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Foot Locker has some sweet kicks. You love a trivia challenge.

Thu, 02 Apr 2009 13:00:00 EDT

Together you can create something beautiful, namely a $100 gift card in your pocket. Go here, hunt around for trivia facts, and answer the questions after the jump. Correct responses could earn you a $100 gift card to revamp your style with the PUMA Archive Collection. Standard Rules Apply.

Trivia Questions
• In 2000, PUMA entered a partnership with what 2 companies to produce fireproof footwear for race car fans?
• What was the first product to have a bar code?
• True or False: Jerry Seinfeld owns over 500 pairs of mint condition white sneakers?
• How many different color combinations are possible on a Rubik's Cube?
• In what year was PUMA the first manufacturer to offer sports shoes with Velcro® fasteners?

Email all 5 correct answers to contests@gawker.com, one lucky winner will be selected at random.

Who Wants to Be a Wired Subscriptionaire?

Gabriel Snyder — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 11:21:27 EST

Last week, we asked which Conde Nast magazine most deserved to live through the Great Magazine Die-Off and you voted to spare Wired. As promised, we're buying ten subscriptions and giving them to you.

Here's how this will work: To give this a Google-search level of difficulty, email us with a) the issue date of the boomtime cover at left, and b) the name of the person who wrote the cover story. The first ten people to respond with the correct answers get a year's subscription.

Please use the subject line "Wired Subscription Contest." Oh, and be sure to include the address where you want your subscription mailed. The standard contest rules apply.

A bit of subscription revenue is literally the least we can do, but it's better than nothing, right?

Update: That was fast. Congratulations: Leon, Orion, Katharine, Jonathan, Jordan, Emma, Garrett, Robbie, James and Adam. Contest over.

Enter This Sex Scandal Contest and Choke On It

Richard Lawson — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 15:03:00 EDT

Sex is fun! Sex scandals are even more fun. Movies are also a good time, so one of our lovely advertisers has decided to sponsor a little contest involving just those three things. After the jump you'll find a list of famous sexual liaisons, and all you have to do is name the celebrity that matches up with the once-secret lover. Of the readers who name all five correctly, one, randomly selected, will win a year's subscription to Netflix. Details after the jump!

Name the celebrity that matches up with the once-secret lover....

1. Ashley Dupre
2. Marla Maples
3. Balthazar Getty
4. Rielle Hunter
5. Edward Brooke

Email us your answers at contests at gawker dot com. The deadline for submissions is Thursday, September 25th, by 6pm EST. As always, standard contest rules apply. Sponsored by Choke: From the Author of 'FIGHT CLUB'. In Theatres Friday. Watch the trailer here.

Our Sponsors Are 'A Lifestyle' (Plus a Contest!)

Pareene — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 17:45:52 EDT

For some reason we thought Richard was doing the sponsors post today but then he was all "what the fuck are you talking about, fuck off" (IT'S TRUE THIS IS WHAT HE SAID) so its up to us. On behalf of everyone at Gawker we humbly thank AT&T, Bravo, Chili's, Crown Publishing, Frommers, Fuerabruta, Hancock, Honda Fit, LG Scarlett, Mini, MGM Grand Foxwoods, Randomhouse, Unscrew America, VW for their support. Hey you! Advertise with Gawker! OH! And there's a contest. Details below!

Fuerzabruta,Daily News calls "a sexy, heart-pounding fantasy," would like you to win a pair of vouchers to their show! So email us with the subject line "Fuerzabruta Contest" and we'll select a random lucky winner.

Winner!

Pareene — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 18:20:37 EDT

Yesterday, CNN introduced new headline t-shirts and we bemoaned their shamelessness. Then we shamelessly held a contest for the best fake ones! Betty Crocker wins (with an assist from Tnuc)! Simple. Effective. Also it may get you arrested. Unfortunately you can't actually buy these hacked shirts, nor can you even hack them anymore. Maybe we'll try to work out something else?

Win an Offensive CNN T-Shirt!

Pareene — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 14:43:51 EDT

CNN.com introduced a new feature today that allows you to buy t-shirts featuring some of their more outrageous headlines. Of course, even their most outrageous headlines are no match for the ones various bloggers and commenters are creating using their easily-hacked t-shirt store URLs. So let's have a contest! Knock up one that's funny—not purely offensive, please—and whichever one tickles our fancy the most wins a prize. If we're able too! Examples to get you started here and in the comments here. Enter in the comments below with a link and, if you can manage, an image of the shirt. Quick, before they fix it! The prize? We'll buy you the t-shirt you created! (If we can.) Standard contest rules apply.

Kreepie Kats in "The Pope Wants to Hump Your Face"

behrle — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 18:05:11 EDT

[Hey, Jim Behrle's lovable kartoon kitties are holding a kontest! It's called the "Have Sex with the Kreepie Kats Guy Tonite Kontest" and the details are after the jump.]

Where would you put the Wikipedia logo?

Jackson West — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 08:00:19 EDT

With ICQ lending its name to an Israeli toothpaste manufacturer and Google trucking branded ice cream bars to its Mountain View headquarters, no wonder Jimmy Wales is thinking about how Wikipedia can cash in on brand licensing. The only problem: Wales's marketing ideas are as dull as his sexual fantasies. Board games? Discovery Channel specials? Boring!

Wales needs to think about the special attributes he — and he alone — brings to the Wikipedia brand. Wales is becoming known as a stud to end all studs, having bedded women around the world on Wikipedia-promoting junkets. Three words: user-generated condoms. Imagine the sum of all human knowledge unrolling before her eyes. Pick the right article to put on your article, and she'll edit herself right into your history. And worry not — they're as reliable as the information in Wikipedia.

That's just the beginning. What (or whom) would you brand with the august Wikipedia logo? The 250th commenter gets a free copy of Jimmy Wales: Vision: Wikipedia and the Future of Free Culture on DVD.

Grownups, make your own Google Doodle

Jordan Golson — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 17:40:07 EST

Google is holding a contest for K-12 students to create a Google Doodle — the themed logos Google occasionally runs on its homepage. The winner's will run on the front page of Google later this year. The theme is "What if ... ?" Precious. Sadly, most of our readers are overage for the contest. (Emotional age doesn't count.) So we'll have our own! Got some Photoshop skill? Make a Google Doodle of your own and send it to us. We'll run the winner on Valleywag's homepage. If you're like me and have no artistic ability whatsoever, suggest your best "What if ... ?" theme in the comments below.

Write your own headline for Yahoo's Microsoft snub

Jordan Golson — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 19:00:18 EST

Yesterday, Yahoo's board officially rejected Microsoft's unsolicited — now hostile — takeover bid, and I had a grand time coming up with headline after headline, but sadly we could only run one of them. Here's our chance to be creative! Come up with a great headline and post it in the comments below. If you've never commented before, sign-up instructions are after the jump. Here are some of our favorites.

Microsoft finds Yahoo's lack of faith disturbing
Yahoo asks Microsoft if it really wants to step to this
Yahoo to Microsoft: Oh, no you di'int
Jerry Yang to troops: BOHICA

You can do better. Have at it. For new commenters:

Your comment identity is never linked to an email address in our system, unless you choose to enter one. So long as you choose an obscure screenname, nobody will know it's you. Or, if you're new, you can just submit a smart comment, username and password; it will go into an approval queue. We don't edit individual comments, though we do occasionally ban trolls, or bores, or shameless self-promoters. Almost anything, even needlessly bracing language, is forgiven if there's at least a nugget of information.

Remind us who we're sleeping with this week?

Melissa Gira Grant — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 18:00:14 EST

"It would be easy to put together a scorecard and a list of Web 2.0 luminaries who haven't graced their pages," suggests sexy Internet daddy-type Dave Winer. "We might find out who's sleeping with the editors of Valleywag." Great idea, Dave! You make a chart, we'll run it at full 720-pixel width. Promise. But only if you specify which editor. One of Winer's commenters claims Blognation owner Tristan Louis got a free pass from the 'Wag. But did Louis pay through the nose for Mary Jane Irwin's sweet, sweet GFE embrace, or is Owen Thomas giving him the reacharound for free? Readers care about those little details.

A Hopeless Task

Nick Denton — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 16:10:43 EST

How can journalism schools encourage the entrepreneurial instincts of would-be journalists? The University of Southern California's Online Journalism Review wants to know, and I can think of no answer except this: close. Maybe you'll be more constructive. Questions, after the jump. I'll forward the best of your responses.

Hello Nick,

I am putting together a piece for OJR.org with advice for journalism schools in how to approach entrepreneurship, given the collapsing traditional business models for journalism. As part of my piece, I'd like to get your thoughts on four relevant questions:

1. What aptitude should journalism schools be looking for in the students that they recruit and admit, in order to improve the odds that some of their graduates will find success as news entrepreneurs?

2. What knowledge should journalism schools be attempting to impart upon their students to enable their entrepreneurial ability?

3. What practical skills and experiences should journalism schools be providing their students in order to test their entrepreneurial abilities?

4. Is there anything that journalism schools are doing now, in student selection, curriculum, training or attitude, that is standing in the way of preparing students for entrepreneurship?

Feel free to answer a few or all of these questions, at any length you feel appropriate. I'd like to put the piece together by the end of the week, so any response by then would be warmly appreciated.

Thank you very much for your time,
Robert

Robert Niles
Editor, USC Annenberg Online Journalism Review
http://www.ojr.org

Yahoo/Microsoft Photoshop contest winners

Jordan Golson — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 21:00:02 EST

Last week we hooked up with Fark.com to run a photoshop contest: "What are we likely to see as the result of the Microsoft-Yahoo takeover?" Here are our favorite submissions.

Image above: shilrobot

~Latka

~Anonymous

Fashion Week Foto Funnies Contest!

Pareene — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 12:38:46 EST

Oh hey, it's Fashion Week! Again! It's like monthly now, right? Anyway—Denton authorized us to hand out a FREE $100 AMAZON GIFT CARD to the first person to send us their best Fashion Week Hilarious Sneaky Paparazzi-Style Shot. Of Anna Wintour or otherwise, it's up to you. (That photo, of course, is from the inimitable Julia Allison)

One Robocall Worth Taking

Nick Denton — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 15:05:06 EST

Potential voters in tomorrow's Super Tuesday primaries are receiving automated calls from actress Scarlett Johansson, one of Barack Obama's more glamorous supporters. (A $100 Amazon.com certificate to the first person who can provide us audio.) Update: And here it is. Thanks, Albert!

Fark/Valleywag Photoshop contest: the Microsoft-Yahoo takeover

Jordan Golson — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 13:30:45 EST

We've partnered up with Drew Curtis at Fark to run a photoshop contest:

What are we likely to see as the result of the Microsoft-Yahoo takeover?

Do your best and post it on Fark or email it to us if you want to remain anonymous. We'll post the winners next week. (Photo by AP/Mark Lennihan)

Hey, You Like Dudes?

abalk2 — Mon, 14 May 2007 16:37:08 EDT

So we were wondering which way you swing? We don't know why the ad department wants to ask you this—but anyway, if you take this not-at-all invasive survey about your sexual preferences, and enter your e-mail address, you could win a $250 gift certificate from Amazon.com. And, quite possibly, for the gays, a date with Managing Editor Choire Sicha! He's extremely desperate! Standard contest rules apply.

Our Advertisers Love Women's Basketball; Contest

abalk2 — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 11:46:39 EDT

Thanks to this week's advertisers, who love the sport and everyone who plays it. Care to catch a game with them? Additional information here. There's even more excitement this week: Answer this poll from Bravo's Shear Genius, enter your e-mail address, and you could win a $100 gift certificate from Spafinder! And thanks to our advertisers: American Apparel, Canon, IFC TV, LivePersonalShoppers.com, MSNBC, Mergers & Acquisitions, Nokia, Perfect Stranger, Bravo's Shear Genius, SV Supreme Vodka, Sprint, UWISHUNU.com, VW.

Our Advertisers Are All About Solidarity, Contest

Emily Gould — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 12:13:53 EDT

Solidarity and accountability! Because why not, it's not like they're mutually exclusive or something. If you're interested in joining the fun, more info is available here.

Thanks to Absolut, American Apparel, Amy Winehouse, Curse of the Golden Flower, Kaiser Chiefs, The New School, New York Underground Film Festival, Nokia, Perfect Stranger, SV Supreme Vodka, Sprint, Toyota, UWISHUNU.com, VW, Verizon. And after the jump, find out how you can win two tix to the New York Underground Film Festival!

Prize is choice of a pair of the tickets to the NY Underground Film Festival screening of winner's choice: VIVA (Opening Night, 3/28), Frank & Cindy (4/1) or Random Lunacy: Videos from the Road Less Traveled (Closing Night, 4/1, sponsored by The Onion and Pabst). More info is here.

To enter, just send an email to tips@gawker.com with the subject line NYUFF Contest before Tuesday, March 27th. An email will be picked at random to win. By emailing your entry, you agree to our Contest Rules.

Our Advertisers Think Bald Is Beautiful, Free Ipod Shuffle

Emily Gould — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 11:04:04 EST

Go ahead, shave it off. Our advertisers will still think you're pretty. Interested in joining their very accepting ranks? Info is here. Also, do you want a free ipod shuffle in your choice of color? Why, simply fill out this survey and include your email address. The usual rules apply.

Thanks to: 24 Fitness, Absolut, EA Mobile, Earthlink, Endless.com, Elvis Perkins, Erasure, The Host, The New School, SV Supreme Vodka, Sprint, Toyota, VW, Verizon.