The Summer of 2014: In Tweets

September starts to mark the end of summer for me in my mind, even if the weather might not completely agree. So as students return to school, the leaves begin to turn and all the fall fashions start to make their way into the storefronts, I bring you some highlights from this summer on the Internet, via tweets.

Microsoft

• @thomasclaudiush (Aug 19) - Blogged: How a #Surface RT became the most reliable server in our house: http://www.thomasclaudiushuber.com/blog/2014/08/19/how-the-surface-rt-became-the-most-reliable-server-in-our-house-co-starring-azure-and-windows-phone/ #wpdev #windev #winrt #windows /cc @surface
• @girlgerms (Aug 17) - New blog post! See, I *TOLD* you it was coming! "AD Security & Administration - righting the right rights" (http://girl-germs.com/?p=459 ) #fb
• @JeffHicks (Aug 6) - How to Create a Windows 8 USB Recovery Disk http://ift.tt/1odxNEc  #Petri
• @pzerger (Aug 1) - Day 1: Intro to PowerShell DSC and Configuring Your First Pull Server: Welcome to Day 1 of the “100 Days of DevOps... http://bit.ly/1m7N4AK
• @nhawkins (May 12) - New blogpost - Super pumped about Azure Site Recovery: http://www.nickahawkins.com/2014/05/microsoft-azure-site-recovery-announced/

Social / Culture

• @WIRED (Aug 2) - The weird reasons why people make up false identities on the Internet http://wrd.cm/1zEBi9d
• @WIRED (Jul 24) - The Fasinatng … Frustrating … Fascinating History of Autocorrect http://www.wired.com/2014/07/history-of-autocorrect/ 
• @joe_elway (Jun 25) - The Daily Show researches the intolerance shown towards "Glass Explorers" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClvI9fZaz6M … #Google
• @grantimahara (Jun 7) - Take heed, brethren. An entertaining and very logical analysis of the whole "fake geek girl" phenomenon. http://www.geeksaresexy.net/2014/06/06/fake-geek-girls-fiction-or-reality-video/#31s9y5wHYYWJIpAu.01 …
• @kathrynschulz (May 13) - In an accident, should your self-driving car veer right to kill you or left to kill 2 strangers? http://goo.gl/mYXTmK  Dark & fascinating.
• @MarleeMatlin (Aug 19) - This is so FANTASTIC!!! Pharrell's 'Happy' Is Even Happier in Sign Language http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/pharrells-happy-is-happier-sign-726488 … via @THR

Science / Tech

• @WIRED (Aug 12) - How isolation units contain the world's deadliest diseases http://wrd.cm/1ppPgZk
• @adfskitteh (Aug 3) - RT @danpi: How do we relate Cloud services to food?  Pizza as a Service of course! pic.twitter.com/HvWfeb9mu6 => Best. Cloud. Analogy. EVER.
• @noblewb (Aug 1) - NASA tested an impossible space engine and it somehow worked http://theverge.com/e/5723678  via @verge
• @engadget (Jul 27) - Microsoft explains quantum computing in a way we can all understand http://engt.co/1AdQFqs  
• @macsound (Jun 18) - Interesting video focusing on technical data from Challenger. I've learned heaps. http://vimeo.com/97129318
• @melodybliss (Jun 17) - Building the Part of Facebook No One Ever Sees http://fb.me/2Grml8b7k