The "New iPad" (or third-generation iPad) is pretty sweet. The resolution is amaaaazing, and it's got all the snazzy bells and whistles you could possibly want from a tablet. But it's not really the gamechanger we've all been waiting for from Apple. You know what would be? An iPad Mini -- as in, the same awesome bells and whistles, but in a more compact form.

Well, those of us who believe better things come in smaller packages might be getting our wish sooner rather than later. There's new buzz that the iPad's "mini me" could be slated for an October release!

If rumors are true, five reasons the Mini could become the must-have tablet.

Facebook is like that gossipy, annoying friend we all love to hate. We go around saying to our friends, "I can't stand that girl!" And, yet, we call her several times a day to get the lowdown on everything. Seriously, we are all so schizophrenic about Facebook. The company has been wildly, explosively successful, and is about to go public. It will no doubt reap billions from its IPO. Yet, at the same time, the very people (you and me!) who made the company so successful proclaim to hate it.

When experts can't figure out how passwords to one of the most popular social media sites are getting leaked, you know online privacy is hopeless. Last week, the usernames and passwords of more than 55,000 Twitter users were leaked in a "data dump," which has even the most web-savvy befuddled.

Twitter claims that as many as 20K of the leaked accounts were just duplicates, and lots more were spam accounts that had already been suspended. So that's reassuring, right? And the site also sent out password resets to accounts that were affected, while, in the meantime, they're looking into what happened. Still ... there's speculation that the accounts' info was obtained via phishing attacks that fooled users into providing details. Drrr.

Watching zoo animals on live web cams has become an adorable trend. Remember the sweet twin polar bears who made headlines for wrestling and generally just hanging out looking insanely cute? Yep, zoos have known for a while how to hook us with baby animal eye candy. Now, they've figured out a new way to fascinate us using technology: Live-tweeting!

The National Zoo in Washington decided to live-tweet their attempt to breed its giant pandas this week via their Twitter account @NationalZoo. Since the pair has failed to get it on naturally, Mei Xiang, the female giant panda, was artificially inseminated both Sunday and Monday. Although there's only a less than 10 percent chance that she'll get pregnant, the Zoo maintained a positive outlook through its fun fact-filled tweets. One example: "They use .25 mL straws of sperm. That’s a total of 1.5 mL of sperm, or up to 800 million motile sperm in the sample! #pandaAI" Yow!

I don't mean to alarm you, but it's possible that in a little more than two months, your computer will suddenly lose Internet access, thanks to the FBI. Apparently the tinfoil-hat-wearing, underground-bunker people have been right all along: the government really DOES have the power to cut off our means of global communication.

First we'll lose web access, then the phones will stop working, and after that? The dead rising from the grave! Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together ... mass hysteria!

Or ... okay, probably that stuff won't happen. Look, I can't predict the future! The point is, you need to make sure your computer is malware-free by July 9, 2012 (AKA 'Internet Doomsday')—because otherwise, you may experience some serious technical difficulties.

You know what the Internet has ruined? Besides our attention spans, love lives, and the ability to communicate? Naked pictures. I'm sure there are those out there who would beg to differ (dirty birds), but I know there are others -- I.E. celebrities and regular ol' folk who are just trying to snap some steamy photos -- who would surely agree. Like, take this guy, Ravshan ''Ronnie'' Usmanov, for instance. Dude just can't handle naked photos and the Internet. In fact, he can't handle it so much that he went as far as to publish a whole mess of nude photos of his ex-girlfriend on Facebook. Way to ruin it for the rest of us, buddy! But don't worry, this story has a happy ending. Usmanov got in a crap-ton of trouble.

In addition to having a "like" and "dislike" button for people to utilize on their site, YouTube has now added a new button: The "I cried" button. Well, YouTube hasn't added the button per se, but an online experiment called Project Goodcry has made the button available to Google Chrome users via the Chrome app store.

The purpose of this addition is pretty self-explanatory. It's there for you to click when you've been particularly moved by whatever it is you just watched; it's there for you to click when you've cried.

At first I thought such a button -- like all buttons online -- was kind of stupid, foolish. But after I thought about it a little harder, I came to the conclusion that this is actually a great idea. This button could actually make the Internet seem ... human. 

It was only about a week after we got engaged when I was first asked, "So, do you guys have a wedding website we can check out?" Granted, in some of our social circles, I am the resident Little Miss Blogger, but still ... I don't think this was about that. It's more that as soon as your engagement is marked with a timestamp these days, people want information -- where, when, how NOW. And the web has made that info easier than ever to send out to friends and family/guests. (Plus, I get the feeling that oldsters who don't happen to have Facebook feel really left out when all you've done is announce your engagement so far on there. They want to know, "Where's the virtual guestbook for me to sign?!")

ADD-fueled temper tantrums from loved ones aside, it seems like there are many pros to having a wedding website ...