As we all know, soda + mentos = a good way to kill an afternoon. David Letterman has taken that formula and used it to offer us a new way to cure our nation's oil dependency. Suck on that, BP!

This map of Brooklyn shows the neighborhoods broken down by which type of ethnic cuisine dominates based on the Village Voice's restaurant guide. We're surprised Williamsburg isn't colored cheap-pizza-slices-and-taco-trucks. Here's the one for Manhattan. [Very Small Array, via]

Second week of Gawker.TV Trivia, a daily question & answer game that tests your knowledge of television—past and present. The answer to today's question, inside.

Daily Profile: Jann Wenner

Hibiki Kono, young schoolboy hailing from Cambridge, has created a machine that super-nerds everywhere have only ever dreamed of. Using two cheap Tesco vacuums, he's discovered a way to climb walls like Spiderman would.

Delightfully insane congresswoman Michele Bachmann has found more incontrovertible proof that Barack Obama is the Worst President of All Time: he is creating a so-called "global economy" where countries are "bound" to each other, economically. Who will stop this madman?

What's worse, losing or getting kicked in the nuts? Yup, definitely getting kicked in the nuts.

Rammellzee, the pioneering hip hop artist and Wild Style star whose ten-minute-plus 1983 record Beat Bop is still fresher than just about anything on the radio, has apparently died.

Frankie says relax. And if you have trouble doing that, you neurotic anxiety-addled product of the 21st century, here's a step-by-step on how to let it be and go with the flow.

Yesterday we heard about a supposed McDonald's fast food heir who was viciously beaten and robbed in France. But today there are reports that Geoffrey McDonald may not actually be one of those McDonalds.

Astoundingly massive and omniscient consumer products corporation P&G knows that you, the consumer, are more worried about "bad hair days" than about war, recession, and workplace rape, combined. So P&G hair scientists are killing bad hair dead. With science!

Here's a teaser trailer for Paranormal Activity 2, the followup to last year's low-budget blockbuster smash. (It cost $15K to make, and grossed $110M.) What's different? Well, there are more cameras. Plus there's a dog. And a baby!

Further proof that cats are indeed smarter than dogs. This cat even has the wherewithal to attack and take cover....shear genius!

When it comes to a ménage à trois, this lady keeps it in the family. This rock star is dating his flack's very young son, and this reality star lost weight the old-fashioned way—by doing lots of blow.

The cops who busted Lindsay Lohan mistook her drug stash for a crushed mint. Tinsley Mortimer faked a relationship. John McCain loves to gamble. Things get even dicier for The Office. Hump day's gossip is full of boobs.

Whoa whoa, product placement spending—the money that ensures that your TV shows, movies, video games, and every other damn thing feature lots of real quality car and soda brands—actually fell last year. But there's good news, brand fans!

This kid sings a creepy song about love or something. It is terrify-larious until the very end (watch for eyebrow dance). Let's not be too harsh, he may very well be the reincarnation of Chris Farley.

It's always a matter of time until someone's going to get hurt, but can you guess where? Introducing AFV's new segment and mini-game show: Head, Gut, or Groin!

[Real Housewife of New York Ramona Singer at a restaurant opening in Midtown; image via Splash]

We hope you haven't already made up your mind about the rightness or wrongness of Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates' arrest in his own home. Because after a full year, a Cambridge "blue-ribbon" panel has issued a worthless, wishy-washy review!