You Thought You Would Get Rich Investing in Etsy—Nope
Far be it from Gawker.com to claim to be the finest financial blog “in the markets,” but we can tell you this: your special “high flying” “IPO” stocks are getting clobbered!!!
Do You Think My Stepdad Would Like a Cat Bed For Father's Day?
In searching for a Father’s Day present for my stepdad, I hit up all the best sites: Amazon.com, google: “father’s day”, HomeDepot.com, and finally Etsy. While my returns on the first three were lackluster—what’s he going to do with another grill spatula with a light wood handle?—I was surprised to learn that Etsy…
"I was ordering like everything on Etsy. Everything! Like ferrets dressed as Edwardian nannies. Crazy shit." Never change, Courtney Love.
All You Need to Know About Renaissance Faires Is Contained In This Weird Boob Accessory
From the Etsy page for a "Weird Renaissance Boob holder" ($16.95 plus $5.25 shipping and handling):
Taco Locks and Other Delights From the Internet's Weirdest Etsy Store
So many bizarre things are for sale on the online arts-and-crafts fair Etsy that spotting them has become a business in its own right. Most of these are accidental monstrosities, but artist Brad Troemel is selling a line of purposely demented pieces, in what we feel comfortable labeling the weirdest Etsy store ever.
Decorate Your Home With Embroidered Kanye West Tweets
"Home is where the heart is." "Bless this mess." "Sometimes I get emotional over fonts."
This Pastel of Jesus Holding Whitney Houston's Face Could Be Yours
"Musical Phenominal Whitney- The light of Christ shines upon Whitney Houston and she is new again and at peace," writes artist Jeffry Lynne Hawk. "I felt so moved to draw this picture of Whitney in the hands of Jesus to make a statement that God can forgive all those who turn to him. Whitney was once a beautiful song…
Your Guide to Knockoff KONY 2012 Merchandise, from Thongs to Hunger Games Crossover T-Shirts
Invisible Children, the nonprofit behind the KONY 2012 campaign, has asked supporters to spend April 20 raising awareness of the crimes of Ugandan militia leader and horrible person Joseph Kony. But how can you raise awareness? How about with one of the many KONY 2012 knockoffs available on Cafepress, Etsy and…
12 Handcrafted Penis Gifts You Can Find On Etsy
Dusty cavern of the perpetually knitting and crafting, Etsy is full of quirky potholders, dream catchers, homemade cat jewelery, and dick stuff. Yeah, dick stuff. Surprisingly (not that surprisingly), Etsy peddles a number of crocheted, Mod Podged, and beaded phallic goods.
Internet Rages over PayPal Ruining Poor Kids' Christmas
Take a much-loathed corporation, add poor kids, Christmas, and a popular blog, and you've got the recipe for a perfect Internet Shit Storm. Paypal is being blasted for "stealing" money raised for Christmas presents for poor kids.
Now You Can Buy a Wine Rack for Your Bike
Hipsters love bikes. They also love wine. But because stuffing a bottle of red in your messenger bag before pedaling down to the park for a picnic is totally déclassé, it hasn't been possible to marry the two. Until now, that is. Etsy user oopsmark is now offering a "Bicycle Wine Rack," which is described thusly:
Lazy—But Thoughtful—Gifts for Christmas
Some people are awesome at picking just the right gifts for friends and loved ones. Others just suck at presents. For the latter group, Brooklyn e-tailer Etsy invented a brilliant mashup of Facebook and the twee crafts it sells.
Christina Hendricks Is an Etsy Model
Joan Holloway is a woman of many talents. Among them: Modeling felted wool scarves on DIY shopping site Etsy. That's what "best-looking woman in America" Christina Hendricks is doing here, for a $130 scarf made by a friend. [Wrap]
Scoring Sunday's Nuptials: Of Mustache Rides and Moneyed Marriage
Altarcations are birthing friendships from our loins. Wonder if Phyllis Nefler will help this week's NYT Weddings & Celebrations elite fraternize over love of pervy facial hair and difficulties paying for pricey gay marriages. Bonds: we make them happen.
Scoring Sunday's Nuptials: Let Them Eat Brooklyn Hipster Cake Toppers
Phyllis Nefler eats lots of cake, emotionally and otherwise. She's yet to meet her dream cake—which probably comes from B.C. and rhymes with "shmooberry sush"—but it's out there. NYT's Weddings & Celebrations, help us find it.
New York Times discovers a venture capitalist
Fred Wilson's venture-capital firm, the paper of record tells us, "has built its portfolio making small bets on young companies." That is an excellent definition of early-stage venture capital. But is Wilson, of Union Square Ventures, to be congratulated with a glowing New York Times profile merely for doing his job?…
And in the end the stock you take is equal to the mess you make
How many ex-Yahoo managers does it take to reproduce a classic Beatles album cover? From left to right: Salim Ismail, Chad Dickerson, Scott Gatz, and Bradley Horowitz. All four were, at some point, responsible for parts of Yahoo's advanced-products group, including the Brickhouse incubator in San Francisco. The band…
Yahoo Brickhouse head to leave, again
Chad Dickerson, who has been responsible for Yahoo's Brickhouse incubator since December, is leaving the company to be CTO at Etsy, an online handicrafts retailer. We hear Google, where former boss Bradley Horowitz now works, had been heavily recruiting Dickerson. With this move, Dickerson has deftly dissed both Web…
Will Flickr cofounders make a run for the border, or head for the Big Apple?
Now that Caterina Fake has left Yahoo and Stewart Butterfield has tendered his abstract resignation letter, what will the widely beloved Flickr cofounders do? And where will they go? Brendon Wilson, who worked in the Valley himself before returning to his native Canada, pointed us to an effort by a group of geeks to…
