Conservative Pundit Bill Kristol Can't Stop Talking About His Loathing for Trump
Behold, a holiday miracle: Democrats and Republicans can be agree! Donald Trump, a man as unifying as he is orange, has given us all a reason to get along.
Paris Hilton Is Super Happy for Her Former Personal Assistant
Sometimes it's nice to see an old acquaintance doing well, and sometimes it's upsetting and you're thinking, I hope she loses all her hair, but then you realize people will think you're mean, so you smile and say, Oh, I'm so thrilled for her. Paris Hilton definitely did one of these things recently.
Advice for President Obama and Mitt Romney As They Head Into Today's Awkward One-on-One Lunch
Odds are, at some point in your life you will have to break bread with someone you don't like.
Survey: 25% of Female Facebook Users Admit to Posting Unflattering Photos of Friends on Purpose
Out of 1,500 women surveyed by the photo gift website Mymemory.com, one in four said they've deliberately uploaded "ugly photos of friends" to Facebook, though had different reasons for doing so.
Pakistan Starts Rounding Up People Who Helped Us Kill Bin Laden
What is Pakistan doing with the $2 billion in military aid we gave it last year, and the additional $2 billion we'll be spending on it over the next five years? Oh, just arresting people who helped the CIA kill Osama bin Laden, like the soldier who secretly recorded the license plate numbers of cars entering his…
Female? You Probably Hate Your Facebook Friends
Coupon company Eversave surveyed 400 women about their Facebook friends. 83% of respondents admitted to being annoyed with friends' Facebook presences. 63% of women said their friends "complain all the time." 41% hated their friends' political views, and 32% were sick of their stupid perfect friends bragging about…
Tucker Max Has Composed Another Volume of Witticisms
Though we have recently been ensconced in a blissful, months-long "No Tucker Max News to Report" period, it appears that our peace shall soon be shattered: our "favorite" "person" (Tucker Max) has a new book coming out. With words!
Israel and U.S. Locked in Passive Aggressive Grudge Match
First Israel kneecaps Joe Biden by announcing a settlement expansion on the day Biden arrives to restart peace talks. Then Biden shows up 90 minutes late to dinner at Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's house. Did he bring wine? Probably not.
Cuba and U.S., Sitting in a Tree....
A U.S. envoy held unpublicized meetings with Cuban leaders. It's obviously socialism, not overdue diplomacy.
Skankblogger Revealed to be Acquaintance of Alleged Skank Model
Well here's a shocker: Liskula Cohen, the Vogue model so obsessed with revealing the identity of an anonymous blogger who called her a "skank" that she sued Google, discovered yesterday that she and the offending blogger are actually social acquaintances!
Are Meredith Vieira and Al Roker Going to Kill Each Other or Just Acting?
On the Today show this morning, Meredith genially asked weatherman Al Roker, who is black, if he knew about the weather in Africa. Because her kid's going there! Al, though, took jokey offense, and the scene got pretty uncomfortable
More (Circumstantial) Evidence that Socialgay Kristian Laliberte Rats Out His Friends
"Ugly and Dirty... that's all..." someone named "Nahant" wrote on the CityFile profile for a one Peter Davis, the "social queen," fashion writer, and Tinsley Mortimer friend. We think that "Nahant" might be our favorite socialgay Kristian Laliberte (surprise!), who used to date Davis and grew up in the "magical"…
Facebook lets you set friends apart from frenemies
Facebook added a feature today which allows you to classify your friends. You know, one group is for the friends you like, another for the people you have to pretend to like. Some are calling the feature a LinkedIn killer, since you can now set apart work pals from personal connections. We're not so sure. So far,…
Explaining why Facebook does not make him as paranoid as Google, science fiction writer Cory Doctorow says frenemies will doom the social network: "Adding more users to a social network increases the probability that it will put you in an awkward social circumstance.... That's why I don't worry about Facebook taking…
Did Total New York's founders have a rift?
We now know the identity of "Ted," the no-longer mysterious force behind VC ratings site TheFunded.com. He's Adeo Ressi, who cofounded Total New York, an early Web city guide, back in 1994. But where did his "Ted" nickname come from? Ressi revealed to Valleywag that his early users, a group which may have included…
MySpace CEO renews contract for two years
WEB 2.0 SUMMIT — "I'm happy to say I'll have a job for the next two years," says Chris DeWolfe, CEO of MySpace, on stage with conference organizer John Battelle and his boss, News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch, confirming widespread rumors that he and MySpace cohort Tom Anderson had renewed their contract to run the…
Love thy enemy on Facebook
Facebook has a severe flaw besides the ease with which it lets you befriend wannabe stalkers: There's no way to flaunt your equally long list of enemies. What to do with those annoying, despicable jackanapes who demand a wholly undeserved friending? Better than ignoring the request is using MIT student Kevin…
MySpace, fearing Facebook, adds PayPal as friend
As rumors grow that social network Facebook will introduce its own payment system, News Corp.-owned MySpace, still the leading social network, is teaming up with PayPal, eBay's online payments division. The partnership amounts to an experiment at this point, focusing on donations to political campaigns and…
