this is very cool of Google -- Egyptians can tweet by leaving a voicemail, no Internet required: http://is.gd/iww5Pl #egypt #jan25

Eric Schmidt says between the beginning of time and 2003, about 5 exabytes of info created (1,000 petabytes) - now we do that every two days

in case you missed it: "It’s not you Facebook, it’s me - okay, it’s partly you: Why I unfriended almost everyone"  http://buff.ly/WhEe6X 

Apple = use this app, if you don't like it, too bad; Android = try these fifteen apps, none of which work the way you want them to

this story about a boy who escaped a North Korean prison camp is the closest thing to Orwell's 1984 I've ever read: http://t.co/j9tdpXbN

Minecraft's response to a fan: "Just pirate it. If you still like it when you can afford it in the future, buy it then"  http://www.forbes.com/sites/davidthier/2012/01/12/minecraft-creator-notch-tells-players-to-pirate-his-game/ …

Twitter has released a graphic of last night's tweets: http://flic.kr/p/9E2XzN

Tim Gowers, a Fields medalist in math, says he will no longer publish or edit for an Elsevier journal: http://t.co/iCKZT6la

if you like how five companies claimed copyright on NASA's Mars video, you're going to love Google's changes to search: http://t.co/0C4GEFCM

if you haven't seen it already, Jennifer Lawrence's press Q & A session after the Oscars is hilarious:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ACQpZW-eTg …

Swartz had a webpage in the event that he was "hit by a truck" -- wanted the contents of his hard drives posted:  http://www.aaronsw.com/2002/continuity 

the Plus One Collection: a book of photos crowdsourced from Google+ http://t.co/SlpbuyBX

Apple's profit last year = more than Microsoft, eBay, Google, Yahoo, Facebook and Amazon combined:  http://flpbd.it/UvAQt 

"I hereby resign" -- interesting post re: Facebook background checks of potential hires: http://t.co/mNgnlVWE

there are more black men in the grip of the criminal justice system than there were enslaved during the 1800s: http://t.co/U5wL3v9l

in SF, I took a cab and left without paying (Über), got a coffee using only my name (Square) and stayed in a stranger's house (AirBnB)

Reddit mod note: "like to extend the deepest apologies to the family of Sunil Tripathi for any part we may have had"  http://www.reddit.com/r/findbostonbombers/comments/1co7kp/mod_note_despite_what_was_allegedly_overheard_on/ …

this App Store review of Color is one of the funniest reviews I've read in a long time -- and apt: http://t.co/cZnrAL0 /via @gruber

hilarious letter by AdamYauch to the New York Times, which criticized the video for Ch-Check It Out: http://t.co/L1cLXMpj (3rd letter)

This just keeps getting weirder: RT @felixsalmon: Garry Kasparov arrested for attending the Pussy Riot trial: https://t.co/5hyUMk6m