I have to hand it to these bungee operators, I would probably do the same thing if I was tossing people off of bridges all day long. That being said, this just seems cruel.

Scott Brown, Republican candidate for Senate from Massachusetts, has conservatives in absolute rapture. The phrase "white Obama" has been introduced. Hell, if he wins today, Brown just might be the GOP candidate for President in 2012.

This Michael Cera wannabe used a dashboard-mounted camera to secretly film his driving tests. He quickly abandons the steering wheel for his cell phone, leading to some pretty outraged (and sometimes terrified) reactions from his DMV examiners.

New York Times chairman and publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. doing a little shopping at the Duane Reade on West 72nd Street on Saturday afternoon ... Rachel Weisz walking to a yoga class in SoHo ... Scarlett Johansson leaving her apartment ... Agyness Deyn talking on her cell phone ... Whitney Port arriving at JFK with a friend ... Taylor Momsen shooting scenes for Gossip Girl with Connor Paolo on the Upper East Side ... Denzel Washington arriving at the Late Show with David Letterman ... Mischa Barton on the set of Law & Order: SVU ... Catherine Zeta-Jones leaving her apartment to go shopping ... Ashlee Simpson leaving her apartment ... and Pete Wentz carrying coffee in the East Village.

Don't have any info to enter in the Valleywag Apple Tablet Scavenger Hunt? You're in luck: Gizmodo is running a sweepstakes in which you can win one of Steve Jobs' messiah machines just by guessing its features.

Strike out again wherever it is that cool, beautiful people you want to know hang out? This video has helpful and creepy tips: basically, eye contact, cheese platters and fear inducing situations are the only ways to get "some."

This is Dov. He finished third in our Douche of the Decade poll. Now ask yourself: do you really want to encourage him by viewing American Apparel's latest porny NSFW advertisement? If so, click through. If not, kudos to you.

Interested in going to Yale? Would you be more interested if some people sang and danced for your pleasure? The school's admissions department sure seems to hope so, if their "That Why I Chose Yale" recruitment video is any indication.

New York City subway riders are uniformly befuddled by the emergency brake! Why aren't there detailed instructions? "If it just says ‘emergency,' you're going to pull it for any reason." Does it make the train go faster? [NYT]

This polar bear sure loves hugging its doggie pal. Don't squeeze your little friend too tightly, bear!

Potential Senate candidate Harold Ford looked a little out of touch last week when he recounted his typical mode of transporation (a chauffered Town Car), usual breakfast spot (the Regency), favorite "hangout" (Graydon Carter's Waverly Inn), and namedropped some of the people he considers his close friends (like billionaire Ron Perelman).

You too can transform your pop culture obsession into science through the magic of infographics! Above, Michael Deal's chart of what the Beatles were doing from 1963 to 1966. Omitted: drugs and groupies. Large versions of Beatles-related infoporn here. [via]

Harold Ford is already a gross caricature of a clueless reverse carpetbagger. It would take quite the contrarian to...hello, Andrea Peyser! She sees Harold as "a punk-rock star...cute, quiet guy." Which is actually a contradiction, but so is love. [NYP]

This elementary school is way cooler than yours. P.S. 22's chorus gets together to cover New York City's unofficial anthem by Jay-Z and Alicia Keys. This would be cute if it weren't so damned good.

It's a private party at the gay bar when this dude gets sauced. Two Golden Globe nominees snuck off for a private game of doctor, and this hard-partying lady likes to show her privates. You're on the case, private eye!

He's constantly wondering when he should wish Roseanne a happy birthday. Best part is the end when he is really frustrated and an expletive is the only way to relieve his exasperation.

Gabriel Sherman has a long piece in TNR today about the Washington Post, the primary purpose of which is to allow Post staffers to vent—about 'Salongate,' inexperienced business executives, entrenched editorial leadership that stunted ambitions, and, most notably, the fact that two WaPo staffers left the paper to start Politico, which is now kicking the WaPo's ass regularly on...Drudgebait:

Now that the long weekend is over, box office receipts are in and, unsurprisingly, Avatar conquers yet again. But Denzel Washington can still open movies, while Peter Jackson's latest is something of a bust.

restaurant consultant on the decline of the Plaza Hotel, once the fictional romper room for Eloise, where apartments that were bought for $16 million in 2008 are currently fetching $8.5 million, to the New York Times.

• Guy Wildenstein has finally unloaded his fourth-floor apartment at the Plaza, albeit for a quite a bit less than the $21.5 million he paid for it in 2008. The art mogul first put the "Frank Lloyd Wright suite" on the market in November 2008 for $25.7 million and gradually dropped the price to $18 million in June 2009. Now comes word that the apartment has sold for $13 million to an entity identified in property records as Hudson-Plaza Realty LLC. [Curbed]
• Dorris Carr Bonfigli, the uptown hostess and Bernie Madoff victim, has dropped the price of her penthouse at 930 Fifth Avenue once again. The elaborate two-bedroom, three-bath co-op, which Bonfigli first listed in December 2008 for $11.3 million, has gone down in price five times since then, and is now listed for $8.75 million. [Cityfile, Corcoran]
• John Geary III, the son of socialite Hilary Geary Ross and stepson of billionaire Wilbur Ross, and his wife Medora have paid $2.7 million for a three-bedroom co-op at 520 East 86th Street. [Cityfile]