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"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

I think this is the key part of the article: In the photo, Synder was posed standing with a cocktail. The caption read "drunken pirate." It was accompanied by a note which made reference to her supervising teacher. That led to the school's decision to end her assignment, which in turn meant she now no longer qualified for her bachelor's degree in education. - Cecily

So it wasn't just that she was drunk and disorderly, she said some negative stuff about a supervisor, plus had terrible classroom performance. Just shows you should be careful about what you put in your profile. - Cecily

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

Dramatic Jason (humms the Dramatic Chipmonk theme music) - Phil Glockner

Dramatic Jason, FTW - Derrick

"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

"Concerned that many would-be contributors to Wikipedia are being scared away, the foundation that runs the Internet encyclopedia is getting an $890,000 grant to try to make the editing process more user-friendly. Anyone can contribute to Wikipedia, but clicking on the "edit" button brings up a jumble of coding mixed with plain English paragraphs. There are buttons on the top of the page that eliminate any need for users to write their own coding, but the Wikimedia Foundation has acknowledged for several years that the unfamiliar feel of the editing process probably turns off people who could otherwise make valuable contributions." - Rochelle via Bookmarklet

Is it really that complex to figure out? I'm not a programmer at all but I don't find editing a Wikipedia article to be difficult. - Rochelle

it's not difficult but I'll admit a lot of people might be turned away by it...it's amazing how making something even a tiny bit easier can increase participation significantly. On the other hand, when it comes to wikipedia, I'm not sure that's necessarily going to be a good thing. - Louis Simoneau

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

back. with no hands - AJ Batac (ninJA)

*checks mobile phone* - Derrick

Can someone say "bringing sexy back"? - Katie

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

Marysia, I get that error message when I try to use toe bookmarklet on an image file rather than web page. For instance, if you're on http://somesite.com/image.jpg and try to use the bookmarklet, you'll get that error. - Stupid Ninja (aka Tina)

What browser are you using? - Phil Glockner

"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

coffee pre-workout is a bad idea - Louis Simoneau

"Acer's smartphone development has been driven by its acquisition earlier this year of Taiwan smartphone maker E-Ten Information Systems." - Anthony Farrior via Bookmarklet