George Weber, a longtime WABC newscaster turned ABC News freelancer and blogger, was found stabbed to death at home in Brooklyn. He was 47.

Nicholas Hughes, a marine biologist and academic, hanged himself at home 46 years after the suicide of his mother, the poet Sylvia Plath. He was 47.

Diablo Cody and her Hollywood gal-pals cooperated on today's self-consciously sexy New York Times profile. Odd, then, that they complained people pay too much attention to their looks.

Did you know your four-legged subjugated animal ("pet") is raping the oceans with its voracious appetite for dead flesh? It's true, according to the Whole Earth Catalog New York Times op-ed section.

CNN anchorlady Tamron Hall just goes bonkers in this clip of 8-year-old businesskid Tanner Leuellen, who patrolled the halls of a Chicago trade show looking for a job as "apprentice creator."

Twitter: Where porn stars like it short and fast. (Via)

The founders of Powerset, a search startup sold for more than $100 million to Microsoft, seem to have time on their hands. Barney Pell gropes dolphins and other mammals. What about cofounder Lorenzo Thione?

Not only are there no real entry-level media jobs; even internship opportunities have come to this: "Do you watch The City, read Gawker and know the names of people like Julia Allison and Kristian Laliberté?"

Writing is not a performance art. But given the power and connectivity of modern writing implements, there's no reason it can't be. Here's a time-lapse view of essayist Paul Graham composing a recent piece.

Sean Penn is in bed with the ayatollahs, as everyone, but especially the New York Post, knows. He loves evil Iranians so much that he had himself cut from a movie which depicted them negatively.

Reality star Jade Goody has died of cancer. Elsewhere, people continue to get married and have babies, or adopt babies and fire those babies' nannies.

From the Mixed Up Twitter Files of Ashton E. Kutcher. Yesterday our Tweetingest celebrity posted a revealing photo of his wife, actress Demi Moore, bending over in a bikini while steaming something. How risque!

Has anyone else noticed how bored people look when photographed with dating columnist Julia Allison? As this Ken Burns-style clip reveals, the relentless egoblogger's picture companions look desperate to be somewhere else.

Wow, some nutty investor is actually buying into that harebrained scheme to turn the money-bleeding San Francisco Chronicle into a (purposely) nonprofit paper.

In his review of undead-fightin' videogame Resident Evil 5 this week, Entertainment Weekly critic Jeff Jensen calls zombies "silly." He's scared of vampires, but not zombies. Wha? Zombies are the scariest thing since unsliced bread.

So a celebrity died from a traumatic brain injury this week and where was Sanjay Gupta?

The Tribune Co. has found a hero to rescue it from impending oblivion: Dick Tracy! They just have to break him out of Warren Beatty's basement.

Meanwhile, in Dallas, Texas, a high school principal is under fire for ordering students to fight each other in cage matches, at school.

Photos of Gossip Girl filming around New York are everywhere. I can't post all of them, obviously, but here are some of my (mostly Blair-centric) favorites. What do they reveal about upcoming episodes? Not much.

So asks Tom Hopkins of Vail, CO in this week's New York Times Ethicist column. He wants his charity organization to spend their money on boxes, and he wants to give them to the homeless.