Facebook, the social network that conned users out of their privacy in its last redesign, nearly topped itself last night, misdirecting hundreds of private messages. Including sending an "explicit chat" to a newspaper reporter. Even by Facebook standards, that's bad.

[Courtney Love out and about in London; image via INF]

Douche classic Aleksey Vayner is attending the ROFLCON conference at MIT in April. Send pics.

If you are a lighting technician and handle stages and venues frequently, then this app is your dream. Or if you have the most baller house of all time, this will also work.

Sometimes the Comment of the Day is a Good One. Sometimes it's a Smart One. Other times, like today, it's just a Slightly Odd But Entertaining One. (In the Venn diagram of CotDs, this one also hits Crystal One.)

Erin decides she'd like to learn more about accounting but doesn't know a thing about it. Angela, the ice queen, decides to step in and become her mentor. Judging from this promo, hilarity ensues—and we can't wait to watch!

It's only one more week until The Office returns from rerun hell, Just in case you're like me and can't wait any longer, here's a sneak peek of the new webisodes coming next month.

Ugh, horrible and scary: A man was killed by a falling tree limb in Central Park this afternoon. Nowhere in this city is apparently safe anymore. (Also: first whales, now trees? Is something happening?) [NYT] [Image via CentralPark.com]

A possible Lost spin-off, Conan O'Brien has a twitter, Neil Patrick Harris will play a bully on Glee and more!

Rupert Murdoch—the dashing, daring, fearsome and fearless press baron, the mogul among moguls—will celebrate his 79th birthday next month. As he approaches his final years at the helm of his empire, he finds it crumbling around him.

Are you feeling under the weather and worried about a talk show appearance? Fear not because Tim Meadows will step in for you. He's already done Meryl Streep on Letterman last week so it'll go off without a hitch.

Here's security camera video of an ad agency guy walking into a glass wall, which his agency posted on YouTube, for laffs. 2) Or maybe it's "viral." 3) This constantly happens at the Gawker offices, really. 4) We win? [Adfreak]

A well-placed little birdie tells us MySpace co-creator and former CEO Chris DeWolfe will close on a deal to buy a "social gaming platform play" as early as tomorrow. Any idea what that might be?

While we're fine with people using the word "retard" liberally, there are some words, phrases, and linguistic constructions that are so tired and lazy they need to be ended. Here are a few things that drive us mad.

Last night's 1000 Ways to Die once again found a way to take the fun out of doing anything. This week: keggers on the beach. Let this be lesson: don't be "that guy" at a rugby party.

Congratulations to sceldred for being the first person to answer today's Freeze Frame. Click through for the answer.

Today at Gawker.TV, Tracy Morgan tells Jon Stewart about his hair and sex practices, Dakota Fanning talks about her teeth, a Real World cast-mate tosses his roommate off a balcony, and a tribute to Ina Garten.

Before she was slender, beautiful and blond, Ke$ha—or before she had boatloads of money, Kesha Sebert— was awkward and unattractive, just like the rest of us.

The Way We Live Now: Trying to cover our bad bets. We are seriously bad gamblers. Worse than the average gambler (who is not good, in the first place). There's an upside, though: coke, models, and booze! Cheap booze.

If Eric Schmidt is so secretive he shut down his ex-mistress's blog, why is the Google CEO letting another lady friend e-shadow him so closely? Marcy Simon's Twitter is a Schmidt-stalker's best friend — and we hear that's no accident.

CNN is reporting that an old hot dog was unearthed, encased in ice, underneath historic Brooklyn hot doggery Feltman's. Also reported: this dog is 140 years old. We're not science bloggers here—but that shit is impossible. We investigate!