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"Of those who conduct online searches/background checks of job candidates, 29 percent use Facebook, 26 percent use LinkedIn and 21 percent use MySpace. One-in-ten (11 percent) search blogs while 7 percent follow candidates on Twitter."
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This isn't your usual August. With enough political issues smoldering to fill a decade of American history, the vacation month has turned into a morass of issues that boggles the mind. Here are seven articles that went viral this week, attempting to answer one simple question: What the hell is going on in America?
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A Record Price at the ClockTower Building - A striking triplex penthouse apartment in a clock tower overlooking the Brooklyn Bridge and New York Harbor has gone on the market for $25 million.
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"Examples of people sometimes so entitled Guido van Rossum, creator of Python[4][5] Larry Wall, the creator of Perl Patrick Volkerding, the creator of Slackware[6] Mark Shuttleworth calls himself the "Self-Appointed Benevolent Dictator For Life", or SABDFL, and the Ubuntu community often uses this name to refer to him[7][8] Adrian Holovaty and Jacob Kaplan-Moss, for Django[9][10] Dries Buytaert, founder and leader of the Drupal project[11][12] Matt Mullenweg, the creator of WordPress[13] Kohsuke Kawaguchi, the creator and leader of the Hudson project[14]"
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"I’m totally stoked for Wes Andersen’s newest film, The Fantastic Mr. Fox, which is based off of the Roald Dahl book of the same name. The story centers around Mr. Fox (who’s voiced by George Clooney)"
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"after consulting with experts who study economic trends, and receiving suggestions from many of our readers, we have created the Real Misery Index. It combines a more accurate unemployment statistic (the U6 formulation), with the inflation rate for three essentials (food and beverages, gas, medical costs), and year-over-year percent increases in credit card delinquencies, housing prices, food stamp participation, and home equity loan deficiencies."
- cysko
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he 25-year-old engineer, Sun Danyong, who worked for Foxconn, jumped from a 12-story building last week. A Chinese newspaper reported that his property had been seized and that he was held in solitary confinement, where he faced "unbearable interrogation techniques" for having lost one of 16 "4G" prototypes. Foxconn apologized, but questioned reports that police beat Sun.
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"Cats have about the right size of vocal folds to produce a cry that is similar to a baby's, so there is a coincidental element," explained McComb. "In fact, the meow can sound remarkably like a crying child, which will be particularly effective with humans."
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So where does that leave FriendFeed users? While we talk of the Web being the great equalizer, the uncontrollable stage upon which democracy happens before our very eyes, whose version of democracy are we really looking at?
- cysko
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FriendFeed users are exempt from any of these rules as we use over 30 services all at the same time.
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We use more than 30 services like 50 of them, I can't keep up how many social services I use anymore
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of course you would love the metal gear series to be made into a movie but really that will be a failed attempt it'd be more feasible for a splinter cell flick devil mat cry and fallout are just asking to be movies like this moment and zelda and castlevania are old franchises that would only been done right with a lord of the rings type budget and isnt GTA already a movie.... ;)
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