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We know a thing about taking movie/TV show fandom seriously; you want to hear what other fans love about the same characters and need instant access to the latest news or trailers. The Hunger Games: Catching Fire doesn't hit theaters until Nov. 22, but fans are already reblogging, starring, and analyzing every piece of news and picture taken from the set. Today, everything social media has to offer on the world of Panem has been centralized in one interactive online hub, The Hunger Games Explorer.

A partnership between Lionsgate, the studio behind the dystopian film series, and Internet Explorer, the HTML5-powered site pulls in global fan content from social networks Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, YouTube, Tumblr, and even Google+. Official updates from the studio like cast photos and videos will make their world debut first on The Hunger Games Explorer.

The HTML5 interface was designed specifically to work with the touch screen of Windows 8 hybrid computers on Internet Explorer 10 — you can swipe through tweets and tap to like a new GIF or to comment on a YouTube video — though the site will work just fine on all other computing platforms as well.

Look for official content uploaded weekly to the site, which starts now with the latest Catching Fire trailer premiering online in conjunction with its first view at the MTV Movie Awards.

The Internet is all about sharing information — that's why it was created in the first place! — but oftentimes we share details about ourselves without even knowing it, like what sites we visit and how often. Protecting online privacy is important, which is why Mozilla Firefox started an initiative called Do Not Track, a browser feature that prevents advertisers and marketing companies from obtaining data about users' online activities. Internet Explorer, Apple Safari, and Opera have already adopted Do Not Track, and as of this week, Google Chrome is making good on its promise to add the feature by the year's end.

Keep your online browsing history private and find out how to enable Do Not Track in Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Internet Explorer, and Opera after the jump.

A Denver design group is hosting a mock funeral for Internet Explorer 6, the 8-year-old web browser that somehow is still installed on some consumers' computers despite the fact that everyone and their mother is ceasing support. The invitation invites mourners to gather with "fellow IE6 mourners and loved ones" decked out in funeral attire — there's even a prize for the best dressed attendee and the best IE6 memory!

If you're not in Denver, you can still pay your respects; just leave your own memory on the site, or below in comments! My favorite so far: "He had so many hangups, and he looked awful — especially in his later years."

This is a fun excuse for a geeky party, but not the first time the funeral-and-coffin theme has been used to bid adieu to outdated technology. Steve Jobs put Apple's OS9 in a coffin before the OSX announcement at an Apple event in 2002.

Update: In lieu of attendance, Microsoft has sent flowers to the IE6 Funeral crew to pay their respects!

• An AT&T network flaw recently gave users access to strangers' accounts — Switched
• Don't get impatient and tweet about fake bomb threats while on a plane; take it from this guy — Gizmodo
• Getting the deets on the ASUS color ereader — Engadget
• France and Germany both warn citizens against using Internet Explorer — BBC News
• The Nintendo DSi XL is not just for old people — Kotaku
• Submit your Cool Captures for your chance to win a CanvasPop print — GeekSugar

Just over a year after its launch, Google Chrome has made quite an impact on your Internet browsing. Taking over the title as third most used browser from Safari, Chrome users now inhabit nearly five percent of the browser market, according to a recent report. Although Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser commands over 60 percent of Internet usage, and Firefox takes a 24 percent market share, Chrome has been a fast riser to the top of the browser game.

I use Chrome on a regular basis on my home computer (although it is still a little buggy), but I find it an easy transition to make from Firefox (the browser I use most at work). But what about you — are you using Google Chrome? What do you like or dislike about it?