Babies born in contemporary Western societies will live to be a million, billion years old.

MIT's student bloggers are grade-A. They write about everything. And the school loves them for it. But not all of America's schools are so keen on handing over the virtual reins. They should, though, because this internet thing's wild.

Some dumb shit DC teens beat up a classmate, recorded it and then posted it on Facebook. They now face charges for the whooping. Again: let's learn from Derrion Albert. Stop beating people, people! [WaPo]

So, here they are: David Letterman's remarks on how he had "creepy" sex with an indeterminate amount of female staffers and was then extorted. Considering Letterman has long used affairs as punchlines, should we run him out of town?

Survey says that 70% of online publications will start charging for their oh-so splendid content.

Awww. They looked like such a cute couple, but now it seems the aural adventure that would be Lady Gaga and Kanye West's "Fame Kills" tour will not come to fruition. Gaga reportedly wanted to trash the whole thing. [MediaTakeOut]

Tonight's episode of David Letterman's show will get plenty of tongues wagging, for the funny man admits that he had sex with several female staffers and then someone tried to shake him down for $2 million. Television gold!

Remember what was considered "wild" in fashion just before Lady Gaga was a big deal? I'm talking pre-2009, before "Poker Face" was a hit—back when this Project Runway season was actually taped.

Evan Williams kissed up to his wife via dissing his penthouse; Kevin Smith had a little freakout and Kevin Pollak made some sort of barbed remark involving Canada. The Twitterati were comparing and contrasting.

It's your lucky day, Gawker readers, because we are running one of our patented "contests," and the winner of the dubious prize could you be you! This one involves Conde Nast. But any idiot can enter. It's easy.

[The New York skyline took on an interesting shape last night when the Empire State Building was colored red and yellow to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the People's Republic of China. Image via Getty]

After his fairly traditional magazine was taken from him and run into the ground, Web-savvy photographer Derek Powazek found a tighter niche: Instant photo magazines tied to major events, like his nifty publication on an Australian dust storm.

In this video, The Atlantic's Ta-Nehisi Coates asks his colleague Sullivan what he does for fun. Funny question, considering Sullivan was recently busted for pot possession on a federal beach, but charges were mysteriously dropped without explanation. Oh the laughs!

Have you entered the "Which Conde Nast Titles Will Die?" contest? Do so now!

Bravo revealed today that it's giving Christian Siriano his own reality show which will feature the season 4 winner of Project Runway as "he sets up a new shop and markets his clothing line." Last night, however, Siriano was at Juliet, Todd English's new supper club in Chelsea, where he attended Moskova Affair, a party to celebrate the launch of Stoli's newest flavor of vodka, Gala Applik. As Jessica Szohr, Chace Crawford, Kelly Bensimon, and Richie Rich took in a performance by The Vau de Vire Society, an "acrobatic and aerial avant cabaret troupe," nightlife reporter Douglas Marshall took a moment to chat with the designer/realty TV personality (pictured here with his boyfriend, Brad Walsh) about New York's nightlife scene and how many gays it takes to make a venue too gay.

CityFile just published a groveling retraction of an item it published in July in the face of a defamation suit from Jim Dolan, the truculent chairman of Cablevision, which owns Newsday.

Evan Williams is on the move. The Twitter co-founder and his wife are building a "modern house" and just put their old place, a two-bedroom San Francisco penthouse, on the market for $1.5 million, Curbed reports. Have a look.

In five years, will you be a wheezing, blackened mess? Or—conversely—will you have five more years of tobacco byproducts in your lungs? Well. You have to admire their "Lie big or lie dead" attitude. Click to enlarge. [Copyranter]

[Anna Wintour solidifies her plan to take over the world and finally rid herself of those pesky Joes at the Balenciaga show in Paris today. Image via INF]

Each year starting in 2003, Microsoft has honored Jon Skeet for his extensive work helping people code in a Microsoft-developed programming language. But Skeet joined Google last year, and his new employer is apparently the jealous type.