Yesterday marked the end of "rubber rooms," where NYC teachers were sent to wait pointlessly while being investigated for transgressions. Going forward, hot lesbian teachers will presumably be allowed to roam the city, free, unrestrained, and untamed. [NYT, photo: AP]

There is a no sex, no relationships policy on the International Space Station, NASA commander Alan Poindexter says, adding, "we are a group of professionals." True, but good luck avoiding the 100-mile-high club now that it's officially naughty.

After winning the world's longest tennis match yesterday (it took three days) John Isner stumbled to his second-round Wimbledon match today and promptly lost. Losing took 75 minutes. "I didn't really have a chance," he said. [NYT, image: AP]

Those sitting out in the sun today for a new iPhone might have waited hours or overnight. They are wimps. Twilight fans have been camped out since Monday for tonight's premiere. They will show you how it's done!

Tareq and Michaela Salahi will not be ignored. America's most famous uninvited guests are writing a book with pedophile-nabbing reporter Diane Dimond. It will feature "behind-the-scenes" details from the time they caused a national disaster by social-climbing too hard. [P6]

After three days and 11 hours of play, American John Isner finally beat France's Nicolas Mahut, 70-68. His reward: Stumbling to his second-round Wimbledon match this afternoon, to play again. [StragithSets, image via AP]

Actor Val Kilmer told a New Mexico county commission he was sorry for saying that 80 per cent "of the people in my county are drunk." His plans to open a bed and breakfast were given the go-ahead. [AP]

[An Amish girl rollerblades home with groceries in Ohio. I mean, I know, it seems weird, but rollerblades aren't powered by electricity or anything, are they? Pic via AP.]

[Traders on the New York Stock Exchange finally had something to cheer about when the U.S. soccer team won their World Cup game against Algeria today to proceed to the tournament's final round. Image via Getty]

American John Isner (pictured) and Frenchman Nicolas Mahut are stuck at 58-59 in the longest tennis match ever, spanning three days and nearly ten hours. Wimbledon really needs a way to deal with ties. Update: They need a third day.

[A group of South African kids react to Tuesday's World Cup soccer match between South Africa and France. Despite beating dumb ol' France 2-1, South Africa didn't make it through to the next round in the tournament. Pic via AP.]

The Large Hadron Collider is an enormous, $8 billion machine built to detect the existence of certain hypothesized-to-exist particles. But detect how? What if, instead of looking for particles, scientists could listen for them? This is what they'd sound like.

Disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff spent 43 months in prison thanks to his unbelievable network of congressional corruption. And now he's got a "fresh start" at a kosher pizza restaurant in Baltimore! Dibs on the movie option. [Baltimore Jewish Times, via]

Jennifer Wilbanks—who in 2005 ditched her wedding, blamed an imaginary Hispanic rapist for her cold feet, and unsuccessfully tried to sue her ex for talking about her—is unemployed and knee-deep in credit card debt.

[Clouds cluster at the summit of Papua New Guinea's Manam Volcano as it releases a thin, faint plume, visible to the volcano's Northwest. Pic, by NASA's Earth Observing-1 Satellite, via AP]

The city of Fremont, Nebraska voted on Monday to bar businesses from hiring and landlords from renting to illegal immigrants. The ACLU is already suing. This will definitely end well!

A decade-long study of chimpanzees in Uganda appears to show that chimps wage war and annex territory, assembling into patrols and killing chimpanzees from other groups. On the other hand, baby chimps are really cute.

The Way We Live Now: Throwing everything against the crumbling wall to see what sticks. What sticks: cutting back every penny of spending. Then the wall falls down. Then we rob the bank the wall was attached to.

Doctors say new evidence shows that episodes of hallucinations and delirium afflicting old people in hospitals can have long-term negative effects. Also, Andy Rooney vows not to stop saying things on television any time soon.

Today we talked about the execution of a Utah man and how it got Tweeted by the state's attorney general. Naturally this prompted death penalty discussions. One commenter summed their philosophy up nicely.