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Mylife.com: A new tool for bargain-seeking stalkers
What do you get when you combine leading people search technology and the personal data of 50 million+ users? A REALLY, REALLY, BAD idea called mylife.com — a rebranded version of reunion.com profiles linked to personal data from wink.com.
Why should you care? Your reunion.com profile information is now property of the largest online privacy data reseller. That’s right, the company holding your mylife profile is the same company that can sells personal information about the value of your home, your credit history and more (including satellite photos)!
They collect your personal data
A mylife.com profile (formerly reunion.com profile) includes all the elements of your reunion.com profile AND MORE: name, address, email addresses, high school, year graduated, biggest influence, can’t live without, could live without, hopes & dreams, favorite quote, sense of humor, 20+ personal characteristics, personality type, favorite movies, favorite music, favorite books, favorite tv shows, favorite travel spots, favorite sports, favorite hobbies, Facebook connections, MySpace connections, LinkedIn connections and your personal photo.
They sell your personal data
Wink.com (the same company) sells personal data including: a people search report for $1.95 that includes full name, address, phone number, age, date of birth and possible relationships; a $19.95 monthly membership with unlimited access to people search reports plus property information, death records, marriage records, divorce records and reverse phone lookup; and a $39.95 background report with all other information plus, aliases & maiden names, birth date, address history, property ownership information, relatives & neighbors and ‘much more”!
They own your personal data
Privacy concerns about the merger of reunion.com and wink.com into mylife are well founded. According to their user agreement, “you are licensing to MyLife.com and our third party service providers any ‘content’ you provide through or to MyLife.com and the service they offer. MyLife.com may modify, display, distribute and create new material using such content on MyLife.com’s Sites for the promotion and marketing of our services and the operation of our system.”
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Are Violent Video Games Preparing Kids For The Apocalypse?
Panelists debate whether games like Fallout 3 and Gears Of War 2 are teaching children skills they’ll really need in the End Times.
Rihanna reunites with Chris Brown?!
Um, the sadness continues…
Rihanna and Chris Brown are back together, PEOPLE has learned exclusively. “They’re together again. They care for each other,” says the source. The on-again couple are currently spending time together at one of Sean “Diddy” Combs’s homes, on Miami Beach’s Star Island. – from People

CEO Looted Startup
Meanwhile, the company hired Mitch Fox, a veteran Condé Nast ad salesman who’d just left the publisher (or been fired, depending on whom you ask), a year ago at a staggering $500,000-a-year salary — a figure Valleywag has verified firsthand through a look at the company’s 2008 financials (included below). Fox vastly expanded the company, hiring expensive salespeople, launching a travel title, Everywhere, and preparing a fashion magazine. He more than doubled the company’s monthly losses. Closing Everywhere did little to staunch the bleeding. 8020 ended the year with $300,000 in the bank and $3.6 million in losses, and Fox announced that the company was shutting down and putting itself up for sale. – from Gawker
Is Joaquin Phoenix Officially Nuts?
Joaquin Phoenix has displayed some odd behavior lately–but is it bordering on mentally ill? According to a Chicago-based psychiatrist who has not treated the star, the answer is yes. – from OK
Psychedelic Fish Named New Species
A funky, psychedelic fish that bounces on the ocean floor like a rubber ball has been classified as a new species, a scientific journal reported.
Bobby Jindal’s open mic recording before speech

It turns that there was an open mic recording Bobby Jindal’s every word before his disaster of a speech on Tuesday night. He didn’t say anything particularly screwy, but it’s still funny listening to him complain about his throat, asking his advisers whether he should speak loudly or softly, and reminding himself to speak “slow.” – From Daily Kos
Why the Japanese Hate the iPhone
Apple’s iPhone has wowed most of the globe — but not Japan, where the handset is selling so poorly it’s being offered for free. What’s wrong with the iPhone, from a Japanese perspective? Almost everything: the high monthly data plans that go with it, its paucity of features, the low-quality camera, the unfashionable design and the fact that it’s not Japanese. – from Wired
Geek Travel: The top Tech Destination

Remember that movie Weird Science, where two geeks conspired to make a real-live girl that would love them for who they really are? Well, a short two decades later, geek is chic and tech types are at the top of their game. They lord over the all-important venture funds, smirk with arms akimbo on the cover of Fortune, and chatter blithely about 10X returns and paradigm-shifting inventions. And even in the dot-com world’s shaky economic climate, geek culture isn’t going anywhere. So you may as well join them in their native habitat. Don’t worry. It’s safe. Just bring your coffee, your iPhone, and a USB drive. – From Concierge.com
The 5 Most Unintentionally Gay Horror Movies

At some point, possibly in the 80s, Hollywood decided that a good horror movie needed to be built on a strong foundation of homoerotic subtext. We’re not saying it’s a bad thing, this is 2009, after all. What we are saying is that their strenuous efforts to both cram in as much homoeroticism as possible, while avoiding actual gay characters or storylines, is the stuff unintentional comedy is made of. For example… – From Cracked
Preview of WWE Legends of Wrestlemania
Yes, the legends are here. Andre the Giant, Hulkster, and dozens more.
Game companies come by 1UP to show off their games all the time, but it’s not often that we get to compete with our on-screen avatars’ real-life counterparts. But when THQ came by the office this week to give us some hands-on time with WWE Legends of Wrestlemania, they brought one of the legends with them: “The Million Dollar Man” Ted DiBiase. I got to play a few rounds with a man who could single-handedly beat the crap out of everyone in the entire office. But, while I know what Wrestlemania is, my personal wrestling knowledge is limited to seeing Andre the Giant in The Princess Bride. So I enlisted the help of art director and resident wrestling superfan Mike Cruz to help me make sense of these spandex-clad muscle men. – From 1up.com
Jeremy Piven’s Sushi-Gate comes to a weeping conclusion
Cry us a freaking river.
The “sushi-gate” debacle has come to an end in Jeremy Piven’s favor, but the actor is still feeling emotional about it. After a closed-door hearing of the Actors’ Equity Association and the Broadway League on Thursday, Piven avoided penalties for his sudden, high-profile departure from the Broadway play Speed the Plow, which he blamed on mercury poisoning. But during an interview with The New York Times following the hearing, Piven broke down in tears twice while describing his health scare. According to the Entourage star, the hubbub over sushi making him sick was false. “The biggest misconception was that this all came out of the blue in December and that I came down with this ’sushi-gate’ stuff,” said Piven. “It’s not sushi, it’s from eating fish for 20 years and not understanding the mercury threat.” – From TV Guide
Final Fantasy IV sequel coming out for Wii

In July, Square Enix scored a critical hit with its redux of Final Fantasy IV for the Nintendo DS. Named a runner-up in GameSpot’s 2008 DS platform awards (and the Reader’s Choice winner), the role-playing game originally released in the US as Final Fantasy II for the Super Nintendo featured all-new 3D graphics, CG cutscenes with voice-overs, a remixed score by series composer Nobuo Uematsu, and a multiplayer head-to-head battle mode. Now, Square Enix is hoping to follow up that that success with Final Fantasy IV’s sequel on the Wii. As revealed by a listing in the Entertainment Software Rating Board’s online database, the publisher is prepping Final Fantasy IV: The After Years for Nintendo’s console. Though it is unclear whether or not the game will be a WiiWare digital download or boxed copy release, it is apparently based on the 2008 Japanese mobile phone game Final Fantasy IV: The After (no “Years”). Square Enix had not responded to requests for comment as of press time. – From GameSpot
Sheriff’s deputy caught on video beating crap out of girl
Surveillance video released in an assault case against a King County, Wash. sheriff’s deputy shows him kicking a young girl, slamming her to the jail cell floor and striking her repeatedly. The deputy has pleaded not guilty in case.






