By using a motorcylce to power a merry-go-round, it seems like these guys are attempting to tear a hole in the time-space continuum. Fortunately, the only thing that gets ripped up is this guy's ego.

On yesterday's Late Show, Rima Fakih (aka Miss USA 2010) visited to chat with David Letterman about cars, Detroit and things like such as before delivering the Top 10 List: "Things I Want To Do As Miss USA." Video inside.

Facebook has a rap sheet sheet when it comes to silencing critics. In addition to shutting down the account of a critical commenter as mentioned yesterday, the social network banned the team behind a critical book in Argentina.

Visiting Washington, Mexican President Felipe Calderon called Arizona's immigration proposal "discrimination," arguing for "a border that will unite us instead of dividing us." Then he shouted, "Yes we can!" throwing Arizona's rednecks into conniptions for a totally different reason. [Sun-Times]

This memo just went out to NYT staffers, informing them that managing editor Jill Abramson is stepping down temporarily in order to take a turn running the "news part of the website." Three other top editors will take turns at her job in the meantime. Bill Keller tries to preemptively dismiss the speculation that will result from this but uh, sure looks like some sort of job tryout. "OPTICS."

"There has been an entire strata of restaurants created by chefs to feed other chefs. These are restaurants created specially for the tastes of the slightly stoned, slightly drunk chef after work." —Anthony Bourdain to the Times [image via]

Tired of your umbrella breaking in high winds or getting gored by an errant bumbershoot blowing down 2nd Avenue? Well don't worry, science is on the case. A $100 umbrella could cure all of our woes. [WSJ]

We've all heard the horror stories about uber-strict, bow tie-wearing Bloomberg News editor in chief Matthew Winkler instilling fear in his reporters over their use of the words "but" and "announce", or screaming at them for making mistakes, as he did in the infamous "The enemy is the human!" incident.

What sorts of outrages against humanity have been perpetrated by the sworn protectors of society, police, in the last few days? We'll tell you in this week's Cop Watch—where we watch cops closer than ever, thanks to Sean Bell.

Regis Philbin shows his age and then some, ranting about Hi-Fi, The AOL and G-Note. This might be a good place for a snarky joke about the elderly but I think America's greatest generation deserves better.

And so last night we trudged on again, this time with only three oxen to pull Mother Courage-Seacrest's war wagon through the mud. Was it a successful journey? Yes and no.

Fleshbot has explicit stills from reality TV star Kendra Wilkinson's sex tape. NSFW, obviously. [Fleshbot]

The band of lovable losers in the McKinley High glee club sure has lots of aspirations and they were all called into question. But how do they get their dreams back on track? With song! Duh.

Jimmy can't wait until Sunday to figure out all of the island's mysteries. Kate or Juliet? Jacob or the Smoke Monster? Jack with a beard or without? Matthew Fox answers as best he can.

If you think the iPad is just another e-reader, lots of smart people have been making fun things to change your mind. The folks at Breakfast New York used the iPad as a controller and front-camera for a helium blimp.

Gawker has learned that Avid Life Media, the owner of sites including HotorNot.com and Ashley Madison, has partnered with two prominent gossip bloggers to put in a $20 million bid to acquire PerezHilton.com.

Look at what hippie school Berkeley is doing now: getting DNA samples from incoming freshmen. Uh oh, has Berkeley finally turned into a totalitarian nightmare, just as its SDS chapter long suspected? No, of course there is a hippie justification.

Return to: A $20 Million Bid to Buy Perez Hilton

Why does England always gets the great new shows? Seven Wonders of the World is a new sounding board for Karl to go on tirades about things that don't make sense to him. Lucky for us, that encompasses a lot.

Outraged at the proposed building of a 9/11 Anti-Memorial Mosque right near Ground Zero, radio host and Tea Party Express chairman Mark Williams took to his blog and got real mad at nasty Muslims. And their monkey-god too.