In your value-added Tuesday media column: The Onion shuts down a section, SmartMoney may be taken over by Dow Jones, an n+1 guy gets a book deal, and Magic Johnson's still not a media mogul.

Click to viewApple has been trying to keep scantily-clad women out of the iPhone app store. It's a hypocritical crackdown, with apps from Playboy and Sports Illustrated given a free pass. And it's going to ruin the iPad for magazine content.

What started out as a compliment about Ricky Gervais' physical condition, ended up in an imaginary television relationship while in prison. Any way you look at it, the two comedians complement each other well and are a delight to watch.

A juror in the Astor trial has recanted her verdict, giving the defense grounds for appeal. But what was Judi DeMarco—whose "close...personal friendship" with convicted pol Joe Bruno has raised eyebrows—doing on the jury to begin with?

Oh dear can Ivy League kids be dumb. Today, IvyGate points us to an editorial in the Daily Princetonian, in which a freshman tries that age old argument: When a drunk girl gets sexually assaulted, it's sorta her fault!

Ruben Diaz Sr, the worst New York State Senator who has not personally slashed his girlfriend's face with a broken glass (well, maybe besides Pedro Espada), has released a statement blaming Governor David Paterson's woes on gay people.

A jury acquitted the New York cops accused of sodomizing Michael Mineo with a police baton, despite the fact that they looked pretty damn guilty. For those in danger of future NYPD abuse, some tips to ensure you get justice.

What happens when you get one good looking man, overflowing estrogen, and an outcast everyone hates in one room? Good TV, that's what. The girl-on-girl hate over an alleged affair was in full force last night. And it was juicy.

In an effort to figure out what a person can and can't say about NBC's Olympic coverage without getting sued, Stephen brought on his brother Ed Colbert—a copyright attourney—to help explain the difficulties surrounding the coverage Vancouverage.

We were too busy watching Florence Henderson do production numbers that we missed last night's episode of Kell on Earth. Luckily fictional freelancer Betsey Morgenstern was the only person not fired by Kelly Cutrone last night. She has the scoop!

Washington City Paper editor Erik Wemple is getting out while the getting's good (well, at least good enough), leaving for a job with Allbritton's new DC local new site/ Politico cousin. Unsurprising, since he was recently live-blogging his own pay cut. We'll miss his headlines. [WCP]

This split-screen comparison of the plane scene from season 1 episode 1, and season 6 episode 1 of Lost is a triumph for pedantic nerds and ABC script-supervisors alike.

Worlds collided today when The Situation, Pauly D, and Snooki did an interview on The View. The Jersey gang gave the ladies nicknames, Joy started "you're not real italians" drama, and Snooki stated she'd known since birth she'd be famous.

Fewer things on television have lower budgets than attorney commercials. The only way to captivate the audience is either through comedy, explosions or awkwardness—sometimes a combination of all three! We have compiled the absolute best (worst) attorney commercials here.

In 1945, Salvador Dalí and Disney began collaborating on a project that would have been the surrealist's only animated film. With only 18 seconds finished by the original artists, the short was completed in 2003 from storyboards.

How else to start your afternoon than with a floor lubed with lotion and rigged with a tripwire? Think you're too smart to fall for a lame prank like that? Think again.

Naked Teabagging Senator Scott Brown supports Harry Reid's jobs bill, which is basically a tax credit and a couple bucks for infrastructure, somewhere. Now the crazies are mad at him, and they're taking it out on his Facebook wall.

In the olden days, the preferred way to sell chocolate milk powder was with pictures of futuristic scientists shining heat lamps onto the bottoms of naked young boys. Afterwards, families retreated to 7-Eleven parking lots to bask in nature's glow.

On yesterday's Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, Caroline "My Family's as Thick as Thieves" Manzo made it down to the hot seat. Instead of initiating game play, Meredith used her reporter skills to get the dirt on Danielle.

Given the current social and economic climates, knowing how to apply for unemployment is an unfortunate thing we should all know how to do. Howcast makes this less depressing by using ants as models instead of real people.