No, peeing in the pool won't magically turn the water around you a different color, but according to a new study there's a much more nefarious chemical reaction at play when you let it flow where the pool toys go.

Clarification: The government shutdown did not make Nickelback more popular than Congress. (That poll is from January 8, 2013.) It did, however, help make Congress less liked than dog doo-doo. Very important distinction.

If you’re in a tropical country and looking to avoid malaria, the scientists at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine have an easy pro-tip for you: wash your damn socks.

As part of its What? documentary series, last night Logo ran an hour-long exploration of the world of male strippers called, fittingly enough, I'm a Stripper. In this clip, a few of the bros (of varying douchiness) interviewed for the movie discuss what they do to achieve and maintain the erections they're expected to…

Prepare to stop taking a lot of things for granted.

Attention, bank robbers: if you're trying to rob a Chase branch, and the bank teller just walks away from you rudely, don't be offended—they're just following company policy! Incorporate this knowledge in your future robbery plans. [Daily Intel; Pic]

Bensimon, a Real Housewife of New York City who is not dead, has been acting a bit kooky this season, and she's now created a homemade after school special-style PSA to explain it all away. See, she was bullied!

One way of communicating to everyone that you're "in the know" is to refer to people not by their bylines, but by their IRL nicknames. Everyone will know you're a poser if you don't call A.O. Scott (pictured) "Tony."

Gawker friend Mark Ebner's Maxim story on the Beverly Hills Bandits includes this fact: the father of one member, Nick Prugo, is a film executive behind both no-budget blockbuster Paranormal Activity and poop-movie I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell.

Not that it's much consolation, but a Scientific American piece going viral explains that those suffering from depression are at an "evolutionary paradox" and are more evolved thinkers than happy-go-lucky types due to their analytical nature. Viva Wellbutrin. [Scientific American]

Spam: it's not just nasty meat in a can. It's a leading economic indicator! Hormel has been selling the ground-up pig concoction for more than 70 years, and it's acquired quite a status as a gross American icon. Plus, economists have noticed that people seem to buy more cheap, crappy food products as the economy…

Lorbergate continues, and no one seems to have wised up. Yesterday we posted a couple of times about Alexandria Symonds, a student writer for the Colubmia Spectator who received a pleasant bitchslap of an email from Amanada Lorber (she of the MTV reality gem The Paper) after writing a few nasty things about the brash,…

The New York Post is tough on crime. Especially celebrity crime. They take gleeful pleasure (as we all do!) in cataloging the excesses and trashy doings of the drug-addicted and famous. Yesterday's breathless report on the arrest of poor former child star Tatum O'Neal went into embarrassing detail of her arrest for…

Internet nerds became terribly excited recently when Twitter sprung a man from jail, but it's worth noting that in most of the world, blogging is much, much more likely to send you to to clink. While there are a number of bloggers whose eternal imprisonment—possibly in the Phantom Zone—we fantasize about daily, we…

I've never used, or even felt anything approaching ZOMG until I heard that Facebook was launching a chat program. According to Wiktionary, ZOMG is an "overzealous typo of OMG, resulting from the proximity of z to the shift key." That sort of reminds me of the Facebook group, "I Prematurely Release The Shift Key!!1",…