Ypulse Essentials: 'Beedle the Bard' Overshadows Twilight, Happiness Clusters, Virtual Charity

'Beedle the Bard' eclipses 'Twilight' (as the fastest selling book in 2008. Also Nintendo gets into the e-reader game in Europe. And Fox snaps up the rights to a 9 year-old's guide to talking to girls) (Telegraph UK) (GalleyCat) (Variety)

- Dear God… ( a new site from Coolhunter founder Bill Tikos. It's like "Post Secret" but with a religious twist. Plus Glogster.com a site where students can create virtual posters for themselves) (Plays Well With Others)

- OMG! (Some of the deets of the upcoming "Gossip Girl" spin-off have been revealed. Apparently the show will follow the older characters in their younger years) (Gawker)

- Students and email (a new study shows the differences between how high school and college students engage. Interestingly, Gmail comes out on top as the platform favored by both groups) (BizReport)

- More on 'sexting' (a 15 year-old girl is charged with child pornography after taking nude photos of herself. If convicted, she'll have to register as a sex offender for the next 20 years. Yikes. Plus an eyebrow-raising PSA about practicing safe sex aimed towards teens in the UK ) (Jossip) (I Believe in Advertising)

- Rock music as torture?! (Apparently a common tactic used at Guantanamo Bay. Not surprisingly, the artists being used for these purposes are not happy about it) (AP)

- Like infectious laughter (new research shows how a person's happiness is related to the happiness of those around them aka their happiness cluster. Thanks Ariel! Plus a new blog explores celebrities' mental health issues in an effort to help keep the rest of us stable) (PSFK ) (Jezebel)

- Is Gen Y too soft to make it on their own? (The Wall Street Journal questions the entrepreneurship potential of my positive-reinforcement-seeking generation. Plus a marketing agency lures Y-ers using X-treme sports) (WSJ) (Florida Today)

- Teen drug rates falling? (President Bush claims this is the case, but the reports vary) (AP)

- Virtual charity (online worlds prompt kids to give back this holiday season. And PS3 launches its own version of Second Life) (MarketingVox) (Engadget)

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