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Track shipments with Twitter

pb30 has an awesome thing. You can get updates from UPS, DHL, and FedEx on Twitter.

Here are the simple instructions, taken straight from pb30’s page:

Follow @trackthis - Since @trackthis uses direct messages, you must follow it so it can send direct messages to you. @trackthis will follow you back immediately so that you can send [...]

The Flip is sick

Check out this 20-second clip that I took with the Flip Video. It’s an awesome little device:

This is what I tweet about

TweetClouds has an interesting mashup:

A Twitter book!

Tom Merritt, Molly Wood, Jason Howell, and Leo Laporte are collaborating on Twitter.

I haven’t listened to today’s Buzz Out Loud, but I bet that’s where it started. I think this is a brilliant idea, and I will definitely follow it. As of 12:20 PST today, @140novel already has 38 followers.

reCAPTCHA for the win.

I have implemented reCAPTCHA to prevent spammers from stealing my PageRank votes.

reCAPTCHA is cool because each time you fill one out, you are digitizing an old book in the process.
You can read more about it here: http://recaptcha.net/learnmore.html
Try it out below.

Lookin back at Blacksburg

This photo was taken on April 20th, 2007 on the Drillfield.