Jamie Pallot, who has some job with Vanity Fair's website, is leaving the magazine voluntarily, because, as he tells Erik Maza, “There’s a summer house in Sagaponack that’s calling my name."

Television host Philip "Dr. Phil" McGraw's Peteski Productions filed a copyright-infringement suit yesterday against Gawker Media. Peteski accuses Deadspin of having harmed the ratings of two episodes of the Dr. Phil program by posting video clips from the show—in which McGraw interviewed Ronaiah Tuiasosopo, the confessed perpetrator of the Manti Te'o girlfriend hoax—online.

"Beauty blogger" Rita, an American, spent a semester abroad in the UK last year, sharing a flat with four British roommates. Naturally, it was only a matter of time before she decided to introduce them to classic American junk food and film their reaction as they consumed it.

A New York couple reported that they were the victims of a hate crime Sunday afternoon, when they were assaulted in Madison Square Garden by a group of attackers dressed in Knicks gear. Nick Porto and his partner Kevin Atkins were reportedly walking arm-in-arm on Eighth Avenue by 34th Street around 5 P.M. when they were allegedly surrounded by four men and physically and verbally assaulted.

The Delaware Senate just voted to approve same-sex marriage, making Delaware the 11th state to pass marriage equality. During debate over the bill this afternoon, state Senator Karen Peterson came out as a lesbian.

Multiple sources are reporting that internet traffic to Syria just dropped in a way that suggests a country-wide outage. It's unclear what's responsible. Syrian internet traffic was cut off last year--for 40 minutes. Sadly, a broken internet is far from the most pressing problem facing most Syrians right now.

The father of a second grader from Suffolk, Virginia, who was suspended for making "gun noises" while pointing a pencil at another student says the school's zero tolerance policy on weapons lacks common sense.

This cat was, apparently, cut in half by Google Street View cameras. But the blog from which the image comes—Google Street View World—doesn't provide the coordinates that would allow us to see half cat in his (her?) natural Street View habitat. Where can I find half cat?

St0p-motion visual effects artist Ray Harryhausen died Tuesday in London. He was 92 and responsible for effects in The 7th Voyage of Sinbad, Jason and the Argonauts and 1981's Clash of the Titans.

OK. Look: "Sarah Jessica Parker came complete with a mohawk... 'Trying to emulate the punk rock icon Debbie Harry,' she told CBS 2." It's thrilling to see Sarah Jessica Parker's AI software briefly hang, so that she applies the exactly correct verb "emulate" to her behavior-behavior. But: That is not a fucking mohawk.

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The FBI has released its 207-page file on Muammar Qaddafi, for those of you looking for some light Tuesday-afternoon reading.

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It’s not all that surprising that Farrah Abraham shot and sold a sex tape. Every reward America has ever given Farrah has been a direct result of her having sex. In 2009, America rewarded Farrah—then a popular cheerleader at Thomas Jefferson High School in Council Bluffs, Iowa—with her own episode of MTV's 16 and Pregnant. Next, it rewarded her with a starring role on four seasons of Teen Mom. Now it’s rewarded her with a paycheck in the “high six figures” for a sex tape she shot with porn star James Deen. She’s already been rewarded for that with an endorsement deal in the “low six figures," for hawking a raspberry-flavored weightloss pill.

Hurricane Sandy put the Coney Island Mermaid Parade in grave danger. Would you like to help save the boobies tradition? Here is your chance.

The hardest working assclown in showbiz, rapper Riff Raff, appears on today's episode of the soap opera One Life to Live (now brought to you by Hulu) as a “art dealer, multimillionaire” named Jamie Franko. It is a predictably unsubtle jab at James Franco, whose Spring Breakers character Alien was clearly inspired by Riff Raff. As detailed in Amos Barshad's excellent Grantland piece "The Curious Case of Riff Raff vs. Spring Breakers," director Harmony Korine initially invited Riff Raff to appear in the film, but that eventually changed. Franco gave more credit to Florida rapper Dangeruss as "a main source of inspiration" for the role in an essay he wrote for MTV. Dangeruss does appear in the film.

A 26-year-old English teacher from Boca Raton, Florida, was fired from her job late last month after officials at Martin County High School discovered she was moonlighting as an "eyecandy model" under an assumed identity.

Guccifer has struck again. After hacking Candace Bushnell, the author who created Sex and the City, the conspiracy-loving hacker tweeted, from her official account, the first 50 pages of Bushnell's new novel—and then screenshots of her frantic emails trying to take the book down.

A new report says Ben Zygier, Israel's mysterious "Prisoner X," was jailed for sabotaging a mission to recover Israeli soldiers' bodies.

Simpsons creator Matt Groening's mother Margaret Ruth (née Wiggum) recently passed away at the age of 94. That's bad.