A woman is suing Google after being hit by a car while following directions from Google Maps. Do you remember when a fictional character basically did this on The Office, and people said it was unrealistic? Ha. [PC World]

Google is "creepy" and cavalier about privacy. We've said that ourselves plenty of times, but now it's the Australian communications minister saying so, citing Google's recent spying on wifi traffic. Sadly, this same minister wants a national internet filter. Creepier.

Today at Gawker.TV, Kobe Bryant appears on the Modern Family finale, Lost creators Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindelof read Dave's Top Ten, Sam Rockwell puts on dancin' shoes, George Lopez talks nonsense, and Google prepares to take over your TV.

Google has posted another introductory video to announce their latest quest for world domination—television. In it, they ask "if the web is so smart and TV is so fun to watch, why can't they work together?"

Google co-founder Sergey Brin couldn't make it to a science gala this past weekend, so he went as a robot he could control remotely. It's a little creepy and a little awesome.

James Fallows has a truly excellent analysis of why journalism is not dying (just paper and ink) and how Google sees the industry changing. Read it if you're bored with the usual doom and gloom. [Atlantic]

Here are the funniest moments of Conan O'Brien's recent visit to Google's Silicon Valley headquarters, including the comedian riffing on Google's "entitled a-hole" staff—and a cutting impersonation of Jay Leno that apparently violated legal constraints.

In your holy Tuesday media column: Rupert Murdoch bathes his children in shit, David Brooks' wild undergrad antics exposed, Google has irrational hope for online ads, Playboy goes 3-D, and Donna Brazile is tired of hearing herself talk.

Conan O'Brien visited Google's corporate campus and apparently "killed," in part with a line discouraging people from watching his old show.

Google today announced "Google Editions," another e-book service alongside Amazon's for Kindle and Apple's for iPad. Google doesn't know what gBooks will cost or how exactly you'll read them, but they'll definitely piss Steve Jobs off, so full steam ahead!

Today at Google, "Take your child to work "day was a little different than usual, a kangaroo showed up. You might think Google's "Do No Evil" Mantra is BS but they sure know how to surprise employee's.

Want to know how paranoid you should be? Google's new toy lets you see how many times your government asked Google for private information. Citizens of Brazil, Germany and India: Fetch your tinfoil hats (chapéus de papel laminado)!

Apple fanboy? Frequent masturbator? Prepare to be disappointed: Steve Jobs has reiterated his no-smut-on-the-iPhone stance and his Google-sucks stance, writing in an email that "Folks who want porn can buy and [sic] Android phone." [TechCrunch; pic via Fleshbot (NSFW)]

Hackers compromised a "crown jewel" Google password system, the New York Times has revealed, and maybe used it to create secret, still-active back doors. What if there are back doors already being used to compromise Gmail?

We hear YouTube is preparing a new blog, and the video-sharing site is apparently seeking one or more professional journalists to write it. Google doesn't need to wait for bloggers to take videos viral when it start the process directly.

Unemployed techies, take heart: At least your soul isn't being shredded by an awful job. It sounds like that's the case with Macintosh co-inventor Andy Hertzfeld, who says acclaimed employer Google has smothered him and drained him of creative joy.

Google has done it again, this time by linking up Google Earth and Google Street View to create an amazing 3D map of Manhattan. Is this ground breaking new technology or one step closer to ultimate world domination by Google?

What happens when Google swallows your life? A new hire at the internet company is blogging the experience, from waking in his Google apartment to taking a Google car to Google dinner and then Googling home via Google.

Steve Jobs seduced New York's media moguls all too easily, convincing them his iPad would magically keep them in business — and in chauffeured limos. But nothing easy comes free, and the publishers' digital debt is now due.

Eric Schmidt runs the biggest single blog network in the world, which makes it all the more bizarre that the Google CEO was insulting bloggers at a newspaper conference today. Was it something we said, Eric?