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This 2001 clip of Robin Williams on Inside the Actor's Studio is making the rounds today, for obvious reasons. In it, James Lipton asks Williams, "If Heaven exists, what would you like to hear God say when you arrive at the pearly gates?"

As I sat, sweating, at a keyboardless iMac in a sweltering bar, an amplified voice announced the beginning of competition: "The previous rounds were based on a combination of luck and skill, but this one is really all about skill. Can you surf? Can you rip?"

Bees: winged bombs of fiery poison; bright invaders from above; nectar thieves with barbs of fury. We are saddened to report to you that our call for a War on Bees has gone unheeded, and—as a predictable result—Americans have died.

As news of Robin Williams' death broke yesterday, cable news channels hurried to find enough footage of the actor to fill hours of coverage. Some were more successful than others.

Western and Ukrainian officials are wary of a Russian convoy of 280 trucks carrying humanitarian aid en route to southeastern Ukraine. The convoy's lack of official coordination with a neutral agency like the Red Cross has raised concerns that Russia might be using the mission to sneak soldiers into the region to support faltering pro-Russian separatists.

New York prosecutors have filed usury charges against a dozen payday loan companies offering interest rates "between 350 and 650 percent." The payday loan industry is run exclusively by bad people who will go to hell.

Conan was taping its Monday episode with guest Will Arnett when news broke that Robin Williams had been found dead in his home in California from an apparent suicide. After hearing of Williams' death, the show taped an additional segment after shooting for the episode had wrapped, where O'Brien—visibly shaken and resisting a trembling voice—expresses his condolences, grief, and shock. When he announces the news, you can hear members of the audience gasp. "I'm sorry to anyone in our studio audience that I'm breaking this news," O'Brien said. "This is absolutely shocking and horrifying."

Tensions in Ferguson, Missouri were cloaked in a cloud of tear gas Monday night as police and protestors continued their stand off over the death of Michael Brown, an unarmed teenager who was shot multiple times and killed Saturday by a police officer.

A McDonalds in North Carolina was forced to issue a public apology this week after one of its employees burned a swastika on the inside of a customer's chicken sandwich.

According to the Associated Press, the DEA spent nearly 20 years buying confidential passenger information from an Amtrak employee in an effort to screw over the railroad behemoth.

Mixed martial arts fighter War Machine is still on the run and tweeting apologies after allegedly attacking his ex-girlfriend, porn actress Christy Mack, on Friday. Today, Mack—who is still recovering in a Las Vegas hospital—posted a series of graphic photos and her own horrifying account of the attack on Twitter.

Actor Robin Williams was found dead from an apparent suicide in his Tiburon, California home earlier today. He was 63.

First, a parody Twitter account called @BicycleLobby convinced the Associated Press it was claiming responsibility for the white flags that appeared mysteriously atop the Brooklyn Bridge last month. Then, it convinced the Manhattan District Attorney's office.

Lucky, the Conde Nast magazine "about shopping," looks like it's turning into a straight-up catalog. In a slightly convoluted press release today, Conde announced that it's spinning off the mag into The Lucky Group, "a wholly independent entity, which brings together Lucky and e-commerce platform, BeachMint." So, a shopping site. But what will happen to the print mag?

Do you work in an office? Do you work in an office with harsh, artificial lighting? Do you know when you will die? Younger than you need to, I bet.

Daniel Radcliffe, the boy who lived through playing Harry Potter and continued to have an acting career, is his own worst critic. He told the Daily Mail on Sunday that growing up onscreen as the star of the highest-grossing movie franchise of all time was "an incredible blessing," but didn't do much for him as an actor.

Earlier today, the chief of the St. Louis County police issued what I think he imagined as a call for sanity:

On June 22, Michael J. Hudson published a tweet for the ages. "hell yeah benihana up in this bitch," it reads, with an attached image of some chicken cooking directly on an electric range. Yesterday, the office of Rep. Keith Ellison retweeted it.

The FBI announced today that the agency has launched an investigation into the shooting of unarmed 18-year-old Michael Brown, who was killed in an altercation with Ferguson, Mo. police this past weekend. The probe, Special Agent Cheryl Mimura said, will investigate "a potential civil rights violation."