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#bookclub
Was Blogging Just a Fad?
This is the first meeting of the new Gawker Book Club. The author will be popping into the comments to answer questions. Up first: Say Everything by Scott Rosenberg.
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#media
Gizmodo Embarrasses CNBC
This is why access is overrated. CNBC believed Apple's official pronouncements on the health of Steve Jobs, the computer company's CEO. Gizmodo relied on gossiping insiders. Who do you reckon was right? More » -
#imagefile
Life Beyond Blogging
Former Gawker editor Choire Sicha is now—for New Year's Eve at least—MSNBC's expert on the Obama girls. More » -
#andnowhesdead
Harold Pinter, Nobel-winning Playwright
Pinter was known for plays such as The Birthday Party and The Caretaker—and later in his career as a salon leftist with a reflexive and increasingly dated hostility to the United States. More » -
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#thingsweactuallylike
Manhattan Brought To You By Pepsi Cola
Joergen Geerds' epic New York panoramas are on display this Friday in Newark. For those who prefer to look at the Hudson than cross the river, more modest versions of the photographer's immaculately stitched nighttime vistas are on the web. Check New York Panorama and Luminous New York—or click through on the image above. More » -
#nourielroubini
The Secret Pleasures of Dr. Doom
One can tell the world's condition is dire because the practitioners of that famously dismal science, the economists, are the new celebrities. Putting aside Princeton's Paul Krugman—who this week won the Nobel prize for economics—one academic has emerged with a reputation of a seer, Nouriel Roubini. The NYU professor's once-mocked warnings—of a real-estate collapse, equity market slaughter, the systemic bust of the banking system—have largely come to pass. More » -
#rants
Leave New York Alone!
It is understandable that film makers prefer to set the apocalypse in the only American conurbation that is recognizable—to international cinema-goers at least—as a city. (The original I Am Legend was set in Los Angeles, but the last year's movie was improved with Will Smith, computer-generated imagery and a Manhattan setting.) But New York has been destroyed so often recently that the suspense is draining from these plots. As soon as one sees the familiar profile of the Empire State Building, one knows something bad is going to happen. And one more thing: the city is in a delicate condition right now. We could have done without this trailer for The Day The Earth Stood Still, which shows bad things happening to Central Park, the Giants stadium, St. Patrick's Cathedral—and the city as a whole. More stills after the jump. More »
