washingtonpost.com - Letters to the Editor
Michael Kinsley suggested that President-elect Barack Obama may be fibbing about giving up cigarettes and said we should "offer him a light and look the other way" ["Let the Guy Smoke," op-ed, Nov. 20]. Mr. Kinsley may have said this in jest, but it's no joke that smoking is the leading preventable cause of death in this co (Read More)
Submitted by Michaelfidler
from YouTube:
Gov. Sarah Palin's home church was badly damaged by arson, leading the governor to apologize if the fire was connected to "undeserved negative attention" from her failed campaign as the Republican vice presidential nominee. (Dec. 14). (Read More)
: O dear we do need to fight fair and this is not fair. If you disagree with Sarah you shouldn't set fire to the church. We should be better than that.
: @Michaelfidler I haven't read much follow up on this yet, other than church services are being held at the Middle School. It is shocking that arsonists would choose a time when people were in the building to torch it. Very disturbing.
Re: YouTube, I seldom look at the comments because they are so immature and/or hateful. It's sad and scary to think that there are so many people who think and act that way. You're right about the quality of comments here on socialmedian being of a much higher caliber than those on YouTube.
: Well thats not right of anybody to do. No matter what your religious or political stance is, things like this should never happen. Lets just get that building back up and install some camera's.
Mashable!
2008 was definitely the year that social was brought into the mainstream. Nearly all big social networking sites have redesigned to accommodate their quickly growing audiences, while the big portals have incorporated many social features into their front pages. It’s still too early to say whether many of these are goo (Read More)
: I love Facebook's redesign. I've seen some people with 6'915'902 different applications on the old Facebook UI and even though I run a pretty decent connection...took so long to load thier page...ugh...happy wall, fun wall, silly wall, wacky wall, wonder wall, and vampires...to name a few. Mind you I liked Vampires. : )
: On the redesign of the Last.fm site: I do not agree with the writer of the article. To be honest, I had to get used to the new layout for a couple of days as well, but now I really don't want to go back to the old design.
CNN
Apple may be close to releasing a smaller iPhone, a case leak from China suggests. Coming from the same site that accurately leaked cases for the current iPod nano and iPod touch, the shots of an XSKN case show a device which is about 20 percent shorter than the 3G model and slightly narrower; thickness is unknown but does (Read More)