We've been updating our AP Layoffs List for three days with tips about layoffs in AP bureaus around the world. Here, we've organized and mapped them for you. View the national and global media carnage, below.

Some may say the secret ingredient is "salt". Others say it is gypsy magic and the proprietors of this video must be hunted down and tortured for their beer-cooling secrets.

Here, the latest masterwork (suggested by you) from pancake painter-to-the-stars Dan Lacey: a horrific apocalyptic tableau of talking heads and politicians doing who knows what. He expounds on his vision, below.

[GQ editor-in-chief Jim Nelson cozies up to January Jones, Jennifer Carpenter, and Sarah Silverman right before the comedian makes an indecent proposal at the GQ 'Men Of The Year' party in Hollywood last night. Image via Getty]

Just in time for Christmas, AOL is asking 2,500 of its workers to volunteer for buyouts starting Dec. 4 (layoffs come after) as the company separates from Time Warner and a shadow of its former online conglomerate self.

November 19, 1916 Goldwyn Pictures, later to be a part of the MGM triad, is founded. More history and a video compilation of it's opening sequences through the ages after the jump.

Fox News is considering "serious disciplinary action" against the staffer responsible for passing off old campaign footage of Sarah Palin addressing adoring crowds as shots from her current book tour. So that's a bad thing, then?

Socialite, model, and cool movie star Lydia Hearst loves her some Twitter. While it's great to tell us that she's going to a Twilight screening tonight (OMG!), she should not use it to engage the right-wingnuts who attack her.

This might be the most lucky and agile train track inspector out there. Watch as he dodges not one speeding train but two. He's definitely the Spiderman of the locomotive industry.

Once it was confirmed that gay-marriage-hating former Miss California Carrie Prejean has eight sex tapes and 30 nude pictures, you'd think they'd inevitably leak online. Finally, a website says it's got the goods. Update: Porn-addled readers say it's not her.

Rudy Giuliani has decided not to run for governor next year, reports the Times:

Last night Justin Johnson gave all the hopeless romantics on tumblr something to "aww" over: He took over every tumblr user's dashboard to propose to girlfriend Marissa Nystrom using a video he made about the six years they'd been together.

The girls who brought us the McNuggetini (also of This is Why You're Fat fame) have created yet another gag-worthy dish: the Ham Daiquri. The name itself is vomit-inducing, but somehow these girls make the drink oh so appealing.

Where was David Wain while his cohorts were taking over twitter and filming Michael and Michael have issues? He's doing just fine on his own with stand-out web show, Wainy Days.

Here's some news you'll find disturbing (unless you have a really weird fetish, in which case you won't). It turns out you're more likely to be groped on the subway these days. Complaints of subway sexual abuse are up four percent this year, although arrests are down six percent, according to the NYPD. Manhattan is the worst borough, and the stations at Grand Central Terminal and 14th Street are supposedly the choicest stomping grounds for these miscreants, who are typically most active during the morning and evening rush hours since they love it when the subway cars are crowded. So keep your wits about you. Unless you fall into that other category, in which case you now know where to be and when. [NYP]

Rupert Murdoch has apologized for blaming the polarization of our political debate on the fact that New York Gov. David Paterson is "blind, and can't read braille, and doesn't know what's going on."

Last week, Forbes columnist and NYU professor Tunku Varadarajan won our Outrage-off for his column about crazy Muslim murderers lurking amongst us. NYU radicals have struck back with a revolutionary pie-ing of Varadarajan's Islamaphobic allies!

Olivia Palermo walking in Soho with her boyfriend Johannes Huebl and dog ... Calvin Klein leaving his apartment building ... Randy Jackson leaving his hotel in Midtown ... Sandra Bullock running errands downtown ... Penelope Cruz arriving at JFK ... Blake Lively filming scenes for Gossip Girl on the Upper West Side ... Alessandra Ambrosio walking around SoHo with a camera crew in tow ... John Malkovich on Madison Avenue ... Uma Thurman walking in the Village ... Miranda Kerr getting out of an SUV ... Katie Holmes on the set of The Romantics on Long Island ... Marion Cotillard arriving at JFK ... and Ed Westwick walking in the West Village with a D'Agostino shopping bag in hand.

Real-time headline-reactions: "Plane misses runway in east Congo..." Well, it happens."...landing in lava." CHRIST.

Let's face it, if you're under the age of 15, prayer is boring. How can you make your kids pray at all hours of the day until they're sore from kneeling? Turn religion into an RPG and level up...to heaven!