Tweet Roundup: Threat Level Woodward

The fact that some people are using the term "Woodwardgate" may very well cause a tear in the ironic space-time continuum.

— Mike Glenn (@mrglenn) February 28, 2013

White House also warned Bob Woodward he would regret liveTweeting for The Onion on Oscar night.

— Lizz Winstead (@lizzwinstead) February 28, 2013

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Tags: Barack Obama, Bob Woodward, Donald Trump, Joe Biden, NASA, Richard Nixon, Tweet Roundup, Twitter, White House

Tuesday's Links: We Didn't Just See Your Boobs

* In the name of equal opportunity, guys, we saw your junk.

* Great American houses built out of great American spite.

* The White House Press Secretary defends the secret kill list.

* A cool short film that puts a new spin on military war games.

* Meanwhile, in Finland, there is a choir that consists of men shouting loudly.

* Note to any Finnish men reading this: the human voice is discussed on The New Yorker's Out Loud podcast.

* The Jeff Rubin Show talks to Cole Stryker about Anonymous.

* Frank Zappa wrote a song about just one Surgeon General, and that Surgeon General was Dr. C. Everett Koop.

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Tags: Anonymous, C. Everett Koop, Daily Links, Drones, Frank Zappa, Germany, Hacker, Men & Women, Military, Science & Technology, Seth MacFarlane, The New Yorker, White House, Women's Rights

Tweet Untweet: Putting the Sequester to Bed

Today the White House and Republicans blamed one another for the sequestzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

— daveweigel (@daveweigel) February 19, 2013

Tags: Republicans, Sequester, Tweet Untweet, Twitter, White House

Thursday's Links: Dummies for Science

* A documentary about science and being not smart.

* Bo Obama has important duties too.

* Molly McAleer found this portrait of Bill Clinton and his favorite food.

* Why we took cocaine out of soda, from The Atlantic.

* Twelve drunk texts from history.

* Some idiot took his dog to the pound because "it was gay."

* A few days before his son Michael got married, Ronald Reagan sent him this letter of advice.

* Conan O'Brien's prop master shows us how to do the Super Bowl on the cheap.

* The best 30 Rock quotes. ps. If you DVR the finale tonight, be sure to add extra time–word is there's something worth watching in the tag.

Tags: Bo Obama, Cocaine, Conan O'Brien, Daily Links, Funny or Die, Hollywood, LGBT, Michael Reagan, Nancy Reagan, Ronald Reagan, Science & Technology, The Atlantic, White House

Tuesday Links: The Frank Zappa School of Economics

* Frank Zappa jams out on his love of capitalism.

* You'll watch this once, and then twenty more times today.

* Lincoln's second inaugural ball had a menu to fight over.

* Watch what happens when you heat mercury thiocyanate.

* The Current and John Moe discuss the Death Star petition.

* Rex Huppke has solutions for the looming debt ceiling crisis.

* If a tree falls in the forest and no one's around, these kids get an F.

* Governor Rick Scott abandoned Reagan just when he needed him most.

* The children of Newtown sing "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" for their town.

Tags: Abraham Lincoln, Barack Obama, Daily Links, Economy, Inauguration, Rick Scott, Ronald Reagan, Science & Technology, Unions, White House