Stuyvesant High School junior Mohammed Hassan was arrested last week for setting fires at school. Sounds like the case is all wrapped up, eh? Wrong. Now there are more fires. And taunting notes! And hieroglyphics! A fiery criminal thrill ride!

How does the young mayor of a new-age left coast city cope with a major political setback? By disappearing for days on end with his all-important "life coach," as failed gubernatorial candidate Gavin Newsom is rumored to have done.

We knew Julia Allison was doing ads for Sony, but did you know Sony's actually putting Julia Allison in ads shown on television, where everyone can see them? And she's allowed to sit next to real live famous people? Odd.

Who amputated Google? For one Gawker editor's laptop, running Firefox and Windows, the buttons for "Google Search" and "I'm Feeling Lucky" were amputated from Google.com. Instead, there's this taunting minimalist slogan:

Billionaire investor Jeffry Picower—who made billions off of Bernie Madoff's Ponzi scheme—was found dead in his (expensive) pool Sunday. Murder??? Well, the coroner doesn't want you to think so. But clearly, Madoff's money has a deadly curse.

Last month, we found out the FBI destroyed a file on Walter Cronkite despite its obligation to retain historically significant records. Gawker has learned that the file involved an extortion investigation. What is it with CBS luminaries and extortion, anyway?

Nikki Finke reports today that Mad Men creator Matthew Weiner has fired Kater Gordon, his personal assistant, turned writers assistant, turned Emmy-winning staff writer. But why? Gordon had a metoric rise to the top, peaking with an Emmy win.

What exactly happened on the L train—NYC's most cool subway line—today? Earlier we heard rumors of a suicide. We got a bunch of tips. And just before we went to put up this post, we saw this.

So: Michael Jackson, Lady Gaga, Tucker Carlson. What do the three previous posts have in common? None of 'em are nearly as much fun as watching a conservative policy group play the press cycle over a "Jewboy" "email" from NBC.

It should be a happy day for Mike Arrington and Jason Calacanis. The tech nabobs just wrapped their latest TechCrunch 50 conference, which captivated venture capitalists and the press. But the moguls are locked in Northern California-Southern California civil war.

Fancy Georgetown University is being stalked by a sex criminal (nicknamed the "Georgetown Cuddler," cute) who breaks into women's bedrooms and assaults them as they sleep. Police have not been able to track down a suspect of this description:

Journalism works! British police are reopening an investigation into the mysterious 1969 death of the Rolling Stones founder Brian Jones after a reporter handed over 600 documents from his files indicating that Jones may have been murdered.

Media wise man Steven Brill is busy saving (HEH) the newspaper industry with micropayments—but not so busy that he couldn't write up a long New Yorker article about NYC teachers. Hey, it's good to be good at something.

Yes, this photograph actually came from The Official White House Photostream, and it is a hypnotizing as it is curiously strange. Who took it? Who are the women in the picture? What is being said, here?!

Earlier tonight Olympic stoner Michael Phelps was involved in a car accident in downtown Baltimore. Now we've learned that the precise location of the accident took place in heart of Baltimore's tranny-hooker district.

Somali pirates are dramatic to a point, but they lack that spy-novelesque element of international (supernatural?) intrigue. Luckily, there may be unknown pirate forces lurking in the seas off Europe—they've already grabbed one ship carrying...secrets???

Ever wonder how The Daily Show books so many guests of the conservative persuasion? Apparently it has something to do with the fact that Jon Stewart is one of the few hosts on television who's considered fair and intellectually curious.

Last Friday we showed you a blurry photo of an underwear-clad white man draped over the Wall Street Bull, dead to the world. Our first guess: Jesus himself (he's not young any more), serving as a powerful metaphor. But no:

This blurry photo was purportedly taken in the dark heart of Wall Street this morning. As you can see, it clearly shows... uh...

Yesterday, the guy who created the bull sculpture down by Wall Street filed a lawsuit over what he said was an attempt to exploit his work without permission. Today, a body turned up on top of it, clad only in his underwear. Coincidence? [Dealbreaker]