PARTING SHOTS: This is why you should never travel with a crocodile
Here is our roster of stories that managed to evade full-on blog treatment:
• A passenger smuggled a crocodile onto a commercial flight in the Congo — the crocodile got loose, causing the plane's passengers to storm the cockpit in fear, and the plane crashed. The crocodile, and one passenger, were the only survivors. (NPR)
• A shark attack near Santa Barbara has resulted in the death of a 20-year-old man. (CNN)
• Citizens Against Government Waste would like to help you imagine a future in which the United States has been taken over by the Chinese. (Daily Intel/New York)
• Meg Whitman's son, Griffith Harsh, was accused of rape while he was a student at Princeton. (Gawker)
• Sharron Angle has apparently found a new way to deal with reporters asking unwanted questions: shushing them. (Washington Post)
• The feds opened up another 7,000 square miles of the Gulf for fishing, meaning that 96 percent of Gulf waters now permit fishing operations. (Times-Picayune)
• After a Ugandan newspaper outed a number of gay men and called for them to be hanged, several have already been attacked. (BBC)
• In case you've ever wanted to see President Obama sign an iPad, your chance has arrived. (TechCrunch)