On July 29, Erik Norrie was vacationing with his family in the Bahamas when he went spearfishing for their dinner. A nearby shark sized him up, declared him a meaty wuss, and took a huge bite out of the Florida man's left leg.

The fourth season of Downton Abbey will premiere Sunday, Jan. 5, 2014, on PBS — roughly a month after its U.K. run. A PBS boss says this delay creates "promotional buzz," which is industryspeak for "piracy."

On Saturday, August 3rd at approximately 9:20 p.m., the physical embodiment of the Beyoncé concept, Beyoncé, took the stage for the first of three consecutive performances at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn. On Saturday, August 3rd at approximately 8:20 p.m., two Gawker bloggers covered in body glitter (in hindsight: why?) concocted an iffy plan to make it onto the floor of the area, without purchasing floor passes for a thousand dollars.

Yesterday, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos bought the Washington Post. This seems like as good a time as any to roll out a few more true stories from the Amazon warehouse workers who make the whole machine go. Jeff Bezos wouldn't be here without them.

The simple gesture of dropping off his neighbor unintentionally netted Vine user Yoeslan Alfaro one of the most sincerely happy-making moments of the summer.

If you were an eternally 12-year-old pop star with a #Beautiful shoulder injury, what would your sling be made of? Feathers and studs and candy bling and bliss and white magic and faeries' eyelashes and unicorn hides.

Bill Clinton, lifelong unhealthy eater, touts his current unhealthy eating habit.

Amazon now sells fine art. Got a birthday coming up? Ask your friends to all chip in for this Monet, which you can toss in your digital cart with only a click of a button and $1.45 million. Free shipping!

A Minnesota-based gang bang organizer who watched American Psycho one too many times made the mistake of advertising his profession on a series of fancy business cards — a mistake that ultimately got him arrested.

When I first wrote about my love for the YouTube videos of enigmatic multi-platform taste-making entity Vfiles, I singled out comedian Casey Jane Ellison's mock celebrity gossip show "Status Update." Ellison is back with a new, hilarious spoof fashion show called "WHAT THE F*SHION," which teaches you how to dress like someone from Los Angeles in between bizarre "Tim & Eric"-style non-sequiturs.

The most famous recipient of Anthony Weiner’s penile pictorials, Sydney Leathers is a nice 22-year-old aspiring paralegal from Indiana who’s had fame thrust in her face, and she’s biting. Just like her non-quitter flasher man, Sydney’s not going away anytime soon, as she graciously joins us to blow the (beef) whistle on all the baloney (pony) that’s erupted these last few weeks.

Here's the soundtrack from Randall Miller's CBGB movie. Alan Rickman plays CBGB owner Hilly Kristal, Malin Akerman is Debbie Harry, Rupert Grint takes on Cheetah Chrome, and Mickey Sumner plays Patti Smith.

E! is developing a reality show based on Rich Kids of Instagram called Rich Kids of Beverly Hills. Remember when E! used to send socialites into the woods before they were allowed to be famous? Update: The anonymous curators behind Rich Kids of Instragram emailed Gawker to note that they "are not associated" with this unscripted series. They did, however, promise a "major announcement coming in a few weeks." Does a lawsuit against E! count as major?

In 2010, the federal government stopped guaranteeing private student loans and started issuing student loans directly. This policy change was designed to, in some way, help alleviate the student loan crisis. How's that going?

It's been nearly a week since Crazy Rhubarb Lady stole both our hearts and our rhubarb with her unintentional impersonation of a scarier, more possessed Linda Blair, and yet no one has attempted to cash in on her virality with a Crazy Rhubarb Lady parody skit — an true oddity in this day and age.

Japanese lingerie maker Wacoal has a surprise in store for folks who think their latest ad is just another cute face in a 'boost-up' bra.

A Washington father of one who blew up the family dog because he believed it was possessed by the devil will not be charged with animal cruelty because, according to authorities, the dog didn't suffer.

In one of the finest demonstrations of Orwellian language in recent memory, a hunger strike by cell-bound California prisoners is denounced as a "gang power play" by the government official who controls all of California's prisons.

In March of this year, the literary biographer Blake Bailey paid a visit to Francine du Plessix Gray, a former New Yorker scribe living in western Connecticut. Bailey is at work on the official biography of Philip Roth, and he had a question about one of Roth's novels—specifically about the jacket art.