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How about telling us all your age, gender and location. Also, if you want, who you like in the upcoming presidential primary.

Photolurking, blog streaking and cheesepodding: The new Internet addictions Tue Dec 19, 1:31 PM ET PARIS (AFP) - The Internet has given birth to a quirky range of modern addictions and maladies, the British weekly New Scientist says in its Christmas issue published this Saturday. They include these: - EGO-SURFING: When you frequently check your name and reputation on the Internet. - BLOG STREAKING: "Revealing secrets or personal information online which for everybody's sake would be best kept private." - CRACKBERRY: "The curse of the modern executive: not being able to stop checking your BlackBerry, even at your grandmother's funeral."...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) -- A woman pleaded guilty Monday to attempted murder charges for trying to hire a hit man to rob and kill four men for what she thought was cocaine, but turned out to be cheese. Jessice Sandy Booth, 18, hatched the plot after she visited the home of the men, and mistook queso fresco - a white, crumbly cheese common in Mexican cuisine. But the hit man she hired turned out to be an undercover police officer. "They asked her numerous times 'Do you really want to go through with this?'" prosecutor Paul Hagerman said. "They gave...