[Manly man Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin rides a Harley Davidson motorized tricycle to a biker convention in southern Ukraine today. Trikes are tough. Image via AP]

For years, David Rees wrote the amazing clip-art comic Get Your War On. Now he's launched a service where you can send him your pencils and he'll sharpen them. Also: a campaign for him to sharpen pencils on Letterman.

Nothing like a good champagne ordering contest to spice up your Saint Tropez vacation. Malaysian billionaire Zhen Low vied with New York real-estate scion Winston Fisher to see who could order the most champagne. Low won, with $2.6 million.

Behold the Taiwanese CGI video that explores Sarah Palin's potential 2012 run at president. Here you will watch Palin pass "First Dude" Todd a joint, dance exotically for campaign funds, come up with "refudiate," and parachute into a Teabagger rally.

At least 10 people were killed when a stampede broke out during Germany's Love Parade.

This just-released trailer for the fifth season of Showtime's serial-killer drama Dexter is riveting in itself. In it, we see title character struggling over his wife's death, his confused children, and a new feeling he's never felt before: guilt.

Lindsay Lohan can't have visitors or bottled water—but she's getting out earlier. Real Housewife megameltdown avoided. Celebrity siblings are in trouble. Did Oksana tape Mel after he accused her of cheating? Saturday's Gossip Roundup goes well with strawberries.

Two US soldiers have been captured by Taliban militants in eastern Afghanistan, according to reports.

What a crazy storm last night, no? Just ask the 54-year-old man who was struck by lightning in Crown Heights. A witness said, "His feet were smoking and he was bleeding from the mouth." He was revived and is recovering.

It's the drug PSA that defined a generation. Enjoy the entire 27 minutes right here, and check out some other anti-drug moments from the wonderful world of animation... they're pretty trippy.

The former chief electronics technician on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig yesterday told investigators that critical fire and gas leak alarms had been disabled for a year so that the rig's crew could sleep in. Sleepy time is important!

In response to this weekend's joint US-South Korean naval exercises in the Sea of Japan, North Korea today said it will launch a "sacred war" and use its "nuclear deterrent" to crush the imperialists and its puppet regime.

Chris Rock jokes that with the insane gas prices as of late, people will begin to (or already have) exchange sexual favors for gas.

[Michelle Obama sends a spray of foam flying while christening the U.S. Coast Guard cutter "Stratton" at a shipyard in Mississippi today. Image via AP]

This week we reported on some incidents that happened involving a certain internet message board and entered into a battle with said message board. Let's see how it all shook out.

Following our earlier post about the enormous airplane in the middle of Brooklyn on Google Maps, readers sent in other airplane apparitions. One appears to be a real airplane, hidden in someone's yard. The other appears to be underwater.

Oscar winner Marion Cotillard introduces a new product to help women be taken more seriously in the workplace.

Lindsay Lohan's sentence has been reduced again: She'll get out two days earlier than expected.

America's favorite babydaddy, Levi Johnson, is scheduled to film an R&B music video next month with singer Brittani Senser. He'll play a man driven from his lover by her meddling mother. Who do you think that's supposed to be?

Nerds never change. If they get a friend request from a hot girl on a social-networking site, they'll always accept. Even if they happen to be military or intelligence personnel. One security expert proved this with an experiment.