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Facebook has had quite an evolution. As its name reveals, it was once a beacon for stalking tracking familiar faces. It worked best as a professional networking utility with a specific focus on detailing the lies about your success that you’d normally have to deliver in person at class reunions.

Yeah, I’m talking to you Jenny Langenfeld

Nowadays most treat it like a portal into their (generally dull) lives. Finally, you can say goodbye to the sleepless nights you spent wondering what people you met in passing 6 years back are having for breakfast! It’s also a hub for online entertainment with games like Mafia Wars, which distills the criminal underworld down to a series of scavenger hunts:

Despite all of my bitching, I must confess that I’ve had a uniquely awesome week on Facebook. This is the kind of week where I start to remember the raw power of the internet to share ideas and, more importantly, make me giggle uncontrollably during misspent work hours.

First, I was introduced to this beer:

Made with real shuriken!

Then I discovered what an artist friend of mine works on in between masterpieces…

I like to believe THIS is how the last unicorn died

I found out another friend was doing a poetry reading, which I admit is curiously unawesome compared to the previous two items. At least until the Kool Aid Man busts in and turns it into a real party:

POOOOEEETRRYYY OOOHHH YEEAAAAHHHH!!!!