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Yesterday we saw a new photo of embattled singer Chris Brown, who is currently awaiting trial on his 2 felony charges of battery and assault against girlfriend Rihanna, with Girlicious singer Natalie Mejia at an LA tattoo parlor on Sunset Blvd. over the weekend and it was assumed that the pair were there together and possibly dating. Today, Brown is speaking thru his rep to deny that he is dating Mejia:

Chris Brown is denying reports that he’s getting romantic with Girlicious singer Natalie Mejia. The R&B singer, 19, was photographed with Mejia, 20, and another man on Saturday at West Hollywood tattoo parlor Tattoo Mania, where Brown has been inked before, a source tells PEOPLE. “Chris was in a Hollywood tattoo parlor with a woman from the recording studio named Dean, who was getting a tattoo. (Chris did not get a tattoo),” Brown’s rep tells PEOPLE. “Natalie Mejia was there with Dean. [Reports in other media] that Natalie Mejia is Chris’s new girlfriend are also false,” says the rep, adding that other rumors claiming Brown is dating a Virginia college student named Erica Jackson are also not true. So what about Brown and Rihanna, 21? Although the pair decided to take some time apart last month, a source tells PEOPLE that the singers spent time hanging out together over Easter weekend. A source at Tattoo Mania confirms that Brown has been tattooed there several times before, but did not plan to get a new tattoo Saturday. Brown and his party were asked to return later in the day because the shop was busy, but they didn’t come back.

But while Chris Brown is adamant that he and Mejia are NOT together, she is implying otherwise. In an interview with Radar Online, Mejia coyly discusses her sighting with Chris Brown and offers just enough information to imply that the couple may be together:

The stunning new girl on Chris Brown’s arm, Natalie Mejia, tells RadarOnline.com exclusively that Brown has been a total “gentlemen.” Mejia, of The CW’s Girlicious, was spotted with the embattled R&B singer this past Saturday in Los Angeles, visiting a Sunset Blvd tattoo parlor. Meija tells us “it’s true we did visit a tattoo parlor together but I can’t say if we got anything done because that is personal.” While reports indicate the pair visited the shop for just ten minutes, Mejia says “things are going well between us but I really do not want to comment much more than that right now.” The sexy singer maintains that Brown “has treated me like a [sic] gentleman at all times actually and there are no complaints.” She would not elaborate on she and Brown’s initial meeting or courtship thus far. She does wax philosophical on her MySpace page, however: “Life is too short to wake-up in the morning with regrets. So love the people who treat you right, forget about the ones who don’t and believe everything happens for a reason.”

It’s clear that Natalie wants to ensure that people get a sense that the pair are together (“things are going well between us”) while Chris wants to make clear that the pair are not together (“Natalie Mejia was there with Dean. [Reports in other media] that Natalie Mejia is Chris’s new girlfriend are also false”). In this case, I believe that Brown and Mejia are not actually together … particularly because I tend to believe that he and Rihanna are still seeing each other secretly. Honestly tho, if Brown were really trying to keep his covert relationship with Ri Ri on the down low then he should play up his association with Natalie Mejia (which would make her so happy, no doubt) but, alas, not so. If the sources are to be believed (and I do believe them), ChRihanna are still in full effect.

[Photo credit: X17; Source, Source]

Last night, Lindsay Lohan posted a tweet (message) on her official Twitter profile (which is locked down from public view) that folks should check out FunnyorDie.com at midnight to see something from “sneaky lil” her …

And it turns out that Linds filmed a totally hilarious spoof eHarmony video profile for the Funny or Die site:

As you may recall, Zac Efron and about 20 of his famous friends recently filmed a Funny or Die spoof video that was severely lacking in the LULz … but this time around, they got it right. After the jump, check out Lindsay Lohan‘s eHarmony video profile in full — trust me, it is NOT to be missed …

Earlier Monday I passed along the info that Amazon.com had removed the sales rankings of books in their massive catalog of GLBT subject matter because they were reclassified as “adult” thereby making those books not show up in searches on the subject on their site. In the wake of customer outrage and inquires to Amazon about this new policy, the company responded that the matter was caused by a “glitch” in the system and that the company planned to fix the problem soon. A few hours ago, Pink reader Darcy pointed me to THIS blogpost by a hacker named VEEW who claimed responsibility for the “glitch” which I discounted at first … but the tech blog Gizmodo seems to think that the hacker’s claims may be a valid explanation. Could Amazon‘s site merely have been purposely hacked and that was what caused all of this uproar?

Okay, maybe Amazon is off the hook. The well-known troll Weev is claiming that he’s actually responsible for Amazon’s sudden surge of LGBT prudishness. Which Valleywag says actually makes sense. It’s startingly simple: It doesn’t take very many votes at all to get a product flagged as “inappropriate” and booted off the rankings. He says he created a script that generated a list of product IDs for every gay and lesbian book on Amazon. From there, he just needed a whole bunch of people to flag the books as inappropriate, which wasn’t hard, because simply getting someone to go the URL of a successful flag would count as another one. Using an invisible iframe on popular websites owned by friends and a group of “third-worlders” he hired to register accounts, he generated enough votes to de-list gay and lesbian books en masse. Lending credence to his claims, Valleywag notes that the “flag as inappropriate” feature is currently disabled. Free reign for inappropriate books

If this hacker’s claim is true, then why didn’t Amazon say so in the first place? There are reports that this “new practice” started back in February so why didn’t Amazon detected the hack back then? This hacker’s claim also does not explain why author Mark Probst got an email from Amazon two days ago that his book (a gay western story that features no sexual content at all) had been reclassified as “adult”. On the other hand, if the hacker was smart enough to change the way the Amazon system classified books, the company might not have been aware of the change and automated systems may have just assumed the changes were valid. Trust me, I really want to believe that Amazon is not at fault here but they have THUS FAR been painfully quiet on this whole matter. I am still hoping to hear something from them that concretely explains what the hell is going on … whether it is their fault or not, we need to know that truth. I need to know the truth if I am going to remain one of their customers.

UPDATE: Amazon is now publicly denying that any hacker infiltrated their system and caused the “glitch” that removed the sales ranks from their catalog of GLBT books. In fact, Amazon clarifies that not only GLBT books where stripped of their sales rankings but “57,310 books in a number of broad categories” were effected by an error that they describe as “ham-fisted”. In an email response from Amazon.com that I received Monday evening (after I emailed them my outrage at this development), the company clearly accepted fault and blame for the error — yet they offered no apology. Here is the full text of the email that I received from Amazon.com today:

Hello,

Thank you for contacting Amazon.com.

This is an embarrassing and ham-fisted cataloging error for a company that prides itself on offering complete selection.

It has been misreported that the issue was limited to Gay & Lesbian themed titles – in fact, it impacted 57,310 books in a number of broad categories such as Health, Mind & Body, Reproductive & Sexual Medicine, and Erotica. This problem impacted books not just in the United States but globally. It affected not just sales rank but also had the effect of removing the books from Amazon’s main product search.

Many books have now been fixed and we’re in the process of fixing the remainder as quickly as possible, and we intend to implement new measures to make this kind of accident less likely to occur in the future.

Thanks for contacting us. We hope to see you again soon.

Sincerely,

Customer Service Department
Amazon.com

To say that this relieves me EXPONENTIALLY is an understatement. As I’ve said before, I am a huge fan of Amazon.com and I was totally dismayed by this apparent error. If anything, I’m happy to know that the Internet community was able to seemingly drag the problem into the public consciousness and get the problem “fixed” in a very quick manner. Still, I think that there needs to be a full accounting of what actually happened and what safeguards will be put in place in ensure it never happens again … but I will rest my head happily tonight more confident that this act was an error and that steps are being taken to remedy the problem as soon as possible.

[Source, Source, thanks Darcy]