After a particularly offensive week—during which he called people who rehearse "fags" and told Howard Stern about "banging" Olivia Munn—Rush Hour director and physical embodiment of everything Axe body spray stands for Brett Ratner has quit his gig producing the Oscars under heavy pressure from the Academy. Hooray! Unfortunately, the Oscars will still suck.

Yahoo, Microsoft and AOL just sealed a deal to sell premium display advertising space for one another and for any smaller companies that join the consortium. That sounds like an antitrust case in the making, but the parties have one accurate defense against charges of collusion: Google is bigger and scarier.

Dog evolution! Stroke surgery! Baby okapi! Computer hearts! Fast fish! Space gardens! Parkinson's treatment! Anthrax vaccine! And America loses the Red planet to the Reds! It's your Tuesday Science Watch, where we watch science—nobly!

Drake isn't having a great week. That newfangled Internet machine he trusted sputtered out and leaked his album all over the Internet. Drake got his Internet period during gym class on the day he wore his brand new white pants, and oh, how the cruel girls do taunt!

It looks like Madonna's new single, "Give Me All Your Love," leaked on the internet today, a few months ahead of schedule. It's not the worst thing, because the song really rocks.

Heavy D, the overweight lover, Mr. Big Stuff, head of Heavy D & The Boyz, and a dude pretty much beloved by everyone everywhere, has died at the age of 44, according to TMZ and other outlets. He reportedly collapsed at home in Beverly Hills this afternoon, was rushed to the hospital, and died a short time after.

The Supreme Court heard arguments today in a case about whether the police have the right to track your every movement electronically without a search warrant. Things got awkward when an attorney for the government conceded that, under the government's view, even Supreme Court justices could be tracked.

Flying bargain basement Ryanair has a stupendously awful idea for a new in-flight entertainment system: It may soon start offering porn.

A comprehensive new national study says that white kids are way more likely to be druggies than either black kids or Asian kids, but the biggest druggies of all are Native American kids. Specifically:

Investors hitting on investees, dates disguised as business meetings, founders' wives getting hit on: The boys club of tech investing sounds barely more enlightened than the casting couches of Hollywood. And now one lecherous venture capitalist risks becoming the poster boy for tech's sleazier side.

The Daily has named one of the two original women mentioned by Politico as having accused Herman Cain of sexual harassment in the 1990s.

The winning time at the New York City Marathon on Sunday was two hours and five minutes. How about shaving two hours off of that and running the whole thing in just about five minutes? Now you can, and not even leave your chair.

The best part of any Election Day is reading the comical stories of chaos, chaos at the polling stations! For example: A voter's nose in Ohio has been bit today. It has been bit. Is this what American democracy has come to? No! It's always been like this.

The Air Force's mortuary affairs department—those elite professionals who oversee the return of our nation's war dead with solemn reverence at Dover Air Force Base—has lost body parts of dead airmen on at least two occasions, according to a new government report.

Jaleel White stole America's heart in the 90s as the nerdy but loveable Steve Urkel on Family Matters. Ever since, as the holiday season rolls around each year, we ask ourselves: "Does Jaleel have any last minute holiday gift ideas?"

Yale University quarterback Patrick Witt is "every inch the football hero," "a contender for the NFL draft," "the most accurate passer in Yale history." He is also very smart, with a 3.91 GPA and a shot at the Rhodes Scholarship.

Chris Birch was a big, tough Welsh rugby player who was engaged to a woman and loved nothing more than sports. Then one day he had an accident while trying to do a back flip and broke his neck and had a stroke. When he woke up, he was gay.

Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, the man who's kept his job despite constant sex scandals, sex trials, and other criminal charges over the last couple of years, appears to have finally been ousted by the only people who matter in this world: creditors.

In your truculent Tuesday media column: Sam Zell gets a nice ruling, more News of the World P.I. revelations, journalism punditry debated, The New Yorker hires a creative director, and a marriage proposal makes the paper.

Mark Zuckerberg delights in tweaking his lumbering rival Google. He stole the company's operations chief, and some of its best engineers. Now he's mocked the company's "little" rival social network, successfully provoking a response. Such a twerp!