Beleaguered New York City residents, already on the lookout for bedbugs and raccoons, must now beware of skunks, which wander boldly through uptown Manhattan, daring you to make one false move. What next, alligators? We're hoping for alligators. [NYT; Pic]

Can you guess what movie this image comes from? Check back for the answer at 4pm today.

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei wants a Twitter fight with Israel. (via)

[A television reporter fights the surf in Nags Head, North Carolina this morning as Hurricane Earl bears down on the Eastern Seaboard. Image via AP]

Thankfully, another loudmouth has thrown himself into the Not At Ground Zero Park51 Community Center mix: Ex-convict Bill Keller of Live Prayer. He hates Muslims, and even Glenn Beck! And he's trying to open a "9/11 Christian Center" in Manhattan.

A Malaysian man, Keng Liang Wong, was arrested this week after his luggage burst open on a conveyor belt at the Kuala Lumpur airport, exposing 95 endangered boa constrictors. Wong has previously served time in the US for smuggling animals.

While still drilling a relief well in the Gulf of Mexico, BP has been adding up the total cost of its environmental catastrophe this summer. Of the $8 billion BP has spent so far, $399 million went to claims.

You have probably been thinking to yourself lately: "What are the best practices for selling Jell-O shots to drunk young men at bars?" What a coincidence! Because The Wall Street Journal can tell you exactly that.

[Russian President Dmitry Medvedev bites a watermelon while visiting a farm 450 miles southeast of Moscow. Wuss! Putin would have impregnated it, and then shot it. Pic via AP.]

It seemed like love was in the air on tonight's episode of the Jersey Shore. When the roommates weren't too busy screaming at each other over the "anonymous note," they were smooshing like champs... Until the fists started flying.

How do you follow a double-elimination week on Big Brother? With giant singing clams, impromptu dance parties, and having the only gay in the house vowing on camera to "expose the cracks" within their ranks. And then there were four...

Ever worry that you'll be the victim of a horrible crime, and you won't have the chops to tell the story to the local news? Watch this woman tell her story (of a robbery in Kansas City), and learn.

Cammie King Conlon, who played Bonnie Blue Butler in Gone With the Wind, died Wednesday.

Having trouble stalking your Facebook friends efficiently? Help is on the way! Facebook is currently testing a new feature (dubbed the "Stalker Button" by Mashable) that makes online stalking easier than ever. So what does it do?

Like all great things meant for nerds, Futurama, especially this season, has dealt with a lot of issues of equality and acceptance. On the 100th episode tonight, mutants finally gained theirs (Leela included) with an old fashioned sewer march.

Two terminals at Miami International Airport were evacuated around 9 p.m. and evacuees "put into a large room," reportedly because of a "Texas man" with something suspicious (deep-fried beer?) in his luggage. The concourses may be closed all night. [Pic]

The southern Serbian town of Leskovac attempted to make the world's biggest hamburger: their burger weighed 112 pounds, with a 5.9-foot diameter. Unfortunately, that's nothing compared to the current world-record holder: a 178-pound Australian burger.

Jonathan Hock, the 22-year-old whose live-streamed sexual assault of his girlfriend was posted to tween gossip cesspool Stickydrama, has pleaded guilty to two counts of sexual assault and one count of voyeurism. Which makes Stickydrama's Christopher Stone guilty of what?

4chan, the anarchic Internet messageboard, appears to be experiencing an identity crisis. Whereas terror campaigns against tweens were once planned amid stomach-churning images, a strong streak of do-gooderism has taken hold. In fact, 4chan is being downright nice these days.

Democrats allege in a legal filing that, by plugging an Ohio gubernatorial candidate's website in a chyron, Fox News illegally contributed to the Republican's campaign.