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Social Fridays: Roundup of the Best Social Networking Stories and Videos this Week




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. 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 hoursMozilla’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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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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