When it emerged that Lady Gaga intended to fight a $300,000 lawsuit, filed by her former assistant (and, Gaga would like it noted, EX-best friend), we braced for some bananas court documents.

This afternoon a tipster forwarded us a Facebook post and link to a Google Doc, composed by a new mother, laying out some ground rules for the friends who will serve her.

Hirsute hacker Richard Stallman is revered by geeks as a legendary champion of open source software. He is also a legendary weirdo. Take a look at the insanely detailed rider he gives people hosting him for lectures.

The "collar bomb" fastened to the neck of 18-year-old Madeleine Pulver by a "masked man" on Wednesday afternoon was not, in fact, a bomb—though authorities were forced to treat it as real until they got it off her neck ten hours later.

Admitted Norwegian terrorist Anders Behring Breivik has a bunch of demands. Some are pretty easy: Cigarettes! Clothes! Norway has plenty of those things. Some are a little more difficult: Command of the Norwegian army! "The complete overthrow of the Norwegian and European societies"!

When Justin Bieber travels on tour, he has a list of demands. Like any kid, he wants to eat candy like Swedish Fish (or "Big Foot" while in Canada) and potato chips. So what else can't Justin live without?

When BP executives come to Washington this week to be scolded by xenophobic President Obama, they'll be told to set up an escrow account for oil spill victims' claims. Another week of fuming British editorials will follow. [Politico]

Meddling college students from California State University, Stanislaus dug the hospitality rider for Sarah Palin's upcoming speech at the college out of the trash. Good job, students! Now we learn Sarah Palin likes to drink America's milkshake with bendable straws.

The NAACP, once America's premier civil rights group but now even less influential than PETA, has sent a letter to America's biggest advertisers demanding that they hire agencies that have black executives. Does anyone care?

Kanye West likes to keep clean! His tour rider requires venues to provide various Duane Reade-ish items, such as Carmex lip balm, one pair of white tube socks, a "soft bristle" toothbrush (maybe he has sensitive gums?), one pair of large black soft cotton boxers, Neutrogena dandruff shampoo, Neutrogena face scrub, and…