Best in Blogs: LOST Finale Explained; Oil Spill Outrage; Endless Facebook Privacy Confusion Top Stories for the Week of May 24-28, 2010 ![]() Like Letterman said: "This is the end of the big TV viewing season. For example, LOST—that's gone. Law & Order—wrapping it up. Also say goodbye to the Gulf of Mexico," Laugh Lines cribs. Sob. We might as well begin this week in blogs with some endings. The finale of LOST was so highly anticipated that Speakeasy was just one site that live-blogged it. ("Ugh," came the post at 11 minutes in. "The guest stars credits give away who's going to show up in the episode.") What did the finale resolve for loyal viewers? "LOST has raised hundreds of big and small questions over its six provocative seasons and the series finale left many of them unanswered," reveals Television Without Pity, which has a slideshow recap of burning questions. ""Was the finale awesome or upsetting?" asks Popeater. "If you ask me, it was both, with a heavier emphasis on the latter."
![]() Screenrant offers a MAJOR SPOILER ALERT explaining the flash sideways phenomenon and other late developments. ScitechBlog offers its own educated guesses on the question of WTF. Meanwhile, the final episode was the most illegally downloaded TV show in the history of TV, according to CrunchGear. A lot of that came from overseas, where the official telecast was to air later. "A staggered release may have worked in the past, but in this day and age, when 720p rips of every TV show are available online within minutes of their U.S. debut, there's no way you can convince people to wait around." BoomTown has decided to round up unauthorized videos (unauthorized? We mean "viral") of famous finales from other shows, like Seinfeld, Friends, Mary Tyler Moore and The Sopranos that were "much better than LOST."
![]() Helplessness over the horrible oil spill in the Gulf has led some to respond in the only way most of us know how these days: with fake Twitter tweets. Business Insider rounds up the 15 funniest tweets from the fake BP Twitter account. AdAge reports that the real BP isn't worried about taking down the fake account (it has other things on its hands). Maybe if it were funnier. Meanwhile, Consumerist live-blogged and video-streamed a procedure called "Top Kill," the latest attempt to deal with the problem in real life: "Now seeing a new camera angle with some lovely plume action spewing out. Excellent. Is this the secret smoke monster breeding ground?" Uh, we retract what we just said about dealing with real life.
![]() Speaking of leaks, there is some bubbling suspicion that the next version of the play-fake-instruments video game Rock Band will include keyboards for the first time. Joystiq says a "teaser image" included with a Green Day music demo showed, "alongside the series' four iconic instrument logos...a whole new symbol, which seems to indicate that keyboards...will be added to Rock Band 3." Notes Engadget: "We can only assume this also means that [rival] Activision will soon be hard at work on Keytar Hero." Har! Meanwhile, maybe you don't need a controller in life at all. Microsoft's Project Natal, which lets you gesture and move your body to play on-screen games , "has been penciled in for an October 26 worldwide launch," says Edge Online, "
![]() Finally, Facebook's cavalier attitude toward privacy of personal data has boiled over this month, inspiring outrage and parody ("The Chinese government announced today that it would disband its extensive domestic spying program that gathers personal information on its citizens and would instead use Facebook," Borowitz Report mocked.) Under pressure, constant razzing, and threats of mutiny, Facebook boss Mark "Sugar Mountain" Zuckerberg announced that the public "misunderstands his motivations," according to Social Beat, and introduced new privacy controls. "There is now a new front-page for privacy controls (although the original tangle of 170 privacy options is there behind it)." Yay. AllFacebook says "it appears that a lot of information will still be public by default." Boo. According to Inside Facebook's live blog of Mr Z's press conference, Zuckerberg explained: "If you do not want to do this, click on link, see default, change for all posts going forward, one piece of data, going forward." Sigh. "I don't understand why Facebook continues to use the old 'ask for forgiveness and not for permission' approach to their privacy policies," says Leigh's Blitherings. How about we make this as simple as possible, Mr. Faceberg? We don't want NakedGoats.com to know who our "friends" are. Ever. Got that?
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