MTV's Real World/Road Rules Challenge: The Island - An impromptu ass contest. It's like Urge Ass Wednesdays, except the guy are all hot. (To be honest, I had no idea they were still doing these RW/RR challenges. Oh, and there are some un-blurred bare asses, so it's probably NSFW.) Yeah, even on days like today, we can't forget the importance of a great ass. Or three.

This week's CNNSI Tennis Ad-in/Ad-Out

Lafayette of "True Blood" a gay icon in the making

Blackberry Storm finally being released Nov. 14

What's a day at AKAWilliam without a mention of my soon-to-be girlfriend Rachel Maddow? Well, it looks like Ms. Maddow has been chosen one of Out Magazines "Out 100." The picture was inspired by photos of Katharine Hepburn.

What do Ayn Rand, Ronald Reagan, and The Green Movement all have in common? You guessed -- they all love sci-fi!

LaBelle gives an interview to Clay Cane. Patti says: "Labelle with no gay following? That wouldn't be cute! Patti LaBelle with no gay following? That would not be nice! The gay following has been there forever."

The Tyrolean Iceman has offered up another mystery. (The first one being: who stole his genitals?) He is from a human lineage that is no longer in existence, and scientists don't know what to make of that.

The so-called Tyrolean Iceman, a 5,000-year-old mummy found in an Alpine glacier roughly two decades ago, lived in an era when people were smelting copper and living in cities. But a recent study of his mitochondrial DNA — circlets of genetic material passed on solely through mothers — revealed something astonishing about this recent human ancestor. He is from a distinct genetic group that mysteriously disappeared. Perhaps no one sharing his genetic lineage survived into the present day. Or perhaps humans are evolving so quickly that even our close ancestors are genetically distinct from us in significant ways.

This new information might be in line with recent evidence that human evolution is accelerating.

There was an "The Iceman No Longer Cometh" joke trying to be written here, but it seems kind of mean now that we know he doesn't have any family. Poor guy's been through enough.