"I never thought it would happen, but England’s football team is becoming middle-class."

"Debunking the social stigma around late risers"

Good overview of the practical problems of opening the skies up to drones. File the term "lost-link event" away for future news panics.

"Double Shyamalan"

"Sooner or later, his advisers will surely find a way for him to dispense with the actual objects altogether and he will package concepts in tranches, like mortgage securities, some good stuff with some trash, to be traded on the bourse in Miami-Basel."

"We use it to make our voices go squeaky for a laugh. It is very, very stupid. It makes me really angry."

"The current de facto scoreboard of the internet has done its baleful calculations and announced that a spambot is more influential on Twitter than the very creator of Twitter itself. Clearly this is outlandish! ... In case I didn't foreshadow this enough, here comes the smug contrarian argument: Klout, at least in this instance, is right."

"It is precisely because I value my writing that I want it to be online and free. I don't write merely to rub two pennies together; I write because I want to have an impact in the world. I want to work with my community to break stories and tell jokes, to highlight injustice and find better ways of solving problems... The Internet is where the action is: it's where all the elegant, dirty, pretty, lowbrow, brilliant ideas come together to commingle and evolve."

"If we need simple narratives so people can amplify and spread them, are we forced to engage only with the simplest of problems? Or to propose only the simplest of solutions?"

"...a study of a bunch of vain and ignorant young people who can think and feel only in cliches and appear to be laboring under the notion that Mark Zuckerberg invented both compassion and democracy for them sometime around 2004."

"(59) Tell her how you feel while you stand at the foot of the huge bed and look upon her sleeping body, while cursing yourself for being a ghost whose words cannot be heard by the living."

Yep.

"The last known Rabb’s fringe-limbed tree frog now lives by himself at Zoo Atlanta in Georgia after the zoo euthanized the only other member of its species." :-(

"Cats-make-you-crazy stories are hard to scale, while commodity content is much easier to replicate." (I'm not convinced you can't do both of these things simultaneously.)

"The genre conventions of blogging are changing. Few old-style linkblogs exist and a whole culture has developed around the longread... This is the Radiolab effect extended: expect less pretension to authority, greater understanding of one's nodeness, but greater respect for the production culture of the pre-web era."

"Use a video of a cat. Doesn't matter what type, just use a cat."

Not only does it turn rats into risk-addicted death-cult sex robots, it turns them into HOT risk-addicted death-cult sex robots.

"As a sporting chorus, banter has something close to a built-in obsolescence. The native tone of the football fan is in reality something closer to boredom, frustration and quiet loathing. Banter is still an intrusion into these closely guarded places. It is a forced marriage, the sound of people who don't really like sport talking about sport. This is the secret sadness of banter."

<p>Can't wait for the first time a city gets the Blue Street of Death.</p>

"Nothing Horse_ebooks had been or even remotely intended to create could have matched this response: smart people debating, condemning and mourning the loss of a vaguely defined artificial voice and sincerely declaring that they preferred the early work of a spam bot better than its compromised new stuff."

Well that's not good.

Interesting RT @google: At @ONAConf, Google News announces new tag for standout content, scoops, story of the day, etc:

RT @PolpoSoho: You learn SO much from the blue plaques of Soho:

What it means:

Good get RT @rhjames164: Apparently I have turned into Steve Jobs (only been in the job a few weeks...) -

@TomChivers @indiaknight @sarahditum I've always loved for the off-the-charts wrongness.

"If we do not have causality, we are buggered." That will have been easy for you to going to be saying.

It remains to have been seen whether he will be regretting going to have said that previously.

Oh my. I only just discovered that the Arizona Republic have a film critic called Bill Goodykoontz:

Oh hai, Julian Assange book:

3D printed aerial drones for £1,200, targeting the "civil market", courtesy of Southampton Uni.

RT @RyanLizza: RT @amaeryllis: Here's where SCOTUS Orders are posted, usually immediately. There's nothing [yet]

Emphasises that the case is about risk communication, not earthquake prediction. Scientists come out of it looking fine; government official, much less so.

So my friend @rtjpoet is raising funding for his (brilliant) new show He's 94% of the way there. Go and give him money.

The question is, I guess, why, when it could have been so potent a target. (Obvious answers: no clear goals; high barrier to participation; bad timing; twats.)

RT @davepell: Great Tweet exchange ever?

Possibly.

@RadioKate Not just that building - really weird failure to sync copyright laws across Europe:

Although, upon review, the irredeemable jizznozzles attacking @TomChivers for doing a sponsored run are up there too:

I think this might be the type specimen of batshit insane Telegraph comments...

RT @TomChivers: A guest writer, Paul Flynn, responds to yesterday's Brendan O'Neill piece about gay culture

WT actual F, Italy? RT @newsmary: Italian scientists on trial for failing to predict earthquake

Must say, @xtophercook's inverse-FOI in - aiming *not* to recover information - is a rather excellent wheeze.

@benhammersley Waaaaay ahead of you ;-)

Reckon this sperm bank "turning away gingers" is just a 'Beautiful People' style PR-stunt: (via @MarkBorkowski)

@malcolmcoles @MartinSFP Glad somebody actually got round to making that...

@SimonNRicketts These men all love their massive vegetables:

@charlesarthur But look at the huge sales success the One Direction's endorsement bestowed on the 3DS! Oh, wait.

I see the BBC still hasn't managed to take that link to a spam site off the tweet feed on its Rugby home page:

As far as I can see, BBC don't even nofollow links on their tweetfeeds. 3 hours now they've been promoting a spam site:

Dear BBC: if you want to have your correspondents' tweets displayed on your pages, maybe spam-filter them first?

Amazing RT @rhodri: I love this level of nerdiness. The first 1000 numbers in alphabetical order, from 8 to 202.

@duncangeere Very

@charlesarthur @qwghlm All I'll say is that it involved this jumper:

Thanks AP! RT @AP From feminine hygiene products to "vajazzling," the vagina is big business, as AP's @Maetron explains

@katbrown82 Or

@katbrown82 Ahem

"...claims [Sarah] Palin snorted cocaine off the top of an overturned oil drum while snowmobiling..."

Yay, @LanguageLog v @bengoldacre fight! #nerdwars #passiveaggression

RT @nickbilton: Having trouble w/ Twitter, or other sites, it's cos the whole Internets tubes are suffering outages:

Web Grepper looks… interesting: Deep web search, of code not just content.

This Tuvan shaman's hair is a bird. Your argument is invalid.

The extreme tidying thing also reminds me of my approach to Bananagrams:

RT @newsmary: In response to the overwhelming number of ridiculous news headlines in the last week, this now exists.

Current status:

I like how the man on the upper right of the Indie front page can't decide whether to shoot the squirrel or the bird

Current status:

@SianySianySiany RSS button doesn't exist in Chrome. But this extension adds it:

Interesting!

"Philadelphia Media Network Inc., owners of The Inquirer and Philadelphia Daily News... said last week that they would begin the "soft launch" Tuesday of a new digital product: a deeply discounted Android tablet loaded with discounted subscriptions to replica editions of The Inquirer and Daily News and a new multimedia Inquirer tablet app."

"We can bitch about it, but Facebook, Twitter, Google and all the rest are, in many ways the very definition of modern life in the democratic west. For many, a functioning internet with freedom of speech, and a good connection to the social networks of our choice is a sign not just of modernity, but of civilisation itself... It is the central platform for business, culture, and personal relationships. There’s not much else left. To misunderstand the centrality of these services to today’s society is to make a fundamental error. The internet isn’t a luxury addition to life; for most people, knowingly or not, it is life."

RT @edyong209: RT @SciencePunk: Videos of people impersonating the sound of dial-up modems.

@adebradley It's a reference to The Best Picture of David Miliband Ever:

RT @benhammersley: 92% of Afghan men ages 15 to 30 have never heard of 9/11

@mashplant Yes! Here is a BRILLIANT picture:

YAY RT @McKelvie: Ladytron's new album is streaming a week early on Spotify:

RT @DIMBLEBOT: DIMBLEANNOUCEMENT: THE *ALL NEW* PRIMARY DIMBLENODE () SHALL LAUNCH AT 15.00 READY FOR THE GLORIOUS RE ...

RT @timoreilly: #ebook pioneer Michael Hart, founder of the Gutenberg Project, died yesterday Anyone who's read a bo ...

Oooh, could be a nice job > @BreakingNews looking for a UK-based editor to join the team (via @AlexGubbay @lfmccullough)