Everybody's Moving to Austin

Hamilton Nolan · 01/12/11 12:40PM

No, it's not just your three friends from college and your ex-girlfriend and your cousin and those guys who used to be in your band: all the kids these days are moving to Austin, Texas. I heard Austin's cool, yeah.

Is This Modern Family's Casting Wish-List?

Whitney Jefferson · 01/12/11 12:30PM

Lisa Kudrow instead of Julie Bowen as Claire Dunphy? Craig T. Nelson instead of Ed O'Neil? Andy Richter and Buster Bluth as the resident gay couple?! This leaked casting wish-list from Modern Family's beginning stages is funny by itself.

Hot New Trend: Not Paying Your Restaurant Bill

Maureen O'Connor · 01/12/11 12:28PM

Check out the hot new trend sweeping posh Manhattan restaurants: Eating your meal, then running away before you pay the check! "Theft of service" was up 20 percent last year, and the people doing it weren't just poor jerks.

Today's Gawker.TV Trivia

Chris Dignes · 01/12/11 12:00PM

Gawker.TV Trivia, a daily question & answer game that tests your knowledge of television—past and present. Do you think you that you've got it? The answer to today's question, inside.

Nicolas Cage's Foreclosed Las Vegas Crazy Castle

Richard Lawson · 01/12/11 11:35AM

Hollywood's resident madman Nicolas Cage went on a property buying spree in the 2000s, only to find out that, oops, he couldn't afford all those houses. This is one of those places, an $8.9 million palace in America's grossest city.

Ringing Church Bell Ruins Al Roker's Weather Forecast

Whitney Jefferson · 01/12/11 11:30AM

How much do you think Al Roker hates his co-hosts during this broadcast? He's stuck in Boston during a storm that's still going strong. When he goes live, Natalie and Matt can't stop giggling about the bells in the background.

Tom Hanks' Son Is a Frat Boy Rapper

Hamilton Nolan · 01/12/11 11:27AM

Chet Hanks is the son of actor Tom Hanks. He attends Northwestern University. Chet Haze is "an up and coming MC...Born and raised on the West Side of the Westside's main city LA." Yes, he has a new Northwestern-themed single.

Plains, Trains and Fire Extinguishers

Leah Beckmann · 01/12/11 11:15AM

Watch this possibly fake Russian man ride a fire extinguisher to work. If nothing else, this video makes it pretty clear that 2011 will be the year we finally get the jet pack up and running.

This is the Future of Cereal Packaging

Richard Blakeley · 01/12/11 11:15AM

These futuristic cereal boxes use metallic-ink-based circuitry to light up and animate the packaging. They can even communicate with nearby hand-held devices to let stores know if the cereal has been expired. If these don't get your attention nothing will.