http://tags.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/gawker.com.png http://gawker.com/tag/top http://gawker.com/tag/top Valentine's Day sucks, but this year we're not hating on it. Instead, we're going to ask you to tell us all your terrible tales of lovesickness that revolve around February 14th. For the best (worst?) there is a prize! ]]> Gawker-5468118 Tue, 09 Feb 2010 18:34:04 EST Brian Moylan http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5468118&view=rss&microfeed=true Goldman Sachs employees are spending their taxpayer-financed windfalls. Today's entries: A $6 million penthouse condo, and adding a new floor to the upper-east-side historical landmark in which you live. ]]> Gawker-5467901 Tue, 09 Feb 2010 15:23:08 EST John Cook http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5467901&view=rss&microfeed=true Chat Roulette thing? It's like Omegle, sudden instant e-chats with a stranger, only this time there's video and audio (which can both be turned off for anonymous browsing). Click, get a person, repeat. ]]> Gawker-5467877 Tue, 09 Feb 2010 14:17:00 EST Richard Lawson http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5467877&view=rss&microfeed=true wild housewarming may have been packed with internet billionaires like Sergey Brin last Saturday, but online pictures were reportedly forbidden. And yet here are snapshots of strippers and nude sculpture. ]]> Gawker-5467872 Tue, 09 Feb 2010 13:55:45 EST Ryan Tate http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5467872&view=rss&microfeed=true New York Times fake trend stories are annoying because they are 1) fake, and 2) trend stories. But do not neglect their third worst quality: many are terribly written. Allow us to show you. ]]> Gawker-5467798 Tue, 09 Feb 2010 13:06:02 EST Hamilton Nolan http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5467798&view=rss&microfeed=true We were so busy buying bread and toilet paper for the impending snowstorm that we missed Kell on Earth last night. Luckily fictional freelancer Betsey Morgenstern was there during the filming, so she filled us on what happened. ]]> Gawker-5467789 Tue, 09 Feb 2010 12:17:21 EST Brian Moylan http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5467789&view=rss&microfeed=true Girrrrrrrrrl. Episode two of RuPaul's beautiful gift from the thin slip of heaven that still remains has come and gone, and we still don't know just what the hell we're watching. But it's OK. We'll watch it anyway. ]]> Gawker-5467663 Tue, 09 Feb 2010 11:33:00 EST Richard Lawson http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5467663&view=rss&microfeed=true Vaughn Walker for legally squashing the Gay Olympics. But this weekend The San Francisco Chronicle definitively revealed that the Prop. 8 judge is gay. ]]> Gawker-5467400 Tue, 09 Feb 2010 02:48:23 EST Maureen O'Connor http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5467400&view=rss&microfeed=true The New York Times' "Most-emailed" list work? Science has finally given us the answer! ]]> Gawker-5467334 Tue, 09 Feb 2010 00:38:27 EST Adrian Chen http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5467334&view=rss&microfeed=true Cold War-level skulduggery that went into keeping that Letterman/Leno/Oprah Late Show promo secret in the days before the Super Bowl. Tonight, Jay Leno gave his side of the story on his show. ]]> Gawker-5467280 Mon, 08 Feb 2010 22:24:50 EST Adrian Chen http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5467280&view=rss&microfeed=true this summer (in Vegas maybe!), it is time to cast judgment on the movement: these guys are old right-wing college activists. ]]> Gawker-5467060 Mon, 08 Feb 2010 17:25:16 EST Pareene http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5467060&view=rss&microfeed=true silly and misguided student videos, Yale has released another smash hit! This one is for the sorority Pi Phi, which attracts potential rushers with promises of fun activities, intellectual rigor, and people thinking you're pretty. ]]> Gawker-5467032 Mon, 08 Feb 2010 17:10:10 EST Richard Lawson http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5467032&view=rss&microfeed=true Undercover Boss last night, CBS' big new reality show that got the plum post-Super Bowl spot? Amazing, was it not? Televised entertainment has now completed its long, winding journey into becoming 100% corporate propaganda. ]]> Gawker-5466980 Mon, 08 Feb 2010 16:25:45 EST Hamilton Nolan http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5466980&view=rss&microfeed=true Valentine's Day is definitely the worst, with its corporate-sponsored emphasis on love, couples, snuggling, and other disgusting things. The only thing worse? The people who empower it with emphatic hatred. ]]> Gawker-5466976 Mon, 08 Feb 2010 15:52:18 EST Brian Moylan http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5466976&view=rss&microfeed=true comeback struggle of American Beauty weirdo Wes Bentley yesterday got us thinking about other youngish, once-promising stars who made a big initial splash and then mostly disappeared. Let's give some career advice to Bentley and four others. ]]> Gawker-5466883 Mon, 08 Feb 2010 15:37:19 EST Richard Lawson http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5466883&view=rss&microfeed=true took his new iPad around to New York's professionally indiscreet media. Exhibit A is a single tweet from a Wall Street Journal editor, which purportedly made Steve Jobs go ballistic: ]]> Gawker-5466906 Mon, 08 Feb 2010 14:39:05 EST Ryan Tate http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5466906&view=rss&microfeed=true The fourth season of HBO's sweeping melodrama was brought down to Earth a bit this week, even though the beginning of the episode seemed like an overstuffed Robert Altman movie. ]]> Gawker-5466788 Mon, 08 Feb 2010 12:26:00 EST Richard Lawson http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5466788&view=rss&microfeed=true Indianapolis Colts were favored to win yesterdays Super Bowl everywhere from Vegas to the White House. But one woman wasn't buying it: Lisa Johnson has enough experience with voodoo to know that the Saints were unbeatable. ]]> Gawker-5466748 Mon, 08 Feb 2010 12:00:00 EST Pareene http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5466748&view=rss&microfeed=true David Paterson consulted with "key Democratic leaders" over the weekend to discuss either a) his imminent resignation pending a New York Times report that he is a corrupt snuggling swinger or b) just talk about stuff. ]]> Gawker-5466709 Mon, 08 Feb 2010 10:53:32 EST John Cook http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5466709&view=rss&microfeed=true court historian for the imperial American hard right" Niall Ferguson is leaving his wife for a feminist filmmaker he met at the Time 100 party. Sex! Scandal! Murderous Muslim clerics! This story has it all. ]]> Gawker-5466433 Mon, 08 Feb 2010 02:04:49 EST Maureen O'Connor http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5466433&view=rss&microfeed=true