NO, IT IS NOT APPROPRIATE TO FRIEND OPPOSING COUNSEL: I'm sure we will have more thoughts about The Social Network in the coming days, but I wanted to address three matters of particular interest to our audience--namely, how the film treats the law and lawyers.

• From my limited experience in California federal court it seems as though California has chosen to largely abrogate the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure in favor of an impenetrable series of local rules, but I'm pretty sure the deposition (or series of depositions--it's not entirely clear) that serves as a framing device aren't conducted by any version of the Federal Rules I'm aware of--seems as though witnesses are being questioned primarily by their own attorneys, witnesses freely interject insults toward other parties (present in the room), and the like. It works as a matter of drama, but it sure ain't accurate.
• Rashida Jones has a small (but significant) role in the film as the "second year associate" who's second-chairing the deposition for Zuckerberg/Facebook. In the final scene, she reveals she has a "specialty." Leaving aside the implausibility of a second year associate having a specialty at all, the specialty she references is so implausible as to make no sense at all.
• I'm a "stay till the end" moviegoer, and for lawyers, it's worth staying till the end, not for any bonus scene, but for the disclaimer, which is one of the oddest I've read. Not only does it have the "certain events are composited" language that you see in "based on a true story" films, but it winds up with a disclaimer akin to those we see on fictional films that no association should be drawn to any real business entity or people. That's particularly hard to do here, given that the Facebook name and logo is constantly used/referenced. (Even aside from that, hard case for anyone to make for defamation, since, partially due to the PG-13 edit, the primary characters aren't shown doing much "bad.")
  

#163? #164? Tomorrow's possibilities, thanks to the trouncing of the Braves on Bobby Cox Day:

Giants win, Phillies win: Giants win NL West; Padres at Braves on Monday for the Wild Card.
Giants win, Braves win: Giants win NL West; Braves win Wild Card; Padres go home.
Padres win, Phillies win: Padres win NL West, Giants win Wild Card; Braves go home.
Padres win, Braves win: Three-way tie! Giants at Padres on Monday for the NL West; loser goes to Atlanta on Tuesday to see who gets the Wild Card.

Retrosheet: all previous tiebreaker games.

MENTALLY HIP HOP, SMOOTHED OUT ON THE R&B TIP WITH A POP FEEL APPEAL:  AVClub primer on the musical subgenre known as New Jack Swing. If it's your prerogative, remember the world in which Tony! Toni! Toné! had done it again.

I CANNOT POSSIBLY IMAGINE WHAT COULD GO WRONG WITH THIS:  Despite having yet to test the technology during an actual game (they'll try tomorrow during Braves-Phillies) to ensure neither the apparatus nor its system of guiding cables cannot interfere with the ball in play, Fox Sports has been granted Major League Baseball's approval to use the flying-over-the-field camera during the NLCS and World Series.

The SkyCam technology, I'm fond of noting, is the last real legacy of the XFL -- but in football, of course, it's possible to keep the camera of in-flight balls at all times.  I predict a problem.

TECHNOLOGY, RIGHTPURPOSED: I do love Microsoft's unwavering insistence that it must give people the option of trying to recall sent messages while steadfastly denying people the option of actually recalling messages. The "recall" feature in Outlook, as far as I can tell, is good for exactly two things (and don't get me wrong -- I think both are wonderful):

• Identifying people who are below the minimal level of technological competence necessary to understand that the "recall" button has never worked for anyone ever anywhere;
• Calling extra attention to the mistakenly sent email, while letting the recipient know what the sender is trying to hide from him/her.

With features like these, who needs viruses*?

WILL SOMEONE GUESS RIGHT PRICE ALREADY! CAN YOU NO SEE THAT IT KILLING DREW CAREY! Twitter finds its highest possible use with tweets from Drunk Hulk.

WHAT THE HELL AM I DOING HERE? I DON'T BELONG HERE: We here at this blog have waited for this cultural moment for some time.

Friday, at last, we can come together to watch the true story of a man desperately in need of being popular who recognized young people as the means for his doing so, who fought against the skeptics and haters along the way who insisted he was only in it for himself.  It was all about finding a new way to relate and, in the end, every student he met was transformed by his actions.

Yes, the Tony Danza reality series Yo, Teach! debuts on A&E Friday night, and Ellen Gray's a fan.

added:  Oh.  As for that movie, Taiwan's Next Media Animation provides an overview, after the fold: