From Twitter 08-02-2010

• 11:12:26: I thought you had too! Welcome back. Love, Twitter!RT @dillie: I thought I had forsaken you, Twitter...
  
• 11:17:38: Peeps who charge more for less oj? RT @kristainlondon: (...) Who puts ice in oj?
  
• 11:21:31: Won't buy much. Give 2 charity @ airport RT @kristainlondon: I need to spend all this before I leave the country.. http://twitpic.com/2awpnz
  
• 11:24:31: @brybryy @jonk : "double-double" is called "coffee light and sweet" in NYC.
  
• 11:25:10: Don't go to the UAE then... they're banning BB service. RT @Fox_Mullder: Ive decided my next phone will be a blackberry
  
• 11:27:17: I'm so drunk I'm about to barf... RT DentonPolice: 08/02/2010 01:42 | 17 years old | ALCOHOL/PUBLIC INTOXICATION http://twitpic.com/2aweit
  
• 11:42:23: Yes, please!RT @islurpp: Should I twitpic how amazing my legs are? LMAO.
  
• 11:48:27: RT @CampaignAsia: I’ve just started a new job but don’t get on with my boss, should I quit?: It's always... http://bit.ly/9K9rau
  
• 11:49:02: RT @Wilsurn: Photo: I love this picture. Seriously. http://tumblr.com/x2neqwo04
  
• 15:29:47: @MrPandaBehr Thanx, Jeffrey. Enjoyed looking through the Flickr photos. Easier to navigate than FB, IMHO.
  
• 15:32:24: Interesting.. RT @chrys: New post: Google's h mystery - character salad in search suggestions. http://tinyurl.com/2wmewoc #qb #unicode #i18n
  
• 15:53:14: Christopher LOOKS innocent but... RT DentonPolice: 08/02/2010 07:00:21 | 19 yo | BURGLARY OF VEHICLE http://twitpic.com/2ay5rf
  
• 15:54:13: @seismic007 I suspect that our Christopher may not have had bail assigned. He may be at the mercy of the jailhouse molesters.
  
• 15:57:14: Jessica is channeling Daisy Mae... RT DentonPolice: 08/02/2010 07:32:38 | 26 yo | ALCOHOL/PUBLIC INTOX http://twitpic.com/2aycx1
  
• 15:59:53: The whole city? RT @bbcnews: Liverpool could be bought by a Chinese business tycoon within days, according to a sour... http://bit.ly/deh4jt
  
• 16:24:43: @Hey_its_AJ He's closer, I guess. He can have him. But we want a full report later.
  
• 18:33:52: Hooray, Just a Minute is back on Radio 4!!
  
• 22:41:39: #listeningto "Peter White, Romance Dance" http://bit.ly/ad8uU3
  
• 22:59:47: #listeningto "Paul Taylor, Exotica" http://bit.ly/a1LoFI
  
• 23:11:31: "Sing Along" Star Mitch Miller Dies, Age 99 - ABC News: http://bit.ly/bwwdj5 Good God, I thought he was already 6 feet under.
  

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Mr. Cheez Doodles, RIP

It is my sad duty to report that Mr. Cheez Doodles, Morrie Yohai, has died at the age of 90. Snack food junkies all over North America will be in mourning today. I would suggest lurid fluorescent orange armbands in tribute to his signature snack, which he invented in the late 1950's.

May he rest in peace and rise in glory.

Soapy Stalker

From Risks Digest comes a story of a promotion for Omo detergent in Brasil. The scary part is that, when you pick a special box of Omo off the shelf and take it home, a GPS unit hidden in the box starts transmitting your location to the company. Once you've gotten home, a team comes to your door, rings your doorbell, and presents you with a pocket video camera. So you live in an apartment complex? No problem! From the article:

Once there, the teams have portable equipment that lets them go floor by floor in apartment buildings until they find the correct unit...

You can therefore run, but you can't hide.



The scariest part of this is what happens if you don't open the door to someone you don't recognise. The team can remotely activate a beeper in the box of detergent to prove their bona fides!

Another quote from the marketing company flack: "Anything can happen," Mr. Figueiredo said. "We have to be innovative, but we don't know what reaction to expect from consumers."

In a country where there is a lot of gun crime and a high level of violence in some places, I can see a situation where someone from the City of God brings home a box of Omo, the team tracks them down and knocks at their door and then activates the beeper in the box. The person inside decides that he's going to be blown up and comes to the door, guns blazing.

Thus it is appropriate that the marketing and promotions agency that thought all this up is called Bullet.

Douglas Adams had the right idea about marketing departments:

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy defines the marketing division of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation as "a bunch of mindless jerks who'll be the first against the wall when the revolution comes," with a footnote to the effect that the editors would welcome applications from anyone interested in taking over the post of robotics correspondent.

Curiously enough, an edition of the Encyclopaedia Galactica that had the good fortune to fall through a time warp from a thousand years in the future defined the marketing division of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation as "a bunch of mindless jerks who were the first against the wall when the revolution came."

The hidden reason for so many centenarians in Japan

After Sogen Kato's body, mummified after 30 years, was discovered in his son's flat when civic officials called on him to congratulate him on being Tokyo's oldest man, we now hear that Tokyo's oldest listed person is missing and can't be found.

So the real reason that Japan has so many centenarians seems to be that their children are hiding their bodies away to continue receiving the Social Security payments due them. I suppose that the mercury in the raw fish sushi is what's doing them all in…