Political and economic news from around the globe may bombard us with annoying regularity here in the tech community, and as most of us know, the news is almost always bad. That, of course, is why it’s such a good thing we have Facebook to filter out what we don’t want to hear. It’s also why we all waited in rapt attention for last week’s announcement of what we just knew would be the only news that really mattered — possibly of the whole year. That’s right, it was the Facebook Home announcement, and if several Facebook status updates are to be believed, the Earth really did stand still for a few seconds afterward. 
