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# Bookmarks for Jul 18
- URL: https://www.chrismessina.me/blog/bookmarks-for-jul-18/
- Published: 2008-07-18T22:59:28.000Z
- Updated: 2026-03-25T03:41:50.000Z
- Author: Chris Messina
- Tags: Asides

A daily collection of linky goodness.

#### [Save the Fail Whales Now](http://savethefailwhales.org/?ref=chrismessina.me)

![Save the Fail Whales Now  ](http://ma.gnolia.com/bookmarks/galemohord/thumbnail/160)

The fail whale may be going the way of the Dodo if you don’t retweat the message below. The fancy pants engineers over at Twitter are “revamping their system to scale”. This cynical move toward business efficiency puts the fail whale species at risk of mass extinction. When Twitter was asked to comment on this, they had nothing to say for themselves. Nothing!

Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★

Tags: [fail whale](http://ma.gnolia.com/people/factoryjoe/tags/fail%20whale?ref=chrismessina.me), [humor](http://ma.gnolia.com/people/factoryjoe/tags/humor?ref=chrismessina.me)

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