One thing that really annoys me on Twitter is when spammy people quickly follow & unfollow me.  Thanks to TwUnfollow.com it’s easy to keep track of this. And in order to save you some headaches I’m going to list all of the people I’ve caught doing this.  Call it mean. Call it juvenile. But I’m sick & tired of a handful of fools ruining Twitter for everyone else. Police the tweets and the world will be a better place.

Here we go…

1. NateFowler
2. Mzs_Goof_Troop
3. sboselya
4. MichelleBerezan
5. lottsoftraffic
6. BusMatchMkr
7. No1_webmarketer
8. SEOFollowers
9. homebizmom2
10. iGrOOps
11. ByBox
12. adriana_a1ka
13. dimetr83

Last updated: Friday, August 27, 2010

Note: these are not linked as we don’t want to encourage this behavior or give them any link love.

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Friday, August 27, 2010

Indianapolis GP Pit Walkabout/Practice Day
Indianapolis Motor Speedway, 4790 W 16th Street
8:00 AM – 6:00 PM
Tickets $10, 12 and under free

Motorcycles on Meridian
Meridian Street, Downtown Indianapolis
7:00 PM – 3:00 AM

From 7 p.m. to 3 a.m. Friday, Aug. 27 and Saturday, Aug. 28, Monument Circle and South Meridian Street in downtown Indianapolis will be a flurry of engine roars and leather. Motorcyclists will gather to share interests and celebrate the Red Bull Indianapolis GP at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. The inaugural Motorcycles on Meridian took place in 2008. The streets of downtown Indianapolis were an ocean of bikes and people, moving in waves. The event is for people with and without bikes. Interested parties with no steel horse of their own are welcome to walk around at this free event and marvel at the impressive choppers and sport bikes. On these two nights in August, the motorcycle culture of Indianapolis is open for everyone to enjoy. The entrance for the 2010 Motorcycles on Meridian is through Monument Circle, cyclists should enter the route from Monument Circle and continue onto Meridian.

Saturday, August 28, 2010

Indianapolis GP Qualifying Day
Indianapolis Motor Speedway, 4790 W 16th Street
7:00 AM – 6:00 PM
Tickets $20, 12 and under free

Motorcycles on Meridian
Meridian Street, Downtown Indianapolis
7:00 PM – 3:00 AM

From 7 p.m. to 3 a.m. Friday, Aug. 27 and Saturday, Aug. 28, Monument Circle and South Meridian Street in downtown Indianapolis will be a flurry of engine roars and leather. Motorcyclists will gather to share interests and celebrate the Red Bull Indianapolis GP at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. The inaugural Motorcycles on Meridian took place in 2008. The streets of downtown Indianapolis were an ocean of bikes and people, moving in waves. The event is for people with and without bikes. Interested parties with no steel horse of their own are welcome to walk around at this free event and marvel at the impressive choppers and sport bikes. On these two nights in August, the motorcycle culture of Indianapolis is open for everyone to enjoy. The entrance for the 2010 Motorcycles on Meridian is through Monument Circle, cyclists should enter the route from Monument Circle and continue onto Meridian.

Sunday, August 29, 2010

Red Bull Indianapolis GP Race Day
Indianapolis Motor Speedway, 4790 W 16th Street
7:00 AM – 6:00 PM

Tickets start at $40, 12 and under free with adult General Admission ticket holder

• 7 a.m.-6 p.m. Public Gates Open
• 7 a.m.-6 p.m. Vendor Marketplace Open, Gasoline Alley Garages
• 8:40-9 a.m. 125cc Warm-Up
• 9:10-9:30 a.m. Moto2 Warm-Up
• 9:40-10 a.m. MotoGP Warm-Up
• 10:20 a.m. USGPRU Moriwaki MD250H Powered by Honda Race #2 (12 Laps)
• Noon 125cc Race (23 Laps)
• 1:15 p.m. Moto2 Race (26 Laps)
• 3 p.m. MotoGP Race (28 Laps)

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She killed her own kids… but the art lives on. Indianapolis-based performance group paperStrangers is making a triumphant return to local theater during the 2010 IndyFringe Festival after a wildly successful national tour.

Michael Burke’s adaptation of “Medea,” which won awards and sold out shows during IndyFringe 2009, went to Washington, D.C.; Hollywood and Cincinnati, where more sellouts came.

Rave reviews included this: “If you want to know why Greek tragedy is still vital to modern theater, go see paperStrangers Performance Groupʼs adaptation of Medea.” DC THEATRE SCENE Jenn Larson

And the LA Theatre Review honored Medea with “Outstanding Contribution to the Theatre of Los Angeles in an Ensemble Production.”

Medea, of course, is the character created by Euripides who kills her own children after a betrayal. Michael Burke, a recent Butler University graduate, is being called a “wunderkind director” by theatre critics. He serves as co-artistic director of Indianapolis-based company paperStrangers, with Tommy Lewey. Beginning this Friday, paperStrangers brings another emotion-filled production to Indianapolis as part of IndyFringe 2010.

“They Touch in Flood” is an exploration of making love, a distinctly human concept, using performers and multimedia. It might seem strange for the company to move from Greek tragedy to such an ethereal subject. But it ties in flawlessly with the company’s goal, as Burke and Lewey explain: “It is our mission to have our audiences truly feel. Our focus is evocation.”

In “Medea,” paperStrangers took the audience inside the tormented mind of the title role.

In “TTiF,” they want to take you on a reflective journey that begins with heavy emotions. “We are a theatre of feeling−an experience−one that resonates deep within each of us.” What’s next for paperStrangers? The success of “Medea” has the company already in talks to bring it to even more cities for another festival tour next summer. But the immediate plan for the company is to take a breather and enjoy their successes from a whirlwind summer of performances.

“They Touch in Flood” at the IndyFringe Theatre Festival

Venue: Theatre on The Square
• Tuesday August 24. 2010 6:00 PM
• Wednesday August 25, 2010 9:00 PM
• Saturday August 28, 2010 3:00 PM
• Sunday August 29, 2010 10:30 PM

For more info on the IndyFringe Festival or to buy tickets visit indyfringe.org or m.indyfringe.org for mobile.

This post was submitted by Justin Brady.

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Martin Kaymer won the 2010 PGA Championship…I paid no attention to it while it was on and that’s all I really need to know for some random Jeopardy question some day.

I was on the varsity golf team in high school. I love hitting a bucket of balls around at the driving range. I love walking around the links playing or even watching from the gallery. But one thing I cannot wrap my head around is how anyone can sit and watch golf on television (unless it’s Happy Gilmore).  And to do it all day long.  Put on some pads, go full contact and we can talk.

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Local bloggers from across Indiana will gather at the Informatics and Communications Technology Complex on August 20-21st, 2010, for BIN2010, a 2-day social media and blogging conference that aims to promote education, innovation and collaboration among Indiana’s fast-growing social media community. The conference is sponsored by the IU School of Informatics.

BIN2010 is a 2-day conference for both experienced and new bloggers and social media enthusiasts alike. Sessions will include topics ranging from beginner-level through more advanced social media marketing and business topics. Blog Indiana 2010 seeks to bring a high-impact, high-value blogging and social media conference to Indiana.

This post was submitted by Shawn Plew.

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Hi, Indianapolis!

We’re part of the Midwest Fringe Circuit, about to perform in the IndyFringe, and we hope you’ll see our show! Here’s some more information:

Performing at Theater In The Square, 627 Massachusetts Avenue

“Grind” follows the owner of a doomed Minneapolis coffee shop, her aspiring-musician brother, a homeless evangelist, a comic-book writer and a young barista relocated by Katrina as each answers the question “what do I do when ‘home’ can’t be home anymore?” Punctuated by bursts of shadow puppetry done in the style of comic-book art, each character struggles to answer this question set to a soundtrack made from styles varying from rap to indie to jazz to spoken word. And somehow, it’s also hilarious.

See reviews from our Minneapolis performances here: http://www.fringefestival.org/2010/show/?id=1341

IndyFringe performances:

• Saturday, August 21, 6:00pm
• Sunday, August 22, 1:30pm
• Monday, August 23, 6:00pm
• Friday, August 27, 9:00pm
• Saturday, August 28, 6:00pm
• Sunday, August 29, 9:00pm

Tickets at http://indyfringe.org/fringefest/show/grind-the-musical

Want a review before you click “Attending,” or to check out what crazy stuff we’re up to on this tour? http://www.grindthemusical.com/

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INDIANAPOLIS – There will be many knights to remember this fall when Beef & Boards Dinner Theatre celebrates the 50th anniversary of Broadway’s classic Camelot. This magical musical with a stirring score is live on stage Sept. 7 through Oct. 10.

Based on the T.H. White Arthurian fantasy novel “The Once and Future King,” Camelot tells the famous tale of King Arthur, his queen Guenevere, Merlyn the magician, Lancelot and the Knights of the Round Table. King Arthur has an idealistic vision of harmony and justice in his enchanted Camelot, but it is destroyed by the misplaced passion, greed and jealousy of those in his kingdom. Ultimately he is forced to choose: fight or forgive.

Beef & Boards Dinner Theatre’s own Douglas E. Stark stars as the legendary King Arthur, while Krista Severeid plays Queen Guenevere with Tony Lawson in the role of Lancelot and Jeff Stockberger as Merlyn. The show is directed by Eddie Curry, with musical direction by Terry Woods and choreography by Doug King.

Book and lyrics are by Alan Jay Lerner, with music by Frederick Loewe.

There are 39 performances of Camelot scheduled in the intimate space of Beef & Boards Dinner Theatre. Tickets range from $35 to $58, and include Chef Odell Ward’s specially prepared buffet, with a fruit & salad bar, unlimited coffee, tea and lemonade. Parking is free.

For reservations, call the Beef & Boards Box Office at 317.872.9664. Box office hours are 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Tuesday through Sunday, and 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Mondays.

Camelot is sponsored in part by the National Bank of Indianapolis.

For complete show schedule, visit www.beefandboards.com.

This post was submitted by Patricia Rettig.

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Now through August 31st, 2010 you can purchase OIOpublisher* for just $37 (normally $47) by using coupon code “SOLAR-WSHED” (no quotes).

If you’re unfamiliar with OIOpublisher, it is a PHP based ad platform with a focus on performance, control and ease of use. It allows you to easily serve advertising on your blog or website and keep 100% of the revenue you bring in. For those of you using WordPress, it includes a plugin that allows for easy integration. And if you need consulting help setting it up, please contact Watershed Studio.

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Via the Indy Star:

Indianapolis, Indiana – Jeri Holland, 25, of the 3700 block of West 10th Street, said a man in a pick-up truck stole the basketball goal in front of her house at 6 p.m.

After backing his silver Chevrolet pick-up onto her property, the robber — about 5-feet, 10-inches tall, and 145-pounds — lifted the goal off the ground and threw it into the bed of the truck.

If I were the thieving kind I’m pretty sure that a basketball goal would be pretty far down the list of things I’d be after.  But hey, sometimes in the summertime I guess you just have to have your hoops.

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Via CNNMoney.com:

IPhone users can now legally hack their phones to download applications that aren’t in Apple’s App Store.

The U.S. Copyright Office, a division of the Library of Congress, has authorized several new exemptions to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), one of which will allow mobile phone users to “jailbreak” — or hack into — their devices to use apps not authorized by the phone’s manufacturer. The new rules will be published on Tuesday in the Federal Register.

Jailbreaking iPhones in order to download apps that are unavailable in Apple’s App Store had been a legal gray area: Apple technically had the right to request a $2,500 government fine for damages every time a user violated the law that bans “circumvention of technological measures” controlling access to copyrighted works — in this case, the iPhone’s iOS software.

I’m glad that the government made the correct decision.  Sure, the warranty is void if you do so, and they’ll continue to try to prevent it (and spend a lot of money doing so in a losing effort), but that’s a public step in the right direction.  In my opinion, you should be allowed to do whatever you want to with any device that you purchase.

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