CrikeyMike

Only in Eugene? I think not. At UC Santa Cruz, clothing is (was) optional.

Twitter as brain drain? Mark thinks otherwise... Twitter definitely sucks up a lot of people's time, and in that sense, it occupies their brains and, obviously their hands, which should make it an ally of your moral compass. That is, if, as the saying goes, "idle hands are the devil's workshop," all those Tweeters are too busy for Satan to redirect their moral indolence for his evil purposes. Agreed.

Can BlackBerry catch up to iPhone with its new App World? I think so. BlackBerries are more mature devices and with support for more tech platforms (Read: Adobe Flash) it already has a leg up on Apple. But Apple is almost sure to release a new Flash-capable iPhone at the upcoming WWDC. Hey, it's all good for choice. Now BlackBerry just needs to improve its touch sceen models. The BlackBerry apps in this roundup are a good first jab at Apple, but it'll have to pick up the pace...

From the page: "Twitter's bid for revenue: paid pro accounts

Twitter co-founder Biz Stone has confirmed that paid accounts with enhanced features are on their way. A number of other opportunities exist for the social messaging startup, but it appears that 2009 will indeed be the year that Twitter begins to make money."

That cat must have been drinkin' ... A bobcat has attacked three people in the central Arizona community of Cottonwood, including two men who were bitten by the animal after it wandered inside a bar... police say the animal attacked Monday when it scratched a woman who thought she had hit it with her car. Then police got a report of a bobcat acting aggressively toward a woman outside a Pizza Hut.

Barack Obama, Twitter's second most popular user (CNN has passed him), updated his Twitter account today for the first time since taking office. ... I guess he's been kinda busy.