Dating in the Dark's Jason is 27-year-old personal trainer/model who considers himself to be God's gift to women. His overt confidence worked with Melanie during their dates in pure darkness, but when the lights came on she sent him packing.
Amazing what people fetishize these days: Gray hair, dark circles under the eyes, average-at-best height, a missing middle finger? Rahm Emanuel, Obama's chief of staff, beat conventionally gorgeous policy advisor Melody Barnes in our poll.
Tina Brown writes that the incoming Obama administration promises a restoration of intellectualism to the center of American life. In honor of her thesis, we present the official Obama Hotties poll.
An online-video panel at Web 2.0 Summit proved so free of insight that reporter Scott Raynovich took a turn playing Mr. Blackwell instead, savaging all of the panelists' outfits. Only moderator Xeni Jardin got off easy, winning praise for her "peach-colored suit." We would have dinged her for that: Jardin always looks…
Promiscuous MySpace friender Tila Tequila recently denied reports that her relationship with Courtenay Semel, the publicly drunken daughter of former Yahoo CEO Terry Semel, was on the rocks. But The Superficial says the Hollywood Z-lister's shot at girl-on-girl love has ended. Why does she no longer Yahoo?Gossip…
Mashable founder Pete Cashmore will say goodbye to his American friends tonight in San Francisco. The faux-blogging CEO caps off his six-month visa stay with a party, booze, food, and — as always — startup pitches. The Scottish whirlwind came to the U.S. and stayed long enough to snag a documentary, as well as gals …
A group of ultrarich San Francisco socialites, each with a carbon footprint the size of a small African country, gathered at the home of Larry Ellison's wife Melanie Ellison. The good cause: to promote author Sloan Barnett's book Everything Goes with Green — which just happens to suggest everyone buy her husband Roger…
As the seasons change and we settle into autumn, I'm reminded once more that yet another year will soon pass and that we're all getting older. Or at least, the old people are. Check out the images below, picturing tech luminaries in their youths juxtaposed with more recent photos. You might find yourself in…
CAMBRIDGE, MASS. — Technology Review editor-in-chief Jason Pontin is bursting with pride. No, not the Clay Aiken sort: He is married — to a woman, one must specify, since this is Massachusetts — and the couple is expecting a child in mid-October. Oh, and his magazine has won some large number of awards from an…
If you can't hire a star, why not one of her best girlfriends? We hear Microsoft has poached BusinessWeek reporter Catherine Holahan for a new online-video project — MSN's answer to Yahoo Finance's Tech Ticker stocks show, which features Sarah Lacy, Holahan's former colleague at BusinessWeek and a close friend. (The…
Serial entrepreneur Shawn Fanning, probably best known as the founder of early file sharing site Napster, recently changed his relationship status on Facebook from "single" to "in a relationship with Jennifer Leigh." Whom I'm pretty sure is Jennifer "Jennicide" Leigh, a televised poker personality who's posed in FHM…
The Googlers who built the Chrome browser hired popular cartoonist Scott McCloud to illustrate their white paper on Chrome's technical architecture and design process. But let's be honest: They also bought Scott McCloud versions of themselves all over the Internet. Reader theodp matched up McCloud's illos of the…
An eagle-eyed reader spotted a shot of what looked to them like a giant cupcake building in downtown San Francisco, and immediately Google's cupcake princess Marissa Mayer came to mind. Credit-card giant Visa has recently started running an ad with lots of everyday-but-oversized objects populating urban areas (we've…
After slapping our beloved sweaterbear Owen Thomas for his description of Sheryl Sandberg's "reign of terror" at Facebook, Kara Swisher has left the lower 48 and hopped on a boat bound for Alaska. While bears may seem cuddly, danger may lurk in their embrace. Since we wouldn't want anything bad to happen to our…
The Internet has left us not quite ourselves. Half of San Francisco and Brooklyn, it suddenly seems, wishes they were high school students in the '50s. The other half would rather be in a Japanese manga graphic novel. This urge to be someone slightly different has been capitalized on by two websites: FaceYourManga…
That's so not hot: Chris DeWolfe, the CEO of MySpace, is dating Paris Hilton, Michael Arrington reports. Or if not dating, they've at least been seen together a lot, from Hollywood to the Hamptons. We wonder: Is it a coincidence that Hilton has fallen into DeWolfe's circle? Only two months ago, we reported how…
From "Greenoch — Greatest Martial Art of All Time," first posted by a Usenet rec.martial-arts contributor in 1991 to Paris Hilton's Presidential campaign commercial released this week, the below-embedded Dipity timeline features every meme and viral sensation you finally managed to forget.Click to view
ConnectU founders and Olympic rowers Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss — the guys who are still in a legal wrestling match with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg after suing him for stealing their idea, settling, and then rethinking the settlement — took their shirts off for rowing practice in Beijing. We thought some of you…
SFLuxe has photo proof that yes, that was Google cupcake princess Marissa Mayer at the years-delayed opening of Prada's San Francisco store on Maiden Lane in Union Square. Next to her in the "I heart Prada" tee is Orkut Büyükkökten, the totally gay Googler who unintentionally brought social networking to millions of…
The not-so-subtle thesis of a Boston Globe profile of Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, the twins who claim Mark Zuckerberg stole the idea from Facebook from them: They're not just dumb jocks. The Twinklevosses, as they're known in Silicon Valley, lost in their legal effort, but are hoping to win at the Beijing…
