Selection of My Twitter Favorites, Edition 68

Twitter is a microblogging service where people answer the question "What are you doing?" via 140-character messages from their cellphone, laptop or desktop. You can select the messages (called "tweets") that you find interesting, useful, amusing, or disagreeable. Here is the 68th edition of My Twitter Favorites (the oldest post is at the bottom, the newest at the top): Micro-blogging on Twitter is easy, fun and can be very useful and educational if you follow/subscribe to interesting people. You can read more here: A Doctor's Opinion: Why I Started Microblogging on Twitter and visit my account at Twitter/AllergyNotes.

1. Pogue Just saw "Up" with the kids. A masterpiece. What other studio would dare make a 70-year-old-man the main character? We laughed, we cried. about 7 hours ago from TweetDeck
   
   
2. Doctor_V I believe I'm the world's only pediatric gastroenterologist on Twitter about 8 hours ago from Twittelator
   
   
3. doc_rob @Doctor_V Don't get the association. I am just getting old and fat and want to at least fix one of those. about 14 hours ago from Nambu in reply to Doctor_V
   
   
4. HowardKurtz So now I've got facebook.com/howardkurtz, and my life doesn't seem to have improved. about 15 hours ago from web
   
   
5. martlayton got vanity url on facebook: facebook.com/martin.layton now whole world can see how few friends I have about 20 hours ago from web
   
   
6. pkedrosky The Alzheimer's phrase of "amyloid plaques and neurofibrillary tangles" is sad and lyrical, like something Lester Bangs might write. 7:24 PM Jun 12th from twhirl
   
   
7. HowardKurtz 1st painting you see in British ambassador's residence: King George III. Or as an aide put it: "The last king of America." 8:23 PM Jun 11th from web
   
   
8. OslerdoesEM Thank God for iPhone Skype and hijacked wifi from VIP airline club in airport. The interior of China feels like the other side of the world 10:33 PM Jun 10th from TwitterFon
   
   
9. steverubel Traveling laptopless again and loving it. All I have is an iPhone and my Mifi router. 9:59 PM Jun 10th from Tweetie
   
   
10. zappos Thought all day about running, finally did it. Concluded that thinking about running is more enjoyable than actually running. 9:28 PM Jun 10th from web
    
    
11. EdBennett BIG storms passing through - thunder, lightnng, the works. My brave little dogs have had enough. http://twitpic.com/2s675 5:50 PM Jun 9th from web
    
    
12. Pogue (Pranks, RT @carechiang:) HS senior prank - Let 4 greased pigs loose in school numbered 1, 2, 3 and 5. They hunted #4 for hours! 12:22 PM Jun 9th from TweetDeck
    
    

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