In the progression from magazines to blogs to Twitter feeds, the tea leaves are clear. I think we need a new social network, on which updates will take the form of nothing more than a single “0″ or “1″.
We can call it “Bitter.”
Cosmic Variance is a group blog by people who, coincidentally or not, all happen to be physicists and astrophysicists:
Our day (and night) jobs notwithstanding, the blog is about whatever we find interesting — science, to be sure, but also arts, politics, culture, technology, academia, and miscellaneous trivia. We have similar outlooks on many things, widely disparate opinions about others, and will do our best to keep the discourse reasonably elevated.
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February 23rd, 2009 at 7:12 pm
01001100 01001111 01010110 01000101
February 23rd, 2009 at 7:36 pm
I’d imagine such a service would find much use for people who idly wonder “I wonder if so-and-so has dropped off the face of the Earth yet.” 0 for no, 1 for yes.
It would serve an essential service like http://hasthelargehadroncolliderdestroyedtheworldyet.com/
February 23rd, 2009 at 7:40 pm
zero
February 23rd, 2009 at 8:03 pm
01010011011001010111001001101001011011110111010101110011011011000111100100111111
February 23rd, 2009 at 9:31 pm
@Freiddie:
1
February 23rd, 2009 at 10:06 pm
BINARY SOLO!!
100010001010110001000100010001000
February 23rd, 2009 at 10:16 pm
Also: http://www.isgeorgewbushstillpresident.com/
0.
February 23rd, 2009 at 10:27 pm
maybe John Wheeler can follow with “itter from bitter”
e.
February 24th, 2009 at 4:00 am
2.
February 24th, 2009 at 8:11 am
http://www.hasthelhcdestroyedtheearth.com/
0.
February 24th, 2009 at 12:16 pm
Twitterers (”Twits”) have already tried, and rejected that idea, in favor of an even more brief communication protocol developed by the government during the last administration: “Unary”, consisting solely of zeros.
February 24th, 2009 at 2:09 pm
There are only 10 kinds of people in the world. Those that understand binary and those who do not.
February 25th, 2009 at 2:43 am
!
February 25th, 2009 at 10:54 am
lol rephrase, there are 2 species in the planet, machines who understand numbers and humans who used to understand wor(l)ds… and now understand nothing but worship machines who understand numbers… those are called… scientists
February 25th, 2009 at 2:37 pm
4e 6f 77 2c 20 77 65 27 72 65 20 74 61 6c 6b 69 6e 67 2e 20 54 68 69 73 20 61 70 70 20 69 73 20 6d 61 64 65 20 66 6f 72 20 6d 65 2e
February 27th, 2009 at 4:39 pm
3 a 2 d 2 9
March 3rd, 2009 at 3:18 pm
@TheYear2000
Affirmative.