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There’s a truly unique story coming out of Dallas this morning, in which a firefighter is giving his kidney to his son and the doctors are keeping the family updated on the surgery through the use of Twitter.com. It’s the first time Twitter has been used for this purpose, but with the popularity and the ability to make instantaneous updates on the site, it won’t be the last time.

Twitter has been in the news since its very inception with people such as Ashton Kutcher using it to gain the popular vote and win the right to send mosquito nets to thousands. I use Twitter, as do many freelance writers and journalist to make daily updates about their sites. Now we come to a really neat idea…whereby anyone with a Twitter account could keep everyone updated as to what they are doing with a little laptop developed by Dell. The laptop has as Intel Atom Processor N270, Genuine Windows XP Home Edition, SP3, 1GB Memory, 120 GB Hard Drive, and built-in 1.3 MP Webcam and it sells for $299, or if you have the proper credit (meaning that you are willing to bare all for a laptop) you can purchase this little jewel for as low as $15 per month. This thing is so small that you could easily carry it in your purse; one of the points that I’m working on to convince my husband that it’s the perfect gift for any woman-especially his woman.

Another thought, less genuine but fairly relevant, is that Ms. Pelosi could have used one of these little jewels during the briefings in 2002, and would not be stumbling for answers today. Okay, so they were not supposed to release the confidential information from the meetings and briefings that took place, but that point is moot now. Actually these laptops would be ideal for people like Joe Biden (Mr. Foot and Mouth), Robert Gibbs (Let me tell you what was really said), and half of congress (though they won’t tell you what is really going on), to help stem the tide of some really ugly and sometimes sadistic speeches being made on Capitol Hill. While the Speaker of House was fumbling for the proper page in which she made the statement that she really wanted to stress, she could have just used the “Find on this page” inside Microsoft Word and have arrived at the pertinent passage looking like a faith healer, instead of a total arse in front of no-less-than 100 reporters.

Twitter and Dell should seize this opportunity to work together and get the world wired for disgrace, abuse, and human tragedy for little or no money; it’s better than Big Brother and easily applied even for a 6-year-old with a speech impediment. Just imagine, no room in your house would ever be private again, but no need to collect stool samples for the doctor, just sit there in the throne room and describe the crap; literally. Ah, the electronic revolution will be complete with the mini-laptop and twitter-ability.

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