After paying $850 million for Bebo in 2008, AOL is said to be selling the social network for $10 million or less. So, in barely two years, a near-billion-dollar deal imploded.

Do you think we'd skip a season of Top Chef without hosting a live blog so all our readers can talk shit about the show? Of course not! The action heads to D.C., but you should head right in here.

Scientists have given monkeys some terrible diseases and afflictions over the years. But now they have given them something to ease all that pain: Television. And they love it, just like humans!

[A woman takes in the view of Ground Zero from the 20th floor terrace of the World Center Hotel, the first new hotel to overlook the World Trade Center site since 2001. Image via Getty]

Well, the rumors were true: Mark Zuckerberg is now the latest bro to "ice" another bro. As the attached video proves, the Facebook CEO is the latest participant in the fratty drinking prank known as "icing."

BP CEO and "guy who's fun to yell at" Tony Hayward will testify in Congress tomorrow! Sucks to be him. His only strategy: make the panel cry with a depressing, hammy opening statement, a window into his prison of despair.

NASA astronomers tracked a strange, "few-meter-wide" object which passed Earth just outside the Moon's orbit on May 27th. Obviously aliens, right? Wrong: Its path and makeup suggests it was a chunk of an old rocket. (A human rocket.) [Discover]

Lisette Lee arrived in Ohio from Beverly Hills on a chartered jet carrying $500,000 worth of marijuana. False eyelashes fluttering, she claimed to be an electronics heiress. But she used to use a different name and be an actress.

Al Franken's tough financial reform amendment regulating credit-rating agencies has been stripped in favor of something far more draconian: regulators will "study the issue and take action only if they think it is necessary." Brutal! Moody's must be terrified.

Twenty-nine-year-old bus driver Duane Snipes has confessed to stealing a brand-new Greyhound bus to drive up to Mount Vernon to see his lady love. Aw, let him off! He was following his heart! But yeah, definitely fire him.

The sports-themed chain restaurant/tourist trap ESPN Zone shut down five U.S. locations today, including the one in Times Square. One less place in NYC for you to never go to except when your cousins from Duluth visit! [Image via Getty]

Stories about perceived police brutality are always lightning rods for conversation. Today's story — about a Seattle woman punched in the face by an officer — was no exception. What action was appropriate in the given situation?

So SNL darling, Amy Poehler has a new website. And everybody's all a-twitter about it! Nothing says "I love you" like all your favorite people pimping the shit out of your new site. Girl Power!

Is anyone else getting tired of Top Chef host Padma Lakshmi going on television with her face and her body and using her mouth to say things that are so sexual they count not as innuendo really but simply come-ons?

Double Exposure, a reality show starring fashion photographers, Markus Klinko and Indrani (LiLo's rumored girlfriend), premiered last night on Bravo and delivered heavy doses of crazy personalities and fashion world mockery. Highlights after link.

Ever wonder what would've happen if To Catch a Predator was filmed in the 1500s? Well wonder no more. Chris Hansen's head would literally roll upon witnessing the amount of sexual deviancy displayed by the royal Tudor family.

The blog ScoutingNY scored a tour of 5 Beekman Street just blocks from Manhattan's City Hall. The 1882 building has been shuttered since the '40s and is home to a gorgeous atrium, wrought iron details, and spectacular views. Amazing.

The weak, spineless worst president ever, whose abysmal speech yesterday eliminated any hope for American prosperity for countless generations, is such an evil corporatist that he's... found a way to make BP pay claims. Will he ever "show leadership"?

Apparently there's some rustling on the internet about whether the final (two) Twilight film(s), based on the novel Breaking Dawn (by Sapphire), should show the climatic-for-the-whole-series scene where the protagonist, Bella, almost dies during a half-vampire baby birth. Sure!

[Miley Cyrus sees Perez Hilton's upskirt photo and raises him a visible bra, as she carries a Starbucks coffee and iPad in NYC. It's like corporate America colluded to create the ultimate vehicle for tween product placements. Image via Splash.]