WTF? Swedish cultural minister performs clitoridectomy on cake shaped like an African woman at event about FGM: http://t.co/wvWY33j1

Idea: TED Ex. Your former lovers have 18 minutes each to discuss your flaws, streamed live on the web.

Recent note from a good friend: "I don't know if I'm pro-Wikileaks, but I know I'm anti-anti-Wikileaks"...

"Terrorists want media attention, so we give it to them. Unsafe industries don’t want media attention"&we ignore them  http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/mike-elk-the-texas-fertilizer-plant-explosion-cannot-be-forgotten/2013/04/23/48eb770c-ac26-11e2-b6fd-ba6f5f26d70e_story.html?Post+generic=%3Ftid%3Dsm_twitter_washingtonpost …

ACTA defeated, Higgs Boson found (maybe) - perhaps US should take a day off more often?

Google engineer investigates CS education in Vietnam, discovers many 11th graders would pass Google hiring exam:  http://neil.fraser.name/news/2013/03/16/ …

Al Jazeera releasing their Egypt coverage under CC licenses. Thanks @mohamed! This is progressive, important: http://rww.to/ezGnwc

"Tweetbombs and the ethics of attention" - my reflection the Twitter trollstorm @xeni was victim of earlier today: http://t.co/JSQt0DXt

Impressed to see Google going this far out on a limb: warning users that some account compromise may be state-sponsored http://t.co/IGvWuZKc

Now THAT's a cover letter - http://t.co/gCL1a1FU - Hunter S. Thompson applies for a journalism job in 1958

Huawei sells 350k Android-based smart phones in Kenya, challenging idea that Africans use Nokia 1100s... http://t.co/bozVbP0

Facebook has lots more users, but Twitter may have more influence, at least over traditional media - http://t.co/E5MM6aAe

$5k college scholarship for the best tweet about the (US) first amendment: http://t.co/8KwwUzgZ

You're invited to the #occupydata hackathon, analyzing #OWS data, at @civicmit this Friday, December 9: http://t.co/Px4uowU2

Great story. Santorum claims 5% of Dutch deaths come from forced euthenasia. They don't. Dutch respond, politely: http://t.co/3DExmpTM

Great explanation from @techsoc why it doesn't make sense to get angry at Twitter for their recent policy change: http://t.co/auzD2jom

Amazing job available: Advocacy director for @globalvoices. We're looking for someone very special for this job: http://t.co/jbWyfHOO

Great post on how social media is covering the drug war in Mexico and the government's bizarre decision to silence it: http://t.co/pdJstIU

Saudi journalist Hamza Kashgari could face death penalty for tweeting an imagined dialog with the Prophet: http://t.co/4m8g0EK2

State of the Union transcript, synced with video, with in-line fact checking. Nicely done, NYT: http://t.co/xTj8Gb1d