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1. George Carlin’s Loved Ones Speak Out – ET breaks the news that comedian George Carlin has died from heart failure. The man who made famous the “seven words you can never say on television” passed away at 5:55 p.m. Sunday at Saint John’s Hospital in Santa Monica, his longtime publicist said. He was 71.
2. Most Complex Crop Circle Ever Discovered – The most complex, “mind-boggling” crop circle ever to be seen in Britain has been discovered in a barley field in Wiltshire.
3. Woman sat dead in front of TV for 42 years – Hedviga Golik made herself a cup of tea and sat down to watch some television in her hometown of Zagreb, Croatia. Sadly, she died in her chair. This was in 1966. She was just found, 42 years later, in her time capsule mausoleum where she’s been sitting ever since. She never finished her tea.
4. “Perfect Evidence” ICE on Mars! – “It must be ice,” said Phoenix Principal Investigator Peter Smith of the University of Arizona, Tucson. “These little clumps completely disappearing over the course of a few days, that is perfect evidence that it’s ice. There had been some question whether the bright material was salt. Salt can’t do that.”
5. Firefox 3 launch a success: 8 million downloads in 24 hours – Mozilla’s Firefox 3 release event yesterday was an epic success. The servers logged over 8 million downloads during the 24-hour download day, and Mozilla has declared victory after exceeding its initial goal of 5 million downloads.
Here's our top 5 Social Friday videos
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1. Ball Girl Makes Incredible Catch
2. Where the Hell is Matt? (2008) – 14 months in the making, 42 countries, and a cast of thousands.
3. Illusions from Bill Nye
4. The Sneakiest Goal in the History of Soccer
5. Unbelieveable! Whole gecko rapidly eaten by ants!
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One thought on “Social Fridays: Roundup of the Best Social Networking Stories and Videos this Week”
People using Google earth to have pool crashing parties definately has to be one of the weeks top stories…
http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/06/18/tech_aids_pool_crashing/