Digg is one of my favorites at http://digg.com/offbeat.
Some are a little silly and pointless but I think they'd all be considered "odd", and they come from a variety of sources. I read digg religiously, but if you are using fark and reddit you might be seeing a lot of repeats. If you run out of content, try browsing through the upcoming stories (ones that haven't been moved to the front page yet) at http://digg.com/all/offbeat/upcoming . Again, a con to this is that the junk hasn't been filtered out yet, so there is still a lot of ads, "adult" content, and well, junk!

Yahoo offers some good content as well http://news.yahoo.com/odd . This is another one I used to read non-stop. The only issue with this one is you suffer from the limit of sources. Yahoo seems to pull most of their content from only 1 or 2 places, which means each story really is written in a similar pattern.

Have you tried sites like http://www.allweirdnews.com/ or http://www.oddnews.org/ ? I've found these before with a good ol' google search, and there are plenty more out there. These sites are catered to "odd news", but I wouldn't call a lot of it news, as much as just "wtf" items and thing people post. Worth a look though.

You might want to have a look at bored.com too. They have a dumb and a weird section which are both good for a laugh, and have links to things like stupid 911 calls or bizarre ebay auctions.

My suggestion: digg.com/offbeat and news.yahoo.com/odd
Both consistently high quality.
Both updated regularly.
Both closer to "news" than anything else I've seen.

Enjoy!
Source(s):
http://digg.com/offbeat
http://news.yahoo.com/odd
http://digg.com/all/offbeat/upcoming
http://www.allweirdnews.com/
www.oddnews.org
www.bored.com

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