It's a federal offense to take a bribe, endorse a product online and keep it secret. The Feds even launched an educational campaign about it. Too bad they never got around to educating Foursquare CEO Dennis Crowley.

Why do people keep loaded guns near their bed while they sleep? For every crime in progress this stops, another three or four guys probably shoot themselves while sleepwalking. Like this man, who shot himself in the knee.

Here's a fun hobby: Covertly filming women's butts in tight pants or leggings and posting them to YouTube. A Canadian university was recently struck by a wave of this "upskirt-lite" voyeurism. But secretly-filmed butts are all over YouTube.

Andrey Ternovskiy tells the New Yorker our obituary for his social webcam hub Chatroulette is premature: "How can you be dead when your revenue has doubled? ... Gawker is like an annoying fly." Touché! Ternovskiy knows all about irritating people.

The wife of Farooque Ahmed, the 34-year-old American citizen of Pakistani descent accused today of plotting to set off bombs on Washington, D.C., Metro trains, was involved in a decidedly non-jihadi-sounding social group called "Hip Muslim Moms."

Barack Obama invited some special friends for a first-of-its-kind, in-person White House chat today: liberal bloggers who are always mean to him! And the first report back suggests that they discussed Obama's legislative strategy for repealing DADT. He has one!

Think Christine O'Donnell's Delaware Senate campaign is scared of the media amplifying her every word for delicious mockery? Because apparently her campaign manager threatened to "crush" a Delaware radio station in court if they, uh, posted an interview tape online.

Following in the footsteps of Carl Paladino's probably unhelpful stink-bomb mailer to his constituents, another campaign, that of California congressional candidate Van Tran, has sent out a stinky scratch-and-sniff mailer. And, when engaged, it smells like absolute shit.

Google is reportedly poised to buy a building covering an entire Manhattan block. The 2.9 million square foot Chelsea building, if fully occupied by Google, would grow the company's New York headquarters fivefold. Thank God for the intra-office razor scooters.

Rudy Giuliani, a snarling monster who was nationally popular for a year or so following 9/11, says that "the door's not closed" on him running for president again in 2012. So can someone please close this door, locking him inside?

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?

The (ex-)Rand Paul county coordinator who stomped on a liberal activist's head before a Kentucky Senate debate Monday night would like an apology from her. She started it and was basically asking for it, you see.

Aspiring astronauts: run, don't walk, to sign up for NASA's vague new scheme to blast you off to Mars, never to return. Don't worry—they're doing it on the cheap!

Three black men are suing a Manhattan McDonald's, saying it allowed nonpaying white customers to use the restroom but denied them the same access. The New York Post's famously incisive commenters have many nuanced thoughts on this sensitive issue. [NYP]

In America, we trust our kids to responsibly consume rum and coke, or vodka and Red Bull, or six crushed-up Vivarins dissolved in a Solo cup full of Everclear. But caffeine and alcohol in the same can? Absolutely not.

An 18-month court battle over a woman's right to have a backyard treehouse for her kids has ended, and the treehouse won. New York artist Melinda Hackett yesterday beat her cranky neighbor and even won landmark status for the structure.

Italian ice cream maker Antonio Federici has been ordered by Britain's Advertising Standards Authority to stop running an ad featuring two "sexualized" priests about to kiss "passionately." Last month the company ran ads featuring a pregnant nun (also banned).

With the election only days away, a few single-minded patriots have decided to take on the biggest problem bedeviling our political system: election fraud! Yes, a problem so huge, only 95 people were charged with it between 2002 and 2005.

Here's Steven Slater, the JetBlue attendant who stole two beers and ditched his plane via inflatable slide after being insulted by a passenger, telling his version of the story to Larry King. He blames "bad manners." Including his!

According to prosecutors, 16-year-old Rufus Bowman "picked the wrong prostitute to rob." Because the prostitute he picked was the six-foot, 280-pound Joshua Bumpus (pictured), who "beat the [daylights] out of" Bowman—even though he'd been shot.