This morning, a tipster sent us a local Dallas news story about a bride who is upset that her wedding invitations were delivered with the wrong kind of doilies. The tipster suggested that Gawker "make fun" of this bride, who was so distressed by the mixup that she turned to her local ABC affiliate to air her grievances.

Leonard Nimoy, the actor best known for his portrayal of Spock on Star Trek, died Friday morning at his home in Los Angeles. He was 83.

Seven people were found dead in four homes last night after a gunman went on a killing spree throughout Tyrone, Mo. The shooter was later found dead of an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound.

The pot farm owned and operated by Arthur Mondella, the cherry magnate who killed himself on Tuesday, was reportedly among the largest ever discovered in New York City. The New York Times and New York Daily News report that the grow room—located in Dell's Maraschino Cherries Company's basement, behind a hidden door and down a ladder—spanned 2,500 square feet and could harvest up to 1,200 pot plants.

Our boy Nono has done it again! With God-given glottal control and an uncompromising devotion to his craft, the world's greatest pig squealer took home his sixth consecutive championship title at the Salon de l'Agriculture at Paris' Porte de Versailles this month. The time for haters is over. Three cheers for Nono!

Avijit Roy, an atheist American-Bangladeshi writer, was brutally murdered in the streets of Dhaka on Thursday while returning home from a book fair with his wife. Roy had written frequently against religious fundamentalism on his blog Mukto-Mona, which means Free Mind.

Two 14-year-old girls at Pasadena High School near Houston took their fight—allegedly over a boy—to the park across the street from their school this past Tuesday. One girl's mother brought a gun.

A couple in Bayside, Queens is accused of kidnapping their housekeeper at knifepoint, allegedly burning her body with a plumber's torch while questioning her about missing cash and jewelry, WCBS reports.

When 19-year-old Juanye Jones visited a Daytona Beach hospital Wednesday night, his chief concern was his nagging headache. Doctors ended up finding something a bit more serious, however: a fragmented bullet lodged in his head.

Since it hit Tumblr yesterday, the image below has started an internet schism that may never be healed. Some maniacs, it seems, see the dress as gold and white, while other completely reasonable people see it as blue and black.

Today Talking Points Memo publisher Josh Marshall tweeted the following blind item:

Missouri Auditor Tom Schweich, one the leading Republican candidates for governor of the state, died in a St. Louis hospital on Thursday after shooting himself in his home, the Associated Press reports.

Republican Oklahoma Senator James Inhofe is the chairman of the U.S. Senate Environment Committee. He once wrote a book called The Greatest Hoax: How the Global Warming Conspiracy Threatens Your Future. Today, he threw a snowball at a senate page to illustrate that tome's idiotic central thesis.

Why is every single person in your office gathered around computer monitors, laughing and having a great time without you right now? Because there's a high-speed wild llama chase through suburban Arizona in action, and they're all watching the live stream. Breathe a sigh of relief and take a peek below.

We periodically run letters from death row inmates. Today's is from Oklahoma inmate Richard Glossip, who came within one day of being executed last month before being (temporarily) spared by the Supreme Court.

If you haven't already filed your taxes, you're probably considering TurboTax, the widely used software that makes filing a return easy for our nation of babies and dimwits. Consider an alternative: according to two former high-ranking employees, the company ignored rampant refund theft because it could take a cut.

Paul Janeway, the golden-throated frontman of St. Paul and the Broken Bones, wanted to be a preacher until he was 18. Instead, he's got a song on the soundtrack to Fifty Shades of Grey —which, he told Mother Jones, he hadn't heard of before he licensed "Call Me" for the movie. He assumed it was just another romantic comedy.

Atkins Nutritionals, the company that cashed in on the low-carb Atkins Diet, is up for sale and "could fetch more than $1 billion." Its anti-sugar precepts have become mainstream in America. The lone holdout: one rich motherfucker.

Awful and endless as this winter has been, it's produced at least one worthwhile natural phenomenon: "slurpee waves." Amazing photos—taken by Jonathan Nimerfroh and published in Stay Wild Magazine—show the half-frozen waves of slush cresting and crashing into the beaches of Nantucket.

DC Toys Collector—better known as Disney Collector—is one of the most popular channels on YouTube, mostly because kids can't stop watching it. The videos star an anonymous woman unwrapping and playing with toys, describing all their features in a soothing, childlike voice. Disney Collector's face is never onscreen—we only see her hands.