Dave Winer hacked a cool ‘river of twits’ that (using an RSS feed of NYT’s latest headlines and Twitter’s public API) posts new headlines from the New York Times to the account twitter.com/nyt, complete with automated “tinyurl” link to the story. Hey, Twitter is a newsreader.

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Megan Goodchild just emailed me to ask if I’d ever heard of the rex, “a Front Row compatible infrared remote control that can be stored in the ExpressCard/34 slot of a MacBook Pro.” Answer: no.

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• Twitter message of the day | twitter.com/BJMcCray
  My friend from the smallbizosphere, Becky McCray, twittered this last night: “I’ll bet I bought more booze today than anyone else on Twitter! :)” (She owns a liquor store.)
  (tags: twitter)
• Face-to-Face Trumps Twitter, Blogs, Podcasts, Video | Kathy Sierra
  Quote: “All our globally-connecting-social-networking tools are making face-to-face more, not less desirable.” Reminds me: I went to Austin just to meet Kathy Sierra and forgot to as I was too busy Twittering.
  (tags: sxsw sxsw2007 twitter kathy+sierra)
• Wired.com gets new look | Wired.com
  I’m liking it. Bonus link: A blog-post gallery of screenshots from the new look and old.
  (tags: wired.com magazines)