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Late-Night Vulnerability: The Letterman scandal and Conan O'Brien's injury highlight how much the networks have riding on individuals.
Source: Forbes

LOS ANGELES -- An apologetic David Letterman trotted out before the cameras Monday night with a quip that raised questions and fetched laughs: "There's a possibility," he said, "that I'll be the first talk-show host impeached."

Cyber Or-21 The Eight Net Gen Norms
Source: israelseen.com

The Eight Net Gen Norms- The best description that I know of and will use of who the Net Generation actually are, is done in the book "Grown Up Digital" by Don Tapscott (Mc Graw Hill, New York, 2009) Chapter Three, pages 73-96.

Actor Steve Guttenberg Jogs Naked Through Park
Source: YouTube

Steve Guttenberg, a movie actor and "Dancing with the Stars" personality, has appeared in an apparently amateur video on YouTube (as well as posted on countless other personal websites) as he is running naked through New York City's Central Park.

Society's rules are so at odds with human nature that there are actually no good options for an Eliot Spitzer
Source: The Huffington Post

I'm going to throw the remote through the TV if one more news twink says something on the order of "When we come back, we'll look into what drives a successful man like Eliot Spitzer to risk it all..." ...Let me help you: because he wants to get his "(expletive)" off! Stop wit …

Smurka (smurf with Burka) refused by Happysmurfday.com
Source: http://www.ad.nl/denhaag/stad/article2071429.ece

Happysmurfday.com did refuse to place a picture of a dressed-up smurf wearing a burka.

A 'Normal' Family
Source: The New York Times

[...] adoption is becoming normal. Or least more normalized. Sure, it's taken 60-some years. But attitudes are changing.

ScienceDaily: Brain's 'Social Enforcer' Centers Identified
Source: Science Daily

Researchers have identified brain structures that process the threat of punishment for violating social norms.

Bush bends the law beyond recognition
Source: The New Republic

If they set aside partisan interests, Bush's supporters would understand the toll of his presidency. Conservatives, at least those in the Burkean tradition, have eloquently extolled the wisdom embedded in norms and the futility of restoring them after they fall.

Second Life Social Norms Mimic Real World

Suprise. Male avatars in the virtual world of Second Life tend to stand further apart and maintain less eye contact than their female counterparts.

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Challenging the Ethical Norms of Technology
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UPDATE: This link has been removed, but I found another copy of the article at --- In an insightful essay about normative issues in technology, Professor Charles T.

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