Back in early July, a helmet-cam video of a Fresno firefighter rescuing an unconscious kitten trapped inside a smoke-filled home briefly caught the Internet's attention.

Another Thursday, another New York Times Style section faux-trend story about Williamsburg. It's all a bit tedious, isn't it? Since these stories are written primarily to generate blog posts by people like us, we feel entitled to demand a few changes in how this neighborhood is covered, moving forward.

"Our brother asked us to be his best men for his wedding." So begins the preface to the greatest wedding toast in nuptial history.

An estimated 2.1 million people die each year from air pollution. Want to know where the most polluted (and deadly) places to live are? This NASA-created map will show you.

Earlier this month, the shipping company Maersk got itself on the cover of Businessweek, after investing billions of dollars in the biggest ships ever built in world history. Today, Maersk says: Hey, anybody wanna buy the world's biggest ship?

In the latest installment of his long-running Funny or Die interview series Between Two Ferns, Zach Galifianakis sits down with Justin Bieber to finally ask him all the questions sycophantic entertainment reporters have refused to ask — and then spank him.

As fun as baseball cards were as a kid, reading about a group of grown men hungrily tearing through boxes of sports cards in search of a "hit" is rather bleak.

Sesame Street is starting its 44th year of raising children to be compassionate, compromising, and comprehensive adults with a permanent inner child brimming with wonder and imagination.

Two days after the siege at Nairobi's Westgate mall ended, authorities from around the world are still searching for victims and evidence. Officials have confirmed that at least 67 people died in the attack, and the Kenyan Red Cross estimates 61 people remain missing, though Kenya's Interior Minister told the BBC he expects to find an "insignificant number of bodies."

The latest stage in the liberal media conspiracy to ignore and diminish the importance of Senator Ted Cruz: a front-page story in this morning's New York Times.

Krokodil, already a popular drug in Russia, has finally made its way to the United States. The Banner Poison Control Center in Arizona has reported two cases of the flesh-rotting drug’s use, believed to be the first in the US. The drug is a mixture of codeine and hydrocarbons like gasoline, paint thinner, or oil that is injected directly into veins. It’s named krokodil because once injected, it rots your skin from the inside out, causing an alligator skin-like appearance. It’s really, really gross. You probably want to avoid the YouTube videos.

A new study shows that 15 percent of American adults do not go online, citing its irrelevancy, difficulty, or expense as reasons they stay away. Of those Americans who do go online, three percent still use a dial-up connection.

The college professor who said in a recent interview that he is "not interested in teaching books by women" has a perfect explanation: "I was having a conversation, in French, with a colleague while this young woman was doing this interview. So these were very much tossed-off remarks."

Former President George H.W. Bush served as an official witness at a same-sex wedding in Kennebunkport, Maine this weekend. The former president’s spokesman, Jim McGrath, confirmed Bush and his wife Barbara attended the nuptials of Bonnie Clement and Helen Thorgalsen: “They were private citizens attending a private ceremony for two friends.”

If you're one of the very few people in the world with both an irrational Nirvana obsession and lots of money to throw around—most rich people only listen to classical music or Jay-Z—then, boy, do we have the house for you.

O.J. Simpson, the 66-year-old diabetic serving a 33-year sentence for armed robbery in Nevada, has apparently been caught stealing cookies from the prison cafeteria. According to sources with The National Enquirer, prison guards recently noticed Simpson hiding something under his “prison clothes” as he walked back to his cell after lunch.

Back in 2011, then-six-year-old Lily Clem took the Internet by storm with her highly emotional reaction to a surprise trip to Disneyland.

California just became the first state in America to vow to raise its minimum wage to $10 per hour by 2016. The federal minimum wage remains $7.25 an hour. That may change one day, if our congresspeople ever find the time amid their pointless, 21-hour rants.

Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright just published, then mysteriously deleted, the following tweet: “sometimes i sleep-email and accidentally delete @politico #playbook first thing in the morning. @mikeallen deserves better.” What could it mean?