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"At Facebook, they have developed semiformal policies like the Fully Exposed Butt Rule, the Crack Rule and the Nipple Rule. In this photo there's no visible areola, he decides, so it stays. The next photo is a male clad only in a black thong and angel wings. Utterly nonplussed, Axten OKs the picture. After delivering a verdict on 75 of the 438,848 outstanding photos flagged by Facebook users—buff guy soaping up in the shower (OK); girl blowing an epic cloud of pot smoke (he deletes it); an underage user drinking from two liquor bottles at once (ditto)—Axten is off to a meeting. It's just another day at the office of the world's fastest-growing social-networking site." - Maki from Bookmarklet

The fall out of having to put up with nightmares like this all day long must be, to say the least, interesting. - Vijayendra (V-Mo) Mohanty

I actually see it as a fun job although it can get old fast.. - Maki

hey hey i'm commenting on my own tweet. What's up everyone? :) - Maki

I am thinking the same thing too. - Terence Chang

Testing out how multiple pictures will look in my FF stream. Would have been cooler if the picture was larger and filled up the width of the page. - Maki from Bookmarklet

"A mid-western farm boy reluctantly becomes a member of the undead when a girl he meets turns out to be part of a band of southern vampires who roam the highways in stolen cars." ---- Planning on watching this movie. Heard it was great! - Maki from Bookmarklet

"FriendFeed, a cross-network activity aggregator built by ex-Googlers and more fun to use than the phrase "cross-network activity aggregator" might imply, launched a powerful new search tool today. Want to discover particularly interesting conversations or people in your networks? Want to pick out just the noisiest conversations online about your brand?" - Maki from Bookmarklet

From the page: "Comic book lettering has some grammatical and aesthetic traditions that are quite unique. What follows is a list that every letterer eventually commits to his/her own mental reference file. The majority of these points are established tradition, sprinkled with modern trends and a bit of my own opinion having lettered professionally for a few years now." - Maki

With slumping public approval, journalism is facing a crisis of trust. We're looking at how people can find and share credible news and information in hopes of regaining this trust. Here is how Facebook and Twitter play a role in this process. - Maki from Bookmarklet

There are so many exciting and relevant changes happening in the game industry right now, it's difficult to keep abreast of them. With that in mind, we created a list that covers the breadth of the industry as best as possible -- an industry that is going through a major evolution. - Maki

Reflecting the rising influence of online reporting and commentary, more Internet journalists are jailed worldwide today than journalists working in any other medium. In its annual census of imprisoned journalists, released today, the Committee to Protect Journalists found that 45 percent of all media workers jailed worldwide are bloggers - Maki

I prefer tab mix plus, gives protection tabs plus loads more functionality - Mark Edmondson

I'm already using tab mix plus. It gives you the option to make tabs permanent and unclose-able over separate sessions? - Maki

The celebrity culture is infantilizing us. We are being trained not to think. It is not about the disappearance of film critics. We are the canaries. It is about the death of an intelligent and curious, readership, interested in significant things and able to think critically. It is about the failure of our educational system. It is not about dumbing-down. It is about snuffing out. - Maki

New York Magazine has an extensive and interesting piece arguing that 'urban loneliness' - the idea that people in densely populated cities are more lonely than people in the country, may be a myth. The article looks at recent concerns, partly driven by popular books, that single living and hence loneliness is massively increasing in America. - Maki

To clarify, my definition of design goes beyond aesthetic qualities and into areas of maintenance, cost, profitability, speed, and purpose. However, I still think that the Drudge Report is an aesthetic masterpiece even though I also consider it ugly. Can good design also be ugly? I think Drudge proves it can. - Maki

I will second you - Toni @ NavinoT

This summer, Rolling Stone asked artists - including Bruce Springsteen, Keith Richards and many others - along with journalists and industry insiders to name their favorite singers of the rock era. Those ballots were recorded, tabulated and verified. See the full list here on one page, along with descriptions of each singer and song samples. - Maki

Love the color! - Maki

Pretty good list of 27 websites that became books. It would be interesting to see how they transfer their blog material onto the printed page. I have some of them, its mostly reposts, old material. Good for hardcore fans or noobs. - Maki

When Daniel Everett first went to live with the Amazonian Pirahã tribe in the late 70s, his intention was to convert them to Christianity. Instead, he learned to speak their unique language - and ended up rejecting his faith, losing his family and picking a fight with Noam Chomsky. - Maki

Evangelical Protestant teen-agers are significantly less likely than other groups to use contraception. This could be because evangelicals are also among the most likely to believe that using contraception will send the message that they are looking for sex. It could also be because many evangelicals are steeped in the abstinence movement's warnings that condoms won't actually protect them from pregnancy or venereal disease. More provocatively, Regnerus found that only half of sexually active teen-agers who say that they seek guidance from God or the Scriptures when making a tough decision report using contraception every time. By contrast, sixty-nine per cent of sexually active youth who say that they most often follow the counsel of a parent or another trusted adult consistently use protection. - Maki

"They could come up with some bulletproof way of protecting his e-mail and digital correspondence, but anything can be hacked..The nature of the president's job is that others can use e-mail for him." - Maki

Never mind the Da Vinci Code -- what about Michelangelo's secret messages? On the 500th anniversary of the artist's first climb up the ladder in 1508 to paint the Sistine Chapel ceiling, a new book claims he embedded subversive messages in his spectacular frescoes -- not only Jewish, Kabbalistic and pagan symbols but also insults directed at Pope Julius II, who commissioned the work, and references to his own sexuality. - Maki

Malcolm Gladwell's elegant and wildly popular theories about modern life have turned his name into an adjective--Gladwellian! But in his new book, he seeks to undercut the cult of success, including his own, by explaining how little control we have over it. - Maki

I want to be able to rename a folder in Google Reader. Can't figure out how. - Ontario Emperor

Blast from the past. Thanks Justin! - Maki

An essential political tool. - Maki

Transition officials call it Obama 2.0 -- an ambitious effort to transform the president-elect's vast Web operation and database of supporters into a modern new tool to accomplish his goals in the White House. If it works, the new president could have an unprecedented ability to appeal for help from millions of Americans who already favor his ideas, bypassing the news media to pressure Congress. - Maki

Go Rorschach! - Maki

It used the word "ingested"; that makes me feel it's unlikely to be legit (polysyllabic bar too high). - Clay Newton

Hehe... you have a point there, Clay. - Maki

A spur-of-the-moment decision to buy a wolf cub changed Mark Rowlands's life. From that moment on he found human company never quite matched up - Maki

A ridiculous update on a ridiculous lawsuit: In August I wrote about a carpooling startup called PickupPal. The idea is that people can gather on the site to find others traveling to the same places, and carpool there to save gas. Great idea, right? Wrong. The bus companies freaked and sued under an Ontario law that limits carpoolers to traveling only from home to work and back, riding with the same driver every day and paying only by the week. - Maki

More than 17 years ago, when he was still an infant, Spencer Elden's parents dropped him into a swimming pool in California, where underwater photographer Kirk Weddle was waiting to snap an entire roll of film of the naked, buoyant baby. The picture was later used as the cover image for Nevermind, the second studio LP from a little rock band out of Seattle called Nirvana. - Maki

If humans were truly at home under the light of the moon and stars, we would go in darkness happily, the midnight world as visible to us as it is to the vast number of nocturnal species on this planet. Instead, we are diurnal creatures, with eyes adapted to living in the sun's light. This is a basic evolutionary fact, even though most of us don't think of ourselves as diurnal beings any more than we think of ourselves as primates or mammals or Earthlings. Yet it's the only way to explain what we've done to the night: We've engineered it to receive us by filling it with light. - Maki