Responding to rumors he might sell his tech blog to AOL, Mashable CEO/babe magnet Pete Cashmore says he's gone to first or second base with some company, and flirted with others, but isn't about to close a deal.

Yay! We're getting White House pool reports again. Boo! "Nothing on Orszag's love child."

[Samsung puts on quite a display of displays for their booth at the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, which opened today. Image via Getty]

Janeane Garofalo, David Cross, Nick Kroll, and others team up to tell you where to go in New York City if you're not familiar with the area. However, if you fall for any of these tips you probably deserve it.

Lawndale, California has quite a pungent issue at hand—garlic flowers. The city planted them eight years ago to keep vampires away and now are discussing paying thousands of dollars to remove them. Why? KTLA investigates.

Tonight we're overly excited for Jersey Shore. What are you watching tonight? Let us know in the comments.

If AOL buys Mashable — or just sells the monster tech blog's ads — it will be banking less on journalism than on the site's network of members, Twitter fans and party groupies. Banking, that is, on Pete Cashmore's hotness.

This already-rotten day just got worse. The New Jersey state senate has rejected a gay marriage bill in a 20-14 vote. While the outcome isn't really a surprise, it's still disappointing. Civil unions remain, at least. [Star-Ledger]

Despite its brief run, How's Your News? was a well-received television experiment, in which newscasters with varying developmental disabilities interviewed entertainers and politicians. Here, they ask Bill Hader the hard-hitting questions, and still find time for hugs.

"Why have kids?" So asks Motherlode blog reader "Bailey," in a heartfelt effort to get to the bottom of the mystery of human reproductive urges. She came to the right place; if anyone can solve philosophical conundrums, it's internet commenters.

Angry, angry billionaire Ron Perelman gave Ellen Barkin many millions of dollars when they divorced, but he refused to fund her film production company. So she sued him. And won! Party at Ellen's! Bring your unproduced screenplay!

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Elizabeth Gilbert, who—SPOILER ALERT!—married the guy she met at the end of Eat, Pray, Love, just published a new book about said marriage. But all she really wants is to be taken seriously as a smart person.

Zoos make money by displacing animals from nature, caging them, then ticketing spectators who come to glare through the glass. There's usually nothing too wild to see, unless the animals learn tricks like auto-fellatio, and put on a show.

[January 6. Photo: Flickr/tienmao]

Oh you know what Donald Trump's kid Eric would probably like on his 26th birthday cake? A big AK-47 and some dead bird. THINK PIECE: what is it with celebukids and their cakes? (Hint: 'Drug affordability'). [Cityfile. Pic via]

The Peter Pan production in Greenport was a roaring success. There was only one mis-step: actors wildly flying around the stage knocking shit over because nobody knew how to work a flying rig. Ahh, the legitimate theatre.

The 111th Congress of the United States of America outlines these proposed rules concerning the sleeping arrangements and sexual encounters of seven strangers picked to live in a house at 2000 S St., NW in Washington D.C. It is decreed:

Today at Gawker.TV, Mariah Carey's latest crazytalk, Lady Gaga swings by Launch My Line, Meredith Vieira envies Gerard Butler's rack, Jon Stewart's George Lucas interview, Michael Cera chills in the hot tub with the cast of Jersey Shore.