Sure, most people tend to hate him now, but you have to admit the guy can at least make a joke or two. These ones are about kicking butt and taking puppy names.

[A man walks beneath a pterosaur model set up at England's Royal Society in honor of its Summer Exhibition. Pterosaurs were fearsome winged reptiles—not dinosaurs. Click through to see the creepy beasts from below. Pic via Getty.]

Apple has a new privacy policy letting it collect and retain the "precise... real-time geographic location" of users, and share this with outsiders. The data is supposed to be anonymous, but you know how that goes. Enjoy that new sp-iPhone!

[Throngs of yoga aficionados invaded Times Square today for an elaborate ritual that has something to do with the summer solstice. In related news, a woman named Rosemary is pregnant. Image via Getty]

The Interior Department has renamed its perennially incompetent Minerals Management Service the "Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement," so now there will be no more oil spills and we can all shut up.

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

In the midst of the Great Recession, Mike Rowe offered some alternative advice on Dirty Jobs that might sound crazy but could just as easily get you your next job.

John McCain's Senate primary opponent, ex-Rep. J.D. Hayworth, starred in a 2007 informercial for getting your hands on the "billions and billions" in federal government grants. Free money, that was yours already! Oh god, this is embarrassing.

The National Pork Board sent a cease & desist order today, claiming infringement on the phrase "the other white meat," by nerd store ThinkGeek, which uses the trademarked tagline to describe sparkle-spam gag gift "Unicorn Meat."

Would-be Times Square bomber Faisal Shahzad has pleaded "guilty and 100 times more."

The Party Down catering crew is back and they refuse to let you get away from an episode without a cringe and a guffaw.

Alabama tourism rep Rebecca Wilson has been filming oil spill updates from Orange Beach every day for weeks, as conditions worsen. Watching her put a cheery perspective on the tar ball-pummeled beach, is both amusing and depressing.

Since the singer's death last June, his estate has generated $200 million and paid all of his debt except for a $300 million loan due by year's end. Even dead and destitute, Michael Jackson still makes way more than you.

Today we looked at how America's teens are being besieged by a society that hates them. This prompted two commenters two reminisce about a dangerous teen fad from years ago: those weird clacker ball things.

True Blood's been renewed already, Mad Men's Season 4 poster, Amanda Bynes retires from "acting," Larry King will host an oil spill celebrity telethon, and Sherri Shepherd accidentally demonstrates how to give a handjob earlier today, live on The View.

Clark Hoyt left last week after a very competent but rather unexciting term as the NYT's third public editor. Today, they named his replacement: Arthur Brisbane, former Washington Post editor and reporter, editor and publisher at The Kansas City Star, and Knight Ridder exec. He went to Harvard. He'll fit right in.

Robot seal! Weed drugs! Dense breasts! Fat guts! Cartoon food! Chewing ice! And dogs with wondrous magical powers! It's your Monday Health Watch, where we watch your health—anthropomorphically!

The people in the New Mexico town where Val Kilmer lives hate him. They're holding up permits for turning his home into a bed & breakfast because he called them a bunch of killer drunks. Now the ACLU is involved!

Sex criminal Nicolas Cocaign is on trial for beating his prison cellmate, stabbing him with a pair of scissors, cutting him open, popping out a rib, ripping out a lung, and eating it with a side of fried onions.

Last night on Holly's World, Holly Madison laments that Vegas is barren of upstanding guys and agrees to go on a blind date. The pair partake in go-kart racing, and during a little friendly competition, her date rear-ends her... go-kart.