CNN's Reza Aslan reported tonight that sources in Iran said that the clerical body overseeing the Grand Ayatollah has called an emergency meeting. Meanwhile, the Iranian military issued a threat to online media outlets who "create tension." [Pic via Getty]

[That's James Joyce there on the right, next to Sylvia Beach, undated. Today is Bloomsday in Dublin, when the writer's works are celebrated and there's a pub crawl; image via Getty]

Sure, Rupert Murdoch and Silvio Berlusconi pretend they're fighting about a hot young model who calls Berlusconi her "papi." But that's just a banal cover story for what really gets the two men hot and bothered: media properties!

All of a sudden, thanks to Twitter and Bill Keller, Iran is like the biggest story of the year! What's the latest? Killings in the street, a president on the run, media in peril, and a Florida 2000 recount replay:

Former Intel chief Andy Grove famously believed that "only the paranoid survive" in Silicon Valley business. Co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page seem intent to inject this spirit back into fat, dominant Google. They're even worrying about Bing.

[Palestinian men performing Muslim early morning prayers after crossing from the West Bank town of Qalqilya to work in Israel this morning at an Army Checkpoint. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made a speech today calling for a demilitarized Palestinian state. Photo by David Silverman/Getty Images.]

[A supporter of defeated Iranian presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi hurls a stone at riot policemen during riots in Tehran today. Photo credit: Oliver Laban-Mattei/AFP/Getty Images. Read more coverage on today's Iranian elections here.]

[Olympic god Michael Phelps sports an unfortunate mustache at a swim meet in California; image via Getty]

Yikes. Dustin Lance Black, the dreamy Oscar-winning screenwriter of Milk, has just been betrayed by someone he knows... yeah, in that sense. Someone has sold sex pics to a photo agency, and now bad old Perez Hilton has found them.

Attend the tale of Mike Gilbert. The former sports agent is the maybe-owner of one of the stranger items of pop memorabilia: the suit O.J. Simpson was wearing when he was acquitted of murder, lo those fourteen years ago.

It's kind of a sad news day for some. Mostly for actors who never quite took off the way some had hoped. But it's also good news for fans of Amy Poehler and Joy Behar. They're doing just fine.

Canatara Christopher—who runs the small book imprint that published a book of poems by Stephen Gyllenhaal, dad of Jake and Maggie—no longer seems to worship her famous friend. She sent an email around, revealing family secrets.

Barry Diller's effort to pawn off Very Short List, his failed shopping newsletter for the rich, is turning into a classic New York media folly — a big drama over a puny digital property.

The Senate has just passed a sweeping bill that essentially bans light cigarettes, as they're marketed as healthier when, really, they're not. So no more of your favorite iconic brands, which are mostly smoked by the youngs. Brands like:

California's liberal millionaires have turned the Tesla Motors waiting list into a thing of wonder. It's thousands of dollars just to sign up. But company bigwigs fetishize their electric vehicle just as irrationally, a lawsuit reveals. Heartening.

Ladies, sick of being depicted as gold-dug layabouts who suckle off the teat of their husbands' "hard work"? Well Real Housewives is getting a flipsy-daisy with a new Fox Reality Channel (yes, this exists) series called Househusbands of Hollywood.

Stop laughing at swine flu right this instant: the World Health Organization has just declared the first global flu pandemic in 41 years, meaning we're all just one mutation away from devastation:

[Today's been a day for shitty news, so we went back to yesterday to find something cute: baby panthers Larisa and Sipura in a basket at a zoo in Germany; image via Getty]

Very Short List has been a favorite bauble of Barry Diller since the IAC chief established it nearly three years ago, after failing to buy Daily Candy. He envisioned VSL as a smart, tidy newsletter. But it looks worrisomely distended.

Producer extraordinaire Phil Spector killed somebody and went to jail and now he's not allowed to wear his wig. How unfortunate for everyone involved. Click through for Spector, be-wigged: