Poor Mojo's Newswire

The hangings were carried out inside the notorious Tehran's Evin prison at 5:10 am (0040 GMT), the state broadcaster said.

The latest hangings bring to at least 155 the number of executions in Iran this year, according to an AFP count.

Amnesty International reported that in 2007 Iran applied the death penalty more often than any other country apart from China, executing 317 people.

Felicia Day, Penny Yeah, I don't like to claim too much credit for it. I was basically making [a series] and putting it on the Internet without any permission, or funding for that matter. So, when I saw Joss on the picket line, doing the whole circle in front of [the] Fox [studios], of course I was giving him a business card with The Guild on it. ''Watch my Web series!'' He was like, ''I already saw it. It's fantastic. And I'm thinking of doing something for the Internet.''

Joss Whedon For a long time [during the strike], people would try to create [Web] content with partners: ''There are billions of dollars with this hedge fund and this dotcom. Billions of dollars!'' Which they still have because they never gave any of it to us to make things. After taking a lot of meetings and stuff, I just thought, ''I think I have to do this myself.'' And by ''myself,'' I mean with the help of everybody I know. The money [came from] me: Low six-figures is the phrase that I feel comfortable using. . . .

So now that six months have passed, has the new system resulted in increased traffic? To find this out I analyzed Site Meter statistics for 11 Gawker Media blogs (I didn’t include Io9 since it only recently launched). Overall, traffic for all Gawker blogs combined saw a 40% increase in page views. Each individual blog experienced an average increase of 49%.

Valleywag and Jezebel saw the highest percentage increases, both with 83%. Deadspin saw the lowest percentage increase with 23%.

The bears - apparently starving and looking for food - killed the men last Thursday, Russian agencies reported. They surrounded a local platinum mining company, where both victims worked as security guards.

About 400 geologists and miners are now refusing to return to work, afraid of further attacks. Attempts by local officials to fly to the scene by helicopter and shoot the bears have so far failed due to bad weather, agencies reported.