Google's YouTube just annihilated Viacom in federal court, winning a summary judgement dismissing Viacom's $1 billion copyright infringement claim. The old media company will appeal the district ruling, of course, but for now humanity's precious freak-baby videos are safe.

While promoting his book, The Overton Window, Glenn Beck came up with a commercial to show how his thriller is different from the everyday one. While others may give audiences what they want, Beck decided to go a different route.

Looks like sex was on the minds of the chefs instead of food on last night's Hell's Kitchen. Even though both teams got pretty dirty catching pigs, they got even dirtier in the mud bath after the challenge was over.

A pair of Australians earned the nicknames "Dumb and Dumber" for indulging their curiosity about whether an air rifle "would penetrate their skin or would hurt" by shooting each other. Answer: Yes. [UPI, Image: Olga Popova/Shutterstock]

Today we did some hand-wring about the problem of nepotism. But maybe nepotism is the wrong word? Really, we were talking about access to opportunity. One commenter laid the problem out for us nicely.

Your daily look into the twitterific lives of our favorite celebs.

Today is the first day of an America without candy cigarettes. Banned by a smoking prevention law prohibiting candy and "fruit-flavored" cigarettes, the badass big brother of the Pez dispenser is officially contraband. Update: Wait! Candy cigarettes can stay!

Entrepreneurs courting Eric Schmidt's venture capital fund should note an emerging pattern: The Google CEO seems to have a fondness for his mistress' snug friends.

Auditions were held in two of America's weirdest cities, Orlando and Portland, for last night's two-part episode. A "magician" fell off stage and Nick Cannon grinded with an up and coming diva. Slow motion fails and other highlights after link.

The Sunlight Foundation has compiled Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan's emails from the Clinton administration and converted them into an easily navigable inbox. Read all of her boring forwards and adverb edit suggestions now, or you will have failed America.

When someone asks what television shows you watch, it's pretty likely you go for the good stuff — Mad Men, The Wire. Because it makes you sound smart and you do actually watch those shows. But mostly, you watch fluff.

When asked about her former bestie/assistant Taylor Jacobson, celebrity-stylist-come-reality-star Rachel Zoe told WWD, "I don't care what she does. How's that? How's that for an answer?" Damn, season three is going to be good! [Image via Getty]

Eliot Spitzer has found a new home on CNN, The Daily Show has a lady-problem, the Jersey Shore boys unknowingly star on the cover of the Village Voice's gay issue, and Twilight invades Jimmy Kimmel Live.

After 9hrs and 58mins—the longest tennis match in history—John Isner is STILL tied with Nicolas Mahut at Wimbledon; they'll continue tomorrow. Inside, video of Isner's disappointment at the decision to cancel, prompted by Mahut's refusal to play on.

It's time to send your unbearable children far away to summer camp, so that you may have a moment's peace! Oh here's one: "Graffiti and Street Art Camp." The most hardcore summer camp ever? Actually, the opposite!

TONIGHT: We've got a new Top Chef: DC and a Mythbusters special about car myths that promises to be fascinating. Plus, the cast of Eclipse join Jimmy Kimmel for a special 10 pm show.

Brent Furer, an aide to Sen. David Vitter, resigned today over reports that, among other things, he'd knifed up his girlfriend good in 2008, sending her to the hospital. And he was the aide in charge of "women's issues." Ugh.

Stuck at 58-59, the world's longest tennis match calls it a night. They'll finish tomorrow.

Eddie Moton Jr. has a plan for his money, should he win the prestigious competition that is Wipeout. He'll put it towards creating a comic book about his alter ego, "The Dragon." Really.

The baby-faced leather daddy cop from Lady Gaga's "Alejandro" video has a name: Arkady. He is a 30-year-old Russian billionaire, and he paid $1 million for the cameo in Gaga's video, reports a Russian tabloid. Do we believe it?