Which of These 6 Perversely Fascinating YouTube Memes Speaks to the Darkness of Your Soul? #personalityquiz #videuhoh

The Jay Leno Show: 2009-2010 #andnowitsdead #latenightwars

Cut Out Our Hearts with Your Valentine's Day Horror Stories #valentinesdayofhor #valentinesday

This Goldman House: Bonus Season Means It's Time to Add a New Floor to Your Townhouse #goldmanproject #goldmansachs

The Lonely Faces of Five Minutes on Chat Roulette #gallery #chatroulette

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#postracial

Asians 'Medium Upset' by Atlanta Color-Coding Their Subway Line 'Yellow'

Residents of Atlanta's Asian enclave, Doraville, are thrilled to finally get their own MARTA train. They feel kinda awkward about it being called the "yellow line," though. [AJC] [Pic via]

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#wtf

Norwegians with Pitchforks Attack Google Street View

Will finding humorous moments on Google Street View ever get old? No. Never. Here is a most perplexing image of men dressed in scuba gear, chasing Google Street View with ad hoc weapons. [Google via Reddit]

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#personalityquiz

Which of These 6 Perversely Fascinating YouTube Memes Speaks to the Darkness of Your Soul?

NYT Magazine recently probed the psyche of YouTube's falling figure skater meme, a commenter points us to hobby animators' CGI snuff films. Among a cornucopia of cyber-Schadenfreude, which genre describes your innermost desires, fears, or fetishes? Let us analyze. More »

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#traderoundup

Tom Cruise Returns For New Impossible Mission

Mission: Impossible 4 will star Tom: Cruise. New evidence suggests Howard Stern will not be on American Idol. Julia Roberts and Tom Hanks get picked up by Universal. Snowpocalypse 2010 got you down? The Trade Roundup has powerfully heated seats! More »

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Yesterday - February 9, 2010

#andnowitsdead

The Jay Leno Show: 2009-2010

Click here to read <em>The Jay Leno Show</em>: 2009-2010

The Jay Leno Show died today. It was five months old. Tonight, a half-dead zombie version of the show briefly rose from its deathbed to celebrate its own demise. This was as fun to watch as you might expect. More »

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#aphrodisiacs

Good & Plenty and Banana Nut Bread Will Get You Laid This Valentine's Day

Valentine's day approaches. Everyone wants to have sex. Quick: there's only five more days to work yourselves into a frothy state of arousal! Luckily, the Times helps us out with a sexxxy prix fixe menu. Main course? Love. Also, doughnuts. More »

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#twitterati

Ashton Kutcher's Trouble With Mexicans

The father of Gmail gave his kid a pat on the back; a TV doctor defended his slang; and Ashton Kutcher's iPhone ruined his Mexican relations. The Twitterati just tried to get along. More »

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#jobs

Facebook Employment More Desirable Than Hunky TV Dude

At the end of last night's The Bachelor, contestant Ali Fedotowsky gave up a chance at eternal happiness with Jake to return to her job. The gig? Working at Facebook! Must be all that free food. [NYmag]

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By Adrian Chen

#lost

Live Blogging LOST: Season Six, Episode Two

Well, folks, it's that time again. At 9:00 PM ET, be sure to tune your television to ABC and comment along with your fellow LOST fanatics as we live blog tonight's episode. In 4, 8, 15, 16, 23, 42... [Gawker.TV]

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#mysteries

The New York Times Is Now Spreading Vicious Rumors About the New York Times

Rumors that the New York Times will take down David Paterson have spiraled into a factless, "self-referential frenzy," says the New York Times in a factless, self-referential blog post that adds to the frenzy and clarifies pretty much nothing. More »

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#picoftheday

Snowedinfreude

[Go ahead laugh at this man falling over in Sheep's Meadow in Central Park during a 1993 snow storm. It won't be so funny tomorrow when you try to trudge your way to work through the snow. Image via Getty]

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#valentinesdayofhorrors

Cut Out Our Hearts with Your Valentine's Day Horror Stories

Yeah, Valentine's Day sucks, but this year we're not hating on it. Instead, we're going to ask you to tell us all your terrible tales of lovesickness that revolve around February 14th. For the best (worst?) there is a prize! More »

06:34 PM

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#tiplist

What's in #tips Today?

In #tips: someone's missing George W. Bush, Dustin Lance Black, and Andrew Breitbart wants to scare you. Meanwhile at always-on open forum #crosstalk, princesslala wonders if "FAIL" should follow "douche" and "hipster" into the Gawker Retired Word Home. Discuss. More »

06:15 PM

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#wereadyou

Comments of the Day: Snow? Balls.

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#americantradgedy

Click here to read <em>How to Make It in America</em>'s Fictional New York Will Ruin Real New York, Again

How to Make It in America's Fictional New York Will Ruin Real New York, Again

HBO's newest attempt to regain relevance debuts on Sunday (but is on YouTube now!), and if it takes off it is going to ruin Manhattan just like Carrie Bradshaw did in the 2000s. Get ready for the Ben Sapstein invasion. More »

05:26 PM

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#americasbestgovernor

You'll Have David Paterson's Job When You Pry It from His Cold, Dead Hands

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#healthwatch

Watch Your Health or Die Alone and Afraid and Hated by Michelle Obama

Beer bones! Soda cancer! Money fear! Broken hearts! Happy marriage! Michelle O-fitness! It's time for your Gawker health watch, where we watch health—for YOU! More »

04:59 PM

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By Hamilton Nolan

#hazing

Everybody Hates Chuck Todd

Barack Obama held a press conference today. While the availability may have assuaged concerns about the press' unprecedented lack of access to Obama, it did nothing to allay concerns that he calls on that jerk Chuck Todd too much. More »

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#lookoutbelow

Ski Jumpers: Our Saddest Olympians

Being an Olympian is awfully glamorous, isn't it? The fame, the fans, the adoring high-spirited support of an entire nation. Plus all those endorsement deals. Just look how rich these fuckers are. Though, sigh, look how poor ski jumpers are. More »

04:26 PM

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#books

The First Tiger Woods Scandalography Is in the Works

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#clipjob

Gawker.TV: The Five Best Videos Ever of the Day

Today at Gawker.TV, Bill Murray dines with Anthony Bourdain, How I Met Your Mother's harem of hotties, Jon Stewart may have ripped off another comedian last night, the best commercials from the 1980s, and Mayor Bloomberg prepares us for the worst. More »

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#recessionomics

American Optimagicians Will Triumph

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#goldmanproject

This Goldman House: Bonus Season Means It's Time to Add a New Floor to Your Townhouse

It's bonus season, so we're trying to keep up with how Goldman Sachs employees are spending their taxpayer-financed windfalls. Today's entries: A $6 million penthouse condo, and adding a new floor to the upper-east-side historical landmark in which you live. More »

03:23 PM

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#socialnetworks

Google Invented a New Facebook-Type Thing

Google Buzz is like Facebook, except built in to Google's GMail and automatically hooked up to your best email and chat buddies. You can share links, videos, photos and opinions. What could possibly go wrong? (Pic via)

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#backtalk

Fat Like Him: Self-Help Writer's Ex Speaks Out

After we mentioned Lori Gottlieb's 2005 essay "Fat Like Him" in our review of Marry Him, the "fat guy" in question approached us to tell his side of the story — and his experience dating a now-famous advocate of "settling." [Jezebel]

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#jokes

Robert Gibbs Will Receive a Sternly Worded Facebook Message from Sarah Palin

That Robert Gibbs is quite the card. He wrote notes on his hand, just like Sarah Palin did! And then the whole White House press corps laughed because of liberal bias. (And Obama showed up for a surprise press conference!)

02:43 PM

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#mediacrack

Maybe Journalists Should Smoke More Crack?

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#latenightwars

After five months, Jay Leno leaves prime time tonight, returning his "magic" to late night.

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#gallery

The Lonely Faces of Five Minutes on Chat Roulette

So have you checked out this Chat Roulette thing? It's like Omegle, sudden instant e-chats with a stranger, only this time there's video and audio (which can both be turned off for anonymous browsing). Click, get a person, repeat. More »

02:17 PM

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#infoporn

Map of a Divided Facebook

Did you know "God" is the most popular Facebook fan page in every southern U.S. state? The West Coast elites, meanwhile, like Michael Jackson, Barack Obama and Starbucks. Above: a map of Pete Warden's social network census, via ReadWriteWeb.

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#shorething

The Jersey Shore Guidos to Tape Season Two in South Beach

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#geeksgonewild

The Stripper Party Pics the Google Elite Didn't Want You to See

Google engineer and San Francisco partyboy Orkut Büyükkökten's wild housewarming may have been packed with internet billionaires like Sergey Brin last Saturday, but online pictures were reportedly forbidden. And yet here are snapshots of strippers and nude sculpture. More »

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#sadthings

New York City Manages to Ruin Tomorrow's Snow Day for All the Little Children

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#lossssst

Lost Tease: What Kate Didn't Do?

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#trendwatch

How to Destroy a Perfectly Good Fake Trend Story

We all know that New York Times fake trend stories are annoying because they are 1) fake, and 2) trend stories. But do not neglect their third worst quality: many are terribly written. Allow us to show you. More »

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#cranks

Click here to read Hooray, <i>The New Republic</i> Has Decided Someone Is an Antisemite

Hooray, The New Republic Has Decided Someone Is an Antisemite

Uh oh! Former New Republic editor Andrew Sullivan posted a quote about The New Republic on his blog, without context. Time for a 4,300-word essay on how he hates the Jews! More »

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#recaps

Kell on Earth: For Whom the Kell Tolls

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#gaysofwar

Openly Gay Man Still Serving in the Military, World Does Not End

Last we heard of Arabic-speaking National Guardsman Dan Choi, he had been discharged from the army for coming out on Rachel Maddow's MSNBC show. But now it appears the lieutenant has been called back to duty and rejoined his unit. More »

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#scarythings

Getting laser eye surgery to become a better "street marksman," and other real gangster news.

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#pullquote

Diane von Furstenberg —

the designer on the sleeping arrangements with her husband, the happy-footed, presumed-gay media mogul Barry Diller, in the upcoming issue of Page Six Magazine.

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#colors

Science: Yellow Is Nice

A new study finds that depressed people generally choose a shade of grey to represent their mood, while healthy people mostly choose yellow. This proves that Harold Ford is healthy! Nice try, John Cook! [Science Daily. Click to enlarge]

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#recaps

RuPaul's Drag Race: Miss Tyra If You Nasty

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