Two Florida girls, one 12 and one 14, have been charged with aggravated stalking, a third-degree felony, for allegedly bullying a girl who committed suicide five weeks ago. Police decided to arrest the kids after the older one posted this onto her Facebook page on Saturday: "Yes, I bullied Rebecca and she killed herself and I don’t give a fuck."

When Bryan Lewis Saunders heard from a friend about a "fuck mattress" near his apartment that was in the service of some local prostitutes, he did what any other person who also happens to be a performance artist would do: He decided to give it an extreme makeover.

Wondering why using your Twitter account to authenticate your identity at events and conventions is a bad idea? EFF's Dave Maass explains on io9.

"I'm not here to have a fight," says Stephen Fry of his interview with National Association for Research & Therapy of Homosexuality's Dr. Joseph Nicolosi on BBC Two's gay-themed Out There show. Instead, Fry lets the quack undo himself with his own words, and it's glorious.

"I introduced myself to a well-known lock picker who calls himself Deviant Ollam. He had driven up from Philadelphia that morning with his partner, who goes by the nickname Lady Merlin." Gizmodo's Geoff Manaugh visits The Open Organization Of Lockpickers on the Brooklyn Bridge.

Blaming “political brinkmanship” for a potential debt default later this week, ratings agency Fitch just put the United States’ ‘AAA’ credit rating under review for a downgrade.

Sarah McLoud and Robert Owens could have at least cleared their internet histories before reportedly robbing a bank on Friday.

No aspect of the U.S. government shutdown has garnered more public attention or drawn more outrage than the closing of national monuments. State governments and private donors have kicked in funds to keep monuments open. Here is a more nuanced perspective: fuck the fucking national monuments.

Glenn Greenwald, the columnist who brought the world the Ed Snowden Papers, is leaving the Guardian to start his own website. BuzzFeed reports Greenwald, who spent the summer scoring scoop after scoop about the NSA, is starting "a very well-funded… very substantial new media outlet."

How do the bison feel about the government shutdown? Pretty itchy, it seems. (Via @radleybalko.)

An extremely disgruntled New Yorker does his best impression of a YouTube comment while chewing out a street performer for being a "no talent, self-consumed, mediocre piece of shit."

Moose are dying off across North America—and no one knows why.

Former San Diego mayor Bob Filner pleaded guilty Tuesday morning to three criminal charges related to the sexual harassment allegations that led to his resignation two months ago. Filner admitted committing one felony count of false imprisonment “by violence, fraud, menace, and deceit” and two counts of misdemeanor battery.

The American League of Lobbyists is changing its name. Seems that the word "lobbyist" has some negative connotations, in the minds of ignorant flyover state troglodytes and opportunistic media vultures. What shall we call lobbyists, in the future?

On its surface, the latest prank from YouTube jokers Vitaly Zdorovetskiy, Roman Atwood, and Dennis Roady, isn't quite as controversial as their previous stunts. But, underneath that surface, "Gold Digger Prank" will likely go down as one of the most divisive "social experiments" they've ever conducted.

The fox is a clever beast, famously outsmarting human and animal rivals in ancient fables, recent movies and a current Top 10 song. Humanity's relationship with the fox has long been balanced between bemused tolerance and "let's shoot them for fun and raise them in cages, for fur." But there are abundant signs that the foxes have had quite enough of people, and are making coordinated global moves to take over civilization.

When Arianna Huffington's freelance empire found a new home at AOL, she walked away with $21 million dollars—on the unlikely expectation her unwieldy site would triple its revenue, exploding into profitability. The Smoking Gun got its hands on the full terms of the deal.

The ongoing movement to raise the wages of fast food workers got a boost today from two new reports that attempt to quantify just how much those low wages cost society as a whole. It's a lot.

BroBible says this email has been making the rounds "among the #financebros of New York," and its easy to see why: After all, they too were once aspiring #financebro being forced to choose between love and lots of money.