New York Times reporter Mark Mazzetti e-mailed an advance, unpublished copy of a Maureen Dowd column dealing with the CIA to an Agency spokeswoman last year, according to newly released emails obtained by Judicial Watch under the Freedom of Information Act. Depending on whom at the Times you ask, that was either "much ado about nothing" or a "mistake that is not consistent with New York Times standards."

The sensible and not-at-all xenophobic and/or racist GOP Convention attendees welcomed the delegate from Puerto Rico with boos and shouts of "USA!" The "lady from Puerto Rico," as RNC Chairman Reince Priebus put it, tried to join in on the "USA!" chant to no avail. It seems like the GOP's "overtures to women and Latinos," a supposed centerpiece of the convention in Tampa, is going just as planned.

If you don't know where you're going at the Republican National Convention, one of the things you notice first is that nobody else does either. The upside of this is that, once beyond the security cordon, you can do pretty much whatever you want, in an event surrounded by federal agents. The downside is that it's chaos.

"My five year old son likes to wear dresses," says German dad Nils Pickert.

An Essex woman is claiming her cat "Teddy Bear" is the slightly-larger-than-normal housecat everyone mistook for a lion.

The Jewish community in the western Indian city of Ahmedabad is less than enthused about a clothing store named "Hitler" that recently opened in the posh neighborhood of Vastrapur.

Conor Kennedy can't come over to play video games after school today because his girlfriend, Taylor Swift, flew him out to Nashville by private jet a couple days ago, reports Page Six.

Whatever you do, do NOT sign up for the RNC press release list unless you love transcripts of "Remarks by [Jerk.]"

Picture this: Violent J and Shaggy 2 Dope of Insane Clown Posse sitting in a theater lecherously reviewing Carly Rae Jepsen's music video for "Call Me Maybe" MST3K-meets-Beavis-and-Butt-head-style while Pop-Up Video bubbles let them know Carly is old enough to legally lust over.

Below is a remix of Gawker favs Niki & the Dove's "DJ, Ease My Mind," by Gawker favs Twin Shadow. Mr. Shadow strips the song of its furiously swirling house and surrounds it with a plaintive electric guitar and some other atmospheric effects. Voila: a dance song becomes a ballad. It's an effective trick, but kind of a cheat: many dance songs are ballads at heart and to place them in such a straightforward setting is ultimately reductive. For that reason, I have come to loathe Frente!'s alternahit cover of New Order's "Bizarre Love Triangle." Yeah, we get it: the song is sad. We don't need your weeping guitar to prove what has been conveyed in a more exciting and complex manner.

Try as they might, the folks at Old Spice just couldn't seem to recreate the viral je ne sais quoi of their best known ad campaign.

Where are New York City's Republicans hiding? Staten Island, mostly. WNYC breaks it down by neighborhood.

Celebration time: Day-Two-Which-Is-Actually-Day-One of the Republican Convention is now, as we speak (type), UNDERWAY in Tampa, a hot parking lot located in a swing state. We can assure you that our investigations have revealed that absolutely no one, including those in official capacities, know where the fuck they are supposed to go right now. Here are a few of the most crucial "insider" factoids that you will need to know about this vital U.S. political institution going forward:

A YouTuber who seized an opportunity to fly First Class aboard a Emirates Airbus A380 brought his Canon pocket camera along for the ride.

For reasons we can't fathom, Bic has a line of "for her" pens — "Designed to fit comfortably in a womans hand" and with an "Attractive barrel design available in pink and purple." For reasons we can totally understand, Amazon reviewers find these pens very funny.

It's not every day that you come across a video of twin 11-month-old girls reacting so adorably to their dad's guitar playing that it makes all other cute baby videos look like 2 girls 1 cup (if you don't know what that is, don't google it).

Hundreds of Brits may be upset with The Sun's decision to reprint pics of Prince Harry's naked Vegas romp, but thousands of others the world over couldn't be happier — and they're showing their support by following the heir's example and shedding their threads.

In what can only be interpreted as a grave, provocative gesture against extraterrestrials by the people of Earth, the U.S. Government's National Aeronautics and Space Administration announced plans to broadcast a new single by entertainer will.i.am from the planet Mars Tuesday afternoon.

Knowledge doesn't supersede a hatred for condoms in unsafe Grindr encounters, says an apt study.

Between penis modeling and unsimulated sex acts, long-past-former child star Shia LaBeouf is becoming quite the character actor.