As usual, The Onion hit this item on the head:
Police Slog Through 40000 Insipid Party Pics To Find Cause Of Dorm Fire

TrackBack - Penmachine.com: "...There will be errors and distortions in any census or survey, yes. But statisticians can account for and attempt to correct for the small distortions that arise in the real world. The article about people who intentionally try to skew the data is an anecdote without context to show how widespread it is, which is precisely the sort of potentially misleading information that real statistics are designed to counteract..."

Interesting how, in the first few minutes, it takes four of these guys to sing the parts that Paul McCartney did by himself in the original. Incidentally, for decades here in Vancouver there has been a one-band band, Tim Brecht, who has performed the entirety of Abbey Road side 2 by himself (albeit with a lot of sequencing and stuff) at live shows. Including "Her Majesty" at the end.

But as someone who's played in a cover band for over 20 years myself, I admire what the Fab Faux have done here.

Here are my thoughts, and my three suggestions for increasingly drastic ways to deal with Facebook privacy concerns:
http://www.penmachine.com/2010/05/facebook-privac...

In short, (1) turn off the most egregious data-releasing features, (2) pare down your profile to the bare minimum to keep it functional, or (3) delete your Facebook profile and just quit.

I downloaded the inexpensive Roadee GPS app for my iPhone a few months ago, and thought I'd see what sort of directions it gave me in Vancouver, my hometown -- always a good way to see if a GPS routefinder knows what it's doing.

I asked for a route in my house in Burnaby (a Vancouver suburb) to a pub in North Vancouver (another suburb), which is just across Burrard Inlet, a drive of about 15 minutes and 15 km across the Second Narrows Bridge:
http://is.gd/ckIlG

Instead of that route, Roadee directed me to take the Trans-Canada Highway east and north, then through Lillooet, along the Duffy Lake Road to Pemberton, south through Whistler and Squamish and back to North Vancouver. That route is about 600 km and would take all day:
http://is.gd/ckIhB

It seemed not to know that there are bridges across Burrard Inlet, as there have been since the 1930s.