Thank goodness driver Matthew Krizsan's camera was on when a truck hauling sand jackknifed through a highway divider and almost slammed into him! Otherwise we might not have this amazing video. Oh, and, also, thank goodness he survived.
Barefoot Contessa star Ina Garten is a Gawker.TV favorite—remember?—and my personal hero. On yesterday's episode, Garten held a luncheon for some women who donated $100,000 to charity to eat her food. Oh, yeah—Alec Baldwin did the shopping.
Sure, you knew you could follow Gawker.TV on facebook, but did you know each of our editors have their own pages now, too? Inside, we break down who you should follow and why!
Tunisia's interim government—basically the old regime without ex-President Ben Ali—today shut down a popular television station, Hannibal TV, for "grand treason" and arrested its owner. Hannibal was set to air an interview with a Communist party official. [NYT]
Encyclopedia Dramatica, one of the last bastions of Internet nastiness, appeared to have closed its doors for good today. But is it really dead? It's founder and owner says no. Rejoice, trolls!
A heads up for all you non-football fans: There will be a highly-anticipated match tonight at 6:30 pm between the Steelers of Pittsburgh and the Jets of New York. Best to steer clear of bars, Pennsylvania and Twitter tonight.
Cranky old contrarian George Will was on ABC's This Week today and Christiane Amanpour asked his opinion on the State of the Union address: "Every President [...] tries to stroke every erogenous zone in the electorate." Oh George, how nasty!
If you want to make something but you have limited supplies, humorist Amy Sedaris can help you out. Although she previewed her how-to's on Colbert, Wendy Willams, and more, she has a new YouTube channel with several absurd tutorials.
On Friday, South Korean commandos raided a hijacked ship in the Arabian Sea, and killed eight Somali pirates in the process. South Korea released the video today, and Somali pirates promised to kill any Koreans they capture from now on.
This is 1.5 million geotagged tweets posted between March 9th and April 12th, 2010, mapped according to frequency of profanity. Mountains are the sweariest, valleys the cleanest. Seems the more people live in a place, the more people swear there.
Some advice: Get all your crime done before 2013, which is when the FAA plans to implement laws that will allow police departments to routinely fly unmanned drones around U.S. cities. It's gonna be a lot harder to get away.
Flavor of Love's Shatar surfaced from VH1 reality limbo on GSN's Baggage. It would have been nice to see her if her dog didn't yak in the middle of this dating show!
In his opening monologue at the Producers Guild Awards, host Judd Apatow tore into Ricky Gervais for his mean Golden Globe jokes: "Leave Tim Allen alone," he said! Then he made fun of Gervais' flop The Invention of Lying.
Around 30,000 phil&teds brand jogging strollers have been recalled in the US and Canada after reports of at least one finger amputation and other hinge-related finger injuries. Obviously the folks at phil&teds don't pay attention to the competition.
A new study by Massachusetts General Hospital shows that the brain literally changes its structure after just 8 weeks of mindfulness meditation—including an increase in grey matter in the part of the brain associated with learning.
Everyone's coming down on Silvio Berlusconi for hosting "bunga bunga" parties. Except Italian porn star Rocco Siffredi, who said: "Italians are proud of someone like Berlusconi who is 74, loves sex and has a good sex life." Fair enough! [Guardian]
George Clooney is never getting married. Kelsey Grammer's daughter is, though. Mena Suvari wants babies. Nicki Minaj got kicked out of her hotel. Sunday Gossip Roundup is like a bowl of bacon, except the bacon is gossip.
The BBC has apologized for an episode of the quiz show QI last month about the "unluckiest man in the world," Tsutomu Yamaguchi, who survived both atomic bomb attacks on Japan. The jokes didn't go over so well in Japan.