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Facebook Vs. The Naked Nirvana Baby

I wonder if Spencer Elden knows Facebook hates his penis.Elden is the naked baby on the cover of Nirvana's Nevermind album — you know, the baby in the swimming pool, flapping towards the dollar bill on the hook? (Elden is now grown up and looks like this.)Well, apparently Facebook doesn't like his penis very much because it's banned the cover...
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Foo Fighters Doing Facebook Halloween Concert

It seems Timber Timbre isn't the only one giving out Halloween treats online this year. The Foo Fighters will also jump in on the festivities, as they're set to play a special performance at 2 a.m. (GMT) on Halloween from the Studio 606 complex in California. Want to get tickets? If you're reading this, you already have them. The gig is...
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Facebook Music Service May Be Called Facebook Vibes

A tech blogger may have stumbled upon code for Facebook's much-rumoured music service... and it might be called Facebook Vibes.Jeff Rose was downloading a file to run Facebook's new video chat application when he says he found a unique string of code. He says it links to a "MusicDownloadDialog" page and something called facebook.vibes. Hmm.....It'...
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Facebook Music Service Coming

A few weeks back, it was revealed that the uber geeky kings of geekdom over at Facebook were working on some kind of incredibly nerdy music service with Swedish DMR music streaming service Spotify. But a new rumour indicates the service may be much more of a big deal. Tech blog Gizmodo reports that Facebook is also probably going to team with...
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Trent Reznor's Oscar Acceptance Speech Could've Been Better

Trent Reznor is just two awards away from an EGOT now because he won an Oscar last night for his score for David Fincher's The Social Network. All he needs is a Tony Award and Emmy Award. (But if he gets an Emmy, he at least has an EGO.)He and co-composer Atticus Ross made surprisingly brief speeches when accepting their awards, but that might be...
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16th Annual Year-End Readers' Poll - Stupidest Trend

#7 The Follow The Herd Award (Stupidest Trend)online surveys Next Question: #8 The Thank You Much—Ly Award 2010 (Best Video)
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I Read The News Today... For Dec. 6, 2010

Feist has spoken to The Guardian about her new documentary, and how excited she was to meet Kermit The Frog at the Grammy Awards. Danko Jones want their fans to send them clips and photos of the band playing "Active Volcanoes" live during their upcoming U.S. tour. They'll use the best ones in a new video for the tune. You can send your material to...
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I Read The News Today... For Nov. 1, 2010

The CBC Radio 3 Bucky Awards long list has been announced! You can vote for your fave Canadian artists here until Sunday at midnight, when the list will be wittled down. Stop panicking. The Technics 1200 turntables aren't going anywhere. —MotherboardThe Toronto Star talks to Die Mannequin's Care Failure about injuring herself on the road, and...
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Trent Reznor Vs. Facebook

Trent Reznor may have worked on the music for The Social Network, the recently released film about Facebook creator Mark Zuckerberg, but that doesn't mean he's a fan of Zuckerberg's baby. Reznor recently told Drowned In Sound that he feels Facebook turns people into "avatars" of themselves, which he sees as patently false. "I've seen that with...
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I Read The News Today... For July 28, 2010

Win Butler says he will "forever give" Bono "credit" for "engaging with George W. Bush when he was president," no matter how much people slag the U2 frontman. We're less concerned about Bono as we are this codified endorsement of GWB by an "indie rocker." —NME Kanye West might hate Twitter with...
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M.I.A.: Facebook, Google Were Developed By C.I.A.

Facebook's drawn a lot of criticism lately for changes its made the way users share information, with some people even going so far as to say it violates privacy laws. Some people are also starting to call Google the new Big Brother due to Google Earth, Google Buzz and other applications. M.I.A.'s generally not a fan of surveillance or anything...
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Nickelback Vs. Facebook Pickle

Chad Kroeger likes pickles. He's written songs about them and even tried to eat one for a case of beer at one time. So it's only appropriate that a bored person would start a Facebook page called "Can this pickle get more fans than Nickleback [sic]?" Nickelback currently have about 1,400,000 fans on Facebook, but the pickle is...
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Facebook To Upgrade Music Features

Earlier this week, it was revealed that Google will soon launch its own music service, and now Facebook is set to do something similar. Reports indicate Google will use the iLike and Lala services in its application, which sounds like it will resemble some kind of music search engine. The New York Times reports Facebook, meanwhile, plans to...
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