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...Once you hand over your log-in details and click Commit, the program will methodically delete your info - Twitter tweets, MySpace contacts, Facebook friends, LinkedIn connections - much like users could do manually. What remains is a brittle cyberskeleton: a profile with no data. Users seem to love it. Testimonials range from joyous farewells ("Goodbye, cruel world!") to good-riddance denouements ("Thank you, microblogging. You are, in fact, totally useless"). Suicide Machine is so popular that thousands of people are waiting their turn for their own cyberoffing. "Our server is so busy handling the requests," says Suicide Machine co-creator Walter...
...uptick in social suicides has put Facebook in a tizzy. In an e-mail to Suicide Machine's founders - Langelaar, 32; Gordan Savicic, 30; and Danya Vasiliev, 31 - Facebook demanded that they "cease this activity immediately," citing a violation of users' privacy. But the founders disagree, saying users voluntarily hand over their log-in details. Though Facebook blocked Suicide Machine from accessing its site earlier this month, Suicide Machine's creators, and the suicides, are continuing. "Compared to the more than 350 million users [on Facebook], we think deleting a few hundred is not very impressive," says Langelaar. "But they...
...Heidi Fleiss-like relationship of the HFPA to Hollywood. After asking viewers to buy the DVD of his own movie, The Invention of Lying, he lurched into an introduction of the HFPA President: "One thing that can't be bought is a Golden Globe. Officially," he added, wagging his hand, and making the aside, "I'm not gonna do this again anyway." He continued: "But if you were to buy one, the man to see would be Philip Berk...
...Luna's dreamy Spain and the Philippines, is painted on a tall and narrow canvas and depicts a European woman in a red gown, her hand proprietarily on the hip of a darker-skinned Filipina as she ushers the latter up a stairway to a pastel-colored horizon. The allegorical meaning of Hidalgo's oil composition The Christian Virgins Being Exposed to the Populace is rather more pointed. Playing masterfully with light and darkness, the painter chooses to depict a scene from ancient Rome wherein naked Christian virgins are being lasciviously peddled by slave traders. "Hidalgo wanted to say that...
With its first win of 2010 in hand, Harvard moved into fifth place in the crowded ECAC standings—just three points out of first. But with only nine games left on the conference slate, the Crimson knows it must make every contest count...