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...been a heck of a year for Facebook, everyone's favorite social network. That was obvious when founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg took the stage at F8, the annual developers' conference in San Francisco on Wednesday...
...monitor unlawful file sharing sites and pass along to ISPs the individual IP addresses of users it suspects of pirating music. Many of those receiving letters are likely to be the parents of children; just over half of music file sharers in the U.K. are under 25, according to Mark Mulligan, an analyst at JupiterResearch in London. The music industry hopes parents of young music lovers perhaps unaware they are breaking the law, will force their kids to start downloading music legally. But convincing all music scofflaws to change their ways will prove a trickier sell...
...spokesman at Hasbro said the company expected that figure to rise as it debugs the game over the coming weeks. "The No. 1 priority for Hasbro has always been to offer fans a high-quality, legitimate version of Scrabble to play on Facebook," said Mark Blecher, general manager for digital media and gaming at Hasbro. "We think true Scrabble fans are going to want to play the authentic game, the one like the board game they have at home...
...others, though, the sudden celebrity is an upside. Mark Strand, who served from 1990 to 1991, says that hobnobbing at cocktail and dinner parties was his favorite part...
...Library of Congress. Past "consultants" include Robert Frost, Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell. In 1986, Robert Penn Warren was named the first official Poet Laureate Consultant. Although composing poems for state occasions has never been a requirement of the job, Howard Nemerov wrote a poem in 1989 to mark the 200th anniversary of the first meeting of Congress, and Rita Dove composed a poem when the Statue of Freedom was restored to the dome of the Capitol Building...