Born out of a fake trailer during Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino’s Grindhouse double feature, Machete is an over the top exploitation movie about a former Mexican Federale turned renegade.

Mark Zuckerberg is not just making his way to the silver screen. The Facebook founder is about to appear on your television screen as well as a character in the upcoming 22nd season of the hugely popular animated series The Simpsons.

Last week, we mentioned the appearance on Facebook of Twitter’s very own fail whale. This led us to dig up a post on Mashable in which several readers contributed their own version of the Facebook Fail Whale as it could be used during technical difficulties.

Today’s big news on Facebook is, of course, the simplified privacy controls which are being rolled out as we speak at http://facebook.com/privacy. The just turned 26-year-old Mark Zuckerberg personally announced them earlier today.

Foursquare, beware! After Yelp nicked your idea, it could be that the big F is after you too.

Tom Anderson, everyone’s default friend on MySpace –I just checked, it still exists!– has finally made the jump to Facebook to check out his largest competitor. Unsurprisingly, he thinks the site SUCKS. And Mark Zuckerberg’s provoking comments sure don’t help.

The much-debated Facebook movie will begin filming this month in Cambridge, Massachusetts. “The Social Network”, its current working title, tells the story of Harvard dropout Mark Zuckerberg (played by Jesse Eisenberg) getting dumped at a bar in Boston and eventually adding the girlfriend who dumped him as a friend on his multibillion-dollar social networking site.

Since yesterday, the global Facebook userbase is 200 million active users strong. Mark Zuckerberg personally commented on this major achievement through a blog post. What does 200 million people mean to him?