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Facebook decided its easier to beg forgiveness than ask permission in promoting its e-mail client.

If you have a Facebook account, and haven’t been checking your ‘about’ page recently, you might not have noticed that your e-mail was hidden, and a complementary @facebook.com account was put in its place.

In case you’re happy with your own e-mail, it’s a simple if somewhat unintuitive process to restore your contact information.

• Go to the ‘About’ page and click the ‘Edit’ button next to ‘Contact Info’
• A window will pop up. The first lines will list the e-mail addresses you entered.
• To the far left of the e-mails there are circle icons next to each address. Click the one next to the e-mail you want to display and select Shown on Timeline from the dropdown menu.
• If you want to hide the Facebook account, select Hidden from Timeline in the dropdown menu next to that e-mail.

If you do that, your account should return to its original setting until Facebook decides to tamper with it again.

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Turkish journalists in Ankara, on February 24, 2012, hold pictures of journalists who died covering the crisis in Syria, New York Times correspondent Anthony Shadid (L), who died from an asthma attack as he was crossing from Syria back to Turkey AFP PHOTO / ADEM ALTAN (Photo credit should read ADEM ALTAN/AFP/Getty Images)

Before he died on assignment in war-torn Syria, reporter Anthony Shadid blamed the New York Times for his deadly fate.

“If anything happens to me,” Shadid allegedly said, “I want the world to know that the New York Times killed me.”

When Shadid died in Syria in February, the Times reported it was of an asthma attack. Now, the reporter’s cousin Ed Shadid claims the news publication forced Anthony to make the journey against his wishes.

At the annual conference of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee Saturday, Ed said Anthony had been on bad terms with his editors before he left the country. The cousin even doubts the death was due to asthma and instead claims it seemed more like a heart attack.

The Times responded to these allegations on Politico and said they did not pressure Shadid to take the trip.

Who is really responsible for the reporter’s untimely death?

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Some private Christian schools in Louisiana next year will be teaching that the Loch Ness monster is real.

It’s all an attempt by religious teachers to disprove Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution, The Scotsman reports on its website.

The Huffington Post explains:

Thousands of students across the state are eligible to receive publicly funded vouchers to allow them to attend private Christian schools where textbooks published by Accelerated Christian Education (ACE) claim the monster was actually a dinosaur that existed at the same time as man, an assertion which conflicts with the theory of evolution.

Critics, The Scotsman points out, have slammed the religious textbooks as “bizarre.”

A former ACE student, Jonny Scaramanga, 27, now campaigns against Christian fundamentalism. He tells The Scotsman that the Nessie claim was presented as “evidence” that evolution could not have happened.

“The reason for that is they’re saying if Noah’s flood only happened 4,000 years ago, which they believe literally happened, then possibly a sea monster survived.

“If it was millions of years ago then that would be ridiculous. That’s their logic. It’s a common thing among creationists to believe in sea monsters.”