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Police use facebook to corroborate tips

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Ontario Provincial Police used facebook recently to thwart an illegal party being planned by teenagers using the online service. Apparently, a cop simply signed up to facebook, warned the teens that police would be supervising the area, and, naturally, nobody ended up showing up. However…

Shortly after the party flop, though, teenagers were already writing about plans for the next big bush party.

“We just need to be more sneaky. … It was just a mistake posting it too soon,” one user wrote.

I can’t believe that, first of all, the teens were stupid enough to leave their event page public. And second of all, stupid enough to post that they ought to be more “sneaky” next time… publicly! They really deserve having their plans foiled if they cannot even learn to privatise things, especially on facebook of all social networks.

I used to run into this all the time on Nexopia and MySpace: idiot teens posting all kind of crap publicy, whether it’s about their party plans for the weekend, or web insults to other online strangers, or their real contact info. As I said before, whoever is stupid enough to post this info, deserves what will be coming to them eventually.

This is why I rarely post many comments on the public “walls” of people (facebook lingo, in this case). I’ve always preferred using messages if I’m saying anything on value to the other person, which I usually am. Public areas in social networks, like facebook’s “walls”, should only be used to random jokes and comments that only teens can lash out.

Pirates 3 Review

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After watching the rather disappointing Shrek 3, I was pleasantly surprised at how well Bruckheimer and Disney pulled of the third sequel to Pirates of the Caribbean. While you can’t quite compare all three of the films, the third is much better than Dead Man’s Chest.

The storyline is quite strong, despite having unnecessary plot twists (such as the “Being Jack Sparrow” moments) and complications (Calypso and Davy Jones’ death). I didn’t quite “feel” the whole love story this time between Will and Elizabeth, nor the two sideline scenes with Keith Richards. Also, the story seemed to move quite slowly. I would’ve preferred to have the plot tightened up and made a shorter movie (almost 3 hours!). That said, the flow was much better than Spider-Man 3.

The acting was top notch, with another superb run by both Johnny Depp and Geoffrey Rush. Orlando was in and out of the film, while Kiera had a boosted role, which I thought was another stupid plot twist.

As for CGI, Davy Jones and his crew, feeling quite realistic to me, were probably the weakest effects in the film, which says a lot I think. Whereas I felt that LOTR:ROTK fell apart with a lot of rushed and weak effects during the big battle with the elephantes and ghosts, the fighting scenes here were top notch.

In any case, Pirates 3 is so far the best summer blockbuster out there. Shrek 3 basically sucked, and while Spider-Man 3 is more comparable to Pirates, I think Pirates just pulls off their formula slightly stronger than Raimi did with Spidey. I highly recommend seeing it if you have a chance; just don’t arrive too late and get stuck in the first few rows like I did (I still have a sore neck!).