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(from @laddiemint) @JoeGermuska I should check Twitter more often! Did you drink some Guiness and toss some hammers? Hopefully in that order. (in reply to this tweet)
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on beyond ‘A’… ‘Cavorting’, ‘Knavery’, ‘Prophecy’…(sources: Twitter user @mathowie (Matt Haughey))
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(from @brianboyer) @palewire The Trib newsroom loved yer War Dead piece! @JoeGermuska & @ryanmark are w/ me in Chi. Who’s out there w/ you?
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“An onomatopaeic imitation of the guitar riff commonly heard in 1970′s porn movies.”
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(from @kategardiner) RT @brianboyer Kick Ass News Apps! — projects to inspire journos http://bit.ly/Ueu2v My and @JoeGermuska‘s pitch to the Trib newsroom
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“Although reports are showing that the percentage of Cambodia’s population falling ill with TB declined in 2007, Stephan Bognar, Executive Director of MJP said that Cambodia had approximately 495 new cases per every 100,000. Only Zimbabwe and South Africa had higher rates. “We need, therefore, to find effective tools to quickly disseminate information to isolated and rural communities.”
“The University’s Dr Robert Fitzgerald says the researchers chose SMS text messaging as the information tool of choice because Cambodia has 85 per cent mobile phone coverage and texting can cost as little as 3 US cents.”
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Nice: @opencongress is tapping high school students to make new legislator profiles, wants your ideas http://bit.ly/sunpoll (via @EllnMllr)
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I’ve got an extra ticket to tonight’s A.W.A.R.D. dance show. Any takers? 8 pm @ Columbia Dance Ctr 1306 S. Michigan http://tr.im/pB4t
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(from @amandaruzin) I added a calendar for Tuesdays on the Terrace , which will be of interest to @Rachelskirts and @JoeGermuska: http://bit.ly/wrFOB
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(from @LuigiMontanez) @JoeGermuska Oh my, it’s $65,000. http://bit.ly/7BpvD (in reply to this tweet)
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As a public service to my fellow Chicagoans, I put together some calendars for my favorite free, outdoor concert series: Grant Park Music Festival, Edible Audible Picnic, Downtown Sound: New Music Mondays, Music Without Borders, Made in Chicago: World Class Jazz, Summerdance(sources: Twitter user @amandaruzin (Amanda Ruzin))
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@LuigiMontanez How much do you think something like that costs? (in reply to this tweet)
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(from @silverbell) @JoeGermuska a little queasy…. and a bit intrigued? hmm? (in reply to this tweet)
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“If you live in Ohio, you’re in very real danger of losing your public libraries. You need to contact your legislators now to save them or else Governor Strickland’s proposed budget cuts are going to end up shutting them down.”(sources: Twitter user @shifted (Jenny Levine))
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@awesomeupdater OK, where’s *my* love? Other folks have gotten doubles since I signed up. Did I say something to upset you? #awesomeupdater (in reply to this tweet)
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Can I just say that I have yet to see a #coolbandsmadeuncool tweet that was even a little funny?
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“I have yet to hear what possible good it would do for the President of the United States to encourage the protesters, except to give the Iranian regime a better excuse for killing more of them. McCain’s bleatings are either for domestic political consumption or self-satisfaction, a form of hip-shooting onanism that demonstrates why he would have been a foreign policy disaster had he been elected.”(sources: Twitter user @jayrosen_nyu (Jay Rosen ))
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(from @JPeep) Former boss: “Countries that treat women poorly waste half their human resources and will remain backwater shitholes until they wise up.”
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