According to The Wall Street Journal, no one uses "dear" as a salutation when writing emails, because it is "girlie." This makes writing email so confusing! Luckily, we're here to help, with a guide to letter-writing in the 21st century.
Poor Tzvika! Thanks to an unfortunate incident with a lawnmower, our little turtle friend has trouble using her back legs. Luckily, vets at the Ramat Gan Safari in Israel were able to help her out with a pair of wheels.
Is it just us, or was 2010 a particularly good year for movie posters? We put together a compilation of some of the best from lists by Mubi and First Showing.
What's Bill Murray up to these days? Apparently just dropping into the private karaoke rooms of total strangers and singing obscure Elvis tunes. At least, if these photos are to be believed.
A 1998 study in the Lancet medical journal claiming a link between vaccines and autism was retracted last year for being scientifically unsound. But a new investigation claims the study wasn't just wrong—it was also an "elaborate fraud."
Almost everyone who encountered murdered defense contractor John Wheeler in the days before his death says he was acting crazy. New surveillance video doesn't dispute this. Wheeler wanders around a parking garage with one of his shoes in his hand.
Last month, pranksters set up a spoof website for petroleum/paper cup/carpet conglomerate Koch Industries. Then they sent out a fake press release that claimed Koch was remaking itself into a paragon of corporate responsibility. FOR THIS THEY WILL BE DESTROYED.
The Securities and Exchange Commission is reportedly reviewing whether a private Facebook investment vehicle runs afoul of financial disclosure laws. Which, given that the vehicle was designed by the infamous economic pillagers at Goldman Sachs, borders on a self-answering question.
Robert Butler Jr., son of a police detective, shot the principal and assistant principal at his school in Omaha, Nebraska before killing himself. His last Facebook status update was a chilling indictment of the school he'd just transferred to.
The Navy Times has discovered some more "XO Movie Night" videos from Capt. Owen Honors, the former commander of the USS Enterprise who was suspended for making tasteless and vulgar and unfunny videos. He is totallynot gay, guys, OK?
Shrinking violet Khloe Kardashian, of the notoriously reclusive Kardashian-Jenner clan, is launching a new TV show called Khloe & Lamar. Previous enterprises of unyielding humility and fine-tuned subtlety include Kourtney & Khloe Take Miami and Keeping Up with the Kardashians.
Willingly involved! You never know a guy until you do, huh? Also today: A Ouija board movie directed by McG sure is going to be good, Camille Grammer is to retire on Frasier money, and Illeana Douglas news.
Professional media prevaricator Howie Kurtz has long bent over backwards to balance anything that might be construed as a "viewpoint" with an equal, opposite viewpoint. It comes from working in Washington too long. But sometimes, it gets out of hand.
The new year has arrived and it is awful, what with bird/fish/crab death, floods, freezing temperatures, and zombie ex-Vice Presidents. So let's just put it all out there and list the reasons why this is already the worst year ever.
FBI agents investigating an online child pornography ring wound up targeting one of their own after AOL handed over subscriber information on an anonymous user who'd received kiddie porn at his AOL address. His phone number was FBI headquarters.
Going into today's congressional transfer of power, most observers expected that new Speaker John Boehner would have to wrest the leader's gavel from Nancy Pelosi's death grip. But she handed it over, after a pleasantly batty speech. Congratulations, John Boehner!
Since Jennifer Aniston and Nicole Kidman are in Just Go With It together, Bazaar decided to pull an Interview let the celebrities interview each other. The result is a predictably ridiculous kiss-fest, tinged with sexual longing.
John Wheeler, the defense contractor who served in three Republican presidential administrations and was found dead in a landfill on New Year's Eve, was acting crazy before his death — and may have tried to burn his neighbor's house down.
Ambassador Gene Cretz, the man behind the famous Wikileaks cable about Muammar Qaddafi's "voluptuous blonde" Ukrainian nurse, is being recalled because the disclosure that he wrote a cable about her boobies has "complicated" our relationship with Libya. [Photo: cornell.edu]
William Hattar was riding the subway this morning and the doors made a different and really cool song when closing. Have a listen. Hey MTA, can we adopt "Doors Closing: Extended Dance Remix" as the official song of subway doors?