In your saddening Tuesday media column: college newspaper sex scandal of the day, cable news borrows liberally from a blogger, Computer Weekly folds in print, unpaid HuffPo writers prepare to speak, and a Reuters journalist is killed in Iraq.
Shopping cart races down a steep hill sound like a bad idea to begin with, especially if there's a gutter gate at the bottom.
Danny McBride shared tales of living in Northern Ireland with the cast during the filming of Your Highness. They lived above a rowdy club, but figured out a way to deal with the noise—throwing eggs at club-goers!
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology has built special quadrocopters that are so advanced they can play tennis together. A motion detecting camera and a specialty written-computer program track where the ball is thrown and so the quadrocopters can bounce the ball back and forth.
During the summer months the the town of Estes, Colorado is invaded by male elk coming in too fight over the females. This is also the towns tourist season and unfortunately sometime the elks and the tourists collide.
This week on Dancing With the Stars, our favorite contestants started realizing a few things about themselves. Kirstie Alley realized she's Maksim's fattest partner and both Kendra and Wendy Williams had a few realizations about their breasts.
Newt Gingrich, one of the serious Republican candidates for president, is back on the subject of Muslims this week. He's not just concerned that Muslims proper will co-opt his grandchildren when they come of age. He's worried about a new ultra-breed of Muslims, Atheist Muslims, performing the dirty work. Have you heard of these people? They probably live in cities.
The award show honoring the best Twitter accounts chose the Fail Whale as their emblem. That might not have been a concious decision or an attempt at foreshadowing, but it was definitely their emblem.
Did you know the Great Horned Owl can move their heads around 270 degrees?
Libraries: who needs them? We all have our very own libraries by the name of "The Internet" at our fingertips now, and these libraries include porn. So what can old public libraries do to keep up? First, toss those books.
GMA featured a pre-taped Britney Spears concert to promote her new album "Femme Fatale." She also announced she would be touring with Enrique Iglesias this summer. Admittedly, her dancing skills aren't what they used to be but maybe she just needs to start wearing sensible dancing shoes!
Blame the rise of spontaneous outbursts into song on Glee all you want but this kid actually composed a pretty solid tune. That's high school gold right there so it's no surprise the girl said yes.
When Jack Hanna shows up on the Late Show, you can be sure that something wacky is going to happen. On last night's episode, Jack convinced Dave to feed an adorable barn owl a dead mouse with his own hands.
Pretend presidential candidate Donald Trump released his "birth certificate" yesterday, and by the end of the day, it was proven to be a fake.
When he's not fending off sexual harassment lawsuits from sexting former employees, American Apparel boss Dov Charney is doubling down his bet on his own failing company. Yesterday Charney spent $2 million buying AA shares to increase his stake in the company to 54%. Despite the fact that AA's future as "a going concern" is still in question.
Charlie Sheen's dog keels over from malnutrition and neglect. Lady Gaga gets diamonds and a sex doll for her birthday. Kanye's new girlfriend is Pharrell's niece. Beyonce fires her dad. Tuesday gossip has a body count.
