Earlier today, shameless gossip e-rag TMZ posted what is quite possibly its most shameful article to date: "Kate Upton SUPER TOPLESS On a Horse."

Thanks to fear of the Fed's upcoming actions and some trouble in China's credit markets, the stock market is down more than 350 points today, and the value of gold is plunging. Please put your fearful predictions and paranoid speculation in the comment section below.

I never met James Gandolfini. His work as Tony Soprano strikes me as a unique and staggering artistic achievement, but I am a non-expert fan, with no experience in acting or television. To my surprise, though, he is the first celebrity whose death has touched me in that way that celebrity deaths seem to touch people.

How did Dan Brown, the immensely popular and successful bad writer behind such hits as The Da Vinci Code and Hey, There's a Treasure Map Under This Painting!, get to be such an immensely popular and successful bad writer? He just loves "reading," meaning "listening to stuff."

New York Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. is dating again. Capital New York's Joe Pompeo reports that Sulzberger's newest girlfriend is a private equity director named Gabrielle Greene.

According to the New York Times, a human newspaper definitely not written by birds, one cool thing that humans like to do nowadays is build giant bird nests to sleep in. Walking to a neighbor's house instead of flying there, eating normal human food besides seeds, and constructing humongous bird nests out of twigs— all things we humans do so often we don't even have to remind ourselves constantly to check and make sure we're doing them so as not to draw attention to ourselves.

Little Grayson Clamp is three years old, but he just heard his dad's voice for the first time three weeks ago.

"If the minimum wage had simply tracked U.S. productivity gains since 1968, it would be $21.72 an hour — three times what it is now."

Mike Allen, chief White House correspondent for THE POLITICO and “'the most powerful' or 'important' journalist" in Washington, D.C., has a clutter problem. This is a photograph of his office at Time magazine, where he worked as a political reporter until 2007.

If you want to be successful in the PR business, you have to know how to ask the right questions.

Ricardo Woods, who was convicted of murder on the strength of six eye-blinks, was sentenced to 36 years in prison today.

Exodus International, the world's oldest and largest "ex-gay" Christian ministry announced late yesterday that it would be shutting down for good after nearly 40 year of claiming to have a cure for homosexuality.

The Korean branch of the hacktivist outfit Anonymous (yeah it exists) claims to have stolen some secret missile documents from North Korea. They'll be releasing them on June 25th. Take this with a grain of salt as big as Kim Jong Un's new $7 million yacht.

Google's senior vice president for people operations has finally decided that the company's famed brainteaser interview questions are useless: "How many golf balls can you fit into an airplane? How many gas stations in Manhattan? A complete waste of time. They don’t predict anything."

For a quarter of a century, newsman Ted Koppel lent an air of gravitas to ABC News' Nightline. And now, years after Koppel's retirement, the network has finally found the right person to replace this icon of journalism: a guy who owns a PR firm.

A supersized storm sucks sharks from the ocean & hurls them onto land in SHARKNADO. This epic Syfy movie premieres Thurs, July 11, at 9pm.

A Florida dad decided to give his son a 13th birthday to remember, so he rented out all of Jacksonville's historic Sun-Ray Cinema and told Jonah to invite some friends to play video games on a really big screen.

Every year, some 18,000 people between the ages of 5 and 34 die in car accidents, the leading cause of death for that age bracket. Which makes a fiery wreck either a sadly unsurprising way for a 33-year-old to die... or the perfect cover for a CIA assassination.

Gizmodo is hosting a Q&A with movie location scout Nick Carr, the location sleuth behind Scouting NY. Go and ask him stuff.

There was plenty of talent to go around at last weekend's Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival: Paul McCartney, Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers, Wilco, Kendrick Lamar, Bob Saget.