Randall Munroe, creator of the awesome (and popular) Web comic xkcd, skipped past the overtures of large publishers when it came time to publish his work on paper. Instead he's working with "breadpig." WTF?

Tesla CEO Elon Musk's novelist ex-wife and actress fiancée had "a not completely awkward breakfast."

The chairman of the Associated Press says he's "mad as hell" at people who don't pay for news. Is that why his newspaper is reportedly impossible to cancel?

As newspapers bleed print readers, the Los Angeles Daily News seems to have hit upon a circulation strategy that WORKS: make it super hard to stop delivery, then sic a collection agency on delinquent "subscribers."

Air America is facing financial problems, again, and might ask for donations. But National Public Radio totally has a patent on charging liberals for free stuff!

Balmain's fall 2009 collection might be for ladies, but the fashion house's output has looked Michael Jackson-ish for some time. Now Jackson actually wears Balmain, as do his celebrity imitators. Headaches ensue. (Pic)

The recession worried promoters, but Coachella turned out to be a "super happy" success this weekend, according to the music festival's organizers. The secret to selling $270 tickets in this economy?

The writer of Crash and the autobiographical Empire of the Sun had been battling prostate cancer. He was inspired by science fiction, but placed his novels outside the genre, rooting them in the modern world.

All the cable news networks seek pundits willing to act like absurd political caricatures. This keeps Comedy Central in business. But it turns out Fox News is especially dumb and obvious about the practice.

Join Jason Calacanis' internet guide Mahalo and you can expect to work to exhaustion in a poorly-lit strip mall for barely more than San Francisco minimum wage. You'd be better off as Calacanis' waitress.

There's something adorable about Nick Grouf, the babyfaced, waggle-eared cofounder of Spot Runner. Who would think he'd be capable of bilking investors out of tens of millions of dollars, as one shareholder charges?

John Koten, the nautical-enthusiast CEO of Fast Company and Inc. publisher Mansueto Ventures, moved out of his office last week ... into a cubicle. The move has magazine workers "freaking out," a tipster tells us.

It's a great idea. Unfortunately, the implementation is a bit sketchy: They just stole the first half of the New York Times' iPhone app and wrapped it in their own template. Hey-oh! [HuffPo via Sklar]

Arrested Development was, sadly, cancelled after three seasons. If you're already tired of re-watching the Fox series free on Hulu, it sounds like you might check out Sit Down, Shut Up's debut Sunday night.

Maybe all the cool kids already knew this, but for the rest of us: did you know that for the low low price of $19.95, HIP and FRENCH movieperson Michel Gondry will draw your portrait?

Oh for the love of... A couple in Detroit tried to cremate their 2-year-old on a grill. Then a website picks up the story. On the same page? An ad for grilling "like an expert."

As if 5 million YouTube hits, worldwide press attention and unsolicited porn offers weren't enough to fully catapult Susan Boyle from obscurity to fame, Jay Leno is impersonating the Britain's Got Talent contestant.

If you missed HBO's Grey Gardens yesterday, On-Demand it. It was beautiful. Drew Barrymore? Wow.

Madonna has had a terrible riding accident and is recuperating in the Hamptons. Other celebrities have done things too, but not horse-related things.

So. There are some supposedly-real naked photographs of Kari Ferrell, the so-called Hipster Grifter, floating around this internet. We won't be posting them here because we're not savages. But if you're so inclined:here you go.

NPR's Tell Me More devoted a panel to the fact that Fox News created, sponsored, hyped, and otherwise bears complete and total responsibility for the tea parties. And Fox wouldn't come on the show!