The actress, who is in rehab, also had nearly twice the legal limit of alcohol in her system, TMZ reports

Boing Boing Launches Gadget Blog
The people behind the popular Boing Boing blog have decided to take on blogs like Engadget, Gizmodo and the other gadget blogs. You can see a longer list of gadget blogs here on HowToWeb.com. Boing Boing’s gadget blog is called Boing Boing Gadgets or bbGadgets for short. Boing Boing co-founder Mark Frauenfelder announced the launch of the new blog and says Joel Johnson, a former Gizmodo editor and Dethroner founder, will be editing Boing Boing’s gadget blog. Our third major change is the launch of a brand new blog: Gadgets.boingboing.net. While Boing Boing has always covered personal technology, the four of us (Cory, David, Xeni, and I) believed a critical, intelligent, optimistic, and selective blog about personal technology and consumer electronics would be a fine addition to Boing Boing. But who could we trust to oversee a tech blog that the four of us would want to read? Actually, it wasn’t hard to find that person. We went straight to Joel Johnson, a former Gizmodo editor and founder of Dethroner. Joel is smart, funny, knowledgeable, and curious about technology. He was our first, and unanimous, choice to run Gadgets.boingboing.net. And we’re grateful he agreed to come on board. Other changes on Boing Boing include a cleaner look and the return of comments. Teresa Nielsen Hayden, who has a blog called Making Light, will be managing Boing Boing’s comments and community. Posted in Gadget Blogs Permalink | Recent Headlines | WWFeeds.com

Facebook Makes Faces Viewable to Public
Facebook is making its millions of users’ faces available to the public. They have added a search on the Facebook.com homepage. A post on GigaOm explains Facebook’s Public Search Listings. If you thought the news feed was a threat to your privacy, be warned: Facebook is announcing Public Search Listings today, meaning profiles will be searchable through Facebook, and soon turn up on Google, Yahoo and MSN Search. As of tomorrow, search will be available through Facebook; users will then have one month to change their privacy settings before profiles get indexed by the major search engines. These results will include, at most, your name and profile picture. Obviously that’s a move that could scare some users, and there are some restrictions: you must have your profile set to viewable by “everyone” in order to appear, and only your limited profile will be public. Mashable says Facebook users will have about a month to change their privacy settings before Facebook user faces and names start showing up in the major search engines. Some Facebook users that want their privacy may complain that Facebook should have made this opt-in instead of opt-out. Providing the majority of Facebook users don’t change their privacy setting it will allow Facebook to compete more with some of the popular people search tools. It will also allow Facebook profiles to become more indexed in the major search engines resulting in increased traffic for Facebook.com. Posted in Facebook Permalink | Recent Headlines | WWFeeds.com

President Bush Meets With Bloggers
The Washington Post reports that President Bush met with bloggers following his recent Iraq speech. Still, the hour-long meeting in the Roosevelt Room offered Bush another opportunity to break through what he sees as the filter of the traditional news media, while also reaching out to the providers of a new source of information for soldiers, their families and others who follow the conflict in Iraq closely. “More and more we are engaging in the new-media world, and these are influential people who have a big following,” said Kevin F. Sullivan, the White House communications chief. Bush told the group that, to his knowledge, it was the first time a president had met with bloggers for a chat at the White House, one of the participants wrote. The Washington Post said the bloggers talking to Bush were the “generally pro-Bush and pro-military, and the ensuing reports were highly sympathetic to the president.” Some of the bloggers that met with Bush (in person or via teleconference) include Argghhh!, The Victory Caucus, Blackfive, The Long War Journal, INDCJournal and Mudville Gazette. Ward Carroll was also in attendance representing Military.com and DefenseTech. Is there much point to speaking with bloggers that are already very supportive? Maybe it was just a way to reward bloggers that have blogged kindly about the Bush administration and the Iraq War. If President Bush ever wanted to talk to bloggers that have a very negative view of the Iraq War they certainly aren’t hard to find. Ward Carroll said, “It was a conversation and an opportunity for the president to demonstrate that he was aware of what the milbloggisphere is capable of.” A couple more reports on the Bush blogger meeting can be found here, here and here. Permalink | Recent Headlines | WWFeeds.com

UPDATE: Britney’s Mom ‘Brokenhearted’ over Rift
After Lynne Spears receives a reportedly upsetting letter from her daughter, a family friend explains the tension

Chris Benoit’s Web Bio Gets a Chilling Update
The wrestler’s Wikipedia entry reflects his wife’s death before her body is found

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