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Mark and Wes in Pleasant Hill, CA at the Monsoon Masala restaurant.Sites of Interest:Office chair that measures farts and sends twitters. Brain-Twitter interface. There have been similar machines that read brainwaves as an input device to a video game.There are websites where you type commands and a virtual actor obeys them. E.g. Virtual Girlfriend.Long before twitter you could leave community messages on cards.The Community Memory system of public terminals.Optical signaling is an ancient method of long-distance communication.History of the Vocoder instrument, first demonstrated by AT&T at the 1939 World's Fair.The Legend Group turned into Lenovo and acquired IBM's Personal Computer Division.Version 9.04 of Ubuntu Linux was released.Nintendo Gameboy turns 20. You can play the old games on emulators.For several days, the Apple.com home page was taken over by a counter supposedely showing the number of app downloads as this approached one billion.Apple iTouch 3.0 firmware will unlock the Bluetooth capabili