JEFFERSON COUNTY, Colo. — A Denver police officer shot himself in the hand Tuesday while examining a gun in the bathroom of his home in Jefferson County, according to the Columbine Courier.
The newspaper said Detective Bret Starnes fired his gun without ammunition in a bedroom to test it.
Starnes loaded the gun, but said he forgot it contained live rounds when he pulled the trigger again in a nearby bathroom, hitting his left hand, the newspaper reported.

Rule number two: Never let the muzzle of a gun point at anything you do not want to destroy or kill.

Rule number three: Keep your finger straight and off the trigger.

And yes, I’m fully aware of how much the post makes me sound like a fanboi…

Looks like Mark “Dumb F***s” Zuckerberg is attempting to save some face (pun intended) on Facebook’s privacy issues as of late. After a month of getting slammed by pretty much every major media outlet and their own users, the powers-that-be at FB are going to be rolling out new privacy controls that should allow you to set them and forget them. Until, of course, they change their privacy settings again. Don’tcha just love being a test subject in a massive open beta project? via Lifehacker:

After a months-long privacy fiasco, Facebook has taken it upon themselves to revamp the privacy settings to make them simpler and quicker to set and forget. While the new settings are definitely easier to use, Facebook has thrown in a few surprises that the privacy-conscious may not be too happy with. Unfortunately—in some ways—with simplicity comes a lack of control, and Facebook has made sure that the control you don’t have is over information that is made public.

Still holding out for social networking alternatives, I tell you…

Google has updated Gmail to include a “Buzz” tab, where you can prevent the public from seeing your followers list, remove the Buzz inbox from Gmail, and, as the nuclear option, completely kill your Buzz account

That last link, with the warning sign and red text, completely removes Buzz from your Google Profile, according to its wording. A commenter notes that it might also kill your Google Profile entirely, so be cautious if that’s something you want to keep around.

I’m blocked from Gmail at work and can’t bring up the full desktop version from my iPhone, so I guess I’ll have to wait to do this until later this eve. But there is that note about deleting your Google Profile that will be interesting to watch. I find it interesting that Google is taking a course of action here that will not just bring you back to where you started before Buzz, but actually to a lower level of end-user engagement by deleting profiles. If anything, this privacy debacle has made me take a good look at what I use my Google account for besides email, if not thinking about pulling my personal email from Google entirely – with the full support from my lovely wife who noted that it’s not like I haven’t changed my address a bunch of times recently.

UPDATE: Yup, it works as advertised from what I can tell. No more Buzz and no more Google Profile.