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At the recent Silver Bullet security conference, Nelson Novaes Neto, chief security officer of UOLDiveo showed off a little method he'd come up with that let him take advantage of both the Facebook structure and the prevalent Facebook culture. Using this method, he managed to convince a web security expert called "SecGirl" to accept a friend request from him. In fact, he says he can get anyone to accept a friend request from him. In 24 hours. How can he do that when it has to be accepted by the target? Well, a little deception goes a long, long way.

After Tim & Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! sang its Chrimbus swan song, many of us were left with a Cinco-shaped hole in our fictional infomercial hearts. Luckily, we don't have long to wait before the fabled Tim & Eric movie, Billion Dollar Movie, releases on March 2, 2012. Today, we have a teaser for what will obviously be 2012's film of the year, complete with a very Tim & Eric style hashtag. Put on some headphones, sit through the funny quotes, and get ready for some #shrim.

After going live about 2 months ago, unapologetically unconventional browser-based MMO Glitch is making an unapologetically unconventional move and unlaunching. That's right, it is going back to beta. The game isn't going to stop running or anything, but performance may get a little weirder while developers slather on a whole new set of skills, mechanics, and other features. Anyone who purchased a subscription is welcomed to a full refund, and the development team promises that this is actually a forward movement. They just need to go back to beta for a while so they can focus on improvement instead of scaling for growth.

Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook's commitment to their community (Facebook) Yahtzee on Skyrim (The Escapist) The origins of Movember (Mental Floss) 11 facts you might not know about Battlestar Galactica (Neatorama) Shop for the free-to-play fanatic you know (Massively) 10 surprising things that will make you live longer (Business Insider) 7 movies that put insane work into details you didn't notice (Cracked) (title pic via EPICponyz)

What you see above is a graph of the mouse movements of redditor ValTM playing Minecraft for around 3.9 hours. The map was made by the program IOGraph, which I promptly downloaded and installed. The java app tracks user mouse movement (as lines) and stops (as dots that increase in size with duration of the stop). The result is a neat little piece of abstract art that ostensibly contains some level of information about mouse movement, but does a better job of looking cool. Apparently, there's a bit of a tradition of using IOGraph while gaming. Check out a few more from different games after the jump.

Rather than make jokes, I will let the actual news do the comedy for me: Capcom has announced a downloadable game for PC, Xbox Live Arcade and the PlayStation Network featuring the Sour Patch Kids, starring Method Man and Creed Bratton of The Office. To reiterate, this is a real game based on the Sour Patch Kids candy, being made by the same people who make Mega Man and Resident Evil, starring a pairing of Method Man and Creed Bratton from The Office. The game is called World Gone Sour.

Chimps throw their poop at people, in the zoo at least. This is a verifiable fact, one that many of you zoo-goers may have experienced first hand. When you think about why they throw their poop at people, you're likely to come up on an explanation something along the lines of "Well, they're animals." While that is true, Bill Hopkins of Emory University, has done a study that shows that the chimps who throw their poop the most often and are the "best" at it, are actually smarter than chimps who throw less frequently and less accurately.

It's almost not a tree house at all, but this homemade AT-ST fort is one of the coolest things I wish I had a child. Granted, it's no Timber Wolf fort, (we use Clan names here; take your "Mad Cat" nonsense somewhere else) but it is pretty crazy awesome. It doesn't look like you'd really be able to see out of those front windows, but you probably spend most of the time inside pretending you're on Endor anyways, so it doesn't really matter. Geek dads for the win.

There are all kinds of privacy screens you can get for monitors that ensure that no one else can see your screen unless they're looking for the exact right angle. That'll work most of the time, but how about a way to make the screen show as blank, even when you look at it dead on? Also, it requires no additional materials except a cheap pair of glasses. Sound amazing? That's because it is, and it's completely DIY.

Hallucinating color is not just a great name for your indie rock band's next record, but also something certain "highly suggestible" people have been proven to do. While gazing deep into a monochrome pattern, a group of test subjects -- first under hypnosis, and then not -- reported being able to see colors in the designs, colors that were not actually there. It turns out that being "highly suggestible" does not just mean that you can be easily convinced that those are not, in fact, the droids you are looking for, it also means that you may have the ability to self-hypnotize and consciously affect your perceptions.

Single-serving Tumblr The Same Picture of Dave Coulier Every Day posts the same picture of Dave Coulier every day. It might also be home to the only Dave Coulier favicon on the Internet. Either Tumblr must be crowned King of the Comedy-Based Internet, or it must be stopped. It is difficult to tell which is the better option.

If you are getting a little sick of your tastefully designed pastel blue shower curtain with the clear liner that doesn't have enough magnets in the bottom to keep it attached to the tub, and you really dig Portal, you should probably head on over to ThinkGeek and get yourself the above Aperture Laboratories branded shower curtain. If you are willing to drop $19.99, you can show your bathroom how much you love Portal, as well as obtain what is probably the only shower curtain in existence with a footnote, which lets you know that your brand new shower curtain contains less than 1% mercury.

You already know what things are smaller than Apple's sizable market cap, but wouldn't you also like to know what is smaller than Google's $29 billion in revenue? Of course you would. You already know that it's bigger than the amount of money you could expect to earn in several particularly good lifetimes, but what if I told you it exceeds the GDP of 28 entire countries? Combined. Oh, and 97% of that, which is a cool $28.13 billion? Ad revenue. Well this infographic by Business MBA can tell you all that and more. Forget being a fireman; when I grow up, I think I want to be a Google.

Hacker collective TeaMp0isoN has leaked account information -- email addresses and passwords -- after hacking the United Nations. The accounts belong to individuals spread throughout groups within the United Nations, such as the United Nations Development Programme, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, UNICEF, the World Health Organization, and others. On their Pastebin dump, TeaMpoisoN noted that some of the user ids had blank passwords, something that is even ridiculous for your mom's junk email account to employ, much less a United Nations organization account.

While gaming magazines are being replaced over here in the U.S. in favor of the Internet, at least one gaming rag is still going strong over in Japan, the venerable Famitsu. Notorious for its scoring system, the magazine has four different reviewers award up to 10 points each for a game, with the possibility of a 40 out of 40 perfect score. Since the very first issue released back in 1986, the publication has only awarded 17 perfect scores, but never to a Western game. However, this is no longer the case, as Famitsu finally broke that trend by awarding Skyrim with a coveted 40 out of 40.