Infographic of the Day: Twitter Tracks the Entire Country's Mood. Every tweet, no matter how trivial, reveals the writer's mood, through word choice--It can be as obvious as "happy" or as subtle as "diamond.
" Now imagine if you could take that knowledge, scale it up to the entire Twitter-verse, and use it to gauge the entire country's mood? That's exactly what Alan Mislove, a computer scientist, at Northeastern University, did, using 300 million tweets in real time. Check it out in action, over time--you can actually see moods rising at the end of the work day, and that same pattern gets repeated across time zones: Radiation Dosage Chart. Lemon Drop Jello Shots. For Memorial Day, I decided to make some awesome Jello shots.
Dana’s friend Kristy was in DC visiting, so I wanted to have a nice little cocktail lined up for her. Unfortunately, I was running late so I actually had her help me make the shots. You will see her hands in a few shots. Last year I made orange Jello shots in orange peels, thus allowing them to be easily eaten. I have take this to another step and created perfectly tart lemon drop Jello shots, made in lemon peels.