Regift The Fruitcake for Charity

The old-fashioned fruitcake is making a comeback this season by becoming the ultimate item to re-gift in the name of charity. For the 2009 holidays, fruitcakes are virtually raising money for 25 deserving charities as part of the second annual “ReGift the Fruitcake” campaign from PayPal. At www.ReGiftTheFruitcake.com, anyone can become a fruitcake hero, check out celebrity participants, and support one of the featured charities with three simple steps:

1) MAKE: Log on to create a fruitcake on behalf of a featured charity
2) DONATE: Make a donation to a charity using PayPal
3) REGIFT: Share your fruitcake with friends on Twitter or Facebook

Each week, the person with the “Top Fruitcake” (by points, based on regifts & donations generated) will win an ASUS Eee PC 1000HE Netbook, and at the end of the holidays, the overall “Top Fruitcake” will receive the grand prize of $5,000. In addition, PayPal will award the three charities that raise the most money by the end of the campaign with $20,000, $10,000 and $5,000 respectively.

"By giving the gift no one wants, you're giving the gift everyone needs."

Mommy Stripper Drawing

A drawing a little girl drew of her mother that makes it look like she's an exotic dancer on a stripper pole.

Ten former sitcom child stars who twitter/still exist

If you look past Oprah and Ashton, Twitter has a few celebrities who may hit a nostalgic nerve. Here are ten former child stars from ’ 90s sitcoms who use 140 characters or less to let the world know they still exist.

Mom Accused Of Cuffing Girl So She Wouldn't "Steal Food"

A Denver woman has been charged with child abuse for using plastic zip ties to cuff her daughter's hands behind her back each night before bed so she wouldn't "steal food."

Danelle Daunchet, 52, is charged with child abuse causing serious bodily injury.

The 10-year-old girl told police that her mother has been tying her hands behind her back every night so she won't get out of bed and steal food, according to the arrest affidavit. She said this has been going on for a year. The affidavit laid out her daily routine as follows: "When she gets home from school she feeds her dog, completes her homework and eats dinner and if not in trouble will watch TV and then go to bed." Then, at about 9:30 each night, she said, her mother "puts the zips on like the police would put on handcuffs and it hurts." She said she had to sleep on her side so it wouldn't hurt. (You can learn more about the incident in this KCNC video.)

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9-1-1 Caller Puts Dispatcher On Hold To Make Drug Deal

The guy is heard saying,"What you need? A 10-pack? A 10-pack, alright." A 10-pack is slang for a bundle of heroin.

The Top 10 Super Bowl Ads Of All Time - A Farting Horse?

McDonald's, Coke, Apple ... and the people’s vote for a farting horse.

Here are the choices for the 10 best Super Bowl ads of all time. The picks were heavily influenced by commenters on the MSNBC message boards, who discussed their favorite commercials and voted on the subject two years ago. We also considered the economic impact of the ads, which mostly consisted of disqualifying failed dot-com companies.

Man Attempts To Run Away With His 'Urine-filled' Tube St. Lucie County : ...

A Port St. Lucie man found with an apparently urine-filled “tube device” under his armpit during a urine test at a probation and parole facility is facing charges after running from officials and being tackled, according to a police report released Friday.

A correctional/probation officer told police that John M. Contreras, 25, was being given a urine test for “illegal substances” Thursday morning at the facility in the 3500 block of Okeechobee Road when the device was spotted.

The officer said the “urine apparatus” had a tube extending toward the groin area, “consistent with an attempt to defraud a urine test,” the report states.

The 5 Worst Sources of Advice on Television

Entertainment and good advice rarely cross paths. This is partly because most good advice--don't run with scissors, watch your money, don't bring a bong to a job interview--isn't fun to watch. No, it's far more fun to watch people flail and flounder than to succeed at life, and that's exactly what bad advice accommodates.With that in mind, here are five of the most entertaining purveyors of awful advice to be found on television.

Top 10: Myths About Canadians

A disturbing new study has revealed that 88% of of Americans between the ages of 18 and 24 could not locate Afghanistan on a map. Apparently, the locations of countries in the news are unimportant. It should come as little surprise, then, that our tragically ill-informed neighbours to the south harbour a laundry list of blatant misconceptions about our home and native land (but we certainly love saying that). Read on to discover the top 10 myths about Canadians our friends take for truth.

Woman Calls 911: I'm Locked Inside My Car

A 911 dispatcher had to tell a woman how to unlock her car on Sunday.

A woman called Kissimmee police to say she was locked inside her car at the Walgreen's on John Young Parkway near Poinciana.

"My car will not start. I'm locked inside my car," the unidentified woman said.

"Nothing electrical works. And it's getting very hot in here, and I'm not feeling well."

6 Popular Fashion Trends (That Killed People)

Through history men and women have been asked that exact question, and time and time again they shrugged and said, "Eh, I'll risk it." So we wound up with things like...

Top 5 Dumbest Things People Do To Their Trucks

People express themselves in weird ways. Some dance, some sing, others paint. And then there are the people who trick out their pick up trucks. What started as a fun way to kill time with your friends has now evolved to a full fledged art form, with magazines, festivals and conventions dedicated to the medium. But as with any art form, with the good comes the bad. And the worse. And the just plain retarded. Like these, the top 5 dumbest things that people do to their trucks.

Streaker Interrupts Williams Doubles Match

MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Security at the Australian Open was again under scrutiny Friday when a male streaker interrupted a doubles match involving the Williams sisters, Venus and Serena.

Paralyzed Man Walks After Spider Bite

(March 16) - A bite from a poisonous spider had a great result for a paraplegic man in California. After 21 years in a wheelchair, he was able to walk again.

The 10 Hottest Bikini Movie Moments Of All Time

We are just starting to see a hint of hot summer sunshine across much of the USA, so it seems like a great time to start thinking about bikinis, hot girls in bikinis, hot movie stars in bikinis....