What I think is really hilarious about these apps, specifically game-type ones, is that they are basically a front for 3rd parties working with facebook to bribe you for all of your and your friend's information. Its probably fairly valuable once you get enough of it, and all they offer in exchange is some... flash game. wow we're getting cheap these days.

I seem to remember that it was this way some time ago. You used to have at least partial (full iirc) access to their profile if someone friended you.

They went live with it because people were so fricking bored with the current content that i suspect they were losing subscribers. I know our guild lost a few. That being said I haven't much noticed any performance decreases or unusual issues more than any other patch day 1

While they are not perfect, an easy fix for this is to change the DPI settings in the operating system. This makes everything larger without compromising sharpness. For windows, XP does support this, though it can be kinda crappy and not uniformly supported between programs. However Vista/7 changed the video driver model to natively support these higher DPI settings and should work much better. I would imagine OSX has similar support - and probably even linux though i've personally never checked.

It is set as my home page so I can see their cool new picture every day. They're really good. But for searches I just click on that google search bar in the upper right hand corner

The mission is called "No Russian" for a reason. Without being too much of a spoiler, the title is from the words to you by the terrorist leader at the start of the mission, reminding you not to speak any russian. Because he plans to blame the attack on outsiders for political gain. So theres no real implication that the game is portraying Russians in general in a bad light in this mission. That being said it was one of the more shocking experiences I have ever had in a video game. There is very little explanation of the mission objective before hand, so when your 'squad' opens fire you are completely confused. I bet it would make for a psychology case study to see what people do when prevented with this situation. But anyways, its really an interesting game for the situations they put you in. Its a lot different from the last one, as you're not shooting at generic arab terrorists for most of the game anymore. Eventually you really start wondering who's side you're really on or who the good guys are. I really liked it.

While I don't necessarily disagree with your conclusions - I will say from experience that you certainly can feel real effects of an MRI without any special metal in you. If you move your head through the bore of a system you will very likely get very dizzy pretty fast. They tell me its from the iron in your inner ear being affected.by the strong field. And it affects some more than others.