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Russian President drives into crowd

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev was so eager to glad-hand the people of Kazan, a city 720 km (450 miles) east of Moscow, that he stepped …
Texter tossed from Texas theater unwittingly stars in PSA

Don't think she didn't have it coming. She was warned. Twice.
Palin's e-mailings
The typo that exposed Weiner
What does your social networking profile pic reveal about you?

Curious about why people choose the pics they do, she decided to survey Facebook users (via a specially created Facebook group, natch).
Trekkies can now display their fandom pride even after death

Are you worried that your final resting place won't adequately indicate your love of Star Trek? Fear not.
Facebook "likes" decides whether plant lives or dies

"Meet Eater" is a plant with a Facebook account, and when people "like" it, it gets watered. But there can be such a thing as too much …
Israel buys @israel Twitter handle from porn merchant

"My account was basically unused because I was getting dozens of replies every day from people who thought the account belonged to the …
There's an app for that?: AR Drone

There are any number of flight simulator games for iOS, but only AR Drone actually allows you to control a tiny unmanned quadricopter.

Hitting it big on eBay: New extinct species, futuristic toilets

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August 26, 2008, 10:01 PM — Richard Harrington, an officer in the UK's Royal Entomological Society, probably thought that chunk of amber with an insect trapped inside that he bid for on eBay would make a nice paperweight -- but he didn't expect that the dead critter would be a representative of a previously unknown species, one that would end up being named for him. Meanwhile, a racetrack owner was happy to buy some practically new high-tech toilets from the city of Seattle, whose hopes for the futuristic commodes were dashed when they became a home base for drug users and prostitutes. Seattle sold the toilets for less than one percent of what it paid for them just four years ago.