• dominic:
    Find your Boston Bomber name by taking the first name of an innocent man and the second name of an innocent man and posting it on reddit

  • Sara E. Mayhew:
    So, did the internet spend all night wrongly accusing a Brown University student as 2nd Watertown suspect?

just the last four hours or so.

  • John Siracusa:
    Ill-advised 5am run to and from Logan airport successfully completed (albeit via a circuitous route).

the only possible reason you should do that today is if Boeing is giving you a 747.

  • Quinn Norton:
    Idly wondering how much Russia was supporting the Syrian regime to drain the Islamists out of Chechnya this whole time.

Boston is historically on the road to Damascus.

Sorry, I was half asleep when I tweeted at you. Was meant as a joke.

  • Quinn Norton:
    ah, was dealing with some pretty crazy statements at the time.

  • Linda Holmes:
    Endless speculation always feels like a quest for, ironically, comfort about how the world works. I think comfort will be elusive.

. I think the speculation is more about filling airtime, and our cultural need to all be pundits in real life.

  • Linda Holmes:
    Yeah, I think those things are both true.

The breaking of dawn across the country shortly followed by the sounds, “<yawn><stretch> . . . HOLY SHIT.”

…and things just got even more weird and complicated. RT @AP: BREAKING: AP sources: Boston bomb suspects from Russia region near Chechnya, lived in US at least 1 year.

  • Christina Warren:
    “All we know is he arrived in [cardiac] arrest here, we don’t know what happened at the scene” – Doctor’s at Beth Israel

which “he”?

would seem to contradict setting off explosives, then…

Attn: Facebook. Apparently a name went out on police scanners overnight who is a MISIDENTIFICATION of Boston 2nd suspect. So, you know, confirm before you share, okay?