Oklahoma today will execute a man with the same drug used to euthanize cats and dogs.

What do you do if you're a state executioner facing a shortage of drugs for lethal injections? You improvise. That's what Oklahoma is trying to do, by using pentobarbital — the same drug used to euthanize animals — on humans.

A horde of genetically-modified mutant mosquitoes has been unleashed on the Cayman Islands to kill other mosquitoes that carry potentially deadly dengue fever. The millions of sterilized male mosquitos will mate with wild females, but produce no offspring.

Things that should never happen: A zoo in Taiwan yesterday announced the birth of two "ligers" — a cross between tigers and lions. One has already died. The Taiwanese government will fine the zoo a maximum of $1,600.

Friday's oil spill solution: robots and tubes and siphoning!

The first BP megadome didn't work. Now golf balls, hair clippings and pillows are being thrown into action. And after lying on Capitol Hill yesterday, the oil company has deployed a smaller "top hat" dome for the leak. [CNN, Getty]

The company responsible for the Gulf of Mexico oil spill wants you to know that they're working very hard to fix it. They've capped one leak! And now they're towing a concrete "dome" to the site to contain the spill.

If buying dirt weed off a neo-hippie on Haight Street doesn't satisfy your hunger for an "authentic" San Francisco experience, next time try a guided tour of the Tenderloin. The area is now being promoted as a human zoo.

Woman leaves McDonald's Happy Meal sitting out for an entire year, food barely decomposes.

Using almost every part of this Jeep, these kids use it to make techno almost palatable. It took two weeks of preparation and seven hours of filming before they got the perfect take. Worth every second.

It's not a good sign for your experiment in reshaping the face of network programming when the experiment's centerpiece muses aloud that, yeah, maybe things were better the way they were before.

Yeah, this sucks: nekkid photos of R&B singer Rihanna surfaced last night. Do you really want to see them?

The second week of Tribeca begins! Our Twitter panel is still tweeting away. Let's a take a look at a few highlights from the last 24 hours or so.

We take back everything we've ever said about Harvey Weinstein's promotional strategy for Zack and Miri Make a Porno, from his and Kevin Smith's wholly manufactured MPAA RatingsGate to our in-house suspicion of those ridiculous stick-figure posters currently making the rounds. Even our cautious optimism about the film's red-band trailer is bolstered today by This is Not Sex, a new Mean Magazine video featuring stars Elizabeth Banks and Seth Rogen caught in various throes of orgasm, conversation and contortion by filmmaker Tony Kaye. Its refined lunacy speaks for itself, but seriously: Every major fall release should be so lucky as to have its leads hanged online for unlawful carnal knowledge — except for Changeling, of course, which has its own burger-centric Pitt/Jolie collaboration to help nudge it over the top. To each his own, but really: Hula-hoop climaxes? Cha. Ching. [Mean Magazine]

Are you a wee bit unfree with your public pee? Have trouble letting it flow when you need to go? Need to be in private to drain your privates—of urine? So-called "shy bladder syndrome" has a technical medical name, paruresis; an International Association; and, best of all, a landmark 1976 study that scientifically tested whether the condition actually exists, or is just an urban legend. The results were totally worth all the secret urinal spying that the scientists had to do to get them.

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