There are few places on Earth I could imagine wanting to spend time less than a remote island populated solely by hundreds of hardcore users of the social news site Reddit. So when I learned of the plan to create Reddit Island, a real-life nerd Shangri-La, I had to see how close my nightmare was to becoming a reality.

Team USA swimmer and "water sports" enthusiast Ryan Lochte earned a golden medal in honesty when he recently confessed to peeing in the Olympic pools on occasion.

This WSJ story today on the rising cost of college for the affluent is a cavalcade of shocking statistics about our current student debt crisis: the average price of a four-year college has more than doubled in real terms since 1985; three million households owe $50k or more in student loans, a number that's tripled since 1989, inflation-adjusted. When even the golf course set can't afford college, you know we have a problem.

Ronald Poppo, the man who was rendered severely disfigured following an encounter with Rudy Eugene, known in the media as the "Miami Zombie" or the "Causeway Cannibal," spoke with Miami homicide detectives last month about his harrowing ordeal.

A Defense Department contractor in charge of the prisoners' library at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp reports that early episodes of the '90s sitcom The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air are in high demand among the 168 captives presently serving out the second decade of an indefinite detention.

Remember how BP's relentless pursuit of profits at the expense of safety caused the Gulf of Mexico to be flooded with oil a little while ago? No. I don't remember that. Do you? Hmm. What I do remember is BP's absolutely awesome Olympic spirit!

Two new Old Navy ads recently unveiled feature a treat for the teens of yesteryear in the form of four West Beverly alums: Jennie Garth, Jason Priestley, Luke Perry, and Gabrielle Carteris.

Looks like Paul Fusco is going to get his ALF movie after all.

A 15-year-old boy was hospitalized for dehydration after a four-day marathon of playing Modern Warfare.

Conservative fundraisers the Koch brothers don't make an appearance in political satire The Campaign, but the "Motch brothers" do.

Unemployed? Faking your own death is not a viable career option.

Former X-Files co-stars Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny are definitely, totally, 100 percent shacking up and in a relationship.

Expertly coiffed pop star Justin Bieber doesn't understand why Prince William's hair is thinning.

Here's why you should vote for Roseanne for president, aside from the obvious. (She's Roseanne.)

Gymnast McKayla Maroney, "mean girl" of Team USA (or not), may have had to "settle" for second place after she fell during Sunday's vault competition, but all the gold medals in the world couldn't possibly compete with the Internet's most prestigious award: Memehood.

It's the kind of story local news lives for — a black bear breaks into a Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory and makes off with several mouthfuls of merchandise.

Imagine if 100 years after you died, people started analyzing every text you'd ever sent, uncovering deleted punctuation and word choices and debating among themselves why you messaged that guy you were merely "looking forward to the party," when earlier drafts revealed you were, in fact, "so excited to see [him]!!"

Trojan gave out 10,000 vibrators from Pleasure Carts today in NYC. Here's a picture of a mobbed cart. People be vibin'.

It seems Robert Pattinson may be looking to patch things up with his cheating girlfriend Kristen Stewart — and he's using alcohol as a mediator.

In the past few days, in the wake of the Sikh temple shooting in Wisconsin, the national media has once again begun to blame a crime on art. On Sunday, police discovered that Wade Page, the skinhead who stormed into the Oak Creek temple that afternoon and killed six people before killing himself, was once in a white-power band called End Apathy.