Asylum's 100 Weirdest Stories on Digg in 2008

Digg, that wonderful Web site where users vote up their favorite news stories of the day in order to make them go popular, is well known as being possibly the most addictive site besides Super Obama World.
In the past year, since Asylum launched, it would be fair to say we've had some ups and downs in our relationship with Digg -- from our first, sweet vagina couch Digg hit, to some recent fair and mature feedback on our use of Flash photo galleries from Digg users like itsthebrod: "There is no f*cking way I'm clicking 50 times for one article. Rot in hell Asylum.com, and learn to make a decent f*cking website."
So it seemed only proper and right to consummate our Digg courtship with a blow-out, smack-down roundup of the wildest, most bizarre stories that Digg introduced us to this past year. So without further ado, we present:
The 100 Weirdest News Stories We Dugg in 2008
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McCain Camp Tells NYT: Lay Off Cindy, Find Obama's "Dealer"

The Nation -- Wow, the McCain campaign really hated that New York Times profile of Cindy McCain.
O.K., Cindy did come off as slightly vapid and, well, weird -- especially the Princess Diana obsession.
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20 Simple Ways to Get Happy

#18) "Give priority to close relationships." One study of more than 1,300 men and women of various ages found that those who had a lot of supportive friends were much more likely to have healthier blood pressure, cholesterol levels, blood sugar metabolism, and stress hormone levels than those with two or fewer close friends....

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****please see the digg comments regarding this article, they're very interesting. I added one, it's hokey but real;

#29 breathe