Pre-caffeine tech: Facebook hacks, Etsy awesome!

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Our pre-caffeine roundup is a collection of the hottest, strangest, and most amusing stories of the morning. Here's everything that you need to know before taking that first sip of coffee today: 

Who does Facebook think you like most? This simple bookmarklet can show you!

Meanwhile, Facebook is rolling out the ticker to more users. Expect to see it soon if you haven't seen it yet.

Uh oh! Silicon Valley It Boy Ashton Kutcher may be in big trouble with the feds for neglecting a little thing called "disclosure" during his editing duties at Details.

Google Maps just got even more useful: The search giant added a "weather layer" to Maps that you can use to check out current temperatures and forecasts around the world.

You can now check in to events on Foursquare.

Meanwhile, you can hang out with your Google+ friends on YouTube.

Rumor as it BlackBerry is launching a music service.

Apple's iPhone 3 with retina display won't be available until 2012, according to reports.

Two years after Palm introduced the Pre, the phone and its subsequent tablet are dead ... and there's little hope for the survival of webOS.

Leave it to a psychologist at the University of Essex to discover that the secret sauce in irresistible video games is the characters' personalities — especially those that leave just enough creative space for players to pour themselves into.

Is nothing safe?! Airport charging stations could easily be configured to copy data from your smartphone — or to even install malware on the device.

In closing:  This needle felted rendition of a scene from the NASA Hubble Servicing Mission 4 as part of an Etsy craft competition is awesome.

Helen A.S. Popkin goes blah blah blah about the Internet. Tell her to get a real job on Twitter and/or Facebook. Also, Google+.

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