Friday is here, which means movies! It's a fairly quiet week for releases, but let's take a look anyway. Mostly, this week's movies are about g-g-ghossssts! We've got Paranormal Activity 2 and Hereafter, plus a couple of indies.

A police officer ticketed an illegally parked car and peeked inside. There sat a mummified female human. Apparently the owner's friend died while sitting there and the owner "continued to dress the body and drive around with it."

Nevada Senate candidate Sharron Angle has revolutionized campaigning this year in that she won't tell reporters where she's going, making the day-to-day work of covering her events into a private investigation. And when reporters find her? Apparently she "shushes" them.

Jay-Z's new book for the extremely slow, Decoded, is coming out soon. Perhaps you had high hopes of catching a Jay-Z book signing at your local Barnes & Noble? Yea right.

When provoked, nerds may react with the fury of a cave troll. Earlier this week, a Canadian high school student was beaten at the hands of a group of kids he trash-talked in the computer game Warcraft III.

Finally, a lucky break for Lindsay Lohan: At today's court appearance, the judge decided she won't go to jail. She will have to stay in rehab until January 3, 2011, though. How will the paparazzi survive that long without her?

Where were you at 10:09 AM today? Figure it out, because you're going need to tell your kids what you were doing when someone overshared from space. Astronaut Douglas Wheelock just checked in 220 miles above the Earth.

At a clown convention in Mexico City, 700 clowns attempted to break the world record for laughter. They failed, probably because they turned and looked at each other, and the hellish scene of 700 cackling clowns scared them into silence.

West Virginia Rep. Nick Rahall, a Christian of Lebanese descent, has naturally been accused of loving the terrorists all election season. Here's his opponent's latest attack: "Nick Rahall: good for the Middle East, good for Obama — bad for America."

Here's a pre-wedding invitation "Save the Date" video made by a couple living in, duh, Austin, TX. It's in the style of nü-vintage filmmaker Wes Anderson's work and we can't decide if it's annoying or not. You be the judge!

Hey, parents! What's the best way to stop your kids from doing drugs? What's that you say? A conversation? Ha! Nice try, hippie. The best way to stop your kids from doing drugs is to search your home with a drug-sniffing dog once a week, rented from Maryland's very own nonprofit organization, Dogs Finding Drugs:

Here's President Obama's message of support for queer teens for the "It Gets Better" campaign. "It gets better every day," he says. (Except for the day his administration challenged the ruling overturning Don't Ask Don't Tell. All other days, though.)

Greta Van Susteren, Fox News anchor and power-blogger, was channel-surfing before her show tonight. (God knows she doesn't "prepare" or anything.) She happened on CNN's Parker/Spitzer, and was disgusted by the orgy of Bush-bashing sexual innuendo she witnessed therein.

We all know about Vogue editor Anna Wintour's... uh, quirks. Vogue Japan's editor, Anna Dello Russo, is also interesting/scary in that fashion editor way. She has an entire one-bedroom Milan apartment dedicated to her wardrobe.

Fast Company asked online voters to decide on the most influential person online. And after being lobbied via Twitter, Facebook and spam emails they've spoken: Jeremy "Shoemoney" Schoemaker is our king. Surely you know him? Shoemoney? Anyone?

A new survey finds most people think hand sanitizer works for an hour or more. Actually, it only protects for two minutes. "The best germicidal thing you can do is wash with soap and water," says a doc. [NYDN]

Polls show California's Proposition 19 losing support and possibly failing. But dweeb hero Nate Silver says pollsters might be rashly excluding stoners as "likely voters" for the pot legalization measure. They'll get around to voting. Like, almost definitely.

A group of protesters stood behind BBC political editor Nick Robinson last night, waving an anti-war sign behind his head. Mad that they ruined his shot, he grabbed their sign, tore it apart, and stomped on it. On camera.

In response to Juan Williams' firing from NPR over dumb comments about Muslims, Fox News has expanded his contributing role at its network into a regular one — replete with a whopping three-year, $2 million contract.

Wikileaks has the Army totally freaked out, and it's stepping up its efforts to keep sensitive information out of unauthorized hands. This lame cartoon character it uses to train soldiers not to leak stuff doesn't seem up to the challenge.