If you read Lifehacker, chances are you've been designated as your family's de facto IT person, and you've probably spent more than your fair share of hours troubleshooting applications you know no better than the person asking. How do you do it?!

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It was the best of times, it was the worst of times — but in the age of both wisdom and foolishness, somehow it always seems like the latter is what gets caught on vide

The top item on many social news sites this morning is a screenshot (below) that purportedly shows an embarrassing message a woman posted to her public Facebook page. If real, it’s a mistake that might take some time to recover from.

With over 250 million users, Facebook is a social networking behemoth.

Good motivation booster:

Collective intelligence humour at its best: "3 words after sex" from Twitter users

I ran across these hilarious mistakes on college admissions essays submitted to Vassar and Bates colleges. You can find them here at Beliefnet.com.

I laughed. And then I cried, knowing how much the staff of the admissions officers were laughing–as they sent out the rejection letters.