Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)

I’ve always believed that a good rule of thumb, when it comes to Facebook, is to not post anything you wouldn’t be will to show your grandma or your boss or your significant other’s parents.

Yes, I realize that in theory, social networking websites are supposed to be places where you can cut lose and express yourself. If you hate your boss, why shouldn’t you be able to vent about him or her on your personal page? If you enjoy taking pictures of yourself in your underwear, then why wouldn’t you upload those pictures into a new album?

After all, what you put on your Facebook profile is your private business, right?

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Everyone’s favorite (least favorite?) distraction from work is turning the tables on Seattle this summer. Facebook is hiring!

The rapidly growing social networking website announced plans today to open a new engineering office in Seattle , and they’re looking for a “handful” of Seattle’s best and brightest programmers and engineers to start at their new digs in July. Upcoming Computer Science grads, you won’t want to pass up this opportunity.

Faceook’s  expansion was announced in a note posted by the company this morning. The official title for the positions they are looking for is “Software Engineer” and their jobs page says that these new recruits will work to “build the next-generation system behind Facebook’s products, create web applications that reach hundreds of millions of people, and build high volume servers.”

As we grow to meet these challenges, we need to continue to attract the smartest, most talented technologists on the Internet. Seattle has a strong history of innovation and is home to thousands of talented technical people who we want to help us solve the challenges of designing and building the next generation of Facebook.

No specific location for the new office is mentioned, but this is Facebook’s first expansion in the US outside of their corporate headquarters in Palo Alto, California.

“This move means new jobs for those in our software development community and is a strong testament to the talent in our region,” Mayor Mike McGinn said in a statement.

If you’re interested in applying, head over to the Facebook jobs page

Customers at the University Village Apple Store got their first look at Apple's new device. Photo by Angelo Carosio | The Spectator

After several months of waiting and years of speculation, it’s finally arrived.  The Apple iPad has been called a “revolutionary” “”polarizing” “magical” and “useless” device by various reviewers, but today the public finally got to lay their fingers on the glass and try it for themselves.

Lines slowly grew outside the University Village Apple Store before the 9 a.m. opening, but there was no shortage of iPads for people who didn’t pre-order the device.  Jason Chan, an employee at the store, said that even though they had sold over 500 already, there was more than enough iPads to go around well after noon. Employees were cheering as people left the store with their new toys, and overall the environment was festive and exciting.

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With midterms now behind us, and finals still far enough in the future to ignore for another week, it’s easy to forget that one of the most difficult periods for a student on the quarter system is nearly upon us. As term-papers pile up and due dates approach, we’ll all soon find ourselves in the library, resolving to crack down and make up for lost time. We’ll open our laptops, start a new internet browser window, and log on to whatever service- Angel, ProQuest, or Wikipedia- holds the promise of a passing grade… and then, through the escapism of tabbed browsing, we’ll open another one for Facebook, one for Hulu, and one for whatever other distraction we can rationalize to allot ourselves- I mean, come on! You already Googled “cartesian dualism in contemporary epistemological theory;” the work is half done!
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TeuxDeux

“What deux yeux have teux deux teuxday?” asks TeuxDeux.

And if you’re like me—always making to-do lists on scraps of paper that are with you one second and lost the other—you’ll appreciate it.

TeuxDeux is a Web-based to-do list that presents your daily tasks in a clean way with several key advantages over other sloppy methods.

Unlike paper, you can always just bookmark your TeuxDeux account and find it again later. And TeuxDeux developers are promising apps for iPhone, Air and Blackberry.

TeuxDeux is simple. Some calendars and to-do applications are confusing or consume too much of your time requiring you to fill in fields that you won’t even need most of the time. Making a TeuxDeux account takes seconds, and there’s no learning curve.

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Courtesy 5-Minute Games

The goal: war proliferation. This is the tag line for an all-new iPhone game titled “Balance of Power,” by 5 Minute Games. This action puzzle thriller has the player taking on the role of an arms dealer in an unnamed modern war. With dollar signs for pupils, the player has to strategically deal weapons to both sides of the conflict in order to maximize profit.

Who wins the war doesn’t matter. The only thing that matters is how deep your pockets are when the dust settles and the inevitable cease-fire brings your lucrative business to a standstill. Care to take a shot at it?

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I am a Best Buy Salesperson. I am the writer of famous Twitter account shitmydadsays. I am the creator of Ren & Stimpy. I am Roger Ebert. Ask me anything.

This is the basic premise of IAmA, a recently-added sub-page of the social news site reddit. Reddit usually has its users voting on links to stories and content submitted from elsewhere on the Web, but IAmA takes a different approach: turning the comments page that is part of every submission into a large-scale virtual interview.

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