Eamonn Fitzgerald's Rainy Day

Twitter changed its organizing question from "What Are You Doing?" to "What's Happening?"

Twitter tackled the FIGS (French, Italian, German, Spanish) and rolled out Twitter en Français!

The new faces chosen to lead the European Union. Two "decent, respectable mediocrities" was one of the more charitable comments about Herman Van Rompuy and Lady Ashton. Photograph: Reuters

Macbeth came to football in the form of Thierry Henry, who will henceforth be known in parts distant as New Zealand as the "Hand of Frog". Here's his magic formula:

"Eye of newt, and hand toe of frog,
Wool of bat, and tongue of dog,
Adder's fork, and blind-worm's sting,
Lizard's leg, and howlet's wing,
For a charm of powerful trouble,
Like a hell-broth boil and bubble."

Second Witch: Macbeth (IV, i, 14-15)

The real-time collaboration aspect of Google Spreadsheets is bad news for Microsoft's Excel, but Redmond is striking back by adding Edward Tufte's Sparklines to Excel 2010.

Sarah Palin got a $26 million stimulus package. And all thanks to her own ability to shift 300,000 books in one day.