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From the Gothamist Newsmap: An NYPD scooter overturned at Central Park West & W 96 St in Manhattan, a homicide on 65th St in Queen and a shooting on Utica Ave in Brooklyn.
Leandra's Law is in effect: It's now a NY State felony to drive drunk with a passenger under 15 in the car.
Twitter was apparently hacked briefly by the "Iranian Cyber Army"; maybe that's okay, because a Florida mom Tweeted shortly after her son drowned to death.
A panel at the Jewish Theological Seminary discussed Quentin Tarantino's World War II-set film Inglourious Basterds; a rabbi noted it "is the first of all the movies about the Holocaust — there are more than 600 — in which Jews are portrayed as power brokers rather than victims."
Gawker looks over the behavior of California gubernatorial hopeful (and former eBay CEO) Meg Whitman's sons.
A Brooklyn mom with leukemia is in desperate need of a bone marrow transplant.
Iraqi government officials say Iranians have seized an oil well.

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By Jen Chung in Miscellaneous on December 18, 2009 11:56 AM

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jaycjay

"Twitter was apparently hacked"

No it wasn't. Its DNS records were changed, so requests to twitter.com were sent to a different site.

potsmoker

i signed up for the donation kit,

i hope im a match because if i am nobody is getting anything from me unless i get some scratch under the table.