You'll remember him as Hedley Lamarr in Blazing Saddles, Dr. Charles Montague in High Anxiety, Count de Monet in History of the World: Part I, and Dr. Jack Seward in Dracula: Dead and Loving It. He made many many television appearances, including The Jack Benny Show, The Lucy Show, The Flintstones, The Munsters, The Harvey Korman Show, The Tim Conway Show, Mama's Family, The Love Boat, and most memorably in The Carol Burnett Show, where he attempted to keep a straight face week after week under the onslaught of overwhelming silliness. Harvey Korman died today at the UCLA Medical Center. He was 81.

Continue reading to see some footage of a comedy master.

Sunset is at 8:19pm in Manhattan tonight. Tonight also happens to be one of the semi-annual occurrences in which the setting sun aligns with the east-west streets of Manhattan's main street grid. So if you're in town, look West around eight o'clock to watch the sun dive between our steel canyons.

For more on Manhattanhenge, click here.

Holy crap!

Aliens have landed in Colorado. No, this guy is not ET, he's Jeff Peckman the guy who claims to have video evidence of a real alien which he'll release to the world tomorrow. Finally, a legitimate story that's gets politics off the front page. (In a related story, today John McCain vowed to send the alien back to Mexico if it didn't come here legally.)

A video that purportedly shows a living, breathing space alien will be shown to the news media Friday in Denver.

"As impressive as it is, it's still one tiny portion in the context of a vast amount of peripheral evidence," he said Wednesday. "It's really the final visual confirmation of what you already know to be true having seen all the other evidence."

Peckman, 54, said the video was among the reasons he was "compelled" to launch the proposed ballot initiative, which has generated news coverage as far as South Africa.

"It shows an extraterrestrial's head popping up outside of a window at night, looking in the window, that's visible through an infrared camera," he said.

The alien is about 4 feet tall and can be seen blinking, Peckman said this month.

In a statement, Peckman said "other related credible evidence" proving aliens exist will be shown at Friday's news conference, too.

Now all this leads me to wonder...Why did the extraterrestrial stick his head out of the window?

To look for his friend the chicken, perhaps?

From The Cairns Post down under.

A roadside toilet stop ended in pain, embarrassment and almost death for a tourist when a highly venomous snake bit the end of his penis.

The deadly brown snake slithered between his legs and lunged at his manhood as he crouched on a roadside near Laura, 300km northwest of Cairns, about a month ago. Details of the incident only came to light yesterday after they were confirmed by a paramedic.

"It certainly had a swipe at him," an ambulance spokesman said yesterday. "But it didn't envenomate him.

"As it came through it must have got a bit of a shock."

The snake beat a hasty retreat, leaving its victim with a scratch, vomiting and abdomen pain. Emergency workers raced to the scene to treat the man. The wound was wrapped in plastic in case poison had penetrated the skin but medical staff gave the man the all-clear after conducting tests.

He was taken to Cooktown Hospital where he spent a night recovering.

The ambulance spokesman described him as "lucky", given his near encounter with one of Australia's most poisonous snakes. "I think he was a bit shocked and embarrassed," he said.

"So, Glen, how was your trip to Australia? Did you see any of those huge snakes? Do you have pictures to show us?"

Due to the fact that a large part of our audience is impressionable youngsters and risk-adverse marketing executives, I've put this ridiculous (yet racy) image of this man's mustache after the jump. (Then again after the beating I took for posting Omar's death, I should have known better.)

Enjoy, if you're over 18 and/or have a note from your gynecologist hairdresser.

I am well aware that I am not within driving distance of the target audience for "Sex and the City." It's not produced for people like me; male and straight. However, I live in the world and follow pop culture fairly closely, so the show was difficult to avoid. I saw bits and pieces of it during the initial run on HBO. It was enough.

Now for some bizarre reason this show - that I'm pretty sure is about three high priced call girls and their mentor, a slutty older madam - is a feature length film coming to your local cinema. I know there will be an unlimited amount of "Ladies Night" outings to go see the shallow gals fawn over $500 shoes and talk about dildos, but you couldn't herd me into the theater with a cattle prod. I'd rather chew broken glass sprinkled with salt.

Though I find a large number of storytelling sins in the show, I only have one real reason for avoiding "Sex and the City" like a girl with seven herpes sores on her mouth.

One huge, stinking, iceberg-that-sunk-the-Titanic sized reason.