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I copied come text from a The Huffington Post article and found that the web site had somehow snuck a citation onto my clipboard:
The text I had selected. Blah. Blah.
Blah.Read more at:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/…
How did they do that?
The code that does this is in http://www.huffingtonpost.com/include/lib/copy_paste.js?v=1.02
It looks like on mouse-up events they check to see if any text is selected, and if it is then they insert an invisible div containing the citation inside of the selection.