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boy stuff

New Girly Videogames Based On Teen Movies

Because videogames, let's be honest, have so far mostly appealed to only half the population (the one with doodles), videogame makers have long been racking their brains trying to come up with a way to attract that other half (the ones with hoo-has). It's that eternal dance of nerds trying to woo ladies and failing miserably. But now they've got a new plan that's sure to work! Video games based on girly movies like Mean Girls, Clueless, and Pretty In Pink. More »

10:21 AM on Wed Jul 23 2008
By Richard
1,706 views, 62 comments

books

Stuff White People Like, Bestselling Book

When the book for the Stuff White People Like blog was sold for a reported $300,000, everyone laughed and cried and wondered how the rushed-to-print blog-to-book would do on the open market. Answer: New York Times bestseller. [Portfolio's Mixed Media]

2:57 PM on Thu Jul 17 2008
By Sheila
3,595 views, 39 comments

stuff white people like

Hated Flack Is Secret Hipster

So. We were just reminded of something else about Howard Wolfson, the Clinton communications manager who did not get along with the media. He's totally cool because he's into indie music! Seriously, he sends these playlists to his journalist "friends" (of which he has increasingly few!). The Observer mentioned his annual top-ten list of indie groups and added that "Mr. Wolfson says the darker driving hours are when he allots time to listen to music and to clear his head." Sad! He's probably driving around the beltway right now, doing the whole loop with Exile in Guyville on repeat. Does anyone have one of his playlists laying around?

5:45 PM on Wed Jun 25 2008
By Pareene
1,430 views, 31 comments

Latest by skahammer: @arirang: ...In a valley full of Pioneers. We're not just kids To say the least. We've got ideas To us that's dear. Like capitalist. Like communist. Like lots of things You've heard about.... more »

conspiracy theories

The Handy Bilderberg/Obama Conspiracy Theory Widget

So. The bad Countrywide-related guy who just 'resigned' from the Obama campaign? He was at the Bilderberg conference, that fun meeting of the secret shadow government. And he's connected to sooo many other organizations that plot the global food crisis and control the churches, like the Brookings Institute and the University of Minnesota. We learned so much from this informative widget, courtesy Animal. We've embedded it after the jump. More »

5:41 PM on Wed Jun 11 2008
By Pareene
4,307 views, 15 comments

apple

What's Wrong With This Logo?

One of Apple's greatest strengths has always been the clean design and memorable branding of its products. Which makes this logo for its new MobileMe internet service all the more surprising. Why? Because it looks like a Windows knockoff, and it sucks, frankly. Rod Townsend, who wonders if this is "the worst logo in the history of Mac," has a few thoughts: It "Looks like a poor cousin of the Intel logo." It "Needs to cut down on the carbs." It "Looks like something Cindy McCain would hang in a child's nursery." Hey, we can play too! Apple's new MobileMe logo: More »

12:25 PM on Tue Jun 10 2008
By Hamilton Nolan
18,699 views, 72 comments

Latest by n/a: I thought it was a logo for a new brand of razors, first glance. Now it just makes me want to cut myself. more »

marketing

Become A Fake Expert In One Easy Step

Would you like to become an "expert" in a field that really defies easy expert prediction? Here's how: Take a group of things in that field that have already proven themselves to be successful. Then find common characteristics among the items in that group. Put forward those characteristics as your own personal advice about how to be successful in said field. Then, when your audience discovers that simply staring at a bunch of characteristics of things successful in the past does nothing to help them make the hard decisions about the future, you can just shrug and say, "Hey, these things are complex!" This works for "experts" in stock picking, politics, and, especially, marketing. More »

10:55 AM on Wed Jun 4 2008
By Hamilton Nolan
2,080 views, 26 comments

Latest by n/a: Personal Finance experts. Especially the ones who have been doing it for the past oh, ten years or so. BWAAHHHAAHHAAHHAA. more »

the internets

Google Street View No Longer Fun

Google has announced plans to blur all the human faces in its "Street View" service, which allows you to take a virtual photographic tour of interesting places like Manhattan so that you never have to leave your dank apartment in real life. This is, in all likelihood, to prevent you from seeing any inadvertently captured interesting moments, like drug deals or people crashing their bikes. Google says ""The purpose of Street View isn't looking at people, it's looking at buildings and locations." Whatever. Somewhere on there is a picture of a Google programmer flagging down a hooker. Occam's Razor, people. [AFP]

11:19 AM on Thu May 15 2008
By Hamilton Nolan
2,808 views, 13 comments

Latest by famousauthor: The number of viewers will immediately drop when they blur the faces. more »

neat

A Day Without News


It's been everywhere today but still, it's neat. And odd. And a bit unsettling. A day without news would be a fantastic event for the planet and basically a nightmare for us. Though obviously a day without news would still have plenty of cool internet videos so we'd get by.

6:14 PM on Wed May 14 2008
By Pareene
1,634 views, 36 comments

marketing

About Time That Children Had Their OWN Water

It's bottled water—for kids! Fortified with vitamins, minerals, and especially good old H2O. Finally, no more arguing with your kids to hush up and drink their Evian. Yves Behar has designed this "Y Water," featuring bottles that are also toys. And Kanye West loves it! I think I heard of this "bottled water that kids love" idea back when it was called "Capri Sun." Anyhow, I'm sure this product is both necessary, and a great value. Not to mention the obvious benefits for the plastics industry. Two fun-loving pics of children enjoying this capitalist monstrosity, after the jump. More »

4:52 PM on Thu May 1 2008
By Hamilton Nolan
3,760 views, 48 comments

Latest by n/a: Toy? TOY? That damn thing that they're building looks exactly like my $200 organic chemistry model kit minus the features. This "water" is going to make it super easy to teach organic chemistry haha... BK-KT your an more »

jealous rage

Gawker Alum Paid For Book Your Mom Wrote

The Observer's Doree Shafrir and Jezebel's Jessica Grose landed a book deal for "Postcards From Yo Momma," their beloved tumblr blog that reprints emails from readers' mothers, because we are all terrible children. Doree and Jessica "are said to have received a comfortable... sum," according to Balk, though not as much a the creators of Stuff White People Like. Of course the Stuff White People Like guys actually have to, like, write their book. Themselves! [Radar] Update: Doree says, "they actually want quite a bit of original content." Of course she'll probably make her mom write it.

1:57 PM on Tue Apr 29 2008
By Pareene
2,252 views, 24 comments

Latest by HeyThatsMyBike: @narnio: Nobody remembers when they wrote a book. I think Nick actually had the whole incident officially erased from history. more »

weekend roundup

Lesbians, Indians, Fameballs, and Barry Gibb

12:15 PM on Mon Apr 14 2008
By ian spiegelman
923 views, 8 comments

stuff white people like

And Now This...

Stuff. Indians. Like. Do I really need to do context on this one? Okay, here goes. First there was the blog "Stuff White People Like." And then a bunch of white people were all, "But what kind of white people?" Then the Jews came and they liked stuff too. And more whites came who didn't like anything—not even Mythbusters! Now Indians, from India, have a stuff-we-like blog of their own! Or is this a big ol' racist prank? More »

1:25 PM on Sat Apr 12 2008
By ian spiegelman
6,677 views, 44 comments

Latest by Cheap Shot: I hope they put 'becoming doctors' on that list. more »

art

Buy That Famous Janet Jackson Cover (And Some Nudes)!

The newsmaking Christie's auction featuring the nude photo of French first lady Carla Bruni is coming up tomorrow. But she's not the only draw! The extensive photo collection has lots of other iconic pop culture shots, including the original photo of that famous Janet Jackson Rolling Stone cover (pictured). It also includes artistic nudes of stars like Kate Moss, Lauren Hutton, and Naomi Campbell, spanning four decades. You can see the whole collection here [via UD]. After the jump, one sample: a 1999 Irving Penn portrait of supermodel and Tom Brady girlfriend Gisele Bundchen [NSFW], which can be yours for as little as $30,000: More »

6:14 PM on Wed Apr 9 2008
By Hamilton Nolan
14,200 views, 24 comments

Latest by bjonston: @Helman: I believe that depends on the package. more »

stuff white people like

Stuff Young Jews Like Means It's Officially A Meme

It's at least the fourth imitator of viral website Stuff White People Like, but Stuff Jewish Young Adults Like is actually pretty funny, in part because it's still young enough that you can read the whole site in like 15 minutes. That young jews liked "Writing for Television" and "Taking Christ's Name In Vain" I kind of figured, but "Ultimate Frisbee?" This goy had no idea. More examples: More »

9:01 PM on Tue Apr 1 2008
By Ryan Tate
6,872 views, 41 comments

the gays

Gandalf Is The Only Gay in Middle Earth

Sorry slashers and fan fiction enthusiasts, but none of it's real. Ian McKellen, the only openly gay man thought to be "cool" by fourteen year old boys, says that there was no homo hanky panky going on during Lord of the Rings filming. On the adorably named "E-Post" section of his website McKellen answers a reader's question about rampant rumors of hot Orlando Bloom-on-hobbit action by saying: "This gossip is all news to me. Elijah, Dominic and Orlando introduced me to their girlfriends during shooting." The gays were convinced the whispers were true! But Sir Ian wouldn't lie. Ah well. I guess the fantasies will just have to live on in my writing. Like that Bilbo/Gollum 'ship I'm working on that starts so promisingly: "It was nearly time for elevenses in the Shire, but Gollum had already been nibbling on his precious all morning." Delightful! [Towleroad] Two more romantic slash images after the jump. More »

12:10 PM on Wed Mar 26 2008
By Richard
2,157 views, 25 comments

Latest by In Other News...: @kingsquiddish: "Don't worry, edits don't hurt." more »

lol internet

White People Over-Analyze Like This

Did you hear about that hot new internet blog, "Stuff White People Like"? Did someone email or GChat you a link to it? Or did many people? Chances are you either had a knowing chuckle or got all huffy about it, as those seem to be most people's responses. We've gone through the criticisms both whiny—I'm white and I'm nothing like this!—and smart—boy their definition of "white people" is offensively narrow and classist—and now we're sick of those too, even though we sort of agree with them but also are all "lay off, it's a stupid blog." There's the fucking rub: we dislike the site and are sick of everyone disliking the site. Which is why we were so excited to see that they got ten zillion dollars to turn it into a book! A book about hockey, and Miracle Whip! Except not really, because only like middle American White People like those things, see, and there's that class argument we didn't want to get into. No, this book is actually about Juno or some such bullshit. More »

3:54 PM on Fri Mar 21 2008
By Pareene
4,550 views, 28 comments

Latest by Crazydogggz: The SWPL guy is a South Park Republican, and he comes with the requisite sneering and scoffing at earnest and insufferable middle-class white liberals. Both of which white people like. more »

books

Stuff White People Like: Ridiculous Book Deals

We give up! 'Stuff White People Like' Book Sold to Random House For At Least $350,000. You win, Internet! Great work, Random House! Oh hey, Spy legend and man white people love Kurt Andersen "has taken an active interest in it and will play a role in its development." Thanks, Kurt! The press release says the book will cover "Whole Foods, Wes Anderson, Starbucks, graduate school, kitchen gadgets, Barack Obama, Apple products, the movie Juno, expensive sandwiches, and vintage t-shirts, to name a few." Looks like white people like New York Magazine! (ALSO: Gotham Books is apparently publishing a book based on "Barack Obama is your new bicycle." Maybe some joker should make a whole album of hilarious Rick Astley songs!) [NYO]

5:19 PM on Thu Mar 20 2008
By Pareene
5,214 views, 40 comments

Latest by Dorothy: prior response not intended for vulturesquadron, slip of the white educated finger more »

gossip

The "Golden Age of Celebrity Gossip" Is Dead!

In Salon today, Rebecca Traister argues that "the golden age of celebrity gossip is grinding to an end." Ah, the golden age! When Starlets yet new! Traister notes the ever-increasing number of relatively random, famous-for-famousness' sake photo fodder who are splashed on the pages of fading mags like In Touch, Star, and People (only Us Weekly increased its readership last year). She says we're overloaded with inexplicable images, coupled with those "???" headlines hand-crafted by "evil geniuses" like Janice Min. Have we reached critical mass? She asks, "what heart of celebrity darkness is there to be exposed?" A good question. Surely something else about these people's lives can be laid bare. Though it may be scary and sad, like Traister suggests, and we may not like what we uncover. Sort of like the end of Raiders of the Lost Ark. More »

3:58 PM on Thu Mar 20 2008
By Richard
1,719 views, 16 comments

Latest by ArtfulSlinger: The real problem here is we are actually missing most of the stories and only hearing the crappy pr friendly bullshit fed to US or tips from the public, which are 75% incorrect. more »

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