BlackBerry 10 is probably going to come out one day in the future, in the same way that an asteroid the size of Canada will probably hit and destroy Earth one day in the future. But regardless, some way to drum up interest is to... leak pictures of your own CEO using a pre-production BlackBerry 10 smartphone at a…

Demons? Bath salts? Lasers gone astray? What just happened here?

There are plenty of ways to train for the annual Running of the Bulls in Pamplona, Spain. This is not one of them.

Probably-stoned Oscars host James Franco and his giggly, unbearable sidekick Anne Hathaway: mediocre. But whilst bombing, Franco couldn't keep his mitts off his iPhone—he first appeared on stage gleefully gripping it. So what's he doing with the thing?

Booth babes usually have it easy, (aside from being used as inanimate perma-smiling pieces of cleavage furniture). This one doesn't. I spied this disturbing scene and could only wonder what she was thinking. "How did it come to this?"

"Sorry, Shark Week... just wanted to make sure you got my good side this time." I am 100% confident that you can do better in the comments. Your participant reward: this same picture, with LASERS.

What exactly is going on in this bizarre tableau? Has Mumm-Ra joined al Qaeda? Has Snarf secretly been crashing in the Lincoln Bedroom? Is Obama appointing an ambassador to Thundera? You write the script, io9ers!

Everybody in this photo: Jared Cohen, US State Department; Dave Morin, Facebook; John Cusack; Dean Kamen; Bill Gates; Arianna Huffington; Michael Shermer, Skeptic Magazine; and (sorta) Xeni Jardin, BoingBoing. So, uh, you guys tell us what's going on here. [BoingBoing]

Here's Steve Ballmer at the ceremony for Windows 7 going gold (final), holding, obviously, a gold disc. But what's he about to write on it with that Sharpie? You tell us. [Image via Brandon LeBlanc]

Today over in Redmond, Ford CEO Alan Mulally handed Steve Ballmer the keys to a light blue metallic Ford Fusion Hybrid not coincidentally rigged up with Microsoft's Sync system. Unfortunately, at that moment, I was too far off to hear what they were saying. Any guesses?

"I once caught a fish this big. It was so great. My dad took a picture and...wait, was that a yawn? Am I keeping you up Lieutenant White Castle??" [more shots at io9]

Wolverine himself took time out of his busy re-shooting schedule to address the online rumors swirling around Fox's decision to head back to Vancouver for more filming.

My attempt: "Here's what I think of your portraiture abilities!"

Boing Boing Gadgets' attempt: "Sony Takes Delivery of Kaz Hirai's New Throne"
Mine: "And still, Sony makes room for only one analog stick." [bbGadgets]

"What am I doing here? What are you doing here??" [halbot]

Believe it or not, there's a site dedicated to deceive kids into thinking that Santa Claus exists: Send photo, pay $10 and they insert Santa. Can you guess what Santa is doing here?

If you're ever lucky enough score two chicks at the same time, make sure to not only grab shots with your Nikon camera, but to open those blinds wide so the whole neighborhood takes shots, too. [Huffington Post via Fleshbot (nsfw)]

"All set. Now, only 23 more payments and this beauty will be all mine." [Midget Quest — Thanks B.B.]

"At least she's not riding an octopus, for once." An artistic recreation of the Boston Dynamics robot, which DARPA is quite interested in as of late. [bbGadgets]