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Attention Mafia Wars and Farmville Players!
Mafia Wars CEO Brags About Scamming Users From Day One Sadly, this is probably not the exception for viral Facebook apps.
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The Michael Cera Thread
Here’s another great Facebook thread:
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Arnie’s FU veto
Schwarzenegger’s secret message to the state Assembly
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Fix your Facebook feed
If it seems some of your friends recently stopped posting on Facebook, it might be due to a recent Facebook “upgrade.” Here’s the fix: Go to FB Home Page Choose “Live Feed.” Scroll to the bottom & click ” Edit Options.” You will then see your “News Feed Settings.” Change the 250 to 5000, which is Facebook’s friend limit, and your feed will work correctly again.
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The World Housing Market – 50,000,000 Yen Edition
Here is an amusing photo series depicting the kind of houses you can buy around the world for fifty million yen (which is a whopping 547,106 USD at today’s rate – endaka is such a fickle bitch!): 5000??????????? The locations represented, in order, are: Thai Bali Chicago Costa Rica Brazil Spain Tokyo The problem, of course, is that land value skews the representations far too much. For instance, if you paid half a mil for the Thai house in anywhere but a few select locations, you paid 3 or 4 times more than you should have. Also, Brazil and Indonesia sure have similar architecture and beaches… Still, it’s a pretty…
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Serving 100,000,000,000 videos a year – for free!?!
Over at WIRED: YouTube’s Bandwidth Bill Is Zero. Welcome to the New Net What does this mean? It basically means that YouTube as we know and love it wouldn’t have been a sustainable business for anybody except Google. Cool.
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Hee-larious
Quick! Type “why won’t” into Google and look at the drop-down suggestions…
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Pedobear for Polanski
This is so wrong…. and hilarious! Props to whoever made it. For those that don’t know either of these bad boys: Pedobear, Polanski
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Ping Test
Give it a try here: http://www.pingtest.net This is especially useful for people in Thailand trying to stream data or play multi-player games on servers overseas. Try testing your latency to Bangkok, then to a foreign destination. The traffic bottlenecks at the undersea data cables after being squeezed through government filters and ISP proxies, which explains the pitiful latency. It’s not quite as bad as DSL being beat by carrier pigeon, but it does explain why Skype and internet radio reception can be so crappy a lot of the time.
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Dark Stalking
This is really interesting: Dark Stalking on Facebook “But by far the most interesting part of all of this have been dark users. Like dark matter, these users are not directly observable, usually because they’ve completely disabled API access. In fact, some of these users are completely dark unless you’re a friend. They don’t show up in search results. They don’t show up on friends’ lists. You can’t send them messages. If you try to navigate to their user page (assuming you know it exists), you get redirected back to your homepage. These users have their privacy settings turned up real high, and are supposed to be hard to find.…
