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The Five Most Dangerous Countries for Bloggers

Internet nerds became terribly excited recently when Twitter sprung a man from jail, but it's worth noting that in most of the world, blogging is much, much more likely to send you to to clink. While there are a number of bloggers whose eternal imprisonment—possibly in the Phantom Zone—we fantasize about daily, we grudgingly admit that throwing bloggers in jail for blogging is probably bad. So as a public service, we're here to tell you where not to blog if you value your freedom. China and Iran probably get the most press for their blogger crack-downs, and Malaysia just arrested a blogger this week, but if there's anything we learned from skimming the site of the Committee to Protect Bloggers, it's this: don't Tumblr in Egypt. More »

4:19 PM on Thu May 8 2008
By Pareene
1,758 views, 11 comments

Latest by sqwodaydc: @AuntPenny: well done! first rule of blog club, don't talk about blog club. the michelle malkin/william kristol in me would love to point out that all these countries are either communist or muslim. more »

from the mailbag

Subject: horror salad

Gawker,

A woman standing in line in front of me at Hale & Hearty salads just ordered the single most disgusting combination of ingredients imaginable: peas, beets, hard boiled egg, chicken (egg & chicken together! horror!), goat cheese, raisins, garbanzo beans.

Please let your readers and fellow salad eaters know that certain combinations of ingredients are inherently gross and will NOT be tolerated.

5:24 PM on Tue Apr 15 2008
By Pareene
3,203 views, 122 comments

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After My First Time, I Cried Nonstop for 45 Minutes


Watch as Felicity Huffman, Angie Harmon, Regina King and others in a try to get women to get to the polls in November. This (and pretty much anything else) is an improvement over "Vote or Die", even if some of the double entendres are a bit forced. Though we hope they realize that just because you vote for a guy, doesn't mean he's going to stick around in the morning. More »

4:10 PM on Mon Oct 23 2006
By suki
278 views, 8 comments