A 15-foot Minke whale washed up in New Jersey, and it wasn't long before someone notified the authorities. And by "notified the authorities," I mean "spraypainted a fraternity logo on the dead whale."

Last May, graffiti artist Kidult scrawled "ART" in huge red letters across the Marc Jacobs store in Soho. Skilled clothing pricer Marc Jacobs proceeded to screenprint the image of the tagged store onto t-shirts and sell them for $686. The t-shirt read "Art by Art Jacob$."

So, everyone's excited about the new Facebook Places, right? The Facebook service that lets you check-in, Foursquare style, at whatever hip Sushi bar/bicycle repair shop you happen to be in. Oh, and also other people can check you in, too.

Yesterday we poked fun at the Huffington Post for tagging their Heath Ledger posts with Tuesday's second fastest-rising Google search term "Keith Ledger." But according to commenters, tipsters and your mom, it turns out they did it on purpose, in order to catch web traffic from the legions of deaf, misspelling Google…