A mentally ill homeless man "basically baked to death" in a New York City jail cell last month, according to a report in the Associated Press.

Today in Philadelphia, the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals is hearing Andrew "Weev" Auernheimer's appeal of his 2012 conviction under the much-maligned Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA). Auernheimer is currently serving a 41-month term in prison for what the government says was "unauthorized access" of AT&T's servers in 2010.

Last night on U.K. TV, doctor/TV presenter/hunk of stuff Christian Jessen underwent various kinds of reparative therapy people seek to rid themselves of homosexuality in the one-off special Undercover Doctor: Cure Me I'm Gay. Now listen to me, 'cause I am about to fuck you up with some truth in the form of the spoiler to end all spoilers: It didn't work. Ingesting a drug so that he threw up as he was presented with naked men didn't work. Being fed subliminal messages about his penis' ability to remain erect inside of a vagina didn't work. Being told by evangelist teenagers that homosexuality is caused by demons didn't work (although it did make him cry).

[Roy Ramsay dressed as King Robert the Bruce and Roy Murray dressed as Edward II promote Bannockburn Live on Wednesday in Stirling, Scotland. The event being held on June 28 and 29 to commemorate the 700th anniversary of the Battle of Bannockburn. Image via Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images.]

The unspooling revelations of what exactly the NSA has been up to are proof that sometimes, the paranoid lunatics are absolutely correct. Today we learn that the spy agency has been recording 100%—all!—of the phone calls made in an entire country.

In the grand scheme of porn tube sites, a video called "Slut Teen Gets Knocked Up by Accidental Creampie," isn't particularly shocking or unusual. But the heartbreaking twist ending to this otherwise pedestrian clip puts even M. Night Shyamalan's earlier work to shame.

Media-insider nepotism baby John Podhoretz, whose many professional duties include criticizing film for the Weekly Standard, alerts that publication's readers to a troubling development in the culture wars: His television is full of "white trash." This is the fault of "fancy high-end TV producers," and by extension Obama.

The Beastie Boys have settled their copyright dispute with GoldieBlox, a company that builds engineering toys for girls. A court ordered the company to apologize for using a parody of the Beastie Boys' song "Girls" in a commercial without permission.

Taco Bell is no place for forgetting your manners: A patron of the fine dining establishment told police he was choked and struck with a chair on Sunday for failing to say excuse me after belching.

There is nothing in the world of journalism more delightful than a stupid opinion piece published in a college newspaper. What race, gender, or religious group will be hilariously insulted by an undergrad this week?

"Who's that girl?" America is demanding of Shailene Woodley, the 22-year-old lead of this spring's hottest post-Apocalyptic dystopian nightmare for tweens, Divergent. "What's her deal?" America is wondering, about the actress who garnered widespread critical praise for her role as as George Clooney's daughter in the film The Descendants.

Last month, the pilot of missing Flight 370 reportedly deleted information from his custom-built flight simulator. At a press conference on Wednesday, Malaysian officials said investigators are trying to recover the data to see if it offers any potential clues about the plane's mysterious disappearance twelve days ago.

It's the story of a womanizer who schemes his way through a life of alcohol, fighting, and gratuitous nudity meets the story of a womanizer who schemes his way through a life of alcohol, fighting, and gratuitous nudity. No wonder the Wolf of Wall Street treatment of Game of Thrones works so well.

Twenty four veterans were awarded a Medal of Honor today after a Pentagon review found they were passed over the first time around because of their diverse racial and ethnic backgrounds.

A Massachusetts mom threw herself under a car and used her body as a speed bump to save her two-year-old twin daughters earlier this month.

A spreading stain overshadowed the Colombian president's impassioned campaign speech Sunday.

Stanford professor Andrei Linde wasn't the only one celebrating the Big Bang discovery yesterday. "It is another confirmation of inflation," Stephen Hawking told the BBC. "It also means I win a bet with [physicist] Neil Turok." Hawking's last wager over the Higgs-Boson particle cost him $100; it's not clear what he won this time.

The jury in the trial of a British publicist accused of sexual assault had to be dismissed from the courtroom today after they couldn't stop laughing about testimony concerning the defendant's two-and-a-half inch penis.

Chick-Fil-A's CEO says he hasn't changed his mind about opposing gay marriage but regrets speaking publicly about it: "It's probably very wise from our standpoint to make sure that we present our brand in a compelling way that the consumer can relate to."

Fortune quotes a venture capitalist saying that he and his peers are now investing in bitcoin: "I think bitcoin investing is becoming to this generation what real estate investing used to be." So... purchased by unsophisticated consumers at prices so high above actual worth that owners will end up underwater?