Violinist Oliver Lewis just broke a world record! He did it by playing his instrument of choice at a seemingly impossible rate of speed, finishing the entirety of Rimsky-Korsakov's "Flight of the Bumblebee" in 1 minutes, 3.356 seconds. Watch inside.

[Actress Katie Holmes on the set of her new movie Jack & Jill. Photo via Splash.]

Jacob Smith was recently chosen by the Boy Scouts to break a world record for the most rockets launched simultaneously. The old record? 975. The Scouts' goal? 3,200 (3,130 of which took flight). Watch what happened inside.

Hiram Monserrate, former New York state senator and all-around awful person, has been indicted on federal corruption charges.

Joseph Jacobi, who owns a pizzeria in Buffalo, pleaded guilty in August to withholding more than $104,000 in state taxes. His sentence: Deliver 12 pizzas every week to the Buffalo City Mission for a year.

Nineteen years ago, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas was barely confirmed by the Senate after a former colleague, Anita Hill, accused him of sexual harassment. So it's a little odd that Thomas' wife just called Hill to demand an apology.

Steve Jobs hinted Apple might use its $51 billion hoard to buy someone. Maybe Netflix or Facebook, say excited speculators. Facebook already rejected Microsoft's $15 billion, so CEO Jobs better turn on the charm. (Naturally, sugar daddy's already started.)

Today, we learned that Christine O'Donnell didn't know the Constitution established a separation of church/state. Tonight's Larry King Live tackled the issue, but it wasn't the discussion that entertained—it was King's hilarious set-up of the segment. Watch inside.

Top-level Taliban commanders are being transported from Pakistan to Afghanistan for face-to-face talks with Afghan President Hamid Karzai and his government that could end to the War in Afghanistan. So, I guess, start preparing an unsatisfying, vaguely-defined celebration.

Shelley Berman does his classic phone call stand up — this time as a man in his hotel room who can't find the window, door, bathroom or lightswitch. Hilarity ensues.

Jon Golbe is an actor/TV writer/Brooklynite. Tonight, Golbe was a contestant on Jeopardy!, and—for several, possibly unknown reasons—he stole the show more than any other contestant in recent memory. Inside, a compilation of Golbe's best (or worst?) moments.

To promote Spike TV's Scream awards (airing tonight), yet another one of the Dharma Iniative's orientation films has been unearthed. In the video, Dr. Halliwax mentions another station ("The Tube") and pounds a 40 full of beer. Alright!

Everything bad is good for you: It turns out that getting drunk really quickly makes you less likely to become an alcoholic. Sadly, boozehounds, you can't just pound a bunch of drinks; you need special inebriation genes to avoid addiction.

In a really weird and long-winded PSA, Gilbert Godfried explains that illegally downloading is just like owning a lemonade stand, and some guy sticks a tube in the lemonade and then giving it out for free. Okay?

[This uniquely attired student was one of the estimated 1 million people who took to the streets across France today to protest the government's plan to raise the retirement age from 60 to 62. A racy protest sign inside.]

A few months ago we brought you a list of British shows that are being remade for US audiences. Well the first trailer for Shameless is out and dare we say it doesn't look as bad as we originally thought?

Hillary Clinton has made a straight-person version of the "It Gets Better" videos for gay teens, in which she says, "It will get better for you." That's a better line than, say, "My gay friend alleges that it gets better."

You know what's kewl, kids? The National Security Agency sure does: it's making codes, cracking codes, hanging out in Qatar, and monitoring the online activities of your loved ones constantly. The NSA's totally boss cartoons will school you.

It only took Kazakhstan four years to respond to Sasha Baron Cohen. My Brother Borat is an attempt to redeem Kazakhstan of the negative attention that has plighted the country since Cohen donned a bad mustache in 2006's Borat.

Today we looked at a very serious mystery: What's that powder all over Uma Thurman's face? Extremely important stuff! Thankfully, one commenter was able to shed some personal light on the matter.