This week saw the passing of Jerry Falwell, preacher, teacher, and moral majoritarian. How did New Yorkers react to the loss? The Assimilated Negro and Richard Blakeley hit the street to hear the good word.

NICK DOUGLAS — Which is better, San Francisco or the warmer but geekier Silicon Valley? Rather than answer with a chart or quotes or some boring list, I personified them in one of those cute little Get a Mac ads we all like.

· We want to believe in the existence of crazy, neverending, shoot-your-wife-in-the-face love as much as the next guy, but we dunno...something about these two isn't quite right.
· That little kid is never going to learn not to wander too close to the street dancers, is he?
· The auctioning of Michael Jackson's "sex toys" sounds a little gross, until you realize they're just talking about the GI Joes and Pokemons that help get kids in the mood.
·Behold the majesty of the lambda.
·Hey, zebracorns!

Last night as a light drizzle fell on the East Village, a cavalcade of drag queens, strippers and fetish models gathered at Lucky Cheng's for Cooch, a "sexxy industrial elektro rock circus porn party" that somehow benefited Darfur. The event was a frantic commingling of body parts, latex and chains. Nearly every permutation of body part combination was explored. (For video evidence, visit our NSFW brethren, Fleshbot) But between spanking each other and nude writhing, a few of the performers took the time to sink back into a reverie of the craziest place they've had sex in New York. Apparently the Empire State Building has a floor called Double D where the old of body and easy of lay make the beast with two backs. Take that, Sunday Styles! —Josh

We'd completely forgotten that our favorite former Disney CEO had a cute little chat show over on CNBC (we'll have to do some research and figure out if we get that channel), until a helpful tipster forwarded us this clip from an upcoming episode of Conversations with Michael Eisner, reminding us of all the fun we've been missing out on by excluding it from our TiVo season pass list. We have no idea about what other delights are in store for us if we tune in on Monday night, but we imagine nothing that happens can top burgeoning trading card mogul Eisner and old buddy John sharing a laugh—and a stick of decades-old gum—over the actor's Barbarino rookie card. Don't eat it, Michael! It tastes like the 70s!

The inexplicable mystery of Elisabeth Hasselbeck's continuing employment at "The View" has finally been solved: She serves as personal deboogenator for the rest of the staff. [WARNING: Contains footage of a grown woman picking another grown woman's nose.]

You have, by now, surely seen the world-famous video wherein a bunch of kids, using their pelvises, perplex an ottoman. Did you know that, thanks to the creativity of the Internet communities, there is a parody of that video, but about blogging? Hahahahah, it's true! It's this kind of thing that explains why we still haven't told our parents what we really do for a living. (Should you be one of the eight people who missed the original ottoman-fornicating clip, we've placed it after the jump.)

New York magazine's fashion-on-the-street feature, the Look Book, set up shop around the corner from our office today. Who was Amy Larocca, the arbiter of taste, destroyer of men and maker of heroes? We wanted to know. Finding her was easy. The Look Book Squad had set up a massive white backdrop on the corner. Like a spider awaiting its prey, Larocca lurked nearby for sartorial ridiculants. But like a sunglassed snow leopard, she proved elusive, sliding out of the camera's field of vision. After minutes of being nice (the longest I've ever gone), she agreed to be interviewed. Why? She's got a book to plug! It's coming out on Sept. 3!

Not much more to say this one, although we do appreciate the Today Show host's stoic demeanor. Also, Al Roker could have been nicer about it. Anyway, enjoy!

A recent topic for discussion on Fox News' "The Big Story with John Gibson" was the suspension of radio "personalities" Opie & Anthony for a guest's expressed desire to rape Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and First Lady Laura Bush. Gibson's panel included comedian Patrice Oneal, who suggested that no topic is off-limits so long as you can be humorous about it. We're pretty sure this was the first time anyone used the phrase "donkey punch" on Fox News. Before last night's Jerry Falwell remembrance, of course.

· Say what you will about yesterday's ottoman-humping clip, but at least no one got hurt.
· Fred Thompson is ducking Michael Moore's debate challenge, but at least he's doing it in style.
· Tinky-Winky victorious.
· The supposedly yanked Kim Kardashian sex tape is still for sale? Get yours now before she's no longer marginally famous.
· And finally: dumb cop brownies. [via Queerty]

In between super-sizing, over-ordering, and spinning off every decently rated property on its current programming roster, NBC managed to slip a couple of semi-original shows onto its Fall schedule. To whet your appetite for their upcoming September offerings, the network has posted a number of teasers to its YouTube page, including the above clip from its Bionic Woman update. Network president Kevin Reilly did proudly disclose his "choke on our classy hits" strategy yesterday, so we're not too surprised to discover that the show feels a little like Heroes in atmosphere (why not just go all the way and have the one with the pissed-off reflection turn up to bust Jamie out of the hospital?). If you're still feeling nostalgic for the original even after watching the rebuilt heroine nearly kill her physician because she's less than thrilled with her new legs, a clip of its classic opening credits follows after the jump:

This is a terrible, terrible thing, but we could not withhold it from you.

Previously: The Incredible Shrinking 'New Republic'

NICK DOUGLAS — Okay, Digg's co-founder isn't so much "on Sesame Street" as he is "on an Internet puppet show about Toronto web designers." Kevin Rose and his friends Alex Albrecht (Kevin's cohost on the Diggnation podcast) and Leo Laporte (creator of the TWiT podcast network) star as themselves in this surreal episode of the dotBoom show involving beer, design and mortal combat. Watch it at dotBoom or below.

Last night's "Insider" took a look at Janice Min, editor in chief of Us Weekly, the only celebrity rag to never get anything wrong. Celebrity sources! The impact of her magazine on people's lives! Brad & Angie! Tivo jockey Alex Goldberg assembled this fine montage.

We'll warn you in advance: This latest transmission from batshit-genius YouTube monologist Brian Atene is for connoisseurs only, a tour de force of dramatic subtlety featuring none of the cheap, mind-melting fireworks that have marked his recent efforts. Sure, he might be getting a little precious and self-referential in this installment, but after all the joy he's given us, we won't begrudge him 53 seconds for himself.

As the staff of the New York Times bids a sad farewell to the edifice at 229 West 43rd Street, let's take a fun and educational look back at the origins of the building. Here's a clip from River of Steel, a 1994 documentary about the construction of the subway system. It's a little odd to think of newspapers being distributed more quickly via mass transit, but we're sure the move westward will allow the Times to hasten the pace of delivery via their new proximity to... Port Authority?

NICK DOUGLAS — Ever been at the bar at 2 A.M. and see one of those striped-shirt bridge-and-tunnel guys make a desperate last-call pass at the sketchiest girl in the establishment? It looks like the video partnership between the San Jose Mercury News and PodTech.net. Their debut video features Yahoo Brickhouse (the net giant's San Francisco startup incubator which is, rumor has it, as hopeless as PodTech and the Merc). I don't know who edited this thing, because I couldn't stand the dark video and distracting background noise long enough to see the credits. But I'm guessing the black-and-white hyper-actively subtitled intro was commissioned from a high school film class. And oh boy you can watch it below!

BBC, Church of Scientology involved in online dispute [World Today]