So there’s this website called ReadWriteWeb. It’s a technology blog. Like many a technology blog, they occasionally write about Facebook, including this article about the Facebook/AOL partnership and the universal Facebook login. The funny thing is that people were landing on this page — I am guessing it was #1 on Google search for “Facebook” for a time — and thinking that it was Facebook. Click on the link. Read the message from ReadWriteWeb trying to explain to users that this is not Facebook. (Dear visitors from Google. This site is not Facebook.) And then dig through (some of the) over 1300 comments from confused people trying to log into Facebook. It’s worthwhile. Or maybe just fun way to procrastinate.
Fred Morrison, the inventor of the frisbee, has died. Obituaries from the BBC and the New York Times.
Here at the Big Bad Blog, we have often been disappointed by science journalists. Most science journalism is decidedly hit and miss. Amy Tuteur of Science Based Medicine looks at the habit news organisations have of copying press releases, often word for word.
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Natural disaster strikes Haiti, and photographers worldwide descend on it. The New York Times asks if there are too many photographers in Haiti.
(by Debbie)
It looks like the United States military is moving away from “don’t ask, don’t tell”, and to something more accepting and inclusive. Here is a look at one woman’s experience under the current policy.
Scientists take a look at Western movie-style shootouts, wondering whether or not it’s an advantage to draw first.
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Hey, Smith! Watch where you’re steering that galaxy — you’ve just crashed it into my Milky Way for the second time!
Brain time!
Want a chip in your brain? Intel is working on that.
Want a Mussolini brain? e-Bay is working on that.
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In 1997, a new product burst onto the scene: Baby Einstein. A video range that promised to turn your child into a genius, it was eventually bought by Disney, and expanded into a whole host of Baby [insert-genius-here] videos.
Surprise, surprise. Watching TV turns out not to create genius children, no matter how the video is designed. Because of this, Disney is now offering a refund to those who bought their videos and do not have a genius child.
The story makes it look like they’re offering exchanges for all video owners. However the opening paragraph makes it sound as though they’re offering refunds for those videos which did not work and create baby geniuses. I prefer the opening paragraph version.
(by Alexandra Zaharova & Ilya Plotnikov of Doberman studio)
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