Before he was a test driver for Top Gear USA or a Chief on Rescue Me, Mr. Ferrara made jokes at his girlfriend's expense.

Seven hundred people are dying in Moscow every day, according to a Russian health official, as the sweltering city is choked by smog from hundreds of peat bog fires. Depressing quote from a morgue worker: "The refrigerators are full." [Guardian]

Anchors/reporters are the celebrities of the news business: a bunch of familiar faces that sometimes won't stop talking. But can you name the newscasters before they became famous? Test your knowledge of these TV mainstays with their yearbook photos, inside.

There's seems to be a nerdy arms race under way over who can propose to their fiancée the most ridiculously networked fashion. Digg's Matt Van Horn, who just live-streamed video of his proposal, is the winner. For now.

[President Obama looked like he was about to start headbanging to a Judas Priest song when showing the crowd the "hook 'em horns" at the University of Texas in Austin today. Image via AP]

The Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg visited cancer-stricken writer Christopher Hitchens at his Washington D.C. apartment for a very sunny interview session. When Goldberg first asks how he's doing, Hitchens doesn't hesitate: "How am I? I'm dying."

Google announced a much-anticipated deal with Verizon that calls on the Federal Communications Commission to enforce an open and equal internet — except when it comes to wireless networks and new types of services. Confused hand-wringing has already begun.

[Costumed as the battered victim of a violent crime, Jennifer Love Hewitt sits with Mariska Hargitay on the set of Law & Order: SVU. Image via Splash.]

Sarah Palin saw the media's interpretation of her hilarious, awkward encounter with an Alaskan teacher and immediately put her Facebook ghostwriter to work. She would never "roll her eyes" at a teacher. She loves teachers! They comprise her entire family.

Today on Fox and Friends' Who's Ruining the Economy? segment, host Stuart Varney is up in arms, defending you, the American taxpayer, from free Viagra for Milwaukee public school teachers.

Portia de Rossi is petitioning to change her name to Portia DeGeneres, "the last name of her spouse." Ellen and Portia married shortly before Proposition 8 passed—maybe the name change celebrates the gay marriage ban's demise? [TMZ]

Today science told us that the way you were in first grade is the way you're gonna be forever. This got commenters talking about their own experiences with personality and youth. But one commenter deftly debunked the whole study.

Dating in the Dark contestants date each other in complete darkness. Once the sparks start to fly, the pair must reveal their physical appearance to each other. The sad truth is that most contestants get dumped based upon their looks.

The Simon Wiesenthal Center, which financed Manhattan's brand-new Museum of Tolerance, has joined fellow Jewish rights organization the Anti-Defamation League in opposing Cordoba House, the Islamic center near Ground Zero. Does Fareed Zakaria have any Wiesenthal Center awards to return?

Today's most provocative message wheat-pasted onto a Manhattan building: why does Che get all the good endorsements? Mussolini just needs a better graphic designer. This is 100% true. Kids don't know who either of them are. Click to enlarge. [Copyranter]

Fallen Hewlett Packard CEO Mark Hurd was charged with "misusing company assets" after steering company money to his alleged love interest. But deploying corporate resources for personal interests is commonplace in Silicon Valley—even, it turns out, at HP.

Watch what happens when footage from Eminem's music video for "Stan" is mixed in with his new video for "I Love the Way You Lie." Not only are the two songs identical, stylistically, their videos are basically the damn thing.

The ladies of the Foxhole, an Ohio gentleman's club, are so fed up with protesters from the nearby New Beginnings Ministries church picketing and writing down their patrons' license plate numbers, they've begun a bikini'd protest of their own. [Consumerist]

Manhunt, the top gay hookup site, is about to undergo a Facebook-style privacy rollback. But while there are plenty of other places to cruise for sex online, be careful: the gay dating site you use says a lot about you.

In a crazy story that seems to come from a nerdy Lost fan's greatest dreams, Weezer has named their 8th album "Hurley," and will feature Jorge Garcia's face on the album cover. This news, and more—inside!