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According to a new poll from the Pew Research Centers Internet & American Life Project, self-described liberals are twice as likely than self-described conservatives to block material on social networking websites that they find politically disagreeable.

Thirty-six percent of social media users said they have blocked, unfriended or hidden someone because of politics, but left-leaning participants were far more likely to havetaken that action to express disagreement about a friends political views.

Liberals are the most likely to have taken steps to block, unfriend, or hide disagreeable political messages, Pew concluded. In all, 28% of liberals have blocked, unfriended, or hidden someone on SNS [social networking sites] because of one of these reasons, compared with 16% of conservatives and 14% of moderates.

Sixteen percent of liberal users said theyblocked someone who posted something specific that they disagreed with, compared to eight percent of conservative users.

Liberals are also far more likely than conservatives 11 percent compared with 4 percent to completely delete friends from social networking sites because they disagree with their politics.

There has been no word nor will there likely be any about whether liberals will enjoy reading this story. Many, if the Pew study is to be believed, will just block it from their news feeds.

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A "Facebook" for tattoo lovers? Surely the social-networking bandwagon is already full to tipping. But hold on--the photos section here seems tailor-made for this community. And beyond.

I pity the fool who says social networking has jumped the shark.

Sure, Mark Zuckerberg has a hoodie with weird totemic symbols hidden on the inside. But if he were truly hard core, he'd have a Like icon tattooed on his neck and the word "HACK" inked in all uppercase black letters from one shoulder to the other.

You can bet members of the tattoo-themed social network the TatSpot don't mess around with wussy iron-on transfers. These people go the distance, as evidenced by the photos on the site.

A tattoo-themed social network? You're probably thinking, "OK, the whole social-media thing has really jumped the shark." But why not? After all, I'd wager there's a forum or chat room or virtual who-knows-what for just about every wired subculture on the planet.

And though many of the TatSpot's different areas (videos, events, blogs, and the like) have yet to be filled out with posts (we got an e-mail announcement about the site just today), the aforementioned photos section seems to be off to a colorful start and appears tailor-made for this community.

And beyond. The photos section is a fascinating little journey for anyone, tattooed or not. As new as it is, you'll still encounter a cornucopia of iconography, from Mr. T to an unknown soldier to Mahatma Gandhi. And we suspect this will only get weirder and more wonderful with time.

The only problem I have with the site is its name. My CNET colleague Jeff Sparkman came up with a far better one: InkedIn.

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In "Tower Heist," Eddie Murphy seems energized and pumped and poised for a comeback.

In "A Thousand Words," the actor smashes all those hopes to bits. Forget it. The dream is dead.

The only reason this dumb, insulting movie won't permanently derail Murphy's career is that few people will ever be forced to sit through it outside of trans-Atlantic flights and interrogation rooms at Guantanamo Bay.

Why has this gifted comedian repeatedly squandered his talents on such crummy pictures? Even Adam Sandler hasn't amassed as many bad movies as Murphy has ("Holy Man," "The Adventures of Pluto Nash," "The Haunted Mansion," "Imagine That": The list is endless).

Maybe he just doesn't read his scripts, much like his character of Jack McCall, a fast-talking literary agent who doesn't read manuscripts. Jack just knows how to package books so they sell.

The premise of "A Thousand Words" -- which was written by Steve Koren, who also wrote "Jack and Jill," so you know what you're in for -- is that Jack must learn to be a better person after a Bodhi tree sprouts in his back yard and loses a leaf with every word he says. When the tree's branches are bare, Jack will keel over dead.

"A Thousand Words" was directed by Brian Robbins, who also worked with Murphy on "Norbit" and "Meet Dave." Suddenly, those two movies feel like career highpoints.

This is the kind of crass, soulless cash-grab that has Murphy holding a Starbucks coffee cup in front of the camera while saying the line "This coffee is incredible."

This is the kind of racist, homophobic picture that makes fun of a gardener who speaks in a ridiculous accent ("Dee sprinkler ees dead, but I feex eet!") and a running gag about an overweight gay man trolling a hotel for casual sex.

Nicolas Cage served as a producer on "A Thousand Words," which makes me wonder if he considered starring in the movie himself at some point. And yet Cage eventually passed, and he's the guy who made "Ghost Rider" and "The Wicker Man."

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Plan B aka Ben Drew has been very busy making his new record recently and it seems hes also decided to address some serious topics while hes at it too!

The singer-songwriter has released a statement, alongside the video to his forthcoming single, Ill Manors and in the statement he talks about his thoughts on the UK riots that took place in August 2011.Its very interesting and while suggesting reasons for why those terribleevents took place, Ben also says its time the press stop using the word chav to describe those who are under-privileged backgrounds. And here's why...

He wrote, They [the kids] don't care about society because society has made it very clear that it doesnt care about them."

"An example of this is the word chav that means council housed and violent, a derogatory phrase that is openly used by certain sectors of middle England to label and define people from poor backgrounds," he continued. "Its a derogatory phrase no different in my opinion to the ones concerning race or sex. The difference is that the papers use it publicly. That in my opinion is hypocrisy.

Mr B will be releasing the Ill Manors single on 26 March and the song will be followed up by an album of the same name and a film that Ben himself has written and directed. Hes clearly a man of many talents and some strong opinions, and we all know that he oftens speaks from his own experiences. So frankly,we cant wait to see what the film is like and what other points he chooses to address through it. But in the meantime, heres the video whichis partly a reaction towhat happened during the riots last summer. We quitelike it. Do you?

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