TWTFTW*, the best of MiramarMike, 4th-17th June, 2007

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TWTWTW: That Was The Week That WasBlog articles
The fortnight was long, adventurous but not particularly stunning on the blog although I actually met a blogger in real life on Friday over a wine at work. It's quite strange how my blogging life is distinct from my 'real' life which is probably a good segue to the sanatravious posting I'd love you to read from the past 14 days: Facebook and other 'social networks'

As for most commented upon, it was both the Facebook article and And more on the geek front - Google announces Gears


Shared RSS items
I've been haphazard with my RSS reading/sharing [RSS]so I'm sure I've missed the best of the rest - in the meantime here is the top 15 that I did manage to peruse (top posting in bold):
  1. This Saturday: a happiness quotation from Viktor Frankl.
  2. Top 10 science fiction novelists of the '00s -- so far
  3. Two Great Videos in Plain English
  4. Flight of the Conchords
  5. Future of Media Video: Google Takes Over the World by 2050
  6. BBC and Microsoft Photosynth Britain
  7. Analyzing the Facebook Platform, three weeks in
  8. Fiction Writing 2.0: Six New Ways To Write The Next Great Novel
  9. Do You Have Too Many Points of Contact?
  10. Hoodie included in Collins English Dictionary
  11. Die Laughing
  12. Are the All Blacks winning more than ever?
  13. Google Interiors - The Day My House Became Searchable
  14. New Digital Paper Knows How to Play Sounds
  15. The Branding of Entertainment

Photos
Photos uploaded for this fortnight in June include:
Oodles from the shared list, I think you should take a look at these:
A handful I want to share:
Flickr: Brr, cold winters day in Wellington Flickr: Jack gives his dinosaur lecture Flickr: Ories 28 Tawa 24

My pick for my weekly PC wallpaper is ... Crane Rise:
Crane Rise



Bookmarks
And finally, from the del.icio.us bookmarks, They're made out of meat by Terry Bisson [scifi] - one of the finest short (and I mean short!) stories I've read!


Videos
Cute, geeky and funny this week - but don't miss this:



* TWTFTW = That Was The FORTNIGHT That Was. Named after a 1960's British satirical TV programme [BBC | Wikipedia]

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