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How the internet works: A case study

  • 11:09am: Brooklynite posts free desk on craigslist
  • 11:19am: A robot tweets the listing
  • 11:21am: The tweet shows up in one of my Tweetdeck columns, set to monitor tweets mentioning my neighborhood
  • 11:49am: Fifty pounds, four blocks, two sore arms, and one helpful passerby later, I have a new desk
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  1. Teleogistic / Stand for something on 08-Jun-11 at 8:48 am

    [...] with these is that they cost a lot of money. As evidenced by the fact that my current desk is a piece of crap I found for free on the internet, I don’t want to spend a bunch of money on a desk if I don’t have to. Also, it seems [...]

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