Flannery Dean

In today’s news: smart phones as credit cards; the figure skating championships get moved to Russia; Rebecca Black simply won’t go away; first sperm cells grown outside of the body; and a proposed seal cull stirs controversy.

Credit cards come in handy at this time of year, especially if you’re cash-poor and have a whack of friends, family and co-workers to buy for in a short amount of time.

Breaking up is hard to do. Find out the new trend that can make it a lot worse, and even end in jail time.

The speculation over why Arnold Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver separated is officially over. And it’s as bad as you thought it might be.

If personal relationships were perfect they wouldn’t be personal relationships—they’d be something like employee-employer relations. Which is to say they’d be a mix of performance art and sublimation (‘Really looking forward to that corporate retreat over the long weekend!’)