Amy Sedaris Into The 'Ching Chong' Thing Too
If Miley Cyrus is an unredeemed hick racist for pulling her eyes back to imitate the Chinese , what to make of Amy Sedaris scrawling "Ching Chong" and drawing buck teeth on someone's book?
Obama's First Hundred Minutes
"Minutes 65-67: Delete 'private' Scarlett Johansson photos before surrendering Blackberry to Secret Service. Minutes 91-99: Do a little blow." [Indecision]
David Shuster Ignores Our 'Martin Eisenstadt' Hoax Warnings
David Shuster, we tried to warn you. "Martin Eisenstadt" is no adviser to John McCain, our own Alex Pareene reported Nov. 4, but rather a talented comedian. Mother Jones did likewise. And yet! On Monday, nearly six days after that warning, you had to go and identify Eisenstadt on MSNBC as a "McCain policy adviser" who…
Joe the Plumber Didn't Hook Up With Kristen Wiig
Back in September of 2007, a series of amusing "Rudy Giliani ads" were released to YouTube by a mysterious user named "abrad2345." One of them is attached. A year later, we were pointed to a blog and video series called "The Last Republican" by a "McCain advisor" named Martin Eisenstadt. Martin Eisenstadt is a…
Alien Revives Tabloid Corpse!
Entrepreneur and longtime entertainment executive Neil McGinness bought the deadpan supermarket tabloid Weekly World News from American Media, according to the Times, 14 months after the last issue was printed amid anemic circulation. McGinness has "revived" the website, which AMI had promised to keep open (as…
The Internet Kills Beloved Cartoon Penguin
Opus, Berkeley Breathed's troubled, herring-loving penguin, has managed to eek out an existence since he first hit the strip "Bloom County" in 1980. But now he's gonna die, because Breathed is gonna kill him, and it's all your fault, snarky snarking internet users! Asked why Breathed is ending Opus's self-named strip…
Sarah Palin + Facebook + boredom = creativity
Someone — someone at Holy Taco, it turns out — has created a fake Facebook page for Sarah Palin, and unlike most of the mock social-network profiles I've seen, the author actually got the details right. That must have taken more time than I can imagine having. It has to be all about job creation, indeed.
Fake Sarah…
Spam alert
If you receive an email from the Ministry of the Treasury of the Republic of America, with the subject line "Your Urgent Help Needed," please be informed that it is not actually from Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson. [Angry Bear] (Photo by AP/J. Scott Applewhite)
The Facebook toga party according to Fake Sheryl Sandberg
PALO ALTO — (Ed.'s note: Please welcome Fake Sheryl Sandberg, Valleywag's newest contributor.) I left Google for this. What was I thinking? Sure, Larry and Sergey were adolescents who built themselves a candy-colored playground. But Zuck makes them look like old men. Mr. Adidas rolled into the office around 10 this…
Remnick Defends Obama Cover, Idea That Readers Aren't Retards
This is the problem with being an editor or publisher or writer or cartoonist or even blogger and having some small lingering trace of a sense of irony-sometimes you accidentally assume that the Vast and Mysterious "Audience" shares that subversive French sense. Thankfully, after what will presumably be a full week of…
Bill Clinton updates Facebook profile to say "It's complicated" with Hillary
Minutes after New York Senator Hillary Clinton sent an email to her supporters ending her campaign, President Clinton changed his Facebook profile relationship status from "Married" to "It's Complicated." He also added that he was now looking for "friendship," "dating," and "a relationship." We're guessing Bill…
If moose don't have to pay for sex, why are they on Adult MooseFinder?
"Ubiquitous, open-doored singles' site Adult Friendfinder promises 'hot sex tonight!' — but for whom, with whom?" asks Melissa Gira Grant. Well, not sure. But on Adult MooseFinder, the answer to both questions is moose. There's less of a squirm factor, too. For example, the women "who use AFF have pretty…
Annoying things in the real world make the best Internet startups
Before YouTube, there was America's Funniest Home Videos. Before Facebook, there were class reunions. Before Craigslist, bathroom graffiti. Not a good pattern! [Copy Brighter]
Tom Cruise's new MacBook Air revealed!
Because you're nosy about it, here's graphical proof that on the Internet, Apple is a much bigger topic than anything else we post about. Yet the video of Gizmodo's cruel CES prank drew 10 times more clicks than our biggest MacBook Air post. Hollywood still crushes all. On Gawker, Nick Denton's mirror post of Tom…
Tom Cruise on Tom Cruise, Homoeroticist
Tom Cruise's biographer, for all his embarrassing revelations about the Hollywood actor's fervor for Scientology, doesn't give much credence to the longstanding rumors that the movie star is gay. Tom Cruise is a "conventional, heterosexual man who, more interestingly, never wants to be alone," writer Andrew Morton…
Apple's alternate Macworld 2008 teaser ad leaked
A tipster sent us this alternate version of the Apple teaser ad currently up on Apple.com. According to our tipster, Steve Jobs spent hours meditating to choose between "air" and "water" themes for Macworld. What could "There's something in the water" mean? We can only speculate, but our best guess is a waterproof…
More CES sanctions against Blakeley
Star Wonkette commenter FlakJack listed additional punishments the Consumer Electronics Show people should mete out to Gizmodo's TV-remote prankster. Edited version:
One Laptop Per Child sued in Nigerian court
Nicholas Negroponte's One Laptop Per Child project may be better named "No Laptop Per Child," at the rate it's going. Back in November, the Wall Street Journal essentially labeled the project a failure. Now, the group is being sued for $20 million by a Nigerian company for patent infringement. Let's hope OLPC…
