An attention-whorse named Oreo went buckwild in Manhattan yesterday, tearing through traffic and injuring three people.

In a scathing op-ed penned for Rolling Stone magazine, Rage Against the Machine guitarist Tom Morello has some sharp-witted fun with GOP VP candidate Paul Ryan's publicly professed appreciation for his band.

In the late '90s and early '00s, Limp Bizkit was a force to be reckoned with in the nu-metal arena.

A galaxy 5.7 billion light years away from Earth has been having so many star babies that the Associated Press deemed it a 'cosmic supermom.' This space mom galaxy, which doesn't have an official name (commenters, do your worst), 'births' 740 stars a year, compared to the Milky Way's very prudish one a year. The rapid creation of stars has scientists baffled.

While Ryan Lochte is getting smashed and letting Swedish long jumpers try on his diamond grille, some Olympic athletes were quietly planning how to slip away from the Olympic village and request political asylum in London.

If Feist's last album, 2011's Metals, were more like this spacey remix, I would have made it through the whole thing.

The vampiric, heroin-chic, buzzy actor Ezra Miller (We Need To Talk About Kevin) recently came out to Out in the open-ended manner that is popular nowadays (see: Frank Ocean, who avoided labels when revealing his past love for a man). Here is Miller's statement.

Scientists working in Japan have uncovered the world's newest Godzillas: butterflies collected from the site of the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster.

Kristen Stewart's movie mom, Jodie Foster, penned an essay for The Daily Beast Wednesday telling everyone to lay off Kristen Stewart.

Julian Assange will be granted asylum in steamy Ecuador, reports the Guardian, citing an Ecuadorian official. Assange has been hiding out in the Ecuadorian embassy in London since June 19th, seeking asylum from president Rafael Correa in order to avoid an extradition order to Sweden where he faces a sex crimes investigation.

The No Asshole Rule author Bob Sutton took to his blog yesterday to tell an incredible story about a fuck-up of staggering proportions involving United Airlines, breathtaking amounts of buck-passing, and a lost little girl.

America's obnoxious but good-looking ex who it sometimes hooks up with when it gets drunk, Ryan Lochte, will guest star on an episode of 90210, America's obnoxious but good-looking show who it sometimes watches when it gets drunk, this October.

As the final Olympics medal count shows, America dominates at pretty much everything.

Tonight Robert Pattinson re-enters the world via The Daily Show via John Stewart, he who hath the same last name as that backstabbing adulteress, Kristen.

The work of pirates, what with the murdering and kidnapping, is not the most polite way to earn a living. But, as Somali pirate Jamal Faahiye Culusow proves, that doesn't mean you have to be ungentlemanly about it.

In advance of the Aug. 24 release of blog fav Róisín Murphy's "Simulation" single, the label that's releasing it, Permanent Vacation, has leaked this subdued, housey remix of it. A demo of the original, slow-burning disco version leaked a few months ago; Spin reports the finished version is "11-and-a-half minutes of heavy breathing, and featuring one seriously ecstatic chorus." Love to love you, Murphy.

NEW YORK, NY. (The Borowitz Report Report)—Hack New Yorker satirist Andy Borowitz left the internet stunned this afternoon by deleting a joke from his Twitter account—presumably after realizing it was not funny. Has Andy Borowitz developed standards?

Expendables producer Avi Lerner won't rest until every last actor who ever played an action hero agrees to enlist in his film franchise.

This past weekend, Mitt Romney named Republican congressman Paul Ryan as his running mate, leading everyone to wonder: how will this asshole screw me, personally, if he is elected vice-president in November? Luckily for you, we have answers.

While the gossip world waited with bated breath to learn whether Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie would finally make their power consolidation official, rival couple Jennifer Aniston and Justin Theroux were off making marriage plans of their own.