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- Yesterday - December 26, 2009
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#civilliberties
ACLU Now an Exponentially Less Hardcore Lobby Than Previously Considered
You'll be disappointed to find out that the ACLU's executive director doesn't spend Sundays burning anarchy signs into American flags while singing pre-abolition slave spirituals to the tune of "Poker Face." Per an NYT profile: he feeds horses grass. [NYT] -
#videuhoh
Expensive, Blurry Photo of Flight 253 Terrorist Given Ken Burns Treatment by CNN
So! CNN paid a bunch of money for this blurry photo of authorities restraining Abdul Farouk Abdulmutallab—hereby known as The Testicle Bomber—and you can watch Brooke Baldwin and T.J. Holmes talk over it. Fun! More » -
#popcultureaneurysm
John Mayer Earns Blogger Stripes Defending James Cameron from TMZ's Smear Campaign
Battle Studies, indeed! TMZ recently ran video of someone harassing James Cameron to sign an Avatar poster, the highlight of which: Cameron calling his "fan" a "fucking asshole." Typical TMZ. But Cameron's surprising public advocate nailed the story.
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#monsters
Long Island's Area 51? Presented without comment: The Montauk Monster U.F.O. Balls Conspiracy.
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#fashion
I Hereby Declare The Fashion Bloggers' "Front Row" Status Trend Piece Over
Remember the days when the world of fashion used to be a scary place run by thin people in big sunglasses screechier, bitchier, thinner, and just better than you? Those days: gone. Fashion's now being run by bloggers. It's official/awful. More » -
#maritaldisquiet
The Invincible Charlie Sheen's Old-School Christmas: Chokin' Ladies Out
Damn, Charlie Sheen: the slate was clean for what? Two years? Does it matter anymore? Charlie Sheen choked his wife out for Christmas. He got arrested, she's not talking to cops, he's still the highest paid actor in television. More » -
#horndoggery
Tiger Woods and Mike Wise Cheated on People. Have You?
"I am Tiger Woods," writes Mike Wise in a bracing column in today's Washington Post, "and I have poked fun at his travails because I use humor as camouflage." Not anymore. [Deadspin] -
#travel
NWA Flight 253: Winners, Losers, Heroes, and The Schadenfreude of Burning Balls
Some guy tried to light an explosive devise, ended up producing a mediocre fireworks show inside of an airplane. So, he failed, ended up with burned balls. Now we have heroes and tighter air travel regulations. Also: he was Al-Qaeda. More »
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#revelations
Jersey Shore castmember The Situation used to be a male stripper. "Surprise," right?
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#gossiproundup
The Forgivable Loins of Jude Law Have Found Their Way Back Into Sienna Miller's Heart
Sienna and Jude's balls: Barbados-bound. Together they'll make domestic reconciliation layer cake. Lady Gagadong's moneyballs will drop on New Years. William Hurt is your new existential bicycle. Gene Simmons is still trying to rock. Presenting your Saturday Morning Gossip Roundup: More » -
#apple
The Exhaustive Guide to Apple Tablet Rumors
The Apple tablet is almost here. We hear. Actually, we're hearing a whole lot lately. With this exhaustive guide to every tablet rumor, we've got the clearest picture of the Apple tablet yet. [Gizmodo] - Friday - December 25, 2009
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#foodfight
Facebook Basically Rubbing Google's Face In Their Delicious Free Meals
A string of cutbacks have threatened Google's status as a veritable Shangri-la of free gourmet food. Meanwhile, Facebook is ramping up the dining perks. Today the Times suggests Facebook might be "the new standard-bearer for corporate-sponsored dining." Food fight! More » -
#theonion
Old Onion Article Saves Christmas
World events have screeched to a halt. Here is a funny article from the Onion: "Weed Delivery Guy Saves Christmas." You guys like the Onion, right? If anyone comments with "slow news day, huh?" You will be sorry. [Onion] -
#creativewriting
Seems that an undergraduate creative writing class took over the Times' editorial page today.
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#holiday
A Virtual Tour of the White House at Christmas
Screw Oprah's special— all you need is two minutes and a computer to see this stunning, high defintion tour of the White House all decorated for the holidays. [Gawker.TV] -
#sad
Some People Wait Until the Holidays To Do Mean Things
Two examples of downright, calculating festive nefariousness have happened today in Afghanistan and China. One set of media-savvy people wanted to hide their cruelty and the other wanted to show it off. See if you can guess which is which. More » -
#stalkerdeluxe
Tim Robbins Saves Own Stalker's Life
There's that fable, "The Lion and the Mouse," where a hungry lion spares a mouse, and the mouse eventually repays him by freeing him from a trap. Tim Robbins saved some guy's life and was repaid with this Gawker Stalker. More » -
#popetackling
Woman Who Tackled Pope Has Pope-Charging Past
That woman who tackled the Pope before he gave his Christmas Eve Mass last night? She's the same person who ran at him last Christmas. She even wore the same sweatshirt. (It's her "pope-tacklin' sweatshirt.") [NYDN] -
#warishell
Merry Christmas Soldiers! You Can Now Knock Each Other Up!
Soldiers in Iraq were, until today, likely to face disciplinary action for getting pregnant or getting another soldier pregnant. Not any more! More » -
#hazard
What Would Tiger Woods Do?
Either Accenture didn't get all the Tiger Woods ads down in time for the holidays, or they're starting a clever new campaign. The intrepid Foster Kamer spotted this seven-foot-tall backlit message next to the security line at LaGuardia Airport today. More » -
#leiinglow
Obama Starts Vacation, Has Actual Red Phone in Case of Emergency
While you may be hoping that something happens today to break any familial tension and give you something to talk about with aging relatives, the President is essentially crossing his fingers for an incredibly uneventful holiday in Hawaii. -
#hohoho
Police searched a car in Missouri — and found 20lbs of Marijuana wrapped as gifts.
- Thursday - December 24, 2009
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#unconfirmed
Apple Patent Application Reveals a Bumpy Tablet
Some of Apple's recently revealed patent applications may spoil the surprise over how we'll interact with the Apple tablet. According to Apple Insider's speculations, the patent applications imply that we'll have a multi-touch gadget with tactile feedback. [Gizmodo] -
#culturalanthropology
Theological Investigations: Why Do The Jews Eat Chinese Food On Christmas?
December: when people who aren't Christopher Hitchens consider God, and the Miracles of the Universe He/She/It/RuPaul bestow upon us. But there's one question every year that humanity has yet to find a sufficient answer for. More » -
#madpsychology
Will The Recession Scar You For Life? Economists Say Yes.
People who grew up during the Great Depression often turned into compulsive penny-pinchers, unable to spend money without anxiety. Will recent recessions leave similar psychological scars on people growing up today? A new study by economists suggests they will. -
#christmas
If You Lived in Sweden You'd Be Watching Donald Duck Cartoons Right Now
Swedes are sort of like Earth's benevolent alien overlords, right? They just are so different than us, gazing down from their icy zone! For one thing, they have a strange tradition of watching Donald Duck cartoons each Christmas Eve. More » -
#breaking
Pope Tackled During Christmas Eve Mass (Now with Video)
The Vatican's Christmas Eve mass had an NFL quality tonight. A mentally unstable woman knocked over Pope Benedict XVI as he walked down the aisle at St. Peter's Basilica. The Pope is OK. Thank God. (Seriously, do it.) [AP]Update: More » -
#merrychristmas
Presenting The Gawker Internet Yule Log™
From 1966-1989, New York's WPIX broadcast footage of a Yule log burning in a fireplace each Christmas day. Today, a bunch of channels do the same. Now, Gawker is taking the Yule log into the Internet Age. Behold! -
#architecture
How To: Build Your Own Full-Scale Eiffel Tower
So you've got your 7,000 metric tons of puddling iron, your unruly 19th-century French construction crew, your Michelin starred chef and a Rosetta Stone French DVD. Today, finally, you have the final piece: Blueprints! [Gizmodo] -
#architecture
Underground Five-Star Hotel Fit For a Mole King
This proposed subterranean London hotel is going to put all 200 guest rooms beneath the surface of a former golf course. Sorry, CHUDs: it's time to gentrify the soil. More » -
#yearinreview
Top 25 Posts Of 2009: Models, Muppets, Implant Mishaps, And Photoshop Disasters Galore
Once again it's time for our yearly roundup of the most trafficked posts on the site, and this year the list is made up of everything from plus-sized models to photoshop horrors to happy childhood memories. Ahead, a look back. [Jezebel] -
#susansarandon
Susan Sarandon's (Possibly) Prophetic SNL Appearance
Whether or not Susan Sarandon is hooking up with 31 year-old Ping Pong boy Jonathan Bricklin, she's clearly OK with the image of a cradle-robbing cougar. Remember that SNL spoof Mothers Day music video, "Motherlover?" More » -
#sad
Snowball Fight Violence Continues, Armed Vigilantes Abound
First someone pulled a gun during a snowball fight in DC. Now, in Wales of all places, a 20-year-old man was stabbed to death with a kitchen knife after another one, apparently, got out of hand. More » -
#data
How the Apple Tablet Is Already Making People Rich
It's understandable that Apple stock is doing well—they've had a very, very good year. But after a huge rally this morning, their stock it at its highest price ever. See, yesterday, something magical happened. More » -
#coverlies
The Year's 10 Best Cover Lies
Maybe we should call this post the worst Cover Lies, as the most egregiously mendacious covers are often the most fun to mock. Regardless, here's a little tour of what some of the glossies were really saying in 2009.
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#humbug
10 Things I Hate About Christmas
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#space
Voyager Unveils the Mystery of the Interstellar Fluff from Hell
For years, astronomers have been puzzled by the fact that our solar system is crossing a cloud of interstellar hell. One that shouldn't be there at all. Intergalactic plot to keep us isolated or cosmic event? Voyager got the answer. More » -
#triviagasm
The Ultimate Movie Cliche: The Wall Of Newspaper Clippings
Whether it's homage or insanity, the best way to skate over tons of movie backstory is with newspaper clippings, on a wall. We've collected the best and the worst of this clichĂ©, so you can decide: worthless, or worth it? More » -
#ibegyourparton
Have A Dolly Parton Christmas
Christmas is very important to Dolly, and over the years, she's written songs for the occasion, and starred in numerous Christmas specials and TV movies. Here, we collected some of our favorite Dolly holiday songs. -
#holidayshopping
The Secret Lives of Amazon's Elves
If Amazon is Santa, 400 folks living in RVs outside the Coffeyville, Kansas fulfillment center this winter are the elves. [Gizmodo] -
#monstersamongus
10 Remarkable Monsters Named in the Last Ten Years
We know that real monsters walk, slither, and crawl among us, and each year we learn more about the amazing creatures from Earth's past and present. We look at ten of the more monstrous names we added this decade. -
#hoperoundup
Joy! Wonder! Hasselhoff! Whales Dressed as Snowmen!
The holidays are a time for hope, and drinking to excess. Both promote a rosy view of the world. Which might explain all the most-wonderful-time-of-the-year-type stories that abound today. Perfect if you're about to kill a relative/airline representative. More » -
#thebirds
However your holidays are going, be grateful you're (probably) not under attack by peacocks.
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#architecture
Unbelievable 2.3 Gigapixel Photo of the Burj Dubai
Believe it or not, this is the Burj Dubai. The very end of it, the top of its antenna tickling the sky. It's just a tiny part of this brain-imploding 2.3 gigapixel photo of the largest skyscraper in the world: -
#success
Senate Passes Healthcare Reform Bill
After what feels like seventeen years and 14 million column inches the Senate passed the healthcare bill 60-39 today (no Republicans voted for it). Assuming they agree on a final version with the House, here's what it will mean. More » -
#rumormonger
Did Susan Sarandon Dump Tim Robbins for a Ping Pong Entrepreneur?
For 23 years Susan Sarandon and Tim Robbins seemed a singularly stable Hollywood couple—until they split this summer. (A fact they announced yesterday.) What caused the breakup? A theory: Sarandon wanted to pursue ping pong entrepreneur Jonathan Bricklin.
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- Wednesday - December 23, 2009
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#weather
Winter Storm Girding Nation's Midsection Like Belt Made of Shit
A slow-moving storm has socked in much of mid-western America just in time to annoy last-minute holiday travelers. Ice! Snow! Thunderstorms! So intense is the storm that it forced Mount Rushmore to close. God help us all. [NYT] [TWC] -
#whoops
Nuclear Bomb Researchers Accidentally Blow Up Building
Don't worry, it wasn't with a nuclear bomb! Last week, researchers at the Los Alamos National Laboratory accidentally blew up part of a building with "a gun which acts like a Civil War Cannon". Even crazier, in a way.
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