Climbing Mount Everest is one of the most physically challenging things a human being can do. You'd think that if there were one place on Earth where people would leave their phones at home, that would be it. Wrong. [Gizmodo]

It's the War of the Roses (Peddlers)! A flowery feud! A Google gamble, in which customers are wooed. Some of America's top Internet flower retailers are being a little sneaky in trying to become tops in Google's search results (and by proxy, your mom's heart). Who will stop them?

Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal heard somewhere that all the cool politicians were releasing their birth certificates. So he released his! Tell us, Governor Jindal: If Barack Obama and Donald Trump jumped off a bridge, would you jump off too? Huh?

Lindsay and Paris' would-be feud may already have ended. Paul McCartney is engaged. And Justin Bieber wants you to be cyber-responsible. Saturday's gossip once walked in on its husband sleeping with its dad. (It was the '60s!)

Memphis Imams Masudur Rahman and Mohamed Zaghloul had boarded a flight Friday morning when they were told the pilot wouldn't fly with them aboard. They were going to Charlotte—to attend a conference intended to "address prejudice against Muslims."

Today we learned that the vast majority of old people in a room somewhere think Barack Obama is a socialist. Socialism, the great light-red menace! How can we ensure that no one is ever subjected to living in a socialist America? One commenter knows how.

Another spring weekend is here, a perfect time to enjoy the flowers and sunshine and... Wait, forget that. Stay indoors. See a movie! Debuting this week are two giant blond nuisances: one of them a hammer-wielding superhero, the other Kate Hudson.

According to the Wall Street Journal, a U.S. drone strike narrowly missed the American-born radical cleric, Anwar al-Awlaki, who inspired the underwear bomber and the Times Square Bomber. Known for his inflammatory YouTube videos, he's sort of like the Islamist Rebecca Black. Too bad the drone missed; our lamp post-climbing muscles were really warmed up after last weekend.

This morning, we got word of an app that performs visual breast augmentation. So naturally I decided to try it out. [Jezebel]

The attack against KISS frontman Gene Simmons' website last year was one of the most bizarre campaigns in the history of the online vigilante group Anonymous. But the FBI is on the case and has raided the home of a Washington man thought to be involved in the attack.

The "unprecedented" power struggle in Iran between its supreme leader, Ayatollah Khamenei, and President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad could lead to the latter's imminent resignation. Here's a great briefing on the dirty politics behind all of this, including yesterday's witchcraft arrests.

The Los Angeles Times has more details on the previously reported IRS criminal investigation into the Kabbalah Centre and Spirituality for Kids, a charity co-founded by celebrity Kabbalist Madonna.

This week a Minnesota man was convicted of aiding in the suicides of two people he met online while posing as a female nurse. He gave them advice on painless ways to die, and entered suicide pacts with them. [io9]

For those of you rejoicing in bloodlust over Osama bin Laden's death, a piece of advice: Don't go to Germany! They have this bizarre cultural thing about dancing on peoples' graves with blood pouring out of your mouth. And it's entrenched enough that German Chancellor Angela Merkel's statement about being "glad" to hear about bin Laden's death has become a major national scandal, even landing her a criminal complaint from a Hamburg judge today.

Of all the musical masterpieces the cast of Glee has covered for their choo-choo train of jazz hands, the most important of all has to be Rebecca Black's "Friday." The most interesting thing about it is that it's sung by all men.

Hackers—who may or may not be associated with Anonymous—have access to Sony servers and are planning to attack the company's website this weekend and leak any information they can steal, including, possibly, customer credit card data, reports CNET. This comes just two weeks after an attack on the PlayStation Network exposed the personal data of millions of Sony customers. At this point, Sony might as well just post its payment databases on its own website.

In your hijacked Friday media column: Tina Brown has breasts and used to do it, sexually speaking, to Martin Amis; the Washington Post Co. falls from the profit curve; Robin Roberts may or may not be too tall for morning television, and Howard Kurtz once again acquits himself with the dignity and effortless charisma we've come to expect from him.

Did you hear that Barack Obama demanded a massive American flag be removed from Ground Zero while he was there yesterday? It's not true! At all.

Filmmaker Dominic Boudreault made this awesome movie called "The City Limits" where he filmed time-lapse footage of Chicago, Toronto, New York, and Montreal and then edited it all together. Unless you know the various cities' landmarks, you can hardly tell them apart. Is it urbanist to say all cities look the same? You can't even tell which ones are in Canada and which are in the good old U.S. of A. Still, New York looks the best, right? Right?!

Yarn and stitching artist Inge Jacobsen has painstakingly rendered two covers of Vogue using just yarn. Impressive! She better hope Vogue editrix Anna Wintour doesn't file suit for copyright infringement: After all, she couldn't like them too much given they're so arts and craftsy! But if I saw one of these on the side of a tote bag on Etsy, I'd so buy it. Click on the image above to expand. [via Today and Tomorrow]