Meanwhile, the Pope has also weighed in on the whole facebook thing, essentially saying that it’s all pretty cool (really, that’s what he said!), but that we best be careful, lest we obsesses, marginalize, and isolate others through our online socializing. In other words, lest it reproduce our less savory tactics in the tactile world.

Oh, and speaking of tactile:

He urges producers to ensure that the content respects human dignity and the “goodness and intimacy of human sexuality.”

That’s hot.  

Here are the stories:

• Facebook Murder Reflects Cultural Shifts – “The integration of new social networking into the lives of hundreds of millions of people around the world is dramatically changing communication and introducing unknown new dynamics into ages old-interpersonal issues, including psychosis and violence. There are new questions to ask.”
• Wife murdered for Facebook status – “A man murdered his estranged wife after becoming “enraged” when she changed her marital status on Facebook to “single”.”
• Report: Over 8 in 10 corporations have tax havens – “Eighty-three of the nation’s 100 largest corporations, including Citigroup, Bank of America and News Corp., had subsidiaries in offshore tax havens in 2007, and some of the companies received federal bailout funding, a government watchdog said Friday.”