Joe Dawson (beta)

"Dec. 5 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. companies slashed payrolls last month at the fastest pace in 34 years as the economy headed for its deepest and longest recession since World War II. Employers cut 533,000 jobs, bringing losses so far this year to 1.91 million, the Labor Department said today in Washington. November’s drop exceeded all 73 forecasts in a Bloomberg News survey. The unemployment rate rose to 6.7 percent, the highest level since 1993." - Thomas Hawk via Bookmarklet

ouch - mikepk

Click-bait ... and what exactly is the big deal about nudity anyway? - AJ Kohn

I admit... I clicked. <hangs head in shame> - mikepk

duh i clicked, its friday after all baby! wooooo - sean percival

"Records show that he was sentenced in San Francisco Superior Court in July on a drug conviction, but under a deal made with prosecutors, Gee was diverted to drug treatment rather than serve 10 months in jail. The conviction stemmed from an arrest in February, when officers found first a 9mm handgun in the trunk of the car he was driving, and later seven pounds of marijuana in the same trunk." - Thomas Hawk via Bookmarklet

Time and time again, people found engaging in illegal activity with guns end up using those guns to kill other people. They found a 9mm handgun in this guys trunks and he served *no* jail time. People caught with illegal guns need *far* harsher penalties. Time and time again they get a slap on the wrist. Our legal system does not treat guns as seriously as they should. New gun laws are needed to better protect people like Nguyen whose children now must grow up without a mother. - Thomas Hawk

What an awful, awful story - Mike Doeff

it is an awful story and a tragedy but I think it once again illustrates how little our judicial system cares about guns. Get caught with a 9mm handgun and 7 pounds of pot in your car trunk and you basically just get a slap on the wrist. I don't know why people are not screaming for harsher gun laws. - Thomas Hawk

This is what I get when I click on it: javascript:void((function(){var%20e=document.createElement('script');e.setAttribute('type','text/javascript');e.setAttribute('src','http://friendfeed.com/share/bo...)) and I get no drop-down window. - Marysia

What browser are you using? - Phil Glockner

Flock - I've always used flock since before i ever joined FF. Tina, I was using it from a FF page. just dashin out now - i'll be back - - Marysia

"With less than two months remaining in office, George W. Bush, witnessing a devastating defeat for the Republican Party, worse favorability ratings than those of Richard Nixon at the height of the Watergate scandal, and the most devastating economic situation since the Great Depression, is reported by a number of well-placed sources in Washington as drinking heavily." - Thomas Hawk via Bookmarklet

I thought Bush quit drinking entirely. - Thomas Hawk

He's back on the wagon... to Texas. - Joel Tanner

My colleague Eric Zeman writes about the new Google Reader design. Eric's comments, like most I've seen, are negative, but I like the new design a lot. What do you think? - Mitch Wagner via Bookmarklet

"McAfee warned this week that Koobface is making the rounds on Facebook. The virus was detected on the social networking site MySpace in August." - Mitch Wagner via Bookmarklet

"Forget losing your job, apparently your MySpace or Facebook profile and photos can now cause you to lose your degree. In what may be one of the most frightening rulings regarding social networks and privacy to date, a federal judge has ruled against a former student of Millersville University of Pennsylvania who was denied her college degree because of an unseemly online photo and its accompanying caption found on her social network profile." - Anthony Farrior via Bookmarklet

+1 Cecily -- those are key points. Her degree was tied to her job -- once she got canned, her degree went with it - Shey

the pic looked pretty innocent too http://www.thesmokinggun.com/a... - Anthony Farrior

"Dec. 5 (Bloomberg) -- One in 10 Americans fell behind on their mortgage payments or were in foreclosure during the third quarter as the world’s largest economy shed jobs and real estate prices tumbled. The share of mortgages 30 days or more overdue rose to a seasonally adjusted 6.99 percent while loans already in foreclosure rose to 2.97 percent, both all-time highs in a survey that goes back 29 years, the Mortgage Bankers Association said in a report today. The gain in delinquencies was driven by an increase of loans with payments 90 days or more overdue." - Thomas Hawk via Bookmarklet

"Finnish shipbuilders say the world's largest cruise liner has been launched into water for the first time." - Kol Tregaskes via Bookmarklet

Have you seen this? http://www.freedomoftheseas.co... - xavi

@ Nicola, i've no idea if it's been shown yet, i only voiced the advert about 10 days ago...... - Iain Baker

LOL - Anika Malone

lol! Love it. I have no clue what you guys are talking about anyway. *bigwink* - Carmen

Seans da man. One of those dudes I wish lived closer. True geek cred all the way. - Adam Helweh

Why is the web cool? Because Wil Wheaton and Greg Grunberg are talking to each other on Twitter! Heh... - Alex Scoble CISSP via Bookmarklet

New word: "Twiendship" - Phil Glockner

Squeeee! - mikepk

"Despite mediocre reviews, HANCOCK did pretty well at the box office, but I still never thought we'd really see any further adventures from Will Smith's superhero in the future. Apparently, I was wrong. We just got done talking to Will Smith, who's promoting SEVEN POUNDS, and he told us that we'll "definitely" be seeing a sequel. When we asked Will if he'd ever be up for playing another superhero he replied that there were a lot of unexplored characters in the HANCOCK universe that would be ripe for a sequel and confirmed that we'll definitely see the rumored HANCOCK 2 in a few years." - RAPatton via Bookmarklet

Oh noes. I hated this movie. - Derrick

Ha. My own Dramatic Face kind of shocked me there :-) - Jason Toney

Dramatic Jason, FTW - Derrick

While we were on the train, Jason was humming the dramatic chipmunk theme while Anna did the dramatic face... I nearly died. So funny!!! - Melissa

Eric, You are way to kind, thank you. Social media super powers, I think we are onto something here. Thanks for being such a positive player in this space. Rock on! - Mike Fruchter

You're very welcome Mike, it's much deserved! And thank YOU ! :-) - Eric Berlin

great list, lots of good folks - Sarah Perez

LOVE Banksy ... LOVE these! - Emma

"We spoke to Frank Miller this morning at The Spirit junket, and couldn't resist asking him about the sequel to one of our favourite films of the last five years, Sin City. Much to our delight, the response was encouraging, with the writer-turned-director saying that Sin City 2 might be ready to shoot early next year. "Sin City 2 is written," he proclaimed. "It's mainly a matter of working out the details of the production. I'm hoping to do it with Robert Rodriguez again in the same circumstances that we did the first one, and we could be shooting as soon as April."" - RAPatton via Bookmarklet

back. with no hands - AJ Batac (ninJA)

*checks mobile phone* - Derrick

Can someone say "bringing sexy back"? - Katie