Gawker:
Kind of like a Harry Potter book, right? Michael Lohan's now Jon Gosselin's contracts expert. Nothing but squares at the Daily News. Robert Pattinson hates his life. Carrie Prejean: monumentally stupider than previously imagi (Read More)
Gawker:
This week, everyone was naked and fighting in public and also there was a book no one read but everyone kept talking about. A pornography company offered a famous beauty contest loser lots of money to distribute video tapes t (Read More)
Perez Hilton:
No offense, but who is stupid enough to purchase an apartment next to a college dormitory, especially if you are famous?Jude Law, that's who!Seems Jude thought it would be a good idea to get himself an apartment now that he i (Read More)
Crooks and Liars:
Your defense of Glenn Beck is touching on AOL, but it comes up very short and very sad. You claim that the big bad lefty meanie comedians are picking on Beck even when he is sick. Well, let's get something straight. Glenn Bec (Read More)
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There are mistakes and there are mistakes. Some mistakes we learn from. For example: Thinking that selling toys for pets on the Web is a great way to get rich. We're not going to do that again (Read More)
Silicon Alley Insider:
Google famously terrorizes their interviewees with questions like, “how much would it cost to pay someone to wash all the windows in Seattle,” “how many cabs are in New York City,” and “What would you do if you were shrunk to (Read More)
Gawker:
Project Runway is all about vision and delusion. The vision to ask three designers to compete for a prize. The delusion their entries will look different. The vision to return January 14th, the delusion your audience will com (Read More)
Crooks and Liars:
Media Matters points out how conservative commentators such as Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, and Michael Savage like to use rape metaphors when discussing progressives or progressive policies. Right-wing media are very quick to (Read More)
Boing Boing:
A company called Volomedia just got the US Patent Office to grant them exclusive rights to patent podcasting. Say what? The Electronic Frontier Foundation is fighting. Snip:The Volomedia patent covers "a method for providing (Read More)
Boing Boing:
"The news here is not that people are irrational, giving too much credence to the dramatic and the local and the short-term (that's not news), but that people have added a veneer of scientific rationality to their irrational (Read More)
Huffington Post:
George Mitchell's job as Middle East Special Envoy has got to be terribly frustrating for a man whose life story has been one success after another.But the Israel-Palestine conflict tends to be a career destroyer. Former Sec (Read More)
Gawker:
The jokes at NBC's expense weren't very insidery this week, but as usual 30 Rock spent half the episode dissing their home network. Here's what happens when you make Tina & Co. play along with your dumb corporate green initia (Read More)
Jalopnik:
Here at Jalopnik World Headquarters, we're pretty familiar with stupid. Desperation breeds bad ideas, and if you love speed, chances are you've made your share of moronic calls. What's the dumbest thing you've done to make a (Read More)
Gizmodo:
Microsoft recently banned a whole lot of modded consoles. Was it to prevent piracy, or was it a conspiracy? A new lawsuit is positing the latter theory. Here's what Texas-based law firm AbingtonIP says to justify their new su (Read More)
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed:
Hollywood filmmakers like their women like they like their coffee: shrill, stupid and submissive. And usually not black.As evidence, all you need to do is look at the "romantic" movies which are targeted toward women, yet som (Read More)
TreeHugger:
Image via the GuardianAn ad by Plane Stupid, an anti-airplane pollution advocacy group, is stirring some serious controversy in the UK and around the blogosphere. In a graphic TV ad designed to reveal the massive emissions th (Read More)
feeds.reuters.com:
You all know me, I’m not a judgmental kind of guy. But on some rare occasions I DO form strong opinions, and gosh darn it, if I’m not careful I’m afraid I’ll go after somebody with this pickle fork I’m holding. What do I see (Read More)
www.guardian.co.uk:
High-octane drama of polar bears tumbling to a bloody death may leave viewers feeling manipulated by propagandaThe high-pitched whine of a low-flying jet engine fills the air as the camera tracks across images of shimmering g (Read More)