The TakePart Top 10 Weekly Roundup is a compilation of the week’s most notable stories from our entertainment-meets-social-action blogging network. Check out some of our most popular stories of the week, as well as a few TakePart blogger favorites!

TakePart Gang:

Participant Media Takes Burning Man by Blair Golson

Hurricane Gustav: Photo Update by Joshua Tremblay

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Nicole Hughes:

Top 5 Tips for Biking to Work

Obama Acceptance Speech: Green Energy Highlights

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Andy Kondrat:

A Survey of the Top 10 Greenest Presidents

HP Designs Laptop for Wal-Mart, Reduces 97% of Packaging

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Jon Popham:

Open Mic Reveals Right-Leaning Journalists’ Real Views

Comcast Appeals FCC Net Neutrality Decision

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Giulia Rozzi:

Getting What You Want

Female Amputee Competes in Beijing Olympics

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Gina Telaroli:

Heart Not Happy with Sarah “Barracuda” Palin

Top 10 Cancer Movies That’ll Make You Stand Up

Comcast has appealed a decision by the FCC disallowing the company’s practice of purposefully slowing down certain types of web traffic.  The Internet and Cable provider is hoping the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia will overturn the Federal Communications Commision ruling which was heralded as a victory for Net Neutrality advocates throughout the Internets.

The FCC ruling in question arose from an investigation by the Associated Press last which found Comcast was secretly blocking and restricting its users legal, peer-to-peer traffic in what appeared to be an effort to restrict bulky flie sharing traffic that was eating a significant portion of the Cable Giant’s bandwidth.  Watchdog organizations Free Press and Public Knowledge filed complaints with the FCC which in turn ruled Comcast was violating its Internet Policy Statement and ordered the company to halt the practice.

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Stop the presses! Forget about the war! Forget about the election! Forget anything that matters because photos of a seductive Miley Cyrus have been leaked on the Internet! This, THIS is super important news because at 12:30 pm it was the number one searched story on Google.

According to the AP “less-than-wholesome photos of a girl bearing a close resemblance to the 15-year-old superstar are making the rounds on the Internet. One photo shows the Cyrus look-alike tugging at her white tank top to reveal a green bra. In another shot, she flaunts her bare midriff while draped over a young male, who rests his hand on her hip. Another shot shows her cuddling up to the same guy…Cyrus, star of the TV show “Hannah Montana” and role model for countless young girls, is one of the biggest “” and most G-rated “” acts in the country. [Associated Press]

“Less than wholesome?” Who cares? If these photos are indeed Cyrus, they weren’t taken with the intention of being displayed online. Few people in this world behave 100% G-rated behind closed doors, unfortunately the web likes to open those

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Professional race car driver Danica Patrick, 29, became the first female IndyCar winner in history on Sunday.

Danica Patrick was always sure a woman could win a race. And now the questions about her will surely stop.

Patrick made it to the place she wanted to be for so long “” Victory Lane. She became the first female winner in IndyCar history Sunday, capturing the Indy Japan 300 in her 50th career start.

“I’m glad it finally happened,” the 26-year-old driver said. “But I would be lying if I told you I didn’t think it would be me.” [Associated Press]

Help more females make sports history and by getting involved with http://www.womenssportsfoundation.org/. The Women’s Sports Foundation aims to advance the lives of girls and women through sport and physical activity.

The TED 2008 conference invited Psychologist Philip Zimbardo to speak about his new book, The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil. His book explains that a “perfect storm” of conditions can make ordinary people commit unspeakable acts. WIRED magazine published an interview with Zimbardo along with photographs from Abu Ghraib that he uses to illustrate his points (please be warned the photographs are extremely disturbing.)

Wired: You were an expert defense witness in the court-martial of Sgt. Chip Frederick, an Abu Ghraib guard. What were the situational influences in his case?

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Idol Gives Back is on tomorrow night and celebs coming our more than ever. this annual event is causing an online stir, here are just some of the many mentions of Idols efforts:

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The AP reports Angelina Jolie said Thursday that the reinforcement of U.S. troops in Iraq has created an opportunity for humanitarian programs to boost assistance for Iraqi refugees.

In an op-ed piece published by the Washington Post, titled “A Reason to Stay in Iraq,” Jolie details the plight of refugees and says their conditions have not improved since she visited the country last August to urge governments to provide more support.

She said she stressed to Iraqi officials there must be a coherent plan for helping some 2 million Iraqis who are taking advantage of the downturn in violence to begin trickling back to abandoned homes from havens elsewhere in the country. A similar number fled Iraq to escape the bloodshed.

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Movie theaters may be banned in Saudi Arabia but very soon Saudi’s will be able to see some films as part of the country’s first ever film festival, giving Saudi filmmakers a chance to recognized in their own country, instead of abroad where most of their support comes from:

There have been smaller and informal movie screenings in recent years but the contest, to be underwritten by the government, will mark the first time film critics from the region will be invited to take part, the Arab News said.

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Well I guess it’s good that at least one person in the media is acknowledging the damage done in discussing Britney Spears.

Sorta - The AP reports that television’s “Dr. Phil” McGraw says he regrets talking about Britney Spears’ mental health after visiting her in the hospital, but didn’t violate the family’s trust.

“I regret making the statement. It didn’t help. It didn’t work,” the syndicated TV psychologist said Wednesday on ABC’s “Good Morning America.”

McGraw said he visited the pop singer as a family friend, and rejected critics who accused him of practicing psychology without a license.

The Spears family has accused McGraw of betraying their trust by making an “inappropriate” public statement about the singer’s hospitalization.

McGraw had told celebrity news TV shows that Spears was in “dire” need of medical and psychological help.

Now is Dr. Phil is saying such to defend Britney or to now defend himself?

Lesson learned everyone, let’s mind our own business.

For more on the media ethics in psychology and to sign up for the National Alliance on Mental Illness Stigmabusters alerts visit www.nami.org

Here’s something to chew on.

Jezebel reports that global food prices are so high Haitians are feeding themselves dirt — or more specifically, mud cookies made with salt and vegetable shortening. AP reporter Jonathan Katz sampled one: it had “a smooth consistency and sucked all the moisture out of the mouth as soon as it touched the tongue. For hours, an unpleasant taste of dirt lingered.” To be sure, this isn’t some innovation borne simply of the desperation of the time; Haiti has long been the poorest country in the Western hemisphere (Here’s a decent primer as to why), and the immune system strengthening power of dirt cookies, or “pica” have long made them such a staple of the impoverished woman’s prenatal diet in many parts of Latin America and the Caribbean that some women actually get cravings for them during pregnancy.

I’m sorry but no one deserves to eat dirt.

For ways to help hunger in Haiti visit http://www.worldhungerrelief.org/haiti/index.html