The Maze Scare is a simple prank with satisfying results. Trick a friend or family member into looking at a webpage and wait for the screams to start. Here's a compilation of some great reactions.

Growing up these days is no walk in the idealized child-friendly park. Kids face a variety of trend-based obstacles, from rubber-band bracelets to sexxxting. And crappy childhoods are now more expensive than ever!

...Or at least stay out of prison. Scoundrels is a new drama/comedy on ABC about the West family, a family of criminals living in Palm Springs. Based on the New Zealand TV series entitled Outrageous Fortune.

In an apparent effort to tap into the newest Bieber-based (and this kid-perpetuated) tween pop-throb economy, the graying singing competition has lowered next season's age minimum to 15. The maximum remains 28, as old people still totally suck. [NYT]

This guide is perfect for one who is unsure about flirting. Even if you are the local strumpet, it still offers some good pointers on perfecting your game.

As expected, the second Toy Story sequel trampled the rest of the competition this weekend, leaving one new movie so far in the dust that it's hardly recognizable. But if you squint, you can make it out. It's Megan Fox.

This Japanese commercial, although in another language, speaks to the middle class existential angst all cats in the corporate business world feel.

Doctors say new evidence shows that episodes of hallucinations and delirium afflicting old people in hospitals can have long-term negative effects. Also, Andy Rooney vows not to stop saying things on television any time soon.

They may be in the closet, but they got caught groping in the dressing room. This athlete and actress are doing it in secret, but this rocker might dump his celeb ladyfriend. This is like The Dating Game from hell.

Tim Gunn tells damning stories about Nuclear Wintour and Andre Leon Talley. Chris Klein checks into rehab. Kourtney Kardashian gives Khloe a sisterly bikini wax. Justin Bieber's dad has a soulpatch. Monday gossip starts the week with a fright.

Despite the awful parenting going on in this video, we see that this crazy suit this baby wears to stay afloat works fine. Now get him out of the pool he's screaming.

The third Filipino journalist in less than a week was shot to death Saturday night.

[Nick Jonas, of popular band Nick Jonas & the Gay 'n Ugly Ones, in London; image via Bauer-Griffin]

Bernie Madoff in prison is just as fascinating as Bernie Madoff on house arrest. What's he doing in there? If a prisoner snitching to a yellow tabloid can be trusted, he's blabbing about a secret multibillion-dollar stash! And being depressed.

Can you guess what movie this image comes from? Check back for the answer at 4pm today.

Chinese authorities are cracking down on the production of "low quality" statues of Chairman Mao Zedung because poor depictions are harming "people's feelings for the great man." Official statues are examined by five experts before being sold. [Xinhua, Getty]

Suspected murderer Joran van der Sloot told a Dutch newspaper that he was "tricked" into confessing to the murder of Stephany Flores Ramirez in Peru last month, and was promised he would be transferred to the Netherlands.

South Korea has detected levels of radiation eight times higher than normal along its border with North Korea, according to reports. North Korea last month said it conducted a nuclear fusion test—a step toward building a hydrogen bomb.

Over the weekend some kids in Washington Heights left seven Drano bombs outside a school, but none of them exploded. No self respecting kid in the suburbs would ever build a dud Drano bomb.

BP says it has already spent $2 billion on the Gulf oil spill, and it wants the well's shit talking co-owners Anadarko Petroleum to chip in. At this rate, that $50 billion fund will be gone real fast. [AP, Getty]