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As young Ryan here has hopefully learned, the way something sounds when spoken aloud (or in your head) doesn't always translate smoothly to the written word. That, or he was actually banging a dude in the hot tub. Which: BT, DT, not accepting premixed drinks from those Jersey Shore kids again. Oh, there was a situation, alright. Namely, butt ache. Thedailywh.at Thanks to alan, who may or may not be THE Alan Grant, the palaeontologist from Jurassic Park who I plan to kidnap and torture mercilessly for information pertaining to the island's exact whereabouts. Well -- are you?!

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Ever wonder how the Caped Crusader spends a night off from fighting crime? Well wonder no more thanks to this first-of-its-kind look into Batman after-hours. Is he gonna wax the Batmobile? Update his Facebook and LinkedIn profiles? Get drunk and go on a crime spree only to whip his own ass the next morning? You're gonna have to watch to find out! No, no you're not. Gay sex with Robin. Hit the jump for the moderately entertaining video.

Remember posing in photo booths with your friends as a teenager? Everyone made goofy faces and funny gestures, and you got to keep a strip of pictures to take home to prove how much fun you had that day. If you were a teenager in Japan you’d get all of that plus some freaky retouching. Purikura (an abbreviation of “print club”) booths take pictures of you, smooth them out and remove your flaws, then print out photos that look vaguely like you…but a cuter you.

In the video above, a television show tests out the booths’ newest feature: eye widening. Admittedly, the pictures that come out of the booth are pretty cute (especially the Mona Lisa – who knew she was such a fox?) but who wants pictures that look nothing like them? Apparently lots and lots of Japanese people, because purikura have been popular there for years. They’re so good at what they do that one even erased the unsightly red dots two girls drew on their faces before posing for portraits. Online dating site members, we hope you’re paying attention: this is the perfect way to get a flattering (but still completely misleading) current pic for your profile.

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Treadmillasaurus Rex has all the prerequisites for an awesome video game: dinosaurs, lasers, spikey balls, confetti, party lights, fancy hats, and exercise. Kidding, it could actually do without the exercise. Me? Not so much. My love handles monkey bars aside, give it a play and stick it to the man for a couple minutes. It's not like you're doing anything but counting the minutes until the holiday weekend anyway. Haha, do I know you or what?! I don't, I just have a spy camera hidden in your office. I saw how you spent your lunch break! And I want in. Treadmillasaurus Rex [armorgames] Thanks to eL Capitan!, EliteTek, letrappe and rhino, who agree all dinosaurs should join the gym to keep them fit and limber for my sex parties.

This morning we began receiving reports that Facebook Pages had a major flaw that was preventing users from commenting an liking stories. Some Page administrators were even unable to access the page content. While we’d assume that Facebook is actively working on a fix for the issue, it’s preventing a fair amount of Facebook Page functionality.

The bug appears to be limited to specific users. Additionally we’ve heard that the bug is happening within comments. For example, a user cannot “like” an actual comment on a feed story. It’s a small bug but it’s making it difficult for numerous people to communicate on the site. Facebook tends to resolve these problems relatively quickly. It also appears that this bug is only affective new posts, not previous posts.

We’re not quite sure why this is happening, or how many people are affected by the bug, but it’s pretty clear that it’s causing problems with many Facebook users. We’ll be sure to update the post if we hear anything else from Facebook. Have you seen this bug as well?

Thanks to Mari Smith for sharing this bug with us!

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Another big upgrade from Facebook: the company is currently testing search results which display articles ranked by likes. Additionally, the results for searches now shows the results from all around the web based on two things: the number of likes and the number of friends who liked that object, most likely leveraging some of the technology shown in their recently approved patent. We first received reports of these search results showing up earlier yesterday.

The search results have now become dramatically more relevant with the inclusion of recent news articles, something that previously wasn’t accessible via Facebook’s open graph search results. Currently, the search results only appear within the drop down from Facebook’s search box, however I’d assume that this will eventually shift to Facebook’s search area, which has yet to undergo a significant overhaul.

This new search shows how important Facebook’s Open Graph is to the future of the company. It also underscores the continued tension between the company and Google, who is working feverishly develop their own competitor to Facebook. If there was any question that Facebook has grand search ambitions, the increasingly relevant search results for any keyword should emphasize this shift. It also illustrates how the “like” is most definitely positioned to replacing the link. We’ve reached out to Facebook for comment on the new feature, however we’ve yet to hear back. Are you seeing these search results? What do you think of them?

Update
Facebook has reached out to us with an update. The company has told us, “We launched the ability to see articles shared by your direct friends in the search typeahead. For instance, if your friend is on a news site and clicks ‘Like’ under one of the articles (which will then go into News Feed), when you go to search for that article on Facebook, it will surface in the dropdown.” Most significant is that the content displayed “is only available for articles shared by your direct friends (not globally to all users on Facebook).” Additionally, “This is not surfaced to you based solely on number of ‘Likes’ for the article.”

The key here is that Facebook is using the social graph (and other factors) to determine relevance.

Thanks to Jesse Ferrell of AccuWeather for pointing out the upgrade to us yesterday.

Note: Video is after the jump because these beats are so fresh they'd make the front page look rotten. This is a little composition by Eclectic Method appropriately titled '8-Bit Mixtape'. It's basically a bunch of beats and audio effects from old video games strung together in a way that sounds like bumpin' music. The whole thing's surprisingly good but the Tetris part is by far the best so if you disagree you and I will be taking this outside and I will be dropping you on the curb like a garbage bag full of Play-Doh. See, what I'm gonna do is fake with the right, then come in with a left hook that'll make you say 'Oh golly, not right in the temple!" Thing is, it's gonna be. Right. In. The. Temple. Of your doom. See what I did there? Hold on, hold on -- one last crusade. Hit the jump for the it's probably not for everyone.

Ask someone what makes a map and you’re likely to hear that it’s the roads or the physical characteristics. A new mashup is questioning whether you can still have a map without these details, while at the same time showing off the map styles feature that Google Maps announced in May.

Perhaps Maps Without Maps isn’t that useful, since it’s missing those elements that so many consider a map prerequisite. But it’s pretty fun to drag around and zoom in on areas you think you know, with only the city names (and some highway labels) visible.

The site achieves the effect thanks to a new and mostly unused feature of Google Maps. The map styles feature uses CSS-like syntax within the map’s JavaScript, so that you can change colors of the map. Or, selectively show and hide portions of the map, with about two dozen options to choose from. Of course, in the case of Maps Without Maps, it means making almost every element invisible.

Google isn’t the only mapping provider to allow styled maps. CloudMade provides a style editor which provides even more options in a point-and-click interface.

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What, no "These Books Have Three-Tittied Alien Chicks Wielding Swords In Spaceships on Their Covers" section? Amazon it is. How To Sell Books [buzzfeed] Thanks to Karsten, who only buys books for their cover art. Who doesn't?!

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Note: Video is after the jump because this guy is waaay too trippin' me out to be on the front page. This is a new commercial for Windows Live Photo Gallery featuring the guy from the double rainbow video. And let me tell you: it was a real treat to finally be able to put a face to the drug user. Hit the jump for the commercial as well as a bonus "Meet Bear" (Bear, that's what he likes to go by) video.

San Diego, located in beautiful Southern California, is the second largest city in the state. The city is more than just awesome weather and beaches though as its amazing attractions, excellent universities, and prominent lists of residents are just a few reasons to call the area home. Let’s grab a delicious California Burrito, relax and enjoy the weather, and learn a little bit more about San Diego. We have researched the city’s Facebook users, and have found some interesting tidbits about the city’s hometown pride. Check out our findings below.

Population

There are roughly 1,585,960 Facebook users in the San Diego area. An estimated 165,800 more women are on the site in the SoCal town. About 28% of users are between the ages 18-24.

Sports

Oddly enough, the two professional sports team both have very similar numbers in terms of hometown fans. Both the San Diego Chargers in the NFL, and the San Diego Padres in the MLB, have about 106,000 fans on the site.

Education

Many people both in, and out of state, head towards San Diego to spend their college years on sunny shores, and not to mention the excellent educational institutions. San Diego State University has about 130,000 graduates in the US on Facebook. Fun fact, about 1760 people in the area are fans of the various San Diego athletic teams. About 44% either started, or stayed, for that beautiful California sunshine. University of California’s San Diego campus has about 85,740 graduates in the US. A private university in the area, University of San Diego, has about 29,000 graduates in the area.

Eats

Lets talk fast food and a bit of delicious Mexican food with a SoCal twist.

Jack in the Box was started in San Diego, and has about 3,000 fans on the site. It just doesn’t compare to those delicious burgers at In-N-Out though, as over 34,100 San Diegans  are fans of the fast food chain.

Mexican food is also very popular in the area. Sombrero Mexican Food restaurant has over 1,700 fans in the area. In general, Carne Asada Fries have over 10,000 mouths watering around San Diego on Facebook. The California Burrito, that only San Diego can seem to do just right, has about 8,100 fans on the site. Anyone want to mail me those Carne Asada Fries?

Sites

The world famous San Diego Zoo is an attraction with 38,320 local fans on the site. The zoo is located in Balboa Park, and the park as a whole, has almost 10,000 people that enjoy visiting regularly. Theme park Legoland has about 900 fans on Facebook. Anyone enjoying taking their kids to the newly opened Water Park at Legoland?

Music

Extremely popular band Blink 182 hail from the San Diego area. Blink 182 have about 10,000 local fans on Facebook. Jason Mraz is a California transplant who owns an avocado farm in the area. Jason Mraz has almost 16,000 fans in his native area. Tom Waits  sang a beautiful serenade to the city 1974. Tom Waits was also born just a few hours from the area, and he has about 3,000 fans in San Diego.

Movies

I’ve managed to avoid using Anchorman quotes this entire post, but maybe they would have gotten a laugh or two. Anchorman, set in San Diego, has almost 10,000 fans in town. Cameron Crowe, who is also a native to the area, filmed and set much of Almost Famous in the San Diego area. That is logical though, as the movie is based on Crowe’s own experiences.

Taking to the ’80s, and the skies, the Tom Cruise classic Top Gun was set on a Naval Base in San Diego. Maverick and Goose won the hearts of about 4,700 locals in the city with the movie Top Gun.

Media

In the world of Facebook, the most popular media publication appears to be the San Diego Citybeat with 2,600 fans.  About 1,300 are San Deigo Union-Tribune supporters. Local magazine, San Diego, has about 1,600 fans in the area.

Conclusion

San Diego is the eighth largest city in the country. It has many excellent universities, an abundance of talented and prominent residents, awesome sports teams, a world-renowned zoo, delicious foods, and so much more that we could go on for days. Their Facebook users are passionate to its hometown cultures, and that is awesome considering the size of the area. You stay classy, San Diego.