Viacom aims a $1 billion lawsuit squarely at Google’s very large head, and the search company barely blinks. What are they thinking?

That Blair kid isn't the only faker in town. With a little creative use of new technology, you no longer need to experience anything firsthand—and people will cheerfully let you get away with it!

The New York Weblog explosion has created a new wave of chattering-class grandees. So what if they’re sitting at home in their bathrobes?

After six years of Samantha's Sex and the City exploits, how could the two-second baring of Janet Jackson's breast spark such a culture war?

Queer Eye for the Straight Guy is a homo-hetero crossover hit, but is it landmark programming or just a swishy infomercial?

The 10,000 kids who swarmed the Javits Center last week weren't just angling for American Idol-dom. They were rallying against the record industry.

From the NBA to the WB, straight men are shaving their body hair—even their pits!—at a time when gay men (and Kate Moss) are letting it all grow out.

File sharing seems like something for nothing. But what you give in return is privacy. Now Big Brother, and his extended family, are always watching.

Why we like (no, love) to watch plastic surgery on TV.

Demi’s boy toy Ashton Kutcher would be facing Ben Affleck’s sorry fate if his hit MTV show, now entering its second season, weren’t so subversively brilliant.