They call her the "Flying Squirrel," but if gold medalist Gabby Douglas wants to profit from the nickname, she's going to have to battle the college student who snatched up the trademark first.

This is why the Empire State Building is glowing green.

I know how excited you must have been when you heard Octomom was embarking on a pop music career, but I want you to lower your expectations a bit — her first single is a little less than inspiring.

E! Online would like to remind you that Paul Ryan and Ryan Gosling are actually two different people.

Just because a man is 83 and recovering from hip surgery doesn't mean he's not dangerous.

For many candidates, having one's mom on the campaign trail could prove embarrassing, but vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan is using it to his advantage.

Real World: Hollywood cast member Joey Kovar was found dead Friday morning.

The new Nickelback video for "Trying Not to Love You" is out and it's just terrible.

Only two letters this week, but what high-caliber letters they are. Both are full of advice—for Gawker and for actor Ezra Miller—and have provided a lot to think about. Have a poo-tastic weekend, everyone.

The weather team at Nashville's NBC affiliate WSMV accurately predicted that Tennessee would be battered by a series of severe storms that would leave much damage and destruction in their wake.

Earlier this week, a worker from the Lab Animal Services division of a Georgia research university was found spending time at work with the lab animals he loved.

Child-actor-turned-penis-model Shia LaBeouf will be having for-real sex in Lars von Trier's upcoming film Nymphomaniac, according to the actor himself.

The New York Times' recent Helen Gurley Brown hagiography, "Helen Gurley Brown, As Others Saw Her," is a mostly uninspiring rundown of anecdotes about the recently deceased Cosmopolitan editor. But about halfway down, in a passage from Brown's former book editor, Michael Korda, things get good:

Here are '90s R&B songs directly referenced to '90s R&B that I noticed in the first single from Wish's newly released free mixtape, Me Against Her, "Used to Love You":

R/photobucketplunder has "gone dark." After a Gawker article about the Reddit subsection's practice of finding and sharing inadvertently-published, sexually explicit photos on Photobucket, the image-hosting site served a takedown notice: "It has come to PBI's attention that you are violating PBI's Terms of Use... Moreover, the name and graphics used for your subreddit infringe PBI's registered trademarks." The r/photobucketplunder mods posted a final message: "Gone dark. Due to a legal request from photobucket, we have gone dark. It was a good run."

The Village Voice has laid off at least three staff writers, bringing their staff writer count to... negative two?

Prince William wrought untold suffering upon his island kingdom yesterday, angering the gods when he saved a drowning girl whom the Fates had chosen to die.

Got a few hundred bucks and a bloodlust compelling you to pretend to gun down another human being? Boy, have we got the adventure for you.

The public relations industry enjoys drilling into its young whelps a single phrase to guide their decision-making: "Know your audience." Sadly, after all these years, the lesson still has not sunk in. This is PR Dummies: Evading the audience-seekers, every week.

The boys (and a few girls) of Fire Island caught on Super 8 in 1976. Idyllic.