Now along with the Mount Merapi volcano in Indonesia, there's another volcano spewing ash and terrifying residents: Anak Krakatau. The volcano is currently on Level 2 alert. And two other Indonesian volcanoes are one level below a full alert.

Just how big was the Stewart/Colbert rally yesterday? Way bigger than Glenn Beck's "Restoring Honor," according to the same company commissioned by CBS to count both. There were around 215,000 people there yesterday, compared to 87,000 at Beck's.

[This leaf, found in Leipzig, is the creepiest leaf you will see this year. Have a happy Mischief Night! AP Photo by Sebastian Willnow.]

Alexandria Mills, an 18-year-old from Kentucky, won the title of Miss World on Saturday in southern China and as her reward was allowed to consume the soul of second-place finisher Emma Wareus of Botswana. [Photo via AP.]

The Jon Stewart/Stephen Colbert "Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear" is under way! (We're live-blogging the whole thing here.) Check out some photos from the event below—and send in your own to tips@gawker.com.

Funny man Bill Maher, on his show Real Time with Bill Maher, said he's scared of a hot new trend in Britain: naming babies Mohammed. That's the most popular name for a baby boy there now, and Maher is "alarmed."

With his approval rating "hover[ing] in the low 20s" and an election day referendum to reverse his greatest legislative victory, California's steroidal governor is set to leave on a low note. His fancy fingers, however, will continue to shine.

Let's laugh at something a congressman recently said about gay marriage, yes? Because Rep. Steve King, a notable jackass, has a theory: Under legalized gay marriage, children would be raised collectively in "warehouses," a la Ancient Sparta, effectively ending civilization.

Bill Clinton is some kind of backroom operative for the Democrats, it seems, following the overnight revelation that he asked Democratic Florida senatorial candidate Kendrick Meek to drop out and support independent Charlie Crist. Why didn't Meek listen?

Airports in New York and Philadelphia have gone on "high alert" thanks to a "suspicious" (but not explosive) package found on a US-bound UPS flight in the UK last night. Planes have reportedly been inspected in several cities already. [Reuters]

In your portentous Friday media column: leadership shuffles at Bon Appetit, Glenn Greenwald vs. Chuck Todd, changes at the National Magazine Awards, and Tribune Co's bankruptcy will drag on, forever.

A new report says that of all the various Latinos in New York, young Puerto Ricans are doing the worst of all, in social categories including graduation rates and poverty. Por que?

[A northern plains grey langur (or, Semnopithecus entellus) looks for grapes inside a pumpkin at the Nyiregyhaza Animal Park in Nyiregyhaza, Hungary today. Image via AP]

[An 11-foot-tall Jeff Koons' "Balloon Flower" sculpture is on display in front of Christie's in New York. It is expected to sell for around $12 million at auction in November. We should all become artists. Image via AP]

Indonesia's Istiqlal Mosque must not have a vaguely Muslim-looking headwear requirement, because Barack Obama will actually visit it during his upcoming Asia trip. Politico suggests that this "could stoke the heated confrontation over the Park51 Project," for some reason.

Microsoft and its CEO Steve Ballmer vehemently oppose a state income tax, earmarked for schools and health care, on the richest 1.2 percent. Which is odd because Microsoft's founder, worth three times as much as Ballmer, is a big fan.

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A pretty stunning new poll of Alaska's Senate race shows Joe Miller, the Republican candidate and clear favorite since his primary win, suddenly dropping to third place. And third place is a bad place to be, days before an election.

Speculation is rampant that badass Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin got his ass beat in a Judo match after he appeared in public today with a black eye covered with lots of makeup. He definitely won, though. [AFP]

The liberal Media Matters has done its inevitable grunt work of detailing Fox News personalities' involvement in this year's election, and finds that more than 30 of them have supported the GOP and its candidates. Who coulda guessed?