Yes, Rick Astley, the reclusive British pop star responsible for "Never Gonna Give You Up," has himself been Rickrolled. But it's all been within the last six months, he told the Los Angeles Times. In fact, Astley didn't know about Rickrolling — the act of labeling a link to a YouTube video of his one hit song as…
"Watch the sex tape Gene doesn't want you to see," GenesSecret.com promises. The website purportedly hosts a NSFW sex tape of Kiss frontman Gene Simmons. Leave aside the question of whether anyone wants to see Simmons in flagrante. Does Simmons himself really object to the site? Nothing revives the Q factor of an…
Roger McNamee founded Elevation Partners, a tech private-equity firm with $1.9 billion in assets. He can claim Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Larry Ellison, Mark Zuckerberg as friends. Bono is his coworker. He earned a 700 percent return saving Seagate Technology in the 1990s. But according to Portfolio, McNamee can't…
Why did FuckedCompany creator Philip "Pud" Kaplan record a profane song, "Fuck," in August under the name "Farty McPoopants"? The pseudonym is easy enough to explain: His current venture is AdBrite, an online-advertising network. And selling ads is a business that's all about keeping up appearances. Given his past,…
Oh the steamy summer of 2005, otherwise remembered as the "Hot Coffee" scandal. Take-Two Interactive ushered in a new wave of videogame scrutiny after shipping Rockstar's Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas with a sexual intercourse minigame hidden in the code. (Players had to actively hack the game to get to it.)…
"It shouldn't be so hard to protect children from the most twisted, sadistic images that the mind can imagine," writes an editorialist for the San Jose Mercury News — giving a shout-out to Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's appeal of a U.S. District Court judge ruling that California's law banning the rental or sale of…
