It doesn’t have to be Friday the 13th to enjoy a little of the magic we like to call “News of the Weird:”

- After a fairly long period of research and reflection, the folks at McAffee have finally compiled a list of the top ten “riskiest” search terms on the Internet today. Screensavers take the top spot with a mind blowing 59.1% minimum risk. Out of every ten links that promise such classics as flying toasters and crudely drawn cats, six aim to fill your machine with malware. Coming in second is “free games,” which clocks in at 24.7% minimum risk. ” Hackers will create related Web sites laden with adware and malware whenever a particular topic increases in popularity,” McAffee Senior Vice President Jeff Green told WebProNews. “Unsuspecting consumers are then tricked into… blindly handing over their personal assets to cybercriminals.” Other notables include “work from home” (15.6%), Powerball (9.3%), and President Barack Obama.

- As many of you already know, running a business, especially one that is based on the Internet, is far from easy. Every now and again, something very, very bad is bound to happen. Hardware networks break down. Malware gets accidentally loaded on a random office computer. It’s regrettable, but it’s a fact of life. Still, all of the server crashes or low-level hacking attempts in the world pale to the catastrophe facing the folks at social brainstorming service Imindi. See, the up and coming service was featured on TechCrunch yesterday afternoon. Naturally, a plug coming from a site of this magnitude is all but guaranteed to make people stand up and take notice. Unfortunately, the service wasn’t entirely ready for the influx of people a TechCrunch article would garner, so the servers started to show signs of strain. During the digital “red alert” caused by the new users, an as-of-yet unnamed employee accidentally deleted all of the user accounts. “We are extremely embarrassed by this mistake and we have purchased more capacity and instituted safer backup processes to handle the increased demand to prevent a recurrence of this incident,” writes CEO Adam Lindemann. “It’s a private beta, and it will be a while before this service is ready to be launched in public but we hope that you will be kind to Imindi as she grows.” Anyone who wishes to experience Imindi’s “second chance at a good first impression” can do so by clicking here.

- Sometimes, talking to a random person is fun. After all, nothing says “get to know your fellow man” quite like striking up a conversation in a checkout line or at a bank. Still, there are times that random small talk crosses the proverbial line from “pleasant fun” to “extremely creepy.” Leading the charge over said line is Omengle, a chat service that promises a “100% anonymous chat atmosphere.” To partake in the service, users simply have to press the big blue button that rests comfortably in the center of the page. Once you physically enter the site, you are greeted by some random person. From there, the sky is the limit. Bizarre and rather unsettling, Omengle appears to be one of those ideas that might have looked a bit better on paper than it does in real life. Omengle is available now for anyone brave enough to try it.