Another reason to be careful who you call an idiot on the internet: he might be hailed as a genius someday, making you look like the real fool.

Robert Byrd, the Senate's oldest member, was rushed to the hospital today after a fall in his McLean, Va., home.

In your warming Tuesday media column: The New York Post softens its stance on the Fake NYP, foolish kids flock to J-schools, a few magazines do not so poorly, and NYT stock is for sale!

Those sparks are courtesy of Georgina Sparks, who made her triumphant return last night to lay low the once mighty Blair Waldorf. As all the kids start at college, the power is all out of whack, with some unlikely victors.

A certain much-speculated-upon piece of tech news will be cleared up tonight when Gawker media unveils a gigantic new highly-speculated about technological innovation at the opening of the Gizmodo Gallery 2009.

You probably wrote off summer a couple of weeks ago, didn't you? Well, you still have about an hour to go for one final summer dip or host one last summer barbeque. Fall officially begins at 5:18pm Eastern time. [USA Today]

Two years ago, the FBI destroyed documents that "may have" contained information about Walter Cronkite. What documents? We don't know. Why were they destroyed? Good question!

David Pogue's taken fire from all sides: Both bloggers and the New York Times columnist's own public editor challenged the tech reviewer over his conflicts of interests. He's finally unloaded with both barrels, at friend and foe alike.

In news that may totally surprise you —or not surprise you at all, depending on how cynical you are—the Huffington Post is reporting that Libyan strongman Moammar Khadafy is planning to pitch his tent this week... on Donald Trump's front lawn. Really.

It isn't every day a friend of Gawker is nominated for an Emmy award. Come to think of it, it isn't any day...To commemorate the occasion we asked former media public enemy/Top Chef judge Toby Young to share the experience.

Did Arianna Huffington love Michael Moore's new movie so much, and also she knows Michael Moore personally, and had Michael Moore over to her house to talk about his movie and eat lasagna? Click through to find out!

Part of the Port Authority Bus Terminal was evacuated this morning after a suspicious package was discovered on a subway platform as authorities mount a nationwide search for at-large members of a suspected Al Quaida cell.

Gov. David Paterson wasn't in a good mood yesterday. Still on the defensive following the revelation over the weekend that President Obama has been quietly (or not-so-quietly) urging him to abandon his 2010 gubernatorial campaign, the governor had to come face to face with the president when Obama stopped off in Albany yesterday to give a speech. (And had to suffer the embarrassment of having the president turn his back to the cameras, "as if to avoid the taking of images that would show the two men in a warm embrace.") But what a difference a day makes!

It's as if all the fans of the show shined a spotlight with a MP logo into the sky and now our blond super-heroine has swooped in for the rescue. Yes, Amanda Woodward is moving back in!

Here's our artist friend Tucker "Tucker" Max (who am I to make fun of names?) on the "Lemondrop" radio show scoffing at the notion that he would ever email Gawker, that's ridiculous. Huh.

Jude Law waiting outside a movie theater ... Naomi Watts in Nolita pushing sons Sacha and Sammy in a stroller ... Yoko Ono having lunch at Da Silvano ... Clive Owen walking by himself ... Peter Dinklage walking his dog with a friend in the West Village ... Chace Crawford on the set of Gossip Girl near Battery Park ... Mary-Kate Olsen leaving a hotel ... Courtney Love walking downtown ... Dave Chappelle sitting on a ledge ... Shia LaBeouf taking off his tie on the set of Wall Street 2 ... Hugh Jackman walking in the West Village with his wife and daughter ... and Lady Gaga strolling around SoHo.

....An unarmed double amputee, in a wheelchair! Protect and serve, police officers of Merced, California. Let's roll that "single most enraging paragraph," shall we?

[Sharp-dressed man Hugh Jackman gives his daughter a push at a park in the West Village yesterday. Image via Bauer-Griffin]

As if the fancy Essex House doesn't have enough PR problems with a staff member accused of drunkenly murdering a businesswoman, it turns out that a semi-celebrity was also in danger! It's not affecting business, though. Chill out.

"Tired of the government bailing out banks? Get ready for this: officials may soon ask banks to bail out the government. Senior regulators say they are seriously considering a plan to have the nation's healthy banks lend billions of dollars to rescue the insurance fund that protects bank depositors." Emphasis added, naturally. [NYT]