New news

Back when I worked late-night shifts, my friendly co-workers and I would have nothing to do but wait for phone calls and come up with anything to do to pass the time. We often went through news websites and shared bits of news we read. Now that I don't work there anymore, I guess I can just share the news with you. Some of our favorites?

• BBC News
  
• Magazine Monitor: 10 Things We Didn't Know Last Week (My absolute favorite! I would go through the archives and anxiously anticipate every day for the next list.)
• In Pictures (This entire section is great. I would spend hours sifting through the "Week in pics" and read touching stories in the "Photo journals".)
  
• MSNBC.com
• Peculiar Postings ('nough said.)

...and for the bit of news that caught my eye today: Santa who gave strangers $1.2 million gets cancer (Video, via CNN.com)

The guys at work always gave me a hard time because I would tell them such sad news stories, but I couldn't help it -- they were so touching!