The social networking site Facebook on Monday pulled a third-party application that allows users to create polls after a site member built a poll asking if President Barack Obama should be killed.

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Internet Addiction: In Chicago local mental health professionals state that treatment is still emerging. Most treat Internet addiction as an obsessive compulsive disorder. As others look at it as a sign of our times. A malody stemming from social isolation? Perhaps.

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Fire Parole Officers, Not Teachers !

I wrote a letter to the Governor of California, ya, right ! So since you and I both know no one of any importance will see it, I thought I would just send it to everyone else to see what their thoughts are.

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If you care what I think, you know that Twitter is just about the best way to learn what I'm paying attention to. I pass along tidbits of O'Reilly news, interesting reading from mailing lists and blogs I follow, and of course, tidbits from the twitterers I'm following.

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Outgoing Director of Public Prosecutions Sir Ken Macdonald warned that the expansion of technology by the state into everyday life could create a world future generations "can't bear".

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At 1:49 a.m. in an Internet cafe only then quieting after Cairo's daily rumble, 27-year-old Ahmed Maher worked at a computer. He wore the same shirt he had had on for two days.

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Five Alternatives to MySpace (with poll)

Anyone who has spent some time on MySpace knows it has problems and a few drawbacks. I have spent time over the last week or so checking out some alternatives to MySpace and here is my report on Bebo, Multiply, Tag World, Hi-5 and Vox. Update: added FaceBook review.

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