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I guess Mayor Boyd Austin of Dallas, Ga., is still a victim of other people playing with his Facebook profile?

Privacy settings, sir! Privacy settings!

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It appears state Rep. Steve Davis has encountered Internet gridlock.

This morning, the Republican lawmaker from McDonough’s Twitter account mysteriously regurgitated nearly an entire legislative session’s updates.

This is one screenshot. I will save you the horror of viewing the rest.

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MARTA, the little transit agency that could, is rolling out a new website. It hasn’t launched yet, but a little birdie was kind enough to land on my cubicle sill and point me toward the beta site.

Check it out, mull it over, find bugs and let ‘em know what you think.

After the jump, a comparison of the two designs.

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Google wants to save you the embarrassment caused by late-night e-mails to  the bastards that broke your heart. Or just e-mails you wish you wouldn’t have sent regardless. Today the company launches Mail Goggles, a Gmail feature that requires you to complete simple math problems before it sends the message. You get to choose when it’s activated, but by default it’s set for weekends.

Developing: The AJC has been ordered by the Internet Police to use this feature on its comments sections.

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We’ve been having server problems at the massive Creative Loafing MSM complex. Angry bloggers cut our thingamajig cable and … goodbye to the Internets. Or else it was construction workers. Or terrorists.

But the hamsters are carrying our posts through the electronic tubes from remote locations. The usual errant missives should be arriving fast and furious throughout the day — now that I have my baton out and am flogging the writers.

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