Have any private text messages in your phone? Try not to get arrested! A California court just ruled that police can "search" your text messages without a warrant if you're arrested. LOL!

The glassy midcentury house where Cameron Frye had one of film's greatest conniptions in the greatest playing-hooky story of our time, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, is now on the market for $1.65 million.

Cliff sex! So alluring—yet so dangerous, as one young Australian woman found out early on New Year's Day. From her brother.

Gerry Rafferty, the Scottish musician who wrote what might be the greatest sax line in history for his hit "Baker Street," died after a long illness. Rafferty also wrote "Stuck in the Middle with You" as part of Stealers Wheel.

A Swedish couple was long-distance skating on the frozen ocean when a boat broke their "rink" into pieces, stranding them on a floe. Luckily, they were rescued in 12 minutes—and got some stunning pictures out of the deal.

A reminder to people writing fake blogs and fake social networking profiles: Online impersonation became punishable by up to one year in jail and $1,000 in fines in California this year — and it's not clear satire is exempted.

Nancy Pelosi changed her Twitter handle from @SpeakerPelosi to @NancyPelosi within hours of the House's new Republican leadership being sworn in, probably because @MinorityLeaderPelosi sounds lame. But least she can taunt politicians with actual power more efficiently now.

Seriously, we've heard of food porn and all, but this is ridiculous: actor Ron Jeremy is going to star (link NSFW) in an adult film called The Flying Pink Pig that parodies the food truck craze.

Paul Bint is a career conman who posed as a lawyer, doctor, and royal to steal from the 2,500 women he slept with. Now that the not-very-attractive criminal is free, he should sell his love secrets. He'd make millions!

The new Republican House majority will be sworn in tomorrow, the start of the 112th Congress. Have you bought a dress yet? You'll want to look good as you watch tomorrow's events on John Boehner's Facebook, from your cubicle.

The Weinstein Co. is buying a 25% stake in Starz, putting lady-dragging Starz CEO Chris Albrecht and reporter-dragging monster Harvey Weinstein in business together. Good luck, kids!

A federal appeals court has asked the California Supreme Court to help answer a question about who has standing to fight same sex marriage in the courts.

South Carolina's proposed "coon hunters" license plate is not racist. The South Carolina State Coon Hunters Association just wants to celebrate shooting raccoons and "insure that our hunting privileges are not infringed upon," OK? [TPM, image via]

What were our most popular stories in 2010? How many people visited Gawker from India last year? Did 115,000 people really type "Anderson Cooper boyfriend" into Google and end up here? (Yes.) The Gawker 2010 number-crunching is complete.

The Way We Live Now: together, as a nation, bracing for the bitter winter that's descended upon us. Some of us are "bracing" in our pricey Manhattan condos; others are bracing against a brick wall. But we're all bracing, united.

The year-in-television is off to an auspicious start, with last night's Craigslist Killer movie becoming Lifetime's fifth-highest rated film ever, and ABC Family's Pretty Little Liars landing in their all-time top-five. Bonus: TMZ on TV has been renewed until 2014!

Well, that was fast: Barely two months after a big redesign, MySpace is planning to lay off half its staff, according to news reports. So much for the flailing social network's supposed turnaround.

[The first family is back in Washington following their vacation in Hawaii, a considerably better place that's far, far away from Mitch McConnell. Fancy-pantsed Michelle Obama clearly realizes how terrible a development this is. Image via AP.]

Atlanta coke rapper Gucci Mane, last seen being pepper sprayed by cops after fighting someone in a parking lot shortly after his latest jail stint, has been ordered to a "psychiatric and chemical dependency treatment facility." Get well soon, Mane.

So, that new house Lindsay Lohan is moving into? It's next door to ex-girlfriend and drink-throwing victim Samantha Ronson, who is "disgusted" and "pissed." How close can you move to your ex-girlfriend's house before you become a real estate stalker?