Facebook is building a town for its army of engineers—one with a "Quad," a "recreation center" and a six-foot surrounding wall.

People are strangers out here on the oil patch, and public conversation is terse and muted. You never know when an oil company manager or safety inspector or corporate spy is sniffing around. I learned after the first day in Williston, N.D., that my usual work uniform of an old sports coat and tie made me suspect. Leaving the tie at the motel helped, but not much.

A woman seeking urgent medical attention for her boyfriend says the 911 call she placed resulted in officers entering the couple's Georgia home and shooting the man dead.

A study found that universities with unionized graduate students not only paid their graduate students more, but "on various measures of student-faculty relations, the survey found either no difference or (in some cases) better relations at unionized campuses."

There are Twitter typos and there are Twitter typos. And then there's what Senior Advisor to the President for Strategy and Communications Dan Pfeiffer did today.

The man who died last week after setting himself on fire on Washington D.C.'s National Mall has been identified as John Constantino, a 64-year-old resident of New Jersey. An attorney representing Constantino's family released a statement saying his motives weren't political, but instead were the result of “a long battle with mental illness.”

Do you or a loved one have an investment account—perhaps for retirement? Is any of that money invested in a "managed futures" fund? If so, stop reading now and pull that money out immediately. It is being stolen from you as we speak.

The takedown of the underground drug market Silk Road was apparently just the beginning. Since then, authorities have arrested Silk Road customers and dealers in Seattle, the UK, and Sweden—and promise more to come.

Dinosaur Jr.'s J. Mascis recorded a cover of John Denver's "Prisoners" with Sharon Van Etten for a tribute album. This is the video, featuring Superchunk's Jon Wurster as Denver (or his reincarnation) and Aimee Mann as his love interest. It is very, very good.

High school students in Dallas are speaking out in defense of a Spanish teacher whose job might be jeopardy after her Playboy past was recently resurrected.

Last night, HBO aired Valentine Road, a documentary about the 2008 murder of Lawrence ("Larry") King, a 15-year-old gay student who asked then-14-year-old Brandon McInerney to be his Valentine. The day after, McInerney brought a gun to school and shot King twice in the head in a computer lab. King died two days later.

Gay Talese annotates his 1966 masterwork profile, "Frank Sinatra Has a Cold." Turns out, Ol' Blue Eyes, who famously refused to sit for the Esquire story, may have secretly liked the piece.

You, the consumer, demand that every artificially hydrogenated preservative-laced concoction that you consume be sweet as a honeybee's tits. You, the consumer, also demand that your sweet nectar be free of "calories," nature's survival mechanism. You, the consumer, have found a new fake sugar to love!

Arnold Schwarzenegger impressions are like assholes: Everybody has one and they all sound like crap.

"Does Satan worship lower a Las Vegas mansion's value?"

It was just another day for patrons of the West Village's 'sNice Cafe, until one customer with obvious anger issues went supernaturally supernova and started hurling strangers across the room using her powers of telekinesis.

The undercover NYPD narcotics officer involved in last week's violent SUV attack was one of several bikers caught on video punching and pounding the outside of Alexian Lien's Range Rover, according to a report in the New York Post.

On Sunday night, The Simpsons aired its annual Halloween episode, Treehouse of Horror, which opened with Guillermo del Toro's brilliantly executed title sequence. An extended three-minute riff on the iconic couch gag, the Mexican director's treatment recast the citizens of Springfield into a seamless series of classic horror and thriller references, as well as nods to del Toro's oeuvre, from Cronos to Pacific Rim.

The new $100 bill will debut tomorrow and it has lots of fancy features like a 3-D security ribbon and a color-changing bell in the inkwell. And in case you're into money trivia, the $100 is the actually the second most common bill in circulation, behind only the $1 bill.

According to many reports, Hollywood Stuntz is the name of the motorcycle gang responsible for beating Alexian Lien in last week’s SUV attack in New York City. But Hollywood Stuntz is not the name of a gang: it’s the alias for one biker named Jamie Lao.