19-year-old Ikram Choudhury of Edinburgh, Scotland, could face charges for photographing a hit-and-run victim who lay dying by the side of the road, and then driving away without calling for help.

A team of genealogists from Ancestry.com published a report today [pdf] that alleges to link President Obama to John Punch, one of the first — if not the first — African to be legally recognized as a slave.

Reader Tess has alerted me to "The Story of Jess & Russ," a wedding website so remarkably twee, it's like two Wes Anderson movies started fucking each other.

If all witches were this cool, anti-Wiccan stigma simply would not exist.

Bai Yun, a panda at the San Diego Zoo, has just set a world record after giving birth to her 6th cub. Not the world record for sluttiest panda, although she has known many lovers; the world record for the largest collection of pandas born in captivity outside the species' native China.

Since the recession and the cruel pulling-out of the rug from under the notional feet of thousands of fresh-faced law school graduates who'd imagined office-bound lives of leisure in their futures, it's become quite clear to everyone that law school is for suckers. Nobody knows this better than people who run law schools. So what to do? Put themselves out of a job? Haha! No, but seriously, they can offer you a great deal on law school right now.

Every week, we're bringing you true stories of unemployment, from the vast land of unemployed America. Today: depression, redemption, struggle, optimism, and the bitterness of the 99%. This is what's happening out there.

Jada Pinkett Smith is 40 and still works out.

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This song sounds like a brain massage and it keeps going higher and higher and higher.

Originally posted on Twitter by Andrew Haydon under the caption "This is the Best Album Review You Will Ever Read," music journalist Chris HavercroftChloe Papas's biting review of Chris Brown's latest studio album, Fortune, has struck a chord with many who feel the singer's violent past has been too swiftly forgiven.

If you live somewhere in the United States, have a TV, and prefer not to live in a world where Ryan Seacrest trumps some ol' fashioned global communing, then you are probably royally P.O.'ed. at NBC. Their warped coverage of the Olympic games—ostensibly having been geared towards its U.S. audience—has left much to be desired.

The New York Times' Julie Bosman reports that Jonah Lehrer, the precocious New Yorker writer who was caught fabricating Bob Dylan quotes in his book Imagine, has resigned from the magazine. Here's his statement, via Bosman's Twitter feed:

A 23-year-old is in hospital today after suffering extensive burns following an attempt to delight party-goers with the ol' "firecrackers between the butt cheeks" gag.

On Friday, Sarah Palin tweeted/Facebooked a picture of herself and her husband in a Chick-fil-A looking so fucking happy. They're way happier than the oldest gay couple in America on their wedding day. Sarah and Todd are beaming hateful joy. It's really visceral.

Here is a cool looking aerial shot of New York City.

They're baaa-ck again again: Paranormal Activity 4 is out this October. Here's its teaser tailer.

Aurora shooter James Holmes has been charged with 24 counts of murder and 116 counts of attempted murder for his movie theater rampage.

Cool girls named Meghan from middle school agree that there is no more gifted artist of this or any century than Lisa Frank.

Self-plagiarizing New Yorker writer Jonah Lehrer fabricated Bob Dylan quotes in his latest book. How is Jonah Lehrer still employed?