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Cell phone pervert gets taste of his own medicine

A New York woman was horrified when she realized that a fellow subway rider was using a cell phone camera to take pictures up her skirt. But rather than get mad, she got even.

| News | Offbeat | 10/02/08 at 10:29 am |


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Nebraska politician unable to control robot minions

Mike O'Dell thought that his quest for city council would be easier if he could enlist an army of robot campaign workers. Little did he know that their automatic phone calls would drive voters away -- and he could do nothing about it.

| News | Offbeat | 09/25/08 at 10:27 am |


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Net-enabled toaster officially world's most pointless object

Have you ever wanted to download a graphic or short text clip from the Internet and burn it onto a piece of toast? Of course you haven't, because that's the most moronic thing that you or anyone else has ever heard of.

| News | Personal tech | 09/24/08 at 11:25 am |


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Annals of science: Israeli dog police use DNA to bust poop violators

Like most places, the Israeli city of Petah Tikva requires dog owners to clean up after their pets -- but how to track down violators based only on the, er, evidence left behind? The solution: create a database of doggy DNA.

| News | Offbeat | 09/22/08 at 11:04 am |


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