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Five Things for Friday, September 18
1. I think the Redskins will win Sunday in an atypical fashion: by actually beating their opponent by more than ten points. Their largest margin of victory in 2008? 8 points, over the Lions. They have to beat the Rams, the team that derailed their season last year thanks to a Pete Kendall fumble. Yep, when the guard fumbles, it’s a problem.
The Future of Twitter
For a couple of months I’ve been watching the explosion of Twitter-related news and trying to figure out what it means for the future of Twitter. I don’t use it, I never will, and I find most of the celebutards using it as idiotic as the people who follow them. I was pretty convinced that Twitter would fail soon, since it was getting used and commented on old people who clearly don’t understand the new technology (Peter King of SI and the two or more people it took to teach him how to use it spring to mind). This would make the first adopters grimace in distaste and move on to the next hot thing, with King Celebutard Ashton Kutcher leading the way. Soon after, Twitter would die and I would never have to hear the word “tweet” used without baby birds being involved. Now, I am not so sure.
Winter in Derenemyn 