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puppies
Puppycam Shiba Inus Are Leaving the Nest
You know what happens when puppies reach eight weeks old, don't you? That's when they're able to leave their family and join a human family. (That's when our family always purchased our pups: at eight weeks old.) "Now, 8 weeks, they are ready to venture out into the real world (and off line). Some of the puppies will be leaving this weekend," reports the Sun Sentinel, who has a heartwarming slideshow of their growth, complete with treacly music. They're looking more and more like dogs. They're barking like crazy right now for their food. Dry food! Awww. I suppose we always knew this day was coming. Farewell, dear hearts. -
the gawker pin-up
My Underwear Is the Future of the Internet Economy
Recently, we re-introduced Gawker Pin-Ups, in which we scour the web (and your Facebook pages) for hottt photos of people in (or vaguely around) the media. And I was thinking: why fight the system when you can be the system, or at least make the system work for you? One of the jobs I never got fired from was art modeling, which is like one step above food preparation. It was more interesting than telemarketing, which I did get roundly dismissed from. Pop quiz: if I'm laid off by the end of this month, and I get paid by the pageview, then why not use it for my very own benefit? No way: I would never exploit my likeness for pageviews. Haha, yeah right. Click through, cookie. (Do not want? Do not care!) More » -
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The Brand Called You
Your Life Is A Picture
You know what's important these days? Appearances. Reality is something you're stuck with: you're ugly, out of shape, and none too charismatic. But appearances—now there's something you can do something about! That's why selecting the right online avatar to represent yourself on Facebook is now the single most important choice that you will make in your life, according to some people willing to be quoted spouting bullshit theories about any old thing: More » -
Funny Jokes
Proletarian Revolutionaries Hack Web Page
Bankrupt electronics retailer Tweeter closed all its stores yesterday and fired its employees without warning. But it appears some naughty ex-employees have had their revenge on Tweeter's executives—by hacking the company's web page and placing a humorously profane photo and message upon it for all the public to see! Oh ho! It seems the tables have turned, eh? Click through for a screengrab of the shocking political metaphor that has promptedTweeter to pay all its employees what they're oweda few people to chuckle, then hit the bong again: More » -
The panic of '08
Jewish Scapegoating Spread By Opponents Of Jewish Scapegoating
A nasty little internet troll may recently have sent you an email with the subject line, " 'Jews Have Ruined Our Country.'" But the message didn't come from an anti-semite; it came from the Anti-Defamation League, which is trying to prevent Jews from being blamed for the financial crisis, by spreading blame for the financial crisis to Jews. The idea, of course, is to drum up preemptive outrage among recipients of the mass email by quoting some bigots. Trouble is, the inflammatory subject line is pretty much all they got. More » -
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the internet
Why MySpace Is Worthless
"If you’re on MySpace now, you’re a [expletive] cretin. And you’re not only a [expletive] cretin, but you’re poor." [Michael Wolff] -
the internet
Ancient Pre-Internet LOLcat Discovered
In an archeological dig, what is perhaps the world's first LOLcat (or a clever Photoshop job) has been discovered... in teh print! In the photo—a 1905 postcard—a kitten is wearing a dress and sitting in a high chair. This is humorous because cats do not normally wear dresses. To make it even funnier, the photo is captioned, "What's delaying my dinner?" as if the cat could speak. If we find stereopticon cards of Shiba Inu puppies, we're declaring the Internet a total rip-off. [Buzzfeed via My Cats Wear Clothes] -
terror
Terrorists Disgusted by Media Liberal Bias
Time contributor and (decidedly former) constructor of DC press corps conventional wisdom Mark Halperin told a forum recently that the pro-Obama bias displayed by the media this campaign season was "disgusting." "It was extreme bias, extreme pro-Obama coverage," he added. You know who agrees with him? Al-Qaeda! More » -
bad advice
No Print Media Welfare -- Except For Me
Web publishing zealot Jeff Jarvis like to yell Darwinian slogans at print journalists . "There is no divine right for newsroom jobs," he wrote earlier this month. "Nor is printing and trucking an eternal verity of the field." It was surprising, then, to hear the media futurist's complaint about today's cover story on him in the Observer: The paper didn't promote his new dead-trees book! And after he gave the reporter so much of his precious time: More »
