(UPDATED) Despite reports he was fired for reviewing a pirated copy of Wolverine, Fox News columnist Roger Friedman will have a chance to argue for his job, a Fox News source said.

Photos of Gossip Girl filming around New York are everywhere. I can't post them all, obviously, but here are some of my favorites from this week. What do they reveal about upcoming episodes? Not much.

Click on the "Everyone" tab on Twitter enough and you'll start seeing... well, the same sort of thing you'd see on Craigslist and other online venues: hookers. Twitter is all grown up! A sampling:

Edwina Pearce, a spokeswoman for the Cancer Council Victoria, which produced the ad in Australia, said the boy, whom she identified only as Alexander, shed real tears.

The NYT Co. has threatened to shutter the Boston Globe if the paper's union doesn't accept serious cutbacks. So Globe reporters hit the streets to find old people who read the Globe, and quote them:

Blind items—on the weekend?!? Why not, god damn it? Today: a chain-smoking, clothes-scamming actress, a 'spiritual' weedhead actor, and a party boy addicted to too-young Thai girls:

Some wacky Harvard Business School kids decided to write up a case study on undead Chelsea celebuclub Marquee, probably so they could get past the doorman. They found out Marquee's profit:

In a development that we really would have preferred not to have happened at all, psycho loner nation North Korea has launched a big missile. A big, crazy missile. Oh shit.

America's favorite bad comedian Jimmy Fallon was kicked out of a pizza place yesterday! And not only that: one of our tipsters tells us the scene degenerated into a fistfight. Protect Jimmy!

"Bathtub IV," above, depicts an operation by the Westpac Rescue Helicopter Service. Loutit filmed both patrols and training exercises; we're guessing this is one of the latter. Either way, the combination of clean beaches and highly skilled first responders only adds to the appeal of Wee Sydney as a vacation destination.

John Stamos returns to the Great White Way, a new Neil LaBute debuts there, Tovah Feldshuh's back, as is Joanna Gleason in Happiness. Plus, the news from out of town.

The death of advertising euphemism strikes again. Embarrassingly Victorian demure ads are still preferable to in-your-face vagina-throwing (in this context). The literal translation of these metaphors: "Cut Your Pussy Bush, With Schick." [via Adfreak]

More layoffs are coming to Google, employees there believe. A Googler tells us top executives abruptly cancelled meetings across the Googleplex Friday.

Slowly, news is starting to come out about 'Jiverly Voong,' the gunman who shot and killed more than a dozen people in a Binghamton immigration center yesterday. He was an angry gun-obsessed loner, surprise.

"CONSIDER the erotic potential between blogger and commenters," begins a trend story, as I gag on my coffee, laughing derisively. But hey it turns out some of these "bloggers" really are big pimpin!

You don't need him, ladies. [Wholphin]

Something that should not exist, continued.

So this finally happened: the New York Times Co. is threatening to close the Boston Globe if the union there doesn't agree to several harsh money-saving moves. In this case, it's not a bluff.

Is it possible that in the midst of a recession, companies are thinking twice about paying outrageous fees for advice from some underling hired by America's most comical Presidential campaign failure, Rudy Giuliani? It's possible.