​If you had the unfortunate pleasure of stepping outside today, you already know that it was one of the most gloomy days of all time. Along with the rain, winds were gusting at a crazy 50 miles per hour! That's a lot of blow! Look what it did to this Christmas tree at South Street Seaport. But the real victim in this story was our trusty old pal the umbrella. We've composed a gallery of our fallen soldiers along Third Avenue. R.I.P., friends.

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Barrios and his lyin' eyes.

​So, our Chilean miner with the mistress -- Yonni Barrios -- whose wife and "lady on the side" found out about one another while he was stuck underground (and whose wife subsequently failed to meet him on the day of his ascent) has been offered a $100,000 endorsement deal from AshleyMadison.com, an online dating service for skeezy people who are on the hunt for extramarital affairs.

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​Some things you see on the Internet, and you look at them, and you stare at them, thinking that maybe at some point along the lines of all this staring, it will begin to resemble something that will make sense. Try as you might, this is absolutely not one of those things.

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​Former Alaska senator Ted Stevens died in a plane crash yesterday. Voice staff writer Steven Thrasher tips us off to a screengrab he got shortly after of Alaska's NBC affiliate reporting the news...next to a campaign ad of sitting Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski. Notably, Murkowski isn't exactly a campaign finance reform advocate. Uh, clearly. Click the picture to enlarge the screengrab. [FK]