94 years ago, liar H.K. McCann launched his NYC ad agency with the slogan "Truth Well Told." That was a big fat lie. Advertising copywriter Copyranter brings you instances of advertising lies and the lying liars who sell them.

In truth, the news of this morning's Lindsay Lohan arrest for suspicion of driving under the influence and possession of cocaine-laden pants should be a somber occasion, one where we're forced to reflect upon how fame can corrupt even the seemingly most stable of celebrities.

In this week's look at the styles of the streets, Richard Blakeley encounters Claus, an office admin from Denmark who will teach you how to dress for the theater. It's the kind of advice you won't find in New York.

In this light bit on CNN, anchor and reporter Anderson Cooper refers not even very obliquely to the fact that he is a homosexual and therefore not interested in making babies with his co-workers.

Since CNBC interviewed me about Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, the last book in the famous series, leaking onto the internets, there have been further developments. Scholastic, Potter's U.S. publisher, is threatening legal action against DeepDiscount.com, an e-commerce website which only started selling books five months ago. While it appears DeepDiscount.com did break Scholastic's embargo, it's not clear that the copies — photographs of pages, really — leaked onto file-sharing networks actually came from the online retailer. Not that any of this will hurt sales, as I told CNBC, of course. Most people don't dress their kids up in wizard costumes and stay up until midnight to download torrents. And the few dorky enough to do that placed their "Potter" pre-orders on Amazon.com months ago. (Video from CNBC)

Earlier this week, CNBC asked me to come on the air to discuss Facebook's legal woes. Click to viewI've spent days immersed in legal filings, and the clip, above, just scratches the surface of what I've learned. Next week comes a critical moment for Facebook, the red-hot social network that has captured Silicon Valley's imagination, and its founder and CEO, Mark Zuckerberg. After the jump, I explain why Zuckerberg will face a moment of reckoning next Wednesday, July 25, and detail a timeline of Facebook's legal battles.

As is our wont on a lazy summer Friday, when we suspect that most of you have abandoned us for the freedom of a two-and-a-half-day weekend, we'll pass along something for no better reason than it brings a small amount of joy into our dark, dark little lives. How does roughly 1,500 inmates at a Filipino prison performing a perfectly choreographed Thriller routine strike you? It strikes us as pretty f'ing amazing.

Prison inmates in the Philippines practice their "Thriller" routine. This WILL be the best thing you see all day. Or month. (The Cebu Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Center inmates have a fine artistic history, by the way.)

Ostensibly, MySpace was trying to highlight its MySpace TV video channels with this release. One slight hitch: The "Hott4Hill" video is also posted on YouTube, where it's gotten 600,000 views. And on MySpace TV? 1,400. Ouch. Even "Hott4Hill", on her MySpace profile, embeds a YouTube video, not the MySpace version.

Today on The View, the audience was treated to the bubble magic of world-renowned Bubble Scientist Fan Yang, who played with bubbles. Maybe it's not your thing, but whatever, we find it utterly soothing.

TriBeCa is the closest thing Manhattanites have to the Garden of Eden. Farmer's markets line the streets. Apple cider flows from fountains. Robert DeNiro can often be seen putzing around Nobu and the preschools are filled with angelic cherubim. As part of our handy Users Guide series, Joshua David Stein and the ever-perky cameraman Richard Blakeley explore the wilds of the most expensive zip code in the city. P.S. Our apologies to Drew Nierpont for the completely inaccurate pronunciation of his last name. Turns out it's Jewy not Frenchy.

Guess what we found on the street? That's right, a copy of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows! The most important book ever—for kids! There are some conspiracy theories out there that claim the Times' Michiko Kakutani bought a "wrong" or "fake" copy of the book, but having read through to the epilogue that ties everything up, it pretty much all jibes with her review. And what of that epilogue? Well, okay. But because there are some of you out there who are for some inexplicable reason fans of the childrens' book series, we will put it under the jump. DO NOT CLICK THROUGH IF YOU DON'T WANT TO KNOW HOW IT ENDS.

We love how Katonah, New York, is going "back to its roots" now that Martha Stewart is trying to brand it as her own for a product line. Umm, actual Katonah is only like 110 years old, because "Old Katonah" flooded and they had to start over. Anyhoo, this rich history won't be mangled by Martha! Today's Page Six notes that local songwriter Marc Black has taken up folksinging to stop Martha. We think he's gonna get the job done, right?

Hate to say it, but Jason Calacanis had it right: NYT gadget reviewer David Pogue's "iPhone: The Musical" was a trite, derivative, and boring piece of Apple propaganda. But a group of San Francisco webheads have come up with a pitch-perfect take on the iPhone phenomenon. Behold the glory that is "Dontcha Wish Your Cell Phone Was Hot Like Me?" — and after the jump, my take on why this spoof gets it right while Pogue's flopped.

Because we fear we may have failed in adequately relating the horrors of the coming Hollywood labor war by trying to put a cherubic face on the issues at stake, we pass along this explanatory clip from CNBC's Media Money. If an attractive woman reading aloud from the WGA and AMPTP's bellicose statements (did anyone else get totally hot at the way "Draconian restrictions" rolled off her tongue?) while standing in the middle of Universal CityWalk (or is that the Grove?) doesn't open your eyes to what's going on, nothing will.

Witness the dueling goatees! The raised eyebrows! The utter failure to reveal any new facts about the man behind The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs! News.com's Tom Krazit and I duke it out in trying to explain the Fake Steve Jobs phenomenon for CNBC's Melissa Francis. (Video by CNBC)

Though small and seemingly transparent, NoLIta is difficult to decode. Bordered by Lafayette on the west, Bowery on the East, Houston on the north and Kenmare on the south, the neighborhood is densely packed with models, boutiques and "artists." We sent Joshua David Stein and video guy Richard Blakeley to report.

According to Daily News gossip columnist Ben Widdicombe, Paris Hilton has a new boytoy—t-shirt designer Tyler Atkins. What's more, in this hardly-seen recent episode of "The Web Show," poor young Tyler recounts his introduction to and victimization by a famous young girl. The famous lass fed him pills and forced him to have sex with her and another pal! How rude.