Here is some straight up bullshit: some scientist who like "playing god" are trying to improve on one of God's Greatest Creations—the incredible edible egg. NEWS FLASH, eggheads: it ain't gonna happen.

The only thing I like more than a special effects-heavy sci-fi action movie set is a special effects-heavy sci-fi action movie where the male protagonists don't wear shirts. Behold John Carter, where stunningly topless Taylor Kitsch fights crazy creatures, little green men, and the hordes of women (and gays) that…

According to Our Virginia: Past and Present, a textbook currently in use in Virginia public schools, "thousands of Southern blacks fought in the Confederate ranks." According to Civil War scholars, that's not true, at all. Who is right, here?

Brian Ross, America's Wrongest Reporter, has been credited with owning the Toyota recall story, including one memorable report with Ross behind the wheel of an out-of-control car. He did it by splicing in staged footage to make it look scarier.

Love played a New Year's Eve show at The Standard, a publicity-loving nude display case in the Meatpacking District. This, apparently, is video of her "rehearsing." If you care about anything at all, watching this video will make your stomach bleed. At the end, an assistant comes in to ask, "Do you need anything else…

When the Daily Show sent Jason Jones to viciously mock the defenseless New York Times last week, the universal reaction was: Ouch. Except within the New York Times! They thought they did great.

New York Daily News publisher Mort Zuckerman unleashed a screed yesterday on the Huffington Post about how the media never covers how bad it is for Israelis dealing with Palestinian terrorism. He should know.

Congratulations to Jim Cramer for reiterating his call for investors to pull all their money from the market on the Today Show this morning, just hours before the Dow rallied for a 5.8% gain.

Every communication medium, from the telegraph to instant messaging, develops its own peculiar lingo. But the lingo of Twitter, the status-updating tool which has infected Internet hipsters, media types, and Hollywood, is ahistorically vile.

"Reinhardt," the internet conspiracy theorist who correctly predicted the crash of 2008, warned us that it was "100% sure thing market begins huge downfall" on February 9, 2009. That's today! How'd that one hold up?

Bank of America, which has already made 3,650 layoffs, reported a 95% decline in profits for the last quarter and is planning yet more job cuts. "Abysmal," declared Forbes.com. Nearly as abysmal, in fact, as the business magazine's record of editorial judgment. After the jump, a passage from Forbes' celebratory cover…

"I don't think anyone got killed there!" Wendi Murdoch (née Deng) told the Observer when asked about the Chinese government's abuses in Tibet. Boy, being married to Rupert Murdoch sure helps keep one abreast of the news. [NYO]