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This donut is my body. This cup of coffee is my blood. Dip thee the donut in the coffee and partake of its sugary goodness and thou shalt know my love.  And forevermore, in memory of me, thou shalt know the coffee by the name of a cuppa Joe…

He hath risen and returned!  Yes, Joe Dzikiewicz aka Donut Eye Joe from Mixx.com (who actually kinda prefers bagels) joins us for the eighty-seventh Social Blend – where we discuss the release of multi-level commenting at Mixx, and ask the questions of Joe that YOU wanted answered!

We also take a look at “a community divided“, and looking at the events and behavior of Mixxers during events that cause divisive yet passionate responses – and what impact that has on the site as a whole.

We take a look at mainstream media shenanigans with their coverage of the Balloon Boy Family (greatest trolls evar?), and briefly glance at the news about KISS’ Peter Criss beating breast cancer - a story surprising us with the information that it is a form of cancer that can affect men as well.

For Stories of the Week, we dive into a video showcasing the intoxication of one dude on a beer run that will just make you go “WTF?”, Joe blows our braincells with the latest theories of why the Large Hadron Collider is suffering from such bad luck, and we also get Jay pissed off by telling him that Kellogg’s will be branding their individual flakes of corn with their logo using laser technology…  Yes.  He rages.

All this and more on this week’s Social Blend…  oh and our band of the week is 4chan…  uh, you’ll see what we mean…

Presented by Greg Davies (cGt2099 from The-TrukstoP.com) and Jay Fowler (SilentJay74 from JuicySnake.com) the Social Blend is a fun, and hard-hitting, podcast, with no respect for rules. We try to make the main focus of the show to be Mixx.com, and other social media sites; but we usually just end up talking about whatever comes to mind!

Band of the Week = 4chan!!
with Queen’s Don’t Stop Me Now

Stories of the Week

Al-Qaeda suspect was nuclear researcher at CERN

Autographed cereal: Kellogg’s to laser brand individual Corn Flakes

Balloon Boy Balloon

Balloon Boy family announcement delayed; Dad says absolutely no hoax

Balloon Boy gagged himself on Today Show; pukes on dad

Balloon Boy gets sick during TV interviews

Balloon Boy Hoax revealed

Balloon Boy pukes on live TV

Balloon Boy quickest meme ever

Balloon crash lands in Colorado; no sign of boy

Bizarre Balloon Boy dad, Richard Heene, says hot air caper no hoax, but refuses more questions

Boy floats away in balloon

Boy found safe after runaway balloon escapade

Boy thought to have floated away in balloon found

CNN International: Original KISS Drummer celebrates surviving breast cancer

CNN USA: Original KISS Drummer celebrates surviving breast cancer

Code tattoos for geeks only

The Collider, the particle, and a theory about fate

Colorado Balloon Boy: The Internet Spoofs

Could the Large Hadron Collider be shut down by ripples from the future??

Drunkest drunk ever goes on beer run

Girl fights a donkey?

Good things come to those who wait

Hawking bets CERN Mega Machine won’t find God’s particle

Hyperdrive propulsion could be tested at the LHC

If Peter Criss was a LOLcat

Independence Day Sequel MAY be coming – but negotiations stalled by Fox

Is the troubled Large Hadron Collider being sabotaged by its own future?

Large Hadron Collider being sabotaged from the future

Mixx now has multi-level comments

Reddit throws rewards into the Mixx

Story of Moses to get 300 style makeover

Talk Amongst Yourselves

To my dear friend, OnReact.com

US Balloon Drama: Missing boy found alive

You were never THAT Anonymous

The Mixx Lounge

http://www.mixx.com/lounge

Music Credits

Music by Gold Tooth