As long as we're on the subject today of bullshit photos being posted by partisans in the Israel/Gaza saga, here's the story of a spurious, brutally graphic anti-Muslim allegation that's been propagated on a bizarre Twitter account run by Israel's version of the State Department.

Today, researchers at the California Institute of Technology revealed that they've created see-through mice. These creepy little guys will be used to help scientists track how disease makes its way through the body.

Not sure what's going on here but Nancy Pelosi seems to be in grave danger. If someone knows Nancy Pelosi can you give her a call or maybe drive past her house to make sure everything is alright? Thanks in advance.

Our own Rich Juzwiak joined Andrew Sullivan on his podcast this week for a candid conversation about HIV prevention drug Truvada and the sexual culture of men who sleep with men. You can listen in here (subscribers only).

A giraffe being driven down a highway in South Africa died on Thursday after its head collided with a low bridge. Witnesses described the horrific scene and posted pictures of the giraffe taken just before the accident to Twitter.

We are in the midst of a weeklong editorial extravaganza in which the New York Times expounds at length on why marijuana should be legalized. What they present as a giant leap is really a baby step. All illegal drugs should be legalized and regulated.

Jim is not judgmental. Jim is Jim. Take it from Jim.

Orlando Bloom taking a swing at Justin Bieber at a tony Italian restaurant in Ibiza two nights ago was an event years in the making. The rumors that Bieber slept with Bloom's ex-wife Miranda Kerr have spun a web that has entangled not just those three, but also Bieber's on-again, off-again girlfriend Selena Gomez and a pair of Australian rich people.

The 5 Pointz warehouses in Long Island City, Queens, once a vibrant global mecca for graffiti art, will be turned into the least artistic high-rise condo towers you have ever seen.

A vegan PETA employee says the Tennessee Department of Motor vehicles denied her vanity license plate request "due to vulgarity." Its message? "I love tofu"—"I love to F. U," if you're nasty.

Comcast COO Dave Watson has admitted that company policy was at least as much to blame for the customer service call from hell as the sad, desperate employee heard on the recording. As Watson wrote in a memo, that customer retention rep was only doing what he was trained to do. But what was he trained to do, exactly?

The details surrounding the Bieber-Legolas fight keep getting better. Today, an eyewitness reports that Leonardo DiCaprio, typically one to cheer his own success in life, whooped it up for Orlando Bloom when he tried to hit the Biebs.

The Central Intelligence Agency admitted Thursday that its spooks hacked the computers of senators and their staffers who were investigating "war on terror"-era torture and detention allegations against the agency.

The London Zoo is being investigated after allegations that drunken, lucrative after-hours parties are putting the animals' welfare in danger. Hammered, sometimes naked guests have repeatedly tried to enter animal enclosures, and in one case, "a beer [was] thrown over a tiger," the Guardian reports.

Today's African news. [New York Times]

Two years ago in August, I rode the B26 bus down Fulton Street through Fort Greene to my law school matriculation ceremony. I wore shoes from a thrift store and a $99 suit from Men's Wearhouse. I was riding the bus because I couldn't get too sweaty in my suit. I texted my mom, "I don't feel ready." She texted me back that I could leave school if I didn't like it. I hadn't done much research. I didn't want to go to law school, but it seemed like it was time.

Actor/Ph.D candidate James Franco was on the Colbert Report last night to promote his movie opening this week, Child of God, and generally just act like James Franco. Whatever. You can skip everything until the very end of the interview, where Franco slyly tries to get an in-character Stephen Colbert to discuss his impending move to The Late Show.

Atlantic senior editor David Frum was ridiculed this week for pushing a conspiracy theory about photos of suffering Gazans that he based on a crazy blog. Yesterday, Frum issued a "sorry not sorry" apology with more conspiratorial accusations. And he backed them up with another crazy blog, one that even Wikipedia won't trust.

Shortly after a survey shows that 84% of cable news guests are white, NPR is ending its diversity-themed show "Tell Me More." Keli Goff wonders about "an industry that is looking more and more like it did decades ago, when the face of media was white and male."

And now, more magic from our generation's greatest interpreter of popular song.