• Brian Stelter:
  On CBS, @DrLaPook says he talked to a doctor at Mass General who, describing the injuries, said it’s “like a bomb explosion in Baghdad.”

MT @brianstelter: On CBS, doctor at Mass Gen described injuries, said it’s “like a bomb explosion in Baghdad.”//Of course. Bombs do that.

• Darby Lines:
  You know what’s more annoying than scheduled tweets today? Sanctimonious whining about scheduled tweets today.

@Angry_Drunk I am getting very annoyed by corporate and personal “our hearts are with Boston” tweets. Fuck your sympathy, stay off the air.

• Kirk McElhearn:
  BBC reporting of Boston bombings is essentially talking on the phone to random people near the site who know nothing. WTF? @BBCBreaking

@mcelhearn which I guarantee you is far better than what we’re broadcasting.

• Kirk McElhearn:
  @jeffporten Sky News (the Murdoch channel) is much better. Go figure.

• NewsBreaker :
  UPDATE: Boston Police requesting video taken of the finish line at time of explosions at #BostonMarathon

• Alyssa Milano:
  ?Here’s where to donate blood in MA: http://www.redcrossblood.org/ma  /via @improvasylum #BostonMarathon @heykim

“@Alyssa_Milano: ?where to donate blood in MA: http://www.redcrossblood.org/ma  // but wait for announcement that blood is needed.

Has @flargh checked in?

• Jon Seff:
  @jeffporten He’s fine https://twitter.com/flargh/status/323887083666173952 …

@jonseff thanks.

• Abigail Collazo:
  Does anyone know if the Boston Red Cross needs blood donations right now? #bostonmarathon

@LeftStandingUp There was an RT with contact info, but no details about what’s needed.

• TimKarr:
  #Boston cell phone networks are the first to fail after explosions, acc. To many on the ground there. #bostonmarathon

@TimKarr text messages frequently work when calls don’t go through.

• DowntownDC:
  To those who noticed, you may see increased @DCPoliceDept activity #downtowndc due to incident in Boston. No threats, just precautionary.

• Tom Negrino:
  Today is a recovery day from being very, very ill. So I have to tell that part of me that’s critical of taking Vicodin at 10 AM to STFU.

@negrino I will do that for you. Pain meds are one of the privileges of living in the 21st-century.

Definition of a busy weekend: Doctor Who view count: 0.

• F Stavrakopoulou:
  How I laughed at this Jesus joke! It is a joke, right? Right?? Oh. Oh dear. pic.twitter.com/0GG0Kl9JBq

• Lex Friedman:
  Gave a new talk at Úll about how developers can learn from Apple’s mistakes. Also cohosted a live episode of Unprofessional. Also got tired.

@lexfri “Don’t ship a 26-pound product and name it the Portable.”

• Jeff Carlson:
  Twitterrific getting connection errors on my Mac, so I’m using http://Twitter.com . How do people use this shit Web version?

• Josh Centers:
  @jeffcarlson Whiskey helps.

• Jeff Carlson:
  @jcenters Good idea! I’m editing TidBITS right now, what could possibly go wrong? Up next, the Flenn Gleishmon issue!

@jeffcarlson @jcenters “Too many people have joined TidBITS, which is aged for 21 years. So we reduced editorial accuracy to 85%.”

• Jeff Carlson:
  @jeffporten @jcenters “This statement may or may not be 85% accurate.”

• Josh Centers:
  @jeffcarlson @jeffporten Margin of error: +/- 15%

• Glenn Fleishman:
  Apple’s internal disinformation team will ensure press buzzing about biomedicine requiring digital suppository. Then Samsung Ream announced.

@GlennF Talk about a market segment where thinner is better….

• Josh Centers:
  @jeffporten @GlennF Don’t forget chamfered edges.

@jcenters @glennf If chamfer is a kind of cologne, yes, that would also be useful.

• Glenn Fleishman:
  @chuq @jeffporten @jeffcarlson @jcenters @chrishiggins 2,000 subscriptions, and you get to kill the others.

• Josh Centers:
  @GlennF @chuq @jeffporten @jeffcarlson @chrishiggins Do authors who’ve had multiple articles published get more chances at being killed?

• Josh Centers:
  @GlennF @chuq @jeffporten @jeffcarlson @chrishiggins Because if so, @lexfri is in a boat of trouble.

@jcenters @glennf @chuq @jeffcarlson @chrishiggins Chance of death reduced 2% per child, so @lexfri is immune until 2018.

• Josh Centers:
  @chrishiggins @jeffcarlson @GlennF Hmm.

• Glenn Fleishman:
  @jeffcarlson @jcenters @chrishiggins I am keeping myself off Jeopardy by selling The Magazine subscriptions

• Jeff Carlson:
  @GlennF @jcenters @chrishiggins Can I also sell The Magazine subscriptions? Do I need to go door-to-door?

@jeffcarlson @glennf @jcenters @chrishiggins I earned a 3-speed bike and a baseball with door-to-door sales of The Magazine, Grit version.

• Jeff Carlson:
  @jeffporten @glennf @jcenters @chrishiggins I jumped the gun and earned a restraining order and a punch in the eye. Future of media my ass.

• Glenn Fleishman:
  @jeffcarlson @jeffporten @jcenters @chrishiggins For every 1,000 The Magazine subscriptions you sell, you live another month.

@jeffcarlson @glennf @jcenters @chrishiggins Was that the prize BB gun you jumped?

• chuq von rospach:
  @jeffporten @jeffcarlson @GlennF @jcenters @chrishiggins you’ll shoot your eye out!

• Josh Centers:
  @GlennF @jeffcarlson @jeffporten @chrishiggins If you’re a good enough salesman, immortality is within reach.

• Josh Centers:
  @jeffporten @GlennF @chuq @jeffcarlson @chrishiggins @lexfri Ah, the ol’ Catholic Clause.

• Lex Friedman:
  @jcenters @jeffporten @GlennF @chuq @jeffcarlson @chrishiggins I am the world’s worst catholic.

• Glenn Fleishman:
  @lexfri @jcenters @jeffporten @chuq @jeffcarlson @chrishiggins That’s why Lex is Ireland. He’s getting converted from Jew-C to C.C.

• Chris Higgins:
  @lexfri @jcenters @jeffporten @glennf @chuq @jeffcarlson Not as bad as the guy who didn’t sell his quota.

• Josh Centers:
  @GlennF @lexfri @jeffporten @chuq @jeffcarlson @chrishiggins In Ireland, they baptize with whiskey.

@GlennF @jeffcarlson @jcenters @chrishiggins Founder: Marco Arment. Executive Editor: Glenn Fleishman. Circulation Manager: Jim Jones.

• Jeff Carlson:
  @jcenters @GlennF @chuq @jeffporten @chrishiggins @lexfri Little known fact. We’ve been sending assassins after Lex for years. He’s too good

@jeffcarlson @jcenters @glennf @chuq @chrishiggins @lexfri “There are very few tall Jews in the world. Would be a shame to ruin this one.”

• Andrew Laurence:
  Watching Astaire/Rogers “Carefree”. In the “Yam” number, Rogers’ dress looks like a pair of reach-around boob grabbing hands. Really! #fb

@atlauren That wasn’t her dress, that was Irving Berlin riding her back and composing the next verse on the fly.

I predict the term “skunkworks” will lose favor after we learn how to build small mammals out of nanoparticles.

• Glenn Fleishman:
  Brain Quest quiz, present from grandparents: “Which are reindeers? Dasher, Dancer, Pancake, and Comet.” Children laughed for 10 minutes.

• Chris Higgins:
  @GlennF I could’ve sworn one reindeer was named Comcast.

• Glenn Fleishman:
  @chrishiggins Comcast and Blixxxen.

• Josh Centers:
  @GlennF @chrishiggins Comcast and Bitcoin.

@jcenters @glennf @chrishiggins Bitcoin was put on rest leave after she flew from LA to NYC in 3 minutes, then took 8 days for Chicago.

• Josh Centers:
  @jeffporten @GlennF @chrishiggins Later to be traded for FedEx heroin.

@jcenters @glennf @chrishiggins Santa stopped doing business with FedEx after the Great Elf Shipwreck Disaster of 1997.

• Josh Centers:
  @GlennF @jeffcarlson They’re both lousy businesses. But the idea is probably to test iOS on different screen sizes.

@jcenters @glennf @jeffcarlson Scoop: the 50″ diagonal iPad maxi. Still marginally more portable than a Surface Pro.

• Josh Centers:
  @jeffporten @GlennF @jeffcarlson The iDoor.