disagree, if only because video-on-demand is already here. I can watch Family Guy on Hulu, or old Star Trek episodes on Veoh. Full length movies aren’t far behind — hell, Netflix is already offering them on-demand.

My point being, that’s simply where ads and ad dollars will move. Commercials embedded in on-demand video. And in a world of infinite choices, networks can try to cram hit episodes with the higher-priced advertising, or they can try to smooth our the peaks and troughs in their traffic by commissioning things that are going to hold the audience’s attention a little longer.

Not to mention that it’s clear that many of the viewers advertisers would most want to reach — the smart, technically savvy ones — already love serialized content. The fact that it’s not in a convenient format already is the only reason we’re all getting it off Netflix or Bittorrent. Make it free, make it available right now — sure, I’ll sit through some ads.

Even grizzly bears, who you’d think would be going after bigger prey, eat insects during a certain time of year…

Grizzlies & Army Cutworm Moths

Bears Binge on Small Insects Found on High Mountain Slopes

http://mammals.suite101.com/article.cfm/a_bears_mountainside_treat

From what I understand - most insects are edible - but mankind never really looked to them as a source of protein because the amount of energy it takes to gather them is not worth the amount of energy you get back by eating them. Except for a few tribes in Africa that live in proximity to some huge insects - it just doesn’t make sense.

Really - if you were in the wild and trying to survive - you’d only want to start hunting scorpions if there was nothing bigger or meatier around.

One, only a couple of us are getting any richer from the Seed largesse by blogging (Pharyngula and someone else to cover my arse): and

Two, many of us aren’t in the US. I myself am Australian, along with Tim Lambert. There are a few British as well. I bet some are Canadian, although of course they would keep that quiet. But I’m not making $10 per post or anything near it.

Ask Science to develop cheap desalinization methods.

Ask Science to develop a method to transmogrify the ever-widening river of shit that flows beneath our sprawling metropoli into farmable dirt.

Farms can then grow up, not out.

Or, just start more wars, thin out the herd.