Marc Jacobs and his ex, Lorenzo Martone, were spotted (and photographed) hanging out at the V Magazine party Monday night after Lorenzo attended Marc's fashion show. Are they just friends? Are they back together? Don't become the new on-again-off-again, Lorenzo.

Mayor Bloomberg is proposing a ban on smoking in public parks, beaches, and other areas, like the pedestrian walkways in Times Square. Where do they expect everyone to smoke now? How long before cigarettes are outlawed altogether? Five years? Ten?

David Barksadale, whose online teen-stalking exploits we detailed yesterday, was actually the second engineer fired by Google for snooping on users. He was, however, the first to target kids.

Sen. Harry Reid will include a repeal of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" in the latest Defense Authorization bill! This isn't the easy battle to choose during election season, but did Lady Gaga's reassurances on Twitter help get it in there?

While campaigning for a Minnesota candidate yesterday, Bill Clinton engaged in a bit of schadenfreude over recent election-destroying Tea Party candidates, who "make [George W. Bush] look like a liberal." It's worse, though: They make him look competent. [Image: AP]

Observe a pair of workmen climbing a 1768 ft. broadcasting tower to do repairs. Note that they do it all free-climbing style, without safety ropes or anything. Look alive, coal mining. You have a competitor in the Terrifying Jobs Contest.

Taiwanese newspaper publisher Next Daily posted a great video of Steve Jobs becoming a ninja and attacking airport security. What is the truth about the Apple CEO's martial arts skills, and why aren't U.S. media investigating? A conspiracy, perhaps?

A new study in the U.K. shows that STDs in people over 45 have doubled in the last decade. We've seen this story a million times and they still won't use condoms? And they say teens won't learn their lessons!

Establishment Republicans are (understandably!) furious after last night's Senate primary in Delaware, where '90s MTV anti-masturbation advocate Christine O'Donnell defeated the more-electable candidate Rep. Mike Castle. Karl Rove, for example, is still trashing her, although O'Donnell calls his criticisms "unfactual."

Wiped out by Madoff's Ponzi scheme, members of a Long Island country club may slap Donald Trump's name on everything and become a "'Trump-branded' country club," thereby raising money and helping their borough beat New Jersey in a tackiness competition.

A trio of Japanese Lolitas crashed Tom Ford's fashion show by saying one of them was Japanese Vogue editor Mitsuko Watanabe. I mean, maybe if they said they were with Gwen Stefani—but confusing this with this?

Google released a statement confirming it fired teen-stalking engineer David Barksdale for "breaking Google's strict internal privacy policies," as Gawker first reported earlier today. Our original exclusive, about Barksdale spying on minors' Google Voice and Talk accounts, has been updated.

A Christian leader in Amarillo, Texas doused a Quran in kerosene and prepared to burn it. Just then, a rattail-coiffed fauxhemian snuck up, grabbed the holy book, and "I was like, 'Dude, you have no Quran!'" Then he ran away.

Hey, look, a website that crowdsources information on the price of weed in various world cities, then calculates averages and charts it on a Google map. File under: Synergy, Inevitabilities, Reasons To Move To The Pacific Northwest. [PriceofWeed.com]

You know what grinds Bill Clinton's gears? When liberals attack him for selling out to Republicans for the final six years of his presidency. Clinton addressed these attacks yesterday, referencing a months-old Rachel Maddow barb about his "Republican" presidential record.

The liberal watchdogs at Media Matters have gotten Fox News to air a commercial about News Corporation — Fox News' parent company — donating $1 million to the Republican Governors Association recently. But they'll only air it once, got it?

After much speculation, TMZ has "confirmed" that Jennifer Lopez will get $12 million to serve as an American Idol judge next season, replacing Ellen DeGeneres. And here I was hoping we were done with her already. [Image via Getty]

Only those with the steeliest of stomachs should proceed. What you are about to see is video of a living 2-cm worm crawling beneath the surface of a lady's twitching eyeball, then getting extracted. It was there for six years.

David Brooks, the man infamous for throwing his daughter an elaborate bat mitzvah featuring performances by 50 Cent and Aerosmith, was convicted of insider trading and other crimes today. We hope, in some part, that party led to the verdict.

Mark Zuckerberg lured a talented chef from Google by offering him the respect he'd been denied. Yet look at the frat-house fare the Facebook CEO has him cooking.