Facebook's craftiness has backfired—again. The company just admitted it was behind a shadowy PR effort to plant negative stories about how Google is destroying your privacy.

What do Courtney Love and the Taliban have in common, besides being harbingers of the West's decline? They both have twitter accounts!

Gwyneth Paltrow's GOOP garden plan raises eyebrows. Leo and Bar Rafaeli break up. Lindsay Lohan's probation report says she was secretly drunk this whole time. Thursday gossip catches Miley Cyrus' attention.

Meatpacking District hellhole Tenjune, besides serving as a microcosm of all that's wrong with humanity, is also owned by a dude who possibly likes to jerk off in front of his employees — according to a lawsuit filed by four employees, that is. Mark Birnbaum, the club's co-owner, is facing allegations that he "[M]ade unwelcome sexual advances, requested sexual favors, and engaged in inappropriate and illegal verbal and physical conduct of a sexual nature with plaintiffs, all of whom are young female employees at the lounges." Classy.

America's one-time favorite British person almost joined the cast of America's one-time favorite sitcom. A match made in sad heaven! Also today: news from Cannes, a bloody upfront scares us all, and of course Hunger Games casting news.

Poor sad millionairess Jennifer Aniston. The actress recently bought the Manhattan sky tomb of her saddest dreams, but couldn't quite muster the strength to be a, gulp, single independent lady and put her own name on the apartment.

Donald Trump let Rolling Stone in on his hair routine: "OK, what I do is, wash it with Head and Shoulders. I don't dry it, though. I let it dry by itself. It takes about an hour."

Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith will be the guests on the final episode of The Oprah Winfrey Show on May 25th. Will they bring their celebrity brood? Will everyone get a car? You know we'll all be watching regardless.

Lindsay Lohan formally submitted her "no contest" plea to the misdemeanor theft of a necklace today, and the judge decided she will serve no time beyond the 120 days she has already been sentenced for violating probation.

Hedge fund owner Raj Rajaratnam was convicted this morning on 14 counts of insider trading, on account of the hours and hours of secretly recorded phone conversations federal prosecutors had of him saying stuff like, "Hey, let's do some insider trading!"

Why perpetuate the meme by photoshopping Princes Beatrice's whimsical curlicue Royal Wedding hat onto an existing photo of yourself when you can instead buy the actual thing!

Lady Gaga breaks a nail and flips off a bunch of rich people. The royal wedding made Fergie feel "totally worthless." Heidi Montag warns that reality stardom is "hard." Wednesday gossip triumphs over adversity.

Political prop and fecund fameball Bristol Palin has admitted to getting surgery on her jaw: "I had corrective jaw surgery." Like a starlet "correcting" a deviated septum, Bristol insists that the alteration was a medical necessity.

Envious of Prince William and Harry's iPads, Queen Elizabeth has reportedly ordered up one of the tablet computers for herself, hoping the iPad will "keep her entertained on the long trips she has to make."

A weird thing is happening in the sky: planets will align this month. But the strangest thing is happening here on Earth: There's been hardly a peep about disasters and doom. Did the internet forget its hysteria generator at home?

You can't buy cool, but Google is determined to try. At its annual Google I/O conference in San Francisco, the company is unveiling a music service, and Fast Company hears that Lady Gaga is already shooting ads for it.

Concerned about the safety of abandoned children, Cape Town's Kim Highfield installed a "baby safe" in a community center. It's a perforated movie rental return box with electronic rigging and a lock, basically. Times-Live reports,

Miley Cyrus has her eye on the Governator's son. Prince bans Whitney Houston from his shows. Katie Holmes isn't pregnant. Rachel McAdams isn't engaged. Tuesday gossip needs a shoulder to cry on.

Last night was the semi-glamorous ceremony of the National Magazine Awards, "The Ellies," the longest night in magazines. Let's relive it!

Since the retrial of cartoonish former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich began on April 20, his defense attorney Aaron Goldstein has been hit with over 150 objections from prosecutors. And yesterday, the judge in the case basically told him to quit pussy footing around and get to the goddamn point: "If you are going to make a defense, make a defense. Don't nibble around the edges with stuff that's inadmissible." Goldstein has also apparently been giving "non-factual descriptions" during his cross-examination of witnesses.