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Tweets and Stripes

To my fellow Americans, Happy Independence Day! As usual, the web is filled with Fourth of July celebrations and dedications. My favorite for this year is Code for America's Tweets and Stripes: The site aggregates twitter avatars from users who tweet about #July4 and beautifully mashes them up into a mosaic representation of the stars and stripes–again representing the diversity and unity of the original flag. The best part? The ever-changing mosaic is interactive in that when you mouseover an avatar, the user's tweet is nicely displayed, as such: Coincidentally, one of my first mouseovers displayed the above Star Wars-related tweet.  :mrgreen: I hope everyone reading this is having a great Fourth and that you're enjoying your holiday weekend! Via Boing Boing....

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Need a Pick-Me-Up?

I know that I certainly do. The past week hasn't been the easiest on me, mentally as well as physically, and today I felt the accumulation of the stress come crashing into me with the force of an eighteen wheeler. Here's to hoping that the next week will be better. And that whoever's down in the dumps with me will appreciate and benefit from this video as much as I did. [vimeo video_id="23607973" width="500" height="281" title="No" byline="No" portrait="No" autoplay="No" loop="No" color="00adef"] Via Mashable....

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