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A life-sized Dalek and a set of gold teeth worth $6,500 are just some of the odd items left in rooms by guests, a hotel chain has revealed.

Bosses at Travelodge say other bizarre things left in their rooms in 2010 include an antique rocking horse, a 4ft yam and $10,000 in cash.

After reviewing their lost and found offices staff were also surprised to find a superintendent’s ID badge, Keys to a Rolls Royce Phantom and a traffic lollipop stick.

Meanwhile the most common items left behind were mobile phones, gadgets, laptop computers, teddy bears and books.

Slightly worryingly artificial limbs were the seventh most frequently forgotten items… followed by adult toys.

1. Mobile Phones
2. Gadgets
3. Laptops / games consoles
4. Teddy Bears
5. Books
6. Clothing items / Toiletries
7. Artificial limbs
8. Hen / Stag accessories / adult toys
9. Handbags, Briefcases and suitcases
10. Jewellery

A high-res video of Google’s Android 3.0 “Honeycomb” for tablets ended up leaked to the internet. With all this talk of tablets at CES, it will be interesting to see where (and on what) this is used on.

Online dating site Match.com is facing a class action lawsuit filed by former customers who allege the Dallas-based firm is misleading clients by having them pay for access to dating profiles that are often expired or false profiles created by spammers.

Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a classic by most any measure—T.S. Eliot called it a masterpiece, and Ernest Hemingway pronounced it the source of “all modern American literature.” Yet, for decades, it has been disappearing from grade school curricula across the country, relegated to optional reading lists, or banned outright, appearing again and again on lists of the nation’s most challenged books, and all for its repeated use of a single, singularly offensive word.

Twain himself defined a “classic” as “a book which people praise and don’t read.” Rather than see Twain’s most important work succumb to that fate, Twain scholar Alan Gribben and NewSouth Books plan to release a version of Huckleberry Finn, in a single volume with The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, that does away with the “n” word (as well as the “in” word, “Injun”) by replacing it with the word “slave.”

Microsoft also announced at CES that it has sold over 8 million Kinects in just two months and now has some 30 million Xbox Live users. Wow.

Microsoft Corp. has shipped more than 8 million Kinect sensors for its Xbox device, topping the company’s forecasts, and now has 30 million users for the related Xbox Live online service. The company also plans to add the Hulu Plus online- television service to Xbox Live and Kinect in the U.S. this spring.