• Furloughs do have their moments. At thebeach, East River style http://twitpic.com/8v9o3 #
• The worst part of Summer is stumbling out of some dive and discovering the sun is still up. #

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Readers who will be in or around New York City on Thursday, take note: awesome indie bookstore McNally Jackson is hosting a forum called “Transhumanism: Past, Present, and Future”: What’s the next step in human and technological evolution? Transhumanism is…

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Just published at Forbes.com:

This week’s gallimaufry is best enjoyed while standing in an interminable line waiting to enter an Apple store. • D ANG ER!! • Meat dress • Rivamonte robots • 10 absurd Time covers • Your logo makes me barf •…

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• @stanza28 I don’t know why they don’t show up, that’s weird. Maybe a service interruption? I follow back very erratically, no policy yet. #
• How tough is a Toughbook? @bcaulfield fed one to a tiger and fired bullets through it. Did it still work? http://bit.ly/kRMua #

• NYers: @mcnallyjackson hosts transhumanist forum Thu 6/25 7pm. Robot apocalypse is coming; If you can’t beat em, join ‘em. #

• RT @mashable: Building Collapses in Bkln; Google Street View Shows a Crack - http://bit.ly/1tdLh #

• @ElisabethEaves destroy all humans? #

• New live streaming game video in the MLB At Bat iPhone app is the best thing ever. I’ve never felt so futuristic. #
• My iPhone has suspiciously broken on the day of the new version’s release. You win this time, Apple. #
• Should open source software be more like Doctor Who? And is there anything nerdier than this idea? http://bit.ly/2bYTeR #
• Out of the many twitterers documenting long lines at Apple stores, I am most enjoying the increasingly homicidal @kpereira #

Just published at Forbes.com:

From the department of curious Google ad targeting comes this item, which appeared today in my RSS feed: Because what goes better with weird bacon-based foodstuffs than elegant, Pulitzer Prize-winning novelists?

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