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10 Ways Facebook Can Change Your Life

Seeded on Thu Mar 18, 2010 9:57 AM EDT (Beliefnet)

Social networking has not only changed the way we communicate but the way we function in our daily lives. Facebook in particular has helped people find long-lost relatives, new jobs, even organ donors.

technology, internet, social-networking, facebook, living-your-life

BBC News - Facebook traps Italian fugitive mafia suspect

Seeded on Tue Mar 16, 2010 2:09 PM EDT (BBC News)

Seeded by Angel_C

Italian police have used social networking site Facebook to track down and capture one of the country's most-wanted fugitive mafia suspects.

italy, crime, mafia, world-news, facebook

Wherever Two Or More Are Gathered ... On Facebook

Seeded on Mon Mar 1, 2010 11:31 AM EST (The Huffington Post)

Seeded by Angel_C

After nearly 30 years as a believer, I experienced, powerfully and indelibly, the truth of that statement in an unlikely place: Facebook.

technology, social-networking, facebook, communities, spirituality, finding-each-other

Climate-denier's Bible is a pack of lies

Seeded on Tue Feb 23, 2010 2:38 PM EST (Boing Boing)

Seeded by Benno Hansen

The Lomborg Deception: Setting the Record Straight About Global Warming a new book by Howard Friel, reveals that Bjørn Lomborg's infamous climate-change-denying book Cool It (a favorite among climate deniers) grievously misreported much of the science it cited.

books, environment, climate-change, spin, propaganda, environmentalism, skepticism, bj-rn-lomborg, howard-friel, he-lomborg-deception

Restoring Pleasure to My Writing Experience

Mon Feb 15, 2010 8:45 PM EST

By Extremist Moderate

I used to really enjoy writing. In my high school days I'd pen Sci-Fi and Fantasy shorts something I continued when I joined the Army. Often I'd incorporate friends into the tales, and supplement them with amusing anecdotes that'd recently gone down.

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editorial, odd-news, writing, fun, pleasure, pornography, extremist-moderate

Author, 17, Says "Mixing" Not Plagiarism

Seeded on Sat Feb 13, 2010 6:13 AM EST (The New York Times)

Seeded by Benno Hansen

It usually takes an author decades to win fawning reviews, march up the best-seller list and become a finalist for a major book prize. Helene Hegemann, just 17, did it with her first book, all in the space of a few weeks, and despite a savaging from critics over plagiarism.

entertainment, literature, copyright, sampling

Unbelievable Celebrity Phone Book Carvings

Seeded on Fri Jan 22, 2010 7:03 AM EST (webdesignerdepot.com)

Seeded by Benno Hansen

Alex Queral is a Philadelphian sculptor best known for using old phone books to carve their pages into celebrities faces. Some of the celebrities he's made sculptures of include Barack Obama, Jack Nicholson, Frida Kahlo and John Goodman.

portraits, celebrities, arts, phone-books

Facebook group saves a long-time local business

Seeded on Fri Jan 15, 2010 2:14 AM EST (idsnews.com)

Seeded by lzimmer

A little more than a year ago, local businessman Tim May announced that his ice cream shop, The Chocolate Moose, might be closing its doors for good. Bloomington resident Kara Oltman found out about the news when May brought a flyer into her workplace.

business, small-business, indiana, indiana-university, facebook, social-network