It’s a new department, so it’s kind of slow.

• It’s a new department, so it’s kind of slow.
• West L.A. Best Buy sales associate Jackie Martinez • on what it’s like being in charge of the store’s new electric vehicles department. In May the big-box retailer started selling electric bikes, scooters and Segways at 21 of its stores, and is moving up to electric motorcycles this month. The company is staying mum on when helicopters will be thrown into the mix.  • source

• $15,000 the reported amount people are bidding for tickets on eBay. Event organizers say they won’t be welcome. source

• 99¢ but with many two-year contractual strings attached source

• If he comes to me, face to face, I’m ready, I’m loaded, and I’m aimed for him.
• Gaffney, S.C. resident Sarah Banister • On what she plans to do if the serial killer in her town, who has killed five people in nine days, tries to attack her. Here’s our question: What would you do if you were face-to-face with a serial killer? • source

• As you’ll see in this video, Jose Manuel Zelaya attempted to get in the country but instead found himself circling the bowl. Which isn’t really helping out the country’s volatility, by the way.source

• $87 to buy 1,000 cut-rate Twitter followers from uSocial source

• The situation? Pretty scary overall. Shot to death with a semiautomatic pistol, Steve McNair’s death was ruled a homicide, but police have yet to decide one way or another on the death of Saleh Kazemi, his 20-year-old girlfriend killed by a single bullet. The scene was found by two of his close friends, one of whom, former Alcorn State teammate Robert Gaddy, called 911. “It was like something you might imagine seeing on TV or in the movies,” said Gaddy, “but never imagine you would see it firsthand, to have that happen to someone you love. I am still shook up.” source

• There are also people who object to the amount of control exercised by the state with regard to religion and there are people who resent that the Han population is substantial.
• Barry Sautman of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology • On how ethnic politics have created an unstable situation between the wealthier Han population and the lower-class Uighur population. Uighurs were particularly unhappy with the way that the Chinese government handled a factory clash between the two groups last month, which made all that other stuff come to a head. The region also has a significant Muslim population in a country known for having restrictive policies on religion. • source