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Extra, Extra: Have You Gotten Your Baby A Twitter Account Yet?
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Ben Yakas
Published Sep 4, 2013
Modified Sep 4, 2013
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- Jews are forced to choose between fashion week and shul.
- A puppy somehow survived after being stuck in a car for weeks.
- A drunk driver plowed into a Staten Island home.
- Cow-tipping isn't real, claim cow conspiracy theorists.
- Read part one of The Apple Store, a new Seinfeld adventure lovingly written by @Seinfeld2000.
- The federal judge in the Stop & Frisk trial has appointed a facilitator to hold town hall meetings, take anonymous information from police, and help implement the changes she ordered in her landmark ruling last month.
- Is Clint Eastwood a wife swapper?
- The so-called "media elite" have started getting Twitter handles for their newborn babies because life is strange and mostly horrible.
- Stat heads rejoice: Wedding Crunchers is a new database that lets you search through 60,000 NY Times wedding announcements from 1981 to 2013
- Those knockoff pills you take could include traces of human fetuses.
- Assaults are up 50% in midtown Manhattan.
- And finally, an ingenious kitty knows that the best way to travel around a kitchen is via chairs:
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