For the second time in two days, Somali pirates have seized a commercial boat, this time boarding the German freight ship Beluga Fortune. Yesterday, pirates seized a liquefied gas tanker, also off the coast of Kenya. They're back! [AP]

Some staffers at the DC bureau of ABC News aren't happy with the August hiring of "distant outsider" Christiane Amanpour to take over the Sunday talk show, "This Week." They really just wanted a boring DC insider. Boo hoo.

Earlier we linked to a story about a Georgetown University freshman dorm doubling as a meth lab. Turns out students were producing the hallucinogenic drug DMT, or dimethyltryptamine in room 926 of Harbin Hall. Two students were arrested. [The Hoya]

[The excitement of Ohio's gubernatorial race was too much for Virgil Reynolds, who was pictured napping at a campaign rally for Democratic Governor Ted Strickland. Image via Getty]

Yesterday a great white shark killed 19-year-old boogie-boarder Lucas Ransom in California after ripping his leg off at the pelvis. An expert said the shark probably thought Ransom was a sea lion, in a tragic case of "mistaken identity." [LAT]

We've heard about the troubling behavior of Meg Whitman's eldest son, Griffith Harsh, who has been arrested twice and accused of rape. Let's check in on younger brother William. He appeared in court on Tuesday on a careless driving charge.

Per a tipster: "Saw [recently deposed NBC CEO] Jeff Zucker shopping the jewelry area at Saks, apparently attempting to spend a small fraction of his severance. Expensive shoes." Spot someone? Email us or post it yourself to #stalker. [Photo: Getty]

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.

What a week Juan Williams has had! From mild-mannered NPR analyst and Fox News liberal stand-in to multimillionaire full-time Fox News guy, thanks to one dumb comment. Fair warning, Juan: you're about to throw away your entire career. Needlessly.

[Newt Gingrich appeared at the "Jobs Here, Jobs Now" event in support of Nevada Tea Party Senate candidate Sharron Angle yesterday. Image via Getty]

Who: The brash, often obnoxious chairman of the advertising agency founded by his dad, Deutsch is an inescapable media presence these days: He's a talking head on MSNBC, the former host of CNBC's The Big Idea with Donny Deutsch, and a bestselling author.

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas' ex-girlfriend Lillian McEwen has decided to "break her silence" about their five-year-long relationship in a Washington Post interview. Turns out, Justice Thomas was "obsessed with porn" and was "partial to women with large breasts." Shocking!

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.

Mel Gibson was slated to take a babystep back into blockbuster films with a cameo role in The Hangover 2. He was cut: Director Todd Phillips says Gibson's role "didn't have the full support of my entire cast and crew."

[This photographer taking snaps of two strippers at the annual Venus Erotic Fair in Berlin is probably having the best day of his professional life. A less safe-for-work photo inside.]

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.

Who: Perelman is a legendary financier, corporate raider, and buyout king. He's equally famous for his string of failed marriages and contentious divorces.

Longtime NPR contributor Juan Williams has had his contract severed by the radio network! Because, guess what, he made some stupid comments about Muslims on Fox News' The O'Reilly Factor. (Spoiler: He is scared of them.)

"Patient Zero," the Los Angeles porn star whose positive HIV test shut down four studios, apparently did not affect any of his or her partners. The first round of tests, at least, indicates as much.