I just took 8 of the top 10 Trending Topics on Twitter and wrote a little story .

Next week, we'll be in Denver to join a great group of speakers and panelists at the Glue Conference , an event dedicated to solving the Web application integration problem-set. Glue is all too apt a name for a conference like that, because the people involved have obviously been huffing it for years.

For those of you who loathe LoudTwitter updates as much as i do, go to your journal customization page and enter these lines in the 'Custom stylesheet' box: .loudtwitter { display: none!important } Thanks to James Coupe for the link .

< rude_epiphany > http://xkcd.com/574/ < palecur > rude_epiphany: Error 509 funny not found < ronebofh > palecur: see, that's what penny arcade is like for me all the time...NEW OBAMA PUPPY MAY HAVE SWINE FLU AHMEDINAJAD DENIES HOLOCAUST, SWINE FLU NORTH KOREA LAUNCHES SWINE FLU MISSILE ***rude_epiphany motions with his hand, "this is not the swine flu you seek."

Consider the site stocktwits dot com (not linked directly to deny them any sort of "Google juice").  Not only would it be a fantastically stupid idea at any given moment, but given the current financial...stupid it's clever" hipster irony of cool all the way into the heart of "so clever it's stupid" territory all over again. Needless to say, neutering the people involved would be a public service.

Speaking of systems administration in The Other Place: rone: I'd love the job more if the industry weren't overrun with fuckheads at all levels. Nix: But that's true of *all* jobs, and all humanity...people in the world and hire only perfect employees!  I call it WebHire 3.0!  It will revolutionize the way that people work by letting them conduct all interpersonal relationships through Twitter!

View Poll: eyyy, sit on it

A correspondent referred to Esther Dyson as "the tech world's Paris Hilton."  I'm still snickering. "A founding member of the digerati..." srsly ppl wtf

There was a time when nerds who conceived outlandishly embarrassing ideas wouldn't be given the time of day by prospective mates.  These days, they're married and breeding .  I can't tell if this is good or bad.