Five Nerds hasn’t made much of a secret out of our misunderstanding of AOL, and more importantly, why anyone still needs AOL. 

It appears that AOL editors, Topolsky and Patel concur.

Apologies in advance for a lazy copy-and-paste ripoff of something I found on Engadget.  I just thought it was too cool not to share…

If you’ve ever wondered what a map drawn entirely of Facebook relationships would look like, wonder no more. A Facebook intern by the name of Paul Butler has put together the above image by feeding in location data for pairs of friends, with the white lights representing cities, towns, and hamlets, and the blue streaks between them identifying relationships linking them. It’s fun to see large swathes of Australia and South America devoid of Facebook activity, but check out the bit on the map where Russia and China are supposed to be — is Facebook the most capitalist social network ever or what? Hit the source link for the full-scale image, it gets prettier the closer you get to it.

Not to make light of someone’s misfortune, I’m sure his family feels terrible, but I always thought that the Segway was a bad idea.

From Engadget.com.

UK businessman Jimi Heselden, the man who believed in the Segway so much that he went ahead and bought the company, has died after reportedly driving a ruggedized version of the scooter off a cliff and into a river. He was found early on Sunday morning in the River Wharfe, having earlier been touring his estate in the personal transporter. The cause of the accident is not yet known. Mr. Heselden was 62 years old and, true to our geeky hearts, generated his fortune by coming up with an innovative design for wire cage walls that has since become standard equipment for NATO, American, and British forces. Our thoughts are with the good gent’s family, and please, behave yourselves in comments.