In 18 short months, Facebook has aged seven years. New data from Pew says the median age for Facebook users has gone from 26 in May 2008 to 33 today. So, where have the late 20-somethings started hanging out online? Look around and you’ll find them tweeting away. In December 2008, only 20 percent of people in the 25-34 age bracket used Twitter, but now 31 percent can be found DMing and @ replying. Twitter now claims the second youngest users with a median age of 31. (via Holy Kaw!)

George Bush doesn’t care about sporks.

It’s that time of the year again; MacHeist, a great site, filled with forums of people answering all your Apple related questions, has released their 3rd annual nanoBundle, filled with amazing Mac apps. Normally, these products would cost you about $154, but if you sign up for a free account on MacHeist.com, you get the products absolutely free, no strings attached. Among the apps this year are WriteRoom, a distraction-free word processor, for those who enjoy a typewriter, but live in the digital world, and TinyGrab, a simple yet powerful tool for sharing screenshots with the world. These products are only available for a few more days, so Mac users: hurry up!

An unassuming college math student has become an unlikely hero to many in Iran for daring to criticize the country’s most powerful man to his face.

Mahmoud Vahidnia has received an outpouring of support from government opponents for the challenge — unprecedented in a country where insulting supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is a crime punishable by prison.

Currently.

America’s most trusted satire newspaper and website, The Onion, has been steadily moving into online video in the past few years (with many hilarious pokes at the Web, the iPhone, and social media along the way).

Now, the outfit has landed a very real deal with Comedy Central to develop a pilot for a show based on its Onion Sports Network (OSN) videos.

According to a statement put out by the companies, “the as-yet untitled series will take on the whole universe of modern sports – teams, players, leagues, sycophantic fans, ridiculous products and over-hyped sports coverage – with an eye towards appealing to sports fanatics and more casual fans.”

Now, the outfit has landed a very real deal with Comedy Central to develop a pilot for a show based on its Onion Sports Network videos.

According to a statement put out by the companies, “the as-yet untitled series will take on the whole universe of modern sports – teams, players, leagues, sycophantic fans, ridiculous products and over-hyped sports coverage – with an eye towards appealing to sports fanatics and more casual fans.”

I just got invited to Twitter’s “Operation Retweet” (or at least that’s what Mashable calling it). Twitter’s taking the retweet, and reinvented it. Now, I don’t know if a user can’t see what they’ve retweeted in their own timeline, but from what I’ve seen so far, it’s a sleek, cleaner introduction to retweeting.

Did you get invited to the retweet beta and, if so, what do you think of it?

‘2001’ Fans, Rejoice! Why HAL Sang ‘Daisy’

We’re sure many of you are familiar with the death-of-HAL scene from the Kubrick classic ‘2001: A Space Odyssey,’ in which the rebellious computer slowly, and childishly, drones the lyrics to ‘Daisy Bell’. It’s one of the most memorable scenes in a film loaded with iconic images (the obelisk) and phrases (“Open the pod bay doors, HAL.”), yet we’ve always wondered: Why ‘Daisy?’

It turns out that the choice of ‘Daisy Bell’ was a tribute to the IBM 704, which, thanks to the brilliant programmers at Bell Labs, became the first computer to sing, way back in 1962. The popular ditty from the late 19th century was chosen by geniuses John L. Kelly, Carol Lockbaum, and Max Mathews as part of a demonstration of speech synthesis. Before he’d penned the film’s namesake novel, author Arthur C. Clarke, who also co-wrote the screenplay, paid a visit to a friend at Bell Labs. There, Clarke was treated to a performance by the IBM 704, and later, inspired by what he’d seen, reproduced it in the dramatic death scene of HAL 9000.

Joao Ruas.