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Is Facebook down? Not anymore – Dec 16

Facebook has suffered an outage! Oh no!!!! Everyone panic! Time magazine, take back Zuckerberg’s award!

“For a brief period of time, some internal prototypes were made public to a number of people externally,” a Facebook spokesman said this afternoon when asked for comment. “As a result, we took the site down for a few minutes. It’s back up, and we apologize for the inconvenience.”
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Man Rigs Package With Car Alarm To Catch Thief

This guy definitely has to be a MoPo reader. It doesn’t even matter if he caught the thief, you know he scared the hell out of them.

The man rigged an empty box with a microphone and a car alarm that was set to only go off if the box was opened. He took it to his local UPS and 10 minutes after dropping it off, he says the alarm was tripped when someone opened the box. He also claims that microphone picked up the sound of the package being opened.

Bacon of the Month Club

What says Christmas more than the gift of bacon? The Pig Next Door thinks the best way to tell someone you love them is by giving them heart disease. And who’s to say they’re wrong? Their website offers a Bacon Club, with memberships ranging from $99 to $299:

Once a month, our Bacon of the Month club members receive a package of premium bacon from one of America’s finest bacon artisans. You won’t find any of that mass-produced supermarket stuff in our pen. Why not? Because we all deserve better bacon.

2010 in Photos – The Big Picture

As the year 2010 approaches its last few days, it’s time to look back on the previous 12 months. In the first third of 2010, Millions of gallons of oil spewed into the Gulf of Mexico, several massive earthquakes wreaked havoc worldwide, Vancouver hosted a successful Winter Olympics, and so much more.