This is shaping up to be a strange day, if what we've trolled out of the info-stream is any indication. First up, a couple of items from MeFi:

Cheeky Girls

Remember Las Ketchup? They're cute all right, but no match for Monica and Gabriela Irimia, the 20-year-old identical twin sisters from Transylvania.

These two have been doing whatever it takes to crack into the big-time world of Eastern European reality TV, but haven't been able to make the final cut . That all changed a week ago when they landed a contract with Multiply Records and produced this video showcasing their hit single, The Cheeky Song (Touch my bum, this is life). Weirder than it sounds.

Away In a Manger

What could be worse than being caught flagrante delicto with a sheep? Why, being caught with the sheep used in a funeral home's nativity scene. Joey Armstrong, 29, inna heap o' trouble.

Could've Seen This Coming

With any luck I'm scooping the Cowgirl with this report on porn star action figures. From the catalogue "literature":

Adult Superstars are approximately 7.5" tall and bear an amazing likeness to the adult celebrities they represent, thanks to the the sophisticated laser-scanning technique used to create each girl's face and body.

Bad Move

I didn't catch Trent Lott on BET last night, but Tim Goodman at the S.F. Chron did, and reports that Trent dug the hole even deeper.

Lott said he had changed with the times, matured. But Gordon pointed out that his 1984 vote against a Martin Luther King Jr. holiday didn't seem particularly enlightened. Lott said he didn't really understand King's impact.

Night Cab

More reports from a graveyard shift cab driver in the City. These seedy vignettes are like potato chips, addictive damn things. In this week's installment he's picking up stock brokers and other shills.

Crime Story

Last Thursday, Cary Stayner—the Yosemite killer—was sentenced to death for his slaying spree. While you're at the Chron, consider checking out this special report on the washed up FBI agent who found redemption at the twilight of his career by nailing Stayner. The excerpts from Stayner's confession are tough reading, but non-fiction and a glimpse into a bizarre and disordered mind.

Happens Every Year

'Tis the season when some whacked-out numb-nut puts on a Santa suit and goes out robbing people. Does the fact that Santa wants drugs, not money, help any? Here's Captain Spraker with a briefing:

"An individual dressed as Santa—beard, hat, the whole works—just walked to the back of the store to the pharmacist, displayed his weapon and asked for the OxyContin," he said.

The Barbaric Yawp

Christopher asked us to mention that his Weblog URL has changed. His new address is:

http://blogs.salon.com/0001811/

Update your navlinks accordingly. Speaking of which, he's having a lot of trouble getting those to work and let's all take a moment today to wish him some good mojo. While Winer and the RadioUserland people have done a lot to make the software user friendly, sometimes you get the impression that what we're doing with it isn't exactly what they'd envisioned. You go a-hunting through the documentation, and find everything you could possibly want to know about e-mailing your aggregrator feeds to your laptop and reposting the rss with a script, but you won't find squat on how to put a graphic in place of the title of your page. Anything you do find in there that addresses your question is usually worded something like, "To group navigation links by category, use HTML."

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