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Apple Says iPhone 4 Antenna Issue “Even Smaller Than We Originally Thought”

Sometimes it's not the size of the problem, it is who is having the problem URL:  techcrunch.com

Potomac River Recovering, Chesapeake Still Hurting : Discovery News

Efforts clean up rivers and bays take time, but they do make a difference over time URL:  news.discovery.com

TV Cult Classics

These are the shows that still influence those who make TV today and whose fans know the smallest detail about their favorite shows. What cult classic do you think is missing from this list.

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Facebook Confirms They’re Testing Big Commenting Upgrades; Says More Info Soon




Late last night, the blog All Facebook noticed that Facebook had significantly updated their Comments social plugin. Facebook hadn’t announced the changes, but there they were. And sure enough, today they’ve confirmed that they are testing out some significant updates on their own blogs, and promises that they’ll have more to share shortly.


Here’s Facebook’s full statement:



We’re currently testing a new comments plugin on the Facebook Blog and Facebook Developer Blog that incorporates feedback from users and developers and features around authenticity, social relevance, ranking, and distribution. We’ll have more to share in the coming weeks.


It sounds as if this upgrade is a part of CEO Mark Zuckerberg promises will be a busy few months worth of new things from Facebook. Last week’s new Facebook Groups were the first of those updates, but there will be more.


So what’s new? Comment counts, feedback, threading, voting, and a few other things. It looks as if Facebook is gearing up to enter the commenting space in a serious way.


That won’t be good news to the dozen or so startups working in this space (we use Disqus, for example). Many of those guys rely on Facebook for authentication, and if the new plugin is good enough, some content partners may choose to cut out the middle man, as it were. Apparently, we’ll be hearing more soon.







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Remembering 9/11

I've been thinking about Sept 11 today and what I remember the most is what happened afterward. Shortly after that day, my nephew Sean joined the Marines, among many others. As my brother, Sean's father told it later, yeah the Marines came and they took my baby away. My nephew was fortunate and ended up not serving in either Iraq or Afghanistan, but many who joined with him did. 5,661 gave their last best measure serving in Iraq and Afghanistan
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It's pure coincidence that Patrick McGoohan's spy-fi series Danger Man, which evolved into the sci-fi classic The Prisoner, premiered 50 years ago on the now-momentous date of Sept. 11. McGoohan's paranoid television shows ruled the '60s and still lords it over our list of continually relevant cult-TV classics.

Our picks represent merely a fraction of the rewarding cult television available for watching and re-watching in an era of rampant DVD reissues and unstoppable torrents. Let us know your own favorite cult TV classics in the comments section below. We'll make sure to collate them in a future gallery, which can then inspire its own unstoppable arguments.

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Study: Use Facebook Heavily? Then You’re A Vainglorious Malcontent.




A new study, from York University, finds that Facebook users are basically a bunch of narcissists. What better way to talk about the thing you love the most—yourself—then to constantly preen your online profile and make sure your friend count is as high as possible?


The study has been published in the latest edition of the journal Cyberpsychology, Behaviour And Social Networking.


The study doesn’t single out Facebook “just because,” but it’s the biggest social networking site out there, so it tends to attract the people mentioned on the study.


And who are these people? Narcissists mainly, people with “a pervasive pattern of grandiosity, need for admiration, and an exaggerated sense of self-importance.”


Yup, sounds about right.


The study, which looked at 100 students from the age of 18 to 25 at the university, also finds that people who constantly check their Facebook profile—you know who you are—often suffer from low self-esteem. A sort of, “I sure hope my ‘friends’ like me, I really really do!”


That’s basically a manifestation of the link between lack of self-esteem and narcissism, the constant need to tell people that you’re awesome.


Perhaps The Miz, of WWE fame, is nothing more than a fragile soul looking for the acceptance of total strangers.


Fun little study, this.















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Why a school beats Facebook: how behaviors spread through networks



We all spend much of our days engaged in social networks, whether it’s online, at work, or out with our friends, and we have a tendency to pick up new habits through these connections. A new study in Science set out to determine how behaviors travel through these social networks, and how the topography of the networks affects the diffusion of the behaviors.


The experiment studied two different structures of social networks. In "random" networks, individuals are connected to others scattered throughout the network by connections that are called "long ties." In more "clustered" networks, social ties exist mostly between individuals that are close together in the network; there are few (if any) long ties connecting individuals from different topographical areas.


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