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Remember the Focus On The Family employee who was busted To Catch A Predator-style last week? It took them ten days, but he’s been fired. Focus on the Family spokesman Gary Schneeberger says Juan Alberto Ovalle, 42, was fired Thursday after he was formally charged with criminal attempted sexual assault on a child and Internet luring of a child. Ovalle …

The ACLU is demanding that Tennessee’s public schools stop blocking students from researching LGBT issues on the internet. According to the ACLU, filters at schools currently block the term “LGBT” but allow access to “ex-gay” websites. Many noted LGBT activist groups are currently blocked to students, including HRC, PFLAG, GLSEN, and GLAAD. Via press release: In its letter, the ACLU …

Although some hacker tried to take credit for the delisting of LGBT titles from Amazon, the e-tailer says it’s actually their own fault. Complainers are now getting this automated reply: Thank you for contacting Amazon.com. This is an embarrassing and ham-fisted cataloging error for a company that prides itself on offering complete selection. It has been misreported that the issue …

Gay Twitterland blew up over the weekend over the news that Amazon was removing titles with LGBT content from its hotly-followed sales rankings. The number one word being used over and over on Twitter at this moment is “AmazonFail.” Why? Users are angry about a perceived anti-gay policy that removes lesbian, gay, bi-sexual and transgender books from appearing in sales …

Aside from the humiliation of their ridiculous “Storm Clouds” ad, the National Organization for Marriage has more egg on their face – they failed to register the dot-org domain for their unintentionally hilarious 2M4M campaign. The guy who realized this is just building his site– check out what he’s got so far.

Somebody at Focus On The Family was clearly thinking of the children. A man who narrates Christian CDs has been arrested on suspicion of using the Internet to arrange sex with a teenage girl. Juan Alberto Ovalle, 42, thought he was corresponding with a girl under the age of 15, but instead it was undercover officers with the Jefferson County …

A new real estate website calculates how many useful destinations are within a walkable distance from your home and assigns a “walkability score.” Although the idea of a compact town center is not new, walkability has become easier to quantify, thanks to Walkscore.com. The website’s algorithm takes a previously subjective idea – being able to step out your door and …

Via Tech Crunch: Google is in late stage negotiations to acquire Twitter. We don’t know the price but can assume its well, well north of the $250 million valuation that they saw in their recent funding. Twitter turned down an offer to be bought by Facebook just a few months ago for half a billion dollars, although that was based …

CNET, Symantec, Microsoft and other computer sites are warning of an April Fool’s Day virus which is supposed go global tomorrow. A giant computer worm is set to take effect on April Fools’ Day and your computer may already be infected. The Conficker computer worm is estimated to have already infiltrated between 5 and 10 million computers across the country. …

The George Weber murder case has been chum in the water for NYC’s tabloids, as it contains all their favorite buzz words. Teen Killer! Internet! Grisly Slay Scene! Dead Homo! But even the New York Post blanched at 16 year-old murderer John Katehis’ demand to be paid cash for an interview. John Katehis — the Satan-worshipping 16-year-old charged with fatally …

Here are the top ten knuckle-dragger sites, as ranked by Alexa’s tally of monthly page views. Top ranked World Net Daily claims to have over 50M page views monthly. 1. WorldNetDaily2. News Max.com3. Free Republic4. Townhall.com5. Infowars6. National Review Online7. Heritage Foundation8. The Weekly Standard9. Ann Coulter – Official Site10. Lucianne.com

The Seattle Post-Intelligencer folded a couple of days ago after 146 years of business. Other major dailies are on life support. Do you still read a physical newspaper? How much of your news do you get online? TIME Magazine and the New York Times are contemplating online subscription fees. Would you pay to get news online? What do you think …

A Seattle church is encouraging congregants to Twitter throughout the service. The Mars Hill Church in Seattle’s Ballard neighborhood is not your grandma’s church. On Sunday, the pastor’s sermon was being broadcast on large video screens to accommodate his laryngitis and the congregants in church were broadcasting on their iPhones. They weren’t talking, but “Twittering,” typing in brief thoughts or …

Coolest thing I’ve seen in ages. Mind blowing, even. (Via – Andrew Sullivan)

A woman in Wisconsin was charged with felony identity theft because she posted a photo of her ex-BF’s junk in the “M4M casual encounters” section of Craigslist. She also listed his work phone number and invited men to call for phone sex. Meet Kari Heath. The Wisconsin woman, 20, is facing a felony charge for allegedly posing as an ex-boyfriend …

The Human Rights Campaign has launched End The Lies, a new interactive site that calls out the lies used by the right wing to thwart LGBT equality. “Again and again, opponents of equality have claimed one shallow victory after another by telling lies about who we are as individuals, as loving couples and as families. These lies must be called …

“I have to say, that when we say, ‘Who killed the Rocky Mountain News,’ we’re all part of it, for better or worse, and I argue it’s mostly for the better. We can’t just kill it and walk away. It’s important for all of us to reach out to some of those on the other side and present the progressive …

Via Brainz, who also breaks down LinkedIn, MySpace, Digg, and Slashdot.

Lifehacker reports of a new service that uses Google Maps to plot the locations of available apartments on Craigslist. The two most important things to look for when shopping for a new apartment on Craigslist are price and location. PadMapper maps Craigslist’s apartment listings on a Google Map for an at-a-glance look at available offerings. Previously mentioned MapsKrieg covers the …

Dramatic chipmunk. We like the moon. Charlie bit me. Tron guy. Leave Britney alone. Spaghetti cat. Chocolate Rain. Asian Backstreet Boys. Evolution Of Dance. OK Go. I like turtles. Numa Numa. Mentos & Diet Coke. Go to Greg Rutter’s “Definitive List Of The 99 Things You Should Have Experienced On The Internet Unless You’re A Loser Or Old Or Something.” …