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You've long suspected it, but now Greenpeace confirms: iPhones are seething with phthalates (these are bad, by the way). A day later, Apple gets sued over this.

Meanwhile Apple prepares to release its Leopard operating system. Its 316 new features include many UI flourishes. No word from the labs yet on whether the new OS is also riddled with phthalates. Although this is unlikely. It being software and all.

Traffic at on the New York Times Op-Ed pages has surged since the pay wall came down, according to compete.com.

Meanwhile, traffic in AOL's parking lots plummets, as the struggling online behemoth cuts 20% of its workforce. Commemorative T-shirts can be found here.

For its part, Yahoo may have stopped the bleeding.

YouTube gets a lot more serious about keeping pirated content off of its servers. But this doesn't (necessarily) mean Viacom will stop suing anytime soon.

You always thought it might one day be as useful as a cigarette lighter. Now your USB socket can recharge batteries.

And who knew: that serving bowl can blare the latest tunes.

Now if only the salad bowl could get TV reception, you could watch TMZ's new hit show on it.