2009 marks the 75th anniversary of the London Underground’s Lost Property Department. To commemorate this significant event, the London Underground’s blog compiled a list of the 9 strangest items left on the tube.

Some of the items include: 285 pounds of raisins, a 14 foot long boat, a lawn mower, a vasectomy kit, breast implants, and two human skulls in a bag.

The New Oxford American Dictionary chose “unfriend” as the word of the year for 2009.

“It has both currency and potential longevity,” said Christine Lindberg, senior lexicographer for Oxford’s U.S. dictionary program, in a statement.

Other finalists included: hashtag, intexticated, sexting, freemium, funemployed, birther, and tramp stamp.

Well, looks like Iori Nakai and I weren’t the only ones who thought of mapping a city through sound. Maybe I’ll just go ahead and do my idea anyway.

This is pretty cool, though. Fun to think about your city in terms of songs.

Google’s mapping feature shows a “Rochester” where Henderson should be. A spokeswoman says Google is working to correct the error.

There are some truly amazing quotes in this article. Thank you, Las Vegas Sun. This article reminds me of the Tuesday following the Friday distribution of my high school’s newspaper; the editor-in-chief would stand at a whiteboard as the staff would throw any and every wacky idea they had that could somehow morph into an article.