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- Yesterday - December 25, 2009
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#breaking
AP: Possible Al Qaeda Terror Attack on Transatlantic Flight
There were reports that 'firecrackers' had gone off on a flight from Holland to Detroit on Friday. Several people were slightly hurt. US Intelligence sources have now told the Associated Press the suspect said he was acting for Al-Qaeda. More » -
#foodfight
Facebook Basically Rubbing Google's Face In Their Delicious Free Meals
A string of cutbacks have threatened Google's status as a veritable Shangri-la of free gourmet food. Meanwhile, Facebook has been ramping up the dining perks. Today the Times suggests Facebook might be "the new standard-bearer for corporate-sponsored dining." Food fight! -
#theonion
Old Onion Article Saves Christmas
World events have screeched to a halt. Here is a funny article from the Onion: "Weed Delivery Guy Saves Christmas." You guys like the Onion, right? If anyone comments with "slow news day, huh?" You will be sorry. [Onion] -
#creativewriting
Seems that an undergraduate creative writing class took over the Times' editorial page today.
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#holiday
A Virtual Tour of the White House at Christmas
Screw Oprah's special— all you need is two minutes and a computer to see this stunning, high defintion tour of the White House all decorated for the holidays. [Gawker.TV] -
#sad
Some People Wait Until the Holidays To Do Mean Things
Two examples of downright, calculating festive nefariousness have happened today in Afghanistan and China. One set of media-savvy people wanted to hide their cruelty and the other wanted to show it off. See if you can guess which is which. More » -
#stalkerdeluxe
Tim Robbins Saves Own Stalker's Life
There's that fable, "The Lion and the Mouse," where a hungry lion spares a mouse, and the mouse eventually repays him by freeing him from a trap. Tim Robbins saved some guy's life and was repaid with this Gawker Stalker. More » -
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#popetackling
Woman Who Tackled Pope Has Pope-Charging Past
That woman who tackled the Pope before he gave his Christmas Eve Mass last night? She's the same person who ran at him last Christmas. She even wore the same sweatshirt. (It's her "pope-tacklin' sweatshirt.") [NYDN] -
#warishell
Merry Christmas Soldiers! You Can Now Knock Each Other Up!
Soldiers in Iraq were, until today, likely to face disciplinary action for getting pregnant or getting another soldier pregnant. Not any more! More » -
#hazard
What Would Tiger Woods Do?
Either Accenture didn't get all the Tiger Woods ads down in time for the holidays, or they're starting a clever new campaign. The intrepid Foster Kamer spotted this seven-foot-tall backlit message next to the security line at LaGuardia Airport today. More » -
#waronchristmas
Chestnuts Roasting On... An Efficient Burner That Meets Emissions Standards
Christmas is a time for trees. Stockings. The crackling of logs on a fire. Except that the last one causes emissions and ruins the planet! You bastards! In towns around the country, the government is battling this menace. With spies. More » -
#leiinglow
Obama Starts Vacation, Has Actual Red Phone in Case of Emergency
While you may be hoping that something happens today to break any familial tension and give you something to talk about with aging relatives, the President is essentially crossing his fingers for an incredibly uneventful holiday in Hawaii. -
#hohoho
Police searched a car in Missouri — and found 20lbs of Marijuana wrapped as gifts.
- Thursday - December 24, 2009
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#unconfirmed
Apple Patent Application Reveals a Bumpy Tablet
Some of Apple's recently revealed patent applications may spoil the surprise over how we'll interact with the Apple tablet. According to Apple Insider's speculations, the patent applications imply that we'll have a multi-touch gadget with tactile feedback. [Gizmodo] -
#culturalanthropology
Theological Investigations: Why Do The Jews Eat Chinese Food On Christmas?
December: when people who aren't Christopher Hitchens consider God, and the Miracles of the Universe He/She/It/RuPaul bestow upon us. But there's one question every year that humanity has yet to find a sufficient answer for. More » -
#madpsychology
Will The Recession Scar You For Life? Economists Say Yes.
People who grew up during the Great Depression often turned into compulsive penny-pinchers, unable to spend money without anxiety. Will recent recessions leave similar psychological scars on people growing up today? A new study by economists suggests they will. -
#christmas
If You Lived in Sweden You'd Be Watching Donald Duck Cartoons Right Now
Swedes are sort of like Earth's benevolent alien overlords, right? They just are so different than us, gazing down from their icy zone! For one thing, they have a strange tradition of watching Donald Duck cartoons each Christmas Eve. More » -
#breaking
Pope Tackled During Christmas Eve Mass (Now with Video)
The Vatican's Christmas Eve mass had an NFL quality tonight. A mentally unstable woman knocked over Pope Benedict XVI as he walked down the aisle at St. Peter's Basilica. The Pope is OK. Thank God. (Seriously, do it.) [AP]Update: More » -
#merrychristmas
Presenting The Gawker Internet Yule Logâ„¢
From 1966-1989, New York's WPIX broadcast footage of a Yule log burning in a fireplace each Christmas day. Today, a bunch of channels do the same. Now, Gawker is taking the Yule log into the Internet Age. Behold! -
#architecture
How To: Build Your Own Full-Scale Eiffel Tower
So you've got your 7,000 metric tons of puddling iron, your unruly 19th-century French construction crew, your Michelin starred chef and a Rosetta Stone French DVD. Today, finally, you have the final piece: Blueprints! [Gizmodo] -
#architecture
Underground Five-Star Hotel Fit For a Mole King
This proposed subterranean London hotel is going to put all 200 guest rooms beneath the surface of a former golf course. Sorry, CHUDs: it's time to gentrify the soil. More » -
#yearinreview
Top 25 Posts Of 2009: Models, Muppets, Implant Mishaps, And Photoshop Disasters Galore
Once again it's time for our yearly roundup of the most trafficked posts on the site, and this year the list is made up of everything from plus-sized models to photoshop horrors to happy childhood memories. Ahead, a look back. [Jezebel] -
#susansarandon
Susan Sarandon's (Possibly) Prophetic SNL Appearance
Whether or not Susan Sarandon is hooking up with 31 year-old Ping Pong boy Jonathan Bricklin, she's clearly OK with the image of a cradle-robbing cougar. Remember that SNL spoof Mothers Day music video, "Motherlover?" More » -
#sad
Snowball Fight Violence Continues, Armed Vigilantes Abound
First someone pulled a gun during a snowball fight in DC. Now, in Wales of all places, a 20-year-old man was stabbed to death with a kitchen knife after another one, apparently, got out of hand. More » -
#data
How the Apple Tablet Is Already Making People Rich
It's understandable that Apple stock is doing well—they've had a very, very good year. But after a huge rally this morning, their stock it at its highest price ever. See, yesterday, something magical happened. More » -
#coverlies
The Year's 10 Best Cover Lies
Maybe we should call this post the worst Cover Lies, as the most egregiously mendacious covers are often the most fun to mock. Regardless, here's a little tour of what some of the glossies were really saying in 2009.
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#humbug
10 Things I Hate About Christmas
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#ouch
Was Bernie Madoff Assaulted in Prison?
ABC is reporting that Bernie may have been given a savage holiday beating — in which he sustained injuries so serious he had to be hospitalized. More » -
#space
Voyager Unveils the Mystery of the Interstellar Fluff from Hell
For years, astronomers have been puzzled by the fact that our solar system is crossing a cloud of interstellar hell. One that shouldn't be there at all. Intergalactic plot to keep us isolated or cosmic event? Voyager got the answer. More » -
#triviagasm
The Ultimate Movie Cliche: The Wall Of Newspaper Clippings
Whether it's homage or insanity, the best way to skate over tons of movie backstory is with newspaper clippings, on a wall. We've collected the best and the worst of this cliché, so you can decide: worthless, or worth it? More » -
#ibegyourparton
Have A Dolly Parton Christmas
Christmas is very important to Dolly, and over the years, she's written songs for the occasion, and starred in numerous Christmas specials and TV movies. Here, we collected some of our favorite Dolly holiday songs. -
#monstersamongus
10 Remarkable Monsters Named in the Last Ten Years
We know that real monsters walk, slither, and crawl among us, and each year we learn more about the amazing creatures from Earth's past and present. We look at ten of the more monstrous names we added this decade. -
#holidayshopping
The Secret Lives of Amazon's Elves
If Amazon is Santa, 400 folks living in RVs outside the Coffeyville, Kansas fulfillment center this winter are the elves. [Gizmodo] -
#hoperoundup
Joy! Wonder! Hasselhoff! Whales Dressed as Snowmen!
The holidays are a time for hope, and drinking to excess. Both promote a rosy view of the world. Which might explain all the most-wonderful-time-of-the-year-type stories that abound today. Perfect if you're about to kill a relative/airline representative. More » -
#thebirds
However your holidays are going, be grateful you're (probably) not under attack by peacocks.
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#architecture
Unbelievable 2.3 Gigapixel Photo of the Burj Dubai
Believe it or not, this is the Burj Dubai. The very end of it, the top of its antenna tickling the sky. It's just a tiny part of this brain-imploding 2.3 gigapixel photo of the largest skyscraper in the world: -
#success
Senate Passes Healthcare Reform Bill
After what feels like seventeen years and 14 million column inches the Senate passed the healthcare bill 60-39 today (no Republicans voted for it). Assuming they agree on a final version with the House, here's what it will mean. More » -
#rumormonger
Did Susan Sarandon Dump Tim Robbins for a Ping Pong Entrepreneur?
For 23 years Susan Sarandon and Tim Robbins seemed a singularly stable Hollywood couple—until they split this summer. (A fact they announced yesterday.) What caused the breakup? A theory: Sarandon wanted to pursue ping pong entrepreneur Jonathan Bricklin.
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- Wednesday - December 23, 2009
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#weather
Winter Storm Girding Nation's Midsection Like Belt Made of Shit
A slow-moving storm has socked in much of mid-western America just in time to annoy last-minute holiday travelers. Ice! Snow! Thunderstorms! So intense is the storm that it forced Mount Rushmore to close. God help us all. [NYT] [TWC] -
#whoops
Nuclear Bomb Researchers Accidentally Blow Up Building
Don't worry, it wasn't with a nuclear bomb! Last week, researchers at the Los Alamos National Laboratory accidentally blew up part of a building with "a gun which acts like a Civil War Cannon". Even crazier, in a way.
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#y2k10
How the Decade Was Supposed To Turn Out (Spoiler: Christopher Reeve Walking)
"In the years since the new millennium, the world has seen such progress." So begins a noted Super Bowl commercial from 2000 that milked the Christopher Reeve sympathy/inspiration angle to show how well an investment firm can predict the future. -
#modernruins
Japan's Strip Club at the End of the World
Akeno Gekijo was once one of Japan's rare strip clubs, with a central podium, strip poles, and seats facing the stage. Now its charred ruins look more like the setting for a violent apocalypse. -
#picoftheday
Seeking Transit Gloria Mundi
[Stranded travelers fiddle with their hand-held devices in Penn Station today when all trains out of the city were suspended for nearly three hours due to an electrical problem. Image via Getty] -
#splits
Way to Break up and Not Tell Anyone, Tim Robbins and Susan Sarandon
They must be deeply, deeply ashamed of their split, since it happened this summer and they decided to announce it today, on the wasteland that is Christmas Eve Eve. Who is going to know now? More » -
#forums
Please Talk Among Yourselves on #crosstalk While We Gorge on Eggnog
Your Gawker editorial team has largely vamoosed (though there'll be some posting over the next two days) but that doesn't mean there's nothing going on here. We're creating the tagpage #crosstalk where you can spend the whole weekend chatting. More » -
#clipjob
Gawker.TV: The Five Best Videos Ever of the Day
Today at Gawker.TV, Whoopi Goldberg loves her weed, Kathy Griffin shows us her lady-parts, Harvey Levin's craptastic TMZ show, Teen Mom will scare your teenager out of ever having sex, and the most brutal figure skating falls we've seen. More » -
#iseeyou
Scientologists: You Can Never Escape Them
A tipster in Texas flirted briefly with Scientology when college-age. Then, sensibly, she ran the hell away. Now people she's never met are sending her creepy hand-written notes trying to get her back into the cult. More » -
#midweekmadness
This Week In Tabloids: Angie's "So Lonely" & The Jersey Shore Kids Are Injecting Tanner
Every Wednesday, we read the tabloids so you don't have to. This week, Angie's pregnant (again), Jen takes a break from pining for Brad to host a chili cook-off, and we learn how to achieve an unhealthy glow Jersey Shore-style. [Jezebel] -
#holidayofhorrors
Stuff Our Stockings with Christmas Horror Stories
Now that we have safely arrived at our destinations the real fun begins. It's time to terrify with your tales of holidays gone horribly awry. The tree is up, let's set it on fire with a candle from the Menorah! More »
