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#photogallery
The Intimate Facebook CEO Pics Exposed By Facebook's Privacy Rollback
Facebook controversially forced profile pictures into public and pushed users to share candids with the whole world. So now we're blessed with pics of the social network's young CEO shirtless, romantic, clutching a teddy bear, and looking plastered. More »
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#climatecontrol
Budget Cuts Threatening America's Ability to Control the Weather
Or: How the recession threatens government programs you didn't know existed. The US spends about $15 million a year on "seeding" clouds with chemicals to produce rain, but states are cutting these programs. Man conquers nature; economics conquers man. [AP] -
#exclusive
New York's Most Famous 'Mail-Order Bride' May Conquer All Media
Six months ago, Glamour introduced us to 27 year-old Lera Loeb, a Ukranian girl who found love and a rich American husband through a marriage brokerage service. Now she's working on a book and a television series. What's her secret? More » -
#twitterati
Facebook Gets Shrill With Twitter Backer Over Privacy
Facebook's Brandee Barker set her fight with a Twitter-investing ex Googler to "public;" CNET staff jockeyed for a free street turkey; and Serena Williams got ready for her nail-baring closeup. The Twitterati got scrappy. More » -
#pullquote
Joy Golden —
one of the first female copywriters on Madison Avenue in the 1960s (she's fine if you want to call her "the real Peggy Olsen") on how the romance was drained out of the advertising industry, to Jezebel's Irin Carmon. -
#jerseyshore
Live Blogging Jersey Shore, Week 2
Some people really hate MTV's new reality show masterpiece theater of eight crazy kids sharing a beach house. We like it so much, we want you to watch it with us. Come on in. We made ham! More » -
#crime
Billionaire Who Had Sex with Sixteen Year-olds Claims He's the Victim Now
Jeffery Epstein, the billionaire money manager who recently finished a prison sentence for soliciting under-aged prostitutes, is now claiming he is the victim of racketeering at the hands of a lawyer who represented women suing him. More » -
#the00s
Judging the Critics by Their Best Movies of the Decade Lists
Are you a There Will Be Blood kinda guy, or an Eternal Sunshine kinda gal? The choice of our favorite movie of the decade is one of the most important we as individuals can make. 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: Mysteries! Unknown disease closes an NYC private school, ad financial behavior and sex-chat blind items. More » -
#fightclub
Jersey Shore Snooki-Puncher Is a Queens Gym Teacher
The lovely gentleman punching Jersey Shore guidette Snooki in the viral video clip has been ID'd: he's a gym teacher in Queens. This could end no other way. More » -
#picoftheday
A Thousand Points of Light
[Camera displays and cell phone screens glow as Barack and Michelle Obama greet the crowd from the Grand Hotel in Oslo, Norway, where President Obama accepted the Nobel Peace Prize today. Image via Getty] -
#crazies
Meeting of the Minds
Sadly, no pictures, but Sarah Palin signed a copy of her book for Minnesota Representative Michele Bachmann. She wrote, "Michele, we love you." This does jeopardize our Lost Highway Balthazar Getty/Bill Pullman theory of those two, a bit. -
#moguls
Why Diddy Is the Perfect New Mascot for AOL
AOL has put Sean Combs very publicly in the middle of its directors and managers. A company banking on formulaic, mass-produced content could do worse than the rap mogul, who wished AOL shares luck. They promptly slid. More » -
#coverstory
Men's Health Loved This Cover So Much They Used It Twice
Word on the street is that Men's Health editor-in-chief Dave Zinczenko has checked out of editing the magazine. So why bother writing new cover lines for the latest issue when the ones from October 2007 will do? More » -
#howthingswork
Craigslist's Dirty Secret
This is pretty huge, at least for those who buy the myth of angelic Craigslist: eBay has effectively confirmed that cyber cherub Craig Newmark screwed over an early employee to enrich himself, then tried to cover it up. More » -
#avatariscoming
British Critics Declare Avatar a Non-Trainwreck
Next week the world's critics will have their (completely meaningless) say about whether James Cameron's 3D extravaganza was worth waiting a decade for. But today, a couple British papers are jumping the gun to say it didn't suck. More » -
#opencaption
The Flight of the Aviators
[Suspected Tiger Woods mistress (or madam) Rachel Uchitel tries to avoid the paparazzi on the streets of Manhattan today. Image via Getty] -
#magazines
Emergency at Vanity Fair!
A tipster emailed the Vanity Fair customer service department this week because his magazine stopped being delivered. He received an alarming response! More » -
#clipjob
Gawker.TV: The Five Best Videos Ever of the Day
Today at Gawker.TV, Conan tells Tiger jokes with a golf caddy, some girls really don't know they're pregnant, Steven Seagall's fame interrupts his job, Letterman interviews a Cat Lady, and Barbara Walters turns and turns (and turns!) in her special. More » -
#excuses
Washington Post Explains Palin Op-Ed: We Did It For Attention
The Washington Post, as we all know, has the worst opinion section in America. The people who run it don't understand all the fuss about them running an op-ed by Sarah Palin on climate change! More » -
#recessionomics
No Country For Old Men (Except China)
The Way We Live Now: Old, broke, uneducated, and wishing we were in China. They have it good, over there. The Chinese. Arrrrgh. More » -
#crime
Missouri GOP Pol's 'Green Balloons' Scandal Sounds Like Outright Rape
We all got a kick out of the arrest of the Missouri GOP ex-pol for roughing up a sex partner because she forgot the safeword: "Green balloons." The police report is out, and it looks like a straight-up, horrific rape.
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#shorething
The Jersey Shore Paradox: Can the Perfect Reality Show Also Be a Flop?
For us, the viewing public, Jersey Shore is the Platonic ideal of train-wreck television, but for MTV, the network that's trying to profit from it, the show is looking like more of a disaster with paltry ratings and advertiser headaches.
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#bipartisanship
Senate Centrist Hero Will Solve Fiscal Crisis With Endless Deadlock
Democratic Senator Kent Conrad has a brilliant plan to take on the massive federal deficit. It involves a "task force," of course. But not just any task force: he has envisioned a task force of unimaginable uselessness. More » -
#crime
Deadly Gun Battle Wows Appreciative Tourists
The NYPD shot and killed a CD vendor in Times Square this morning who was not only scamming tourists, but also packing a Mac-10, for chrissake. The reaction of tourists: Awesome! More » -
#jobs
Google's Terrible Hiring Question: The Document
Google's hiring process is supposed to be a utopian system for identifying superhuman staff. Yet it needs a surprising amount of correcting. And we're trying to figure out if this "stage 2" interview test also needs fixing. More » -
#goldmanproject
Goldman Sachs' Top Executives to Get Their Outrageous Bonuses In Lousy, Valuable Stock
Goldmas Sachs is bending over backwards to make sure you don't rise up and hoist the black flag next month, when it pays out more than $17 billion in taxpayer-financed bonuses—now its top leaders won't get any cash. More » -
#feuds
Pauly Shore Is Thisclose to Becoming Hollywood's Stand-Up Kingpin
World stand-up comedy today was greeted with news that should make the hard-working comedians of the world very nervous. Pauly Shore is now one lawsuit away getting his fingers on the trigger of Hollywood's most celebrated venue, the Comedy Store. More » -
#romance
Body Language: Will They Last?
Among the celebrity weeklies' many scientific contributions, none is more entertaining than the "body language expert" who can divine deep interpersonal details from one single photograph. Let's apply this rigorous method to New York City's romantic royalty. More » -
#bagit
4 Reasons The Douchebag Has Jumped The Shark
While we're on the subject of language, I'd like to point out that both the word "douchebag" and the concept it stands for are, like, totally over. After the jump, four reasons why. [Jezebel] -
#mediacrack
Editorial Shakeup at Ad Age
In your frigid Thursday media column: Editorial turnover at Ad Age, Mediaite invites people more famous and attractive than you to their soiree, journalists prepare to forage, and Sarah Palin's only a few steps from the 99-cent store. More » -
#recaps
Glee: Our Life Is Gonna Suck without You
Now that we've met our new friend, how will we survive without it? It will be a long, cold winter until April 13 when Glee returns, but there was plenty to keep us warm in the great show choir showdown. More » -
#obits
Tom Hoving, former director of the Metropolitan Museum Art, died this morning, reports Michael Gross.
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#parties
Atlantic Throws Xmas Party, Cuts Back On Spelling Words Correctly
This menu from last night's Atlantic holiday party at Spitzer's looks great, until you look closer: magazines obviously can't afford menu proof-reading, anymore. "Vegitables"? That'd never fly at one of their "sponsored dinners" in DC. Monsanto spell-checks. -
#topchef
The Final Harvest: A Tragedy in Four Dishes
Juiced and crushed like a Concord grape, it is my solemn duty to report from the Top Chef Season VI Finale Part II held in Napa. I, Joshua David Stein, shall not fail you. More » -
#internalmemos
New York Times Afghanistan Ex-Bureau Chief Goes AWOL After She's Promoted
As the war in Afghanistan intensifies, the New York Times has relieved its Kabul bureau chief Carlotta Gall of her duties, ostensibly so she can do more reporting. She's not happy about it and hasn't been showing up for work. More » -
#science
Darn: Steroids Have a Downside
Oh shoot, unexpected setback: Steroids may not be 100% good, for your body. The outside of your body, yes, totally ripped bro. But inside, ripped in the bad sense, like "your kidney has a rip in it, bro, ugly." More » -
#disasters
Facebook Wants to Steal Your Friends
Facebook's new "privacy" settings are even more nefarious than they first appeared: The social network has formally nationalized your friends list, like some Cuban sugar plantation, and published it to people who hate you. You have no choice.
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#war
Israeli Group Waging Actual War on Christmas
In the United States, the "War on Christmas" is a weird fantasy in which people pretend that the mere acknowledgment of other religious/ethnic traditions is an attack on Christianity/American Values. In Israel, though, the War on Christmas is real. More » -
#naturesfury
Today in 'Things That Can Shut Down the NYC Subway System:' Delicate fallen leaves.
