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#traderoundup
Bow Before the Comcast-NBC Universal Megalith
Actually save it for when the deal actually goes through. But that time has moved closer now that Comcast announced a $30 billion deal to take over NBC Universal from GE. The next big question: Are regulators going to flip? More » -
#art
James Franco's 'General Hospital' Appearance Was Subversive Performance Art
We like you, James Franco. (Thank you for signing our copy of Going Rogue.) You are a handsome man and a good actor. But now we have to make fun of you for claiming your "General Hospital" appearance was art. More » - Yesterday - December 3, 2009
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#pranks
Yale Terrorized by Fake Infected Monkeys
A tipster forwarded an email sent by "Yale police" to undergraduates informing them that rhesus monkeys infected with "Motaba virus" had escaped from a research facility. It was a prank. (some were fooled.) But, pretty funny guys! [Yale Daily News] -
#mentalimage
Bill O'Reilly and Laura Ingraham: 'Sexy Nude Amateurs'.
A fire left thousands of Time Warner subscribers without cable for a few hours today. But there was a silver lining! The on-screen guide was hilariously confused tonight, labeling Laura Ingraham and Bill O'Reilly "Sexy nude amateurs". Ha. -
#twitterati
Bodily Fluids, Mafia Haunt Twitterati
A San Franciscan unintentionally witnessed a sort of in-car tune up; a j-schooler scheduled a sit-down with a reputed mobster and a lady in fur left a bathroom in terrible shape. The Twitterati were traumatized. More » -
#jerseyshore
Live Blogging Jersey Shore, Week 1
You've seen the trailer, you've read the controversy, and you've met the cast, now set your dial and get out your laptop. It's time to live blog the premiere of Jersey Shore. More » -
#gawkercares
Your Last Chance to Buy Gawker's James Franco-Endorsed Sarah Palin SlamBook: Tonight
The moment's almost here: one lucky bidder is going to be the proud owner of our charity-friendly National Book Award-winner and James Franco-endorsed copy of Sarah Palin's Going Rogue, which is going to benefit Save The Children. Not Dave Eggers. More » -
#gfail
Google Search Results Are Being Taken Over By Right-Wing Crazies
Google's mission is to "organize the world's information". Unfortunately, a lot of this information is from crazy right-wingers. First came the Michelle Obama chimp picture in image search. Now, look what happens when you Google "Planned Parenthood": More » -
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#tiplist
What's in #tips Today?
We get lots of suggestions of what to post on Gawker every day. Let's take a look at what came in through the #tips page: More » -
#mysteries
Steve Forbes Done In By Editor He Deposed, Probably
That juicy tell-all book about the splintering Forbes family is probably by a recently departed Forbes managing editor, who has issued a tanatalizing no-comment on the matter. This is why you must be careful who you fire, media barons. More » -
#picoftheday
Finger on the Button
[President Barack Obama gets some help from his first ladies, Sasha, Malia, and Michelle, when lighting the national Christmas tree in D.C. today. Image via AP] -
#ripoffs
Time Inc. Will Pay You Promptly, If You Pay Them for the Service
Time Inc. has opened up a fantastic new market: charging its freelancers for the privilege of being paid for their work in a timely fashion. More » -
#science
The Mostest Amazing Scientific Photos of the Year
Popular Science has a massive gallery of the year's most fantastic scientific images, and they're pretty incredible. Here's our favorites. [Gizmodo] -
#advertising
Grandmothers and Ice Cream Should Not Get So Close
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#festivals
Sundance Announces Teens Gone Wild-Centric Line-Up
The Sundance Film Festival announced the complete line-up for its 2010 festival built around the trend beloved of the intelligentsia — teenagers running amok. More » -
#layoffs
DailyCandy Sours on Most of Its Cities
DailyCandy is eliminating the special editions for seven of its twelve cities, according to an internal memo we've obtained, resulting in almost as many layoffs. NBC Universal, take heed: Even inside Comcast's profitable umbrella, no one is safe from cutbacks. -
#politics
Someone Stop Facebook's Creepy Predators, Facebook Executive Implores
By day, Chris Kelly extols the virtues of Facebook, where he serves as chief privacy officer. By night, as candidate for California attorney general, Kelly warns of Facebook's "online predators," and says government must "keep people safe" Neat trick. More » -
#opencaption
'Hi, Tom. Thanks for Coming.'
[Alongside Kate Hudson, Penelope Cruz, Judi Dench, and Daniel Day-Lewis, Nicole Kidman greets her tiny ex-husband on the red carpet at the Nine premiere in London today. Image via Getty] -
#recessionomics
The Path From Failed Farmer to Harvard Lawyer Just Got More Perilous
The Way We Live Now: Not how a respectable attorney should, that's for sure. Things are so bad that students at Harvard Law School have to pay tuition now. Do you know how hard that is on a trend-farmer's wage? More » -
#moguls
Lottery Winner Becomes Hollywood's Latest Titan
Hollywood has a new kingpin, and its not Comcast's Brian Roberts. Cynthia Stafford, a Hawthorne homemaker, has decided to cash in her $30 million dollar lottery prize on the dream of becoming the next Louis B. Mayer. More » -
#stalkerdeluxe
Lizzie Grubman and Erin Kaplan (Did Not) Plot Reality Show Domination at Pastis
A tipster just spent her entire lunch hour eavesdropping on SUV-driving PR menace Lizzie Grubman and Elle magazine PR honcho (and The City star) Erin Kaplan at Meatpacking restaurant Pastis. Too bad the tip was a fake. More » -
#printisdead
Get Your White House Pool Reports Right Here
The White House Correspondents' Association has started letting lowly blogs participate in the White House pool, and now the real journalists are all upset about it. More » -
#clipjob
Gawker.TV: The Five Best Videos Ever of the Day
Today at Gawker.TV, Martha Stewart talks dirty, we discover the Miley Cyrus doll is a potty-mouth, Justine Bateman tells ghost stories, Neil Patrick Harris is a dirty Frosty the Snowman, and Kermit sluts it up on the Today Show. More » -
#fieldguide
Who Is This Hero Politician, Diane Savino?
The bad thing about yesterday was that state politicians in Albany—the center of heterosexual evil in the Northeast—voted down gay marriage. The shiny silver lining was that we met State Sen. Diane Savino, new speechifying hero of equality! More » -
#thingsweactuallylike
Soft Porn for Media Junkies: The Nifty Tablet Demo from Sports Illustrated
This is a pretty darn cool video from Time Inc. about its forthcoming tablet. Cool, that is, if you can forgive the gratuitous feature for fingering half-naked models. More » -
#shorething
Meet the Cast of Jersey Shore
These colorful characters will instantly become your new reality show best friends when the MTV show about eight guidos in a summer house starts tonight. It's going to be epic. And yes, we will be live blogging the 10pm debut.
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#contests
Yes, that's right: nobody's won the $1,000 prize for a Nikki Finke photo yet.
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#comcast
When Philadelphia Devoured Hollywood
The official announcement today that Comcast will take over NBC/Universal marks the greatest counter-revolutionary change in show business history with flyover country now postioned to put its stamp on Hollywood, rather than vice-versa. More » -
#trendwatch
Every Healthy Action Bound to Backfire
America just can't win. We stopped smoking—then we all got fat. So we lipo-sucked all the fat out and put it in our breasts, where it could do some good. Then we got sex-harassed at the gym! More » -
#wtf
Friendster Re-Brands With New Video, Remains Completely Irrelevant
Hold onto your hat because Friendster is BACK, y'all! And this time, it's personal. And in their new and superultracool new video promoting the new ultrasuperawesome site, they somehow manage to look even more outdated. [Gawker.TV] -
#google
Eric Schmidt's Kinky Fantasy
Google's CEO writes in the Wall Street Journal that "frustrated newspaper executives are looking for someone to blame" for their decline, but they shouldn't blame him: His "fantasy news gadget" makes you pay for access to the goods. Freak. -
#cotomersevis
How to Read the New Car and Driver
January's issue of Car and Driver magazine sees what many would term a "major" redesign. We've asked Eddie Alterman, the new C/D editor-in-chief, to walk us through some of the layout changes of the newly-redesigned buff book. — Ed. [Jalopnik] -
#mediacrack
National Geographic Adventure Folds
In your terrible Thursday media column: Another print magazine dies, rumors of layoffs at ALM, the Dallas Morning News goes straight to journalism hell, and Town & Country is now officially sexy. More » -
#coverlies
Elle: Women Will Never Be Satisfied, Should Buy Expensive Sh-t
The December Elle would like to remind its readers that they will never be happy this holiday season. [Jezebel] -
#recaps
Glee: Smile, Though Your Heart Is Breaking
Wow, who ever thought that a show about a band of lovable losers could be so dark? We were crying tears of sadness instead of our usual tears of joy. It still felt pretty good, but damn! More » -
#keepingmum
The One Thing Kathie Lee Gifford Won't Do for Ratings
Kathie Lee Gifford rose to fame sitting next to Regis Philbin and talking about her personal life ad nauseam. Now that she co-hosts the Today show's daily dose of wacky, what is the one subject she won't broach? More » -
#howthingswork
How Fox News Landed That Derek Jeter Interview
Gretchen Carlson interviewed Derek Jeter on Fox News yesterday. What a get! She mentioned that Jeter is "the last pure athlete" and that he lives his life "so perfectly," but not that she's married to his agent. -
#controversies
Everybody Mad at Dolls, Cartoons
We like to "jest" with the advertising industry about how stupid and evil they are, but the truth is that marketing is not easy. Today in Fuzzy Public Outrage: Dolls are racist, and soap bubbles are rapists. More » -
#christmasshopping
Comcast Buys a Bunch of Awesome Cable Networks and Some Broadcast Thing Called 'NBC'
GE and Comcast officially announced that this morning that they've come to terms on a deal over NBC Universal. It's really, really complicated, but the upshot is that Jeff Zucker still has a job for some reason. More » -
#holidaze
Yelp's Holiday Party Way Lustier Than Yours
At Yelp, every review is a chance for free drinks, every email a chance for distasteful punning — and every company party a chance to leer, spank and orgy out. Judging from the pictures, 2009's holiday bash was no exception. More » -
#crime
Ho hum, Minnesota man convicted in $3.6 billion Ponzi scheme. No one notices any more.
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#advice
A Simple Plan for Tiger Woods: Play Some Golf
It might appear that Tiger Woods has lots of problems these days, but in fact he only has one problem: He is a boring, boring man who finds himself in a non-boring situation. We know how to solve this.
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#opencaption
Discomfort and Joined
[The network trotted out big guns Rob Thomas, Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Zach Levi, Jane Krakowski, Michael Buble, and another selection from Aretha Franklin's curious hat collection for the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree lighting ceremony last night. Image via Getty] -
#recaps
Top Chef: Three Chefs and a Little Lady
A rainbow parabolas over the fertile Napa valley. A dream is asphyxiated amongst the vines. Top Chef is nearing its end. I'm Joshua David Stein. I'll take you there. Ain't nobody cryin'. Except the loser. More »

















