How to get the most out of Facebook’s new Timeline Apps

Facebook is expanding its virtual scrapbook feature, Timeline. Now, in addition to letting people see your current and past Facebook activities, you can show them what youre up to elsewhere on the Web.

This is thanks to the new Timeline Apps feature, which allows a new set of apps to grab and post activity from other websites and services into your Facebook Timeline.

For example, if you install the Words With Friends app, all your Words With Friends account activity appears in Facebook.

As of this writing, 80 apps are available, but Facebook has promised to release even more. The apps already available include some big names, including Hulu, Yahoo! News, eBay, Zynga, Rotten...

Economic Activity Improved In December

Yesterdays news that the Chicago Fed National Activity Index (CFNAI) increased last month provides another data point to consider in the debate about recession risk. Looking backward doesnt necessarily tell us whats coming, but its clear that Decembers economic momentum strengthened. January and beyond, of course, are still open to interpretation.

Led by improvements in production- and employment-related indicators, the Chicago Fed National Activity Index increased to +0.17 in December from 0.46 in November, according to an accompanying statement. The indexs three-month moving average, CFNAI-MA3, increased from 0.19 in November to 0.08 in Decemberits highest value since March...

Church’s new Christian Life Center is a hub of activity

It didnt take long for Canyon Lake United Methodist Churchs
new Christian Life Center to turn into the hub of activity church
officials hoped it would become.

We knew if we built it, people would come, said Richard
Wahlstrom, a longtime church member and the chair of the churchs
project steering committee.

The center, which opened a year and a half ago, is part of an
ongoing bundle of projects the church plans to raise money for this
year, said the Rev. Eric Grinager.

A capital campaign to raise $1.4 million started this month and
will conclude in February.

The first priority on the list is paying off the debt for the
building, which...

Twitter’s new censorship plan rouses global furor

It was a stunning role reversal for a youthful company that prides itself in promoting unfettered expression, 140 characters at a time. Twitter insisted its commitment to free speech remains firm, and sought to explain the nuances of its policy, while critics — in a barrage of tweets — proposed a Twitter boycott and demanded that the censorship initiative be scrapped.

This is very bad news, tweeted Egyptian activist Mahmoud Salem, who operates under the name Sandmonkey. Later, he wrote, Is it safe to say that (hash)Twitter is selling us out?

In China, where activists have embraced Twitter even though its blocked inside the country, artist and activist Ai Weiwei...

Man hospitalized after being shot, crashing on I-80

A man is hospitalized today after he crashed his car on Interstate Highway 80 in Northwest Indiana after being shot in the head by someone riding in another vehicle, police said.

The victim, a 31-year-old man from East Chicago, suffered a gunshot wound in his left temple and was taken to Northlake Methodist Hospital in Gary, according to an e-mailed news release from Sgt. Ann Wojas of the Indiana State Police. The release did not give a condition for the man, but said he was unconscious and is being transferred to another, unspecified hospital.

According to the news release, the man was driving a 1985 Buick LeSabre southbound on Cline Avenue...

Eiko Ishioka dies at 73; graphic designer and art director

Eiko Ishioka, holding her Oscar for best costume design for Bram Stokers Dracula, joins Catherine Deneuve backstage at the 65th annual Academy Awards in 1993.
(Douglas C. Pizac / Associated Press / March 30, 1993)

Art museum in Kansas City opens renovated Chinese galleries

CHICAGO, Jan. 27 (Xinhua) — The Kansas City Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art celebrated Chinese New Year on Friday with the grand opening of two renovated Chinese art galleries.

The new galleries showcase the museums prized collection of jade disks, ancient vessels, bronzes, sculptures, and traditional Chinese paintings.

Museum guests had the opportunity Friday night to be the first to view the special Ancestors, Ritual, and the Tomb: the Ancient Chinese Art Galleries exhibit, which includes artifacts as old as 4,000 years and dating from the Xia to the Zhou dynasties.

Displays include a recreated Han Dynasty tomb featuring a door emblazoned with dragons and interior...

VIDEO: A passion for nature is revealed in Van Gogh Up Close at Philadelphia …

Vincent Van Gogh is known for his sweeping landscapes such as Starry Night and for his portraits such as Postman Roulin.

But in the latter years of his short but prolific artistic career (just 10 years) Van Gogh emabraked on a new-found fascination with natures details literally right down to a blade of grass.

In fact in July 1889 he wrote to his sister, Wilhemina: Ihellip;am always obliged to go and gaze at a blade of grass, a pine-tree branch, an ear of wheat, to calm myself.

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His facination would lead to his most daring and innovative works that broke with the past and dramatically alteredthe course of modern painting.

And his passion...

Bad Box Art Mega Man, Pac-Man Confirmed For ‘Street Fighter X Tekken’

–via Ology.com editor Josh Harrison

In the last trailer for Street Fighter X Tekkens PlayStation Vita edition, we got to see the silhouettes of two previously unrevealed characters. Though their identities werent officially confirmed, both characters are pretty distinctive–with some careful inspection, the gaming public decided that these two mystery fighters were Pac-Man and some version of Mega Man. A new trailer for the crossover fighter confirms that gamers are really good at identifying characters from their shadows. Both guesses were correct, though each comes with a surprise of its own. Pac-Mans in the game, of course, but he enters the ring piloting a towering mecha....

Tennessee foreclosure activity climbed in December

Foreclosure activity in Tennessee increased in December compared to a year ago, according to a report from RealtyTrac

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Tennessee foreclosure filings– including default notices, scheduled auctions and bank repossessions– were up 20 percent from December 2010.

One in every 885 houses in the Volunteer...

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