If Apple wins its patent-infringement case against the Google Nexus One smartphone, it might be able to get all existing handsets bricked or crippled. It's not a far-fetched idea, a Harvard Law professor told the New York Times Bits blog.

Rupert Murdoch has announced that his lively banking newsletter The Wall Street Journal will by next month have a New York metro section. In full color! Every last urban rapscallion and common street urchin will soon have his own stipple headcut, just so Chairman Murdoch can get in on some of that local-print-media money that's all the rage lately. Harrrrumph.

Using a complex computer model, NASA scientists concluded the earthquake in Chile may have altered the Earth's rotation, shortening each day one-millionth of a second. And the planet's axis may have moved three inches. So: Even worse disaster than expected.

The Academy Awards have become more about the clothes and less about the awards themselves. Too bad all the ensembles are bland creations some stylist picked out. It's time to free ourselves from the tyranny of the Worst Dressed List!

It's somewhat disappointing that Evan Lysacek, Pam Anderson, Kate Gosselin, and Ochocinco were cast for a show and won't be clashing in a shared home. But DWTS Season 10's draw is precisely the opposite spectacle: Public figures improving their images.

[Participants at the CeBit exhibition, the giant high-tech fair underway in Germany, remake a classic shot of a theater filled with bespectacled patrons. Image via Getty]

Eric Schmidt has shown a penchant for making enemies lately, but no former associate has publicly broken with the Google CEO as vehemently as John Sundman, the former Sun manager who fantasized about putting Schmidt's "teeth down his throat."

TLC, the cable home of the pageant, will no longer air the beauty competition. Now Miss America is even more like a hobo: homeless and outdated, but still capable of inspiring Halloween costumes when all other ideas are taken. [Getty]

Apple products are made in factories that regularly employ young teenagers, constantly work people more than 60 hours per week, and falsify records to cover up their misdeeds. That's according to the shameless gossiping muckrakers at... uh, Apple Inc.

[Hope you enjoyed your snow day today, New York, like these people trudging through Bryant Park today. Monday it's back to the office—through the slush. Image via Getty]

There is a debate in the academic community about whether or not schools should add a voluntary question about sexual orientation to their applications. They definitely should. After surviving high school, these gay students deserve a prize!

Bond No. 9, which has been marketing the smells of New York for years, announced that it's distilling the essence of the High Line. So what's New York's newest park going to smell like?

Donald Trump came down from Trump Tower yesterday to testify in court that Trump Entertainment Resorts needs the Trump name if the Trump casinos will be successful again. Everyone disagrees, but he's holding his name hostage. Trump!

The "You're So Vain" guessing has finally ended, much to the chagrin of narcissistic old musician dudes like James Taylor who thought it was about them. And it's... David Geffen?! WTF? (Update: Maybe not!) [The Sun] [Pic: Getty]

Some might say so! With malfunctions both technical and human, with real sadnesses and imagined ones, these winter games have been fraught with hiccups and hold-ups. So do we leave them with a grim feeling?

King Bloomberg has declared a snow day! Long live the king! It's too snowy for New York kids to go to school today. City employees, however, are still expected to work. Who will care for their children? [ABCLocal]

Olympic women spun, leaped, and flying cameled their way to the figure skating podium last night, but with all those plunging backs and necklines (not to mention visible nipples) all I could think was, Where does the bra go?

[... But this picture is so delightful. It makes us love New York so. Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow. Image via Getty]

Rupert Murdoch—the dashing, daring, fearsome and fearless press baron, the mogul among moguls—will celebrate his 79th birthday next month. As he approaches his final years at the helm of his empire, he finds it crumbling around him.

Everyone's getting vajazzled! Well, okay, maybe just Jennifer Love Hewitt and some chick who got it done for free and blogged about it. (Slightly NSFW. Also, ew.) But what do dudes think about this latest trend in private part adornment?