Whiz of the Web: Friday Fried Onions

A steaming hot pile of our favorite things from around the internets.

• Extra, extra! Google cares a lot less about the First Amendment than we thought.
• Think those squirrels you see frolicking in the park are adorable and harmless? Not in Denver, where apparently, they're carrying the plague.
• On this day ten years ago? Computer Deep Blue Something (how 1997 can you get?!) beats its human opponent in tournament-level chess.
• In what's surely an attempt to prove that truth can be just as strange as science fiction, researchers at Texas State University want to build the nation's largest "body farm." What is a body farm, you might ask? Oh, well, they want to literally plant dead bodies in the ground so they can monitor the decomposition process. Even better than that, though? Construction has been halted out of concerns that the farm would attract so many buzzards that planes at the nearby San Marcos Municipal airport could be endangered.
• It appears that the end of the era of putting unwanted babies in baskets at the steps of a church or orphanage, like some Dickens story, is upon us: a hospital in Japan has just opened the world's first drop box for unwanted babies. Babies can be dropped off in an incubator twenty-four hours per day, and will be cared for at the hospital and then put up for adoption.
• Ever said to yourself: "Man, these pickles are good. But you know what they could use? Some Cherry Kool-aid!" No? Well, somebody else sure did.
• Want to go bowling with Chuck Norris, Paul McCartney, or Woody Allen? Well, that's probably not possible, but at least you can hang out with their CelebriMiis!
• Here's the best reason we've ever heard to have a lot of friends.
• Confused by this week's Lost? It appears that nobody else is sure of what the outcome will be, either. (WARNING: Spoiler alert!)
• For those who don't know how to tell their kids that smoking is bad, the MPAA is trying to help. Yikes!
• Broke your iPod? It's not as completely worthless as you thought! (Via Thrillist.)

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