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Social Fridays: This Weeks Big Social and Funny Stories and Videos

If you're bored at work and itching to get yourself through the day then you know the drill! Rather then surfing around trying to keep yourself occupied until you make a quick sprint to the door when it's home time; catch up on stories that have been causing a storm on the social network sites this week, right here and right now..

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1. Why You Should Download Firefox 3 Right Now – Firefox 3 is available for download at 10am PDT Tuesday – is the culmination of a two-year quest to build the best browser ever. And while it's not perfect, it comes pretty close.

2. Tim Russert dies from heart attack – Tim Russert, NBC journalist and political heavyweight host of “Meet the Press,” has died after collapsing at NBC’s Washington news bureau. He was 58 years old.

3.The cake is a lie: IE team bakes a treat for Mozilla – In honor of today’s Firefox 3 release, Microsoft’s Internet Explorer team gave a cake to Mozilla. The tasty treat, which prominently displays IE’s blue “e” icon, just arrived here at Mozilla headquarters in Mountain View.

4. Intelligent people are ‘less likely to believe in God’People with higher IQs are less likely to believe in God, according to a new study.

5. Why You Should Carry a Digital Camera At All Times – Last Tuesday, Lori Mehmen looked out her front door in Orchard, Iowa and this is what she saw.

Here's our top 5 Social Friday videos
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1. Distracted Kid in Call of Duty 4

2. Witness the biggest and greatest office confrontation ever!

3.Hilarious Fail / Owned Video

4. Meet the Sniper Video Released

5. JACK SPARROW – Pirate speed painting.

More:

Stories

Google To Develop ISP Throttling Detector – Google has been very vocal on its stance for net neutrality. Now, Richard Whitt–Senior Policy Director for Google–announces that Google will take an even more active role in the debate by arming consumers with the tools to determine first-hand if their broadband connections are being monkeyed with by their ISPs.

Firefox Download counter – The number of people that actually got through before the crash.

As if a knife wasn’t deadly enough… – This weapon injects a frozen ball of compressed gas approximately the size of a basketball at 850psi nearly instantly. The effects of this injection will drop many of the world’s largest land predators. Pure awesome, as long as you’re not on the business end.

Videos:

Richard Hammond On The Edge Book

He Said It First

The World’s Best Gamer

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An absolute tech junky, I graduated from the University of Manchester with a degree in Computing and now live on the outskirts of Leeds working with you guessed it, Computers. I love all things gadgety but really dislike wires. For those of you who haven’t worked it out the name of the site is a combination of my nickname (Gaj) and the pronunciation ‘Gadget’.
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