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Finally, someone gets it. Im not sure if you have been following Late night with Jimmy Fallon, but it is incredible. I was already a pretty big fan of his nervous almost startled comedy, but am becoming a bigger fan of his new show. Not even on the air for two weeks yet and we already have Kevin (@KevinRose) and Alex (@alexalbrecht) from Diggnation and Joshua from Engadget. It appears that Geek cred is finally starting to leak out into the world.

Jimmy (@Jimmyfallon) has been using Twitter to reach out to his fans, promote show segments, and acquire interview questions for his guests. Last night (3-11-09) Jimmy with the help of Kevin, Alex, and Russell Brand used twitter to promote an audience member’s following and see how popular they can make him.  Bryan Brinkman (@bryanbrinkman) was new to twitter and had around 7  followers. At 6pm EST. Tweets and reTweets started flowing asking for everyone to follow Bryan. I clicked the magic follow button around the 256 fan mark. Within minutes, I watched his count raise by several a second. Within an hour, the count rose to 7,000+ and the show had not even aired yet. This only goes to show the power of Twitter for connecting people. (Cue 7 degrees of Kevin Bacon) Qoolquest(@qoolquest), the drummer for the house band (The Roots). He even tweets while the show is taping.

As of this posting, Brian Brinkman has around 26,000 followers on Twitter.

The Brian Brinkman Experiment:

LA Times Article on the Experiment.

Joshua on LNwJF

Read more for Twitter explanation.
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You have to love SomethingAwful.com You really do…

Clicky the photo for Classic scenes, remixed with a pinch of Lightsaber and a sprinkle of midichlorians mixed together with the power of THE FORCE.

Star Wars as Classic Art

http://www.somethingawful.com

I was digging through some old computer parts and found this. How much do you think it will fetch on Ebay?

Have you ever wondered why ever version of Hoyter’s Hideout has that strange comment “Wasting time since 1997″? Well your in luck. I just so happen to have photographic proof that I have been “Wasting time since 1997″ with computers and my silly little home on the interwebs.

The site back then was little more than a page full of banner ads and pop-ups. I don’t have any copy of the original site since I deleted it several years ago, but I do have a screen show from the Internet Archive. It is a snapshot of the site sometime around 2002. See how proud I was of my self? I had a large V2.0 subtext next to the header. I was showing off that this wasn’t just some fly by night website…. No, No, No my friend. I was officially up to version 2. I will not comment on the yellow text and star background gif (thankfully the archive did not cache it), but remember that was before I was as professional web developer with version 3.0.

I guess I can call the Wordpress site, somewhere between version 4 and 15 depending on how much I need to brag about my HUPER SERO (thanks cole) web developer status so solidify myself among greats like Sally and her “Cats are my family”, Bob and “Mullets and Camaros” , and we must not forget that one guy in accounting that mentioned some site about a cup… I know, off the caffeine Matt and back to your silly little site.

Geez, that was back when I was still on AOL. I just noticed the address for the mail to.