In the past 24 hours, more than 8,000 of you voted on which Conde Nast magazine most deserves to live. You care, you really care! Your full results—and what they mean—below:

Somali pirates win! The world's most popular bandits had been holding a Ukrainian weapon-trafficking ship for ransom for four months. But they finally got their money, via "the new way to deliver pirate booty":

Last month we predicted ten companies and industries that would actually come out as recession winners (crazy, right?). It's time to check on how our predictions are doing! (Hint: f'in awesome):

The ten most popular tattoo designs: Stars are number one, followed by angels, "Tribal," flowers, "Celtic," and five more things you've seen before. "I'M AWSOME" holds steady at #67,442. [Mental Floss]

Racist ladies and gentlemen, we present to you your new slur for 'white people': "'Nilla." No longer will you be forced to muck by with the outdated "honky" or the bland "whitey." 'Nilla (first suggested by racial innovator Sarcastro) won in a landslide decision over runner-up slur "Altoid," capturing more than 80% of…

Taking 25% of the vote, Matthew Hilliard beat out nine other fabulous contestant to become Gawker's newest Hottest Man in Book Publishing! He's a Binghamton '06 grad and works in trade sales at Penguin. Update: Ladies, we hear he's single! Now, we've heard from a few sources that some of the gentleman in the contest…

There's a new list of the top 40 publicity stunts of all time out, and we've found what is—without a doubt—the most worthwhile of them all, from just two weeks ago: a production company called Action Figure produced a techno-scored, super slow-mo, two-minute video of all their employees getting punched in the face.…

Since this photo is not brand new, I've been waiting for two weeks for an excuse to use it. And now I have one: it's the end of the day on Friday! AWSOME! [Asylum]

Last night Doris Lessing accepted the Nobel Prize for literature with a speech about how, amidst the desperate poverty she has witnessed in Africa, people there are still hungry for books and education. She says that we in the word-glutted West must relearn the value of literature and reading. "We never thought to…

Conde Nast's Portfolio just won Min's "Hottest Launch" of 2007. It beat out National Geographic Little Kids and Highlights High Five. Congratulations!

9/11 wasn't so bad, according to newly Nobel-anointed novelist Doris Lessing. "Some Americans will think I'm crazy. Many people died, two prominent buildings fell, but it was neither as terrible nor as extraordinary as they think. They're a very naive people, or they pretend to be," she told Spanish daily El Pais.…