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- Yesterday - November 6, 2009
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#twitterati
Foreigners Seduce, Reject Twitterati
Brooke Hammerling was once beguiled by an accent; Sarah Lacy was charmed by Middle Eastern calls to prayer and Wired locked the doors between print and online. The Twitterati reconsidered that which is foreign. More » -
#defamermovieguide
Clooney, Carrey and Oscar's Frontrunner Are Coming to the Movies
The Oscar season begins in earnest this weekend. But will the moviegoers bite? More » -
#weekinreview
The Week We Were All Glenn Beck's Appendix
This week was all about gun violence and terrible elections and Jay Leno. More » -
#picoftheday
Scrap That Story
[A member of the clean-up crew blows the newspaper and other debris off the street following the Yankees' victory parade this afternoon. Image via Getty] -
#hackfights
Writers Brawl After Nerds Stop Brawling
You'd think tech bloggers would learn from the peacemaking founders of Skype, who just dropped lawsuits holding back the $2.8 billion sale of their former company. Instead the writers are calling one another inaccurate, spineless "toddlers." More » -
#kreepiekats
Kreepie Kats in "Mayor Bloomberg Kan Sukk 51% of My Pimpled Ass! And Jeter Kan Give Herpes to the Other 70% Of *IT*!!!"
Jim Behrle's Kreepie Kats got a tripod! And the Yankees are winners! As is Mayor Bloomberg! Don't buy your loved ones Kreepie Kat hoodies for the holidays. -
#opencaption
Playing Mantis
[A model in an insect-inspired get-up walks the runway today for the Eonfashion Award Colorful Cosmetic Design Contest during Beijing fashion week. Image via Getty] -
#journalismism
Did You Have an Off-the-Record Lunch With the President Today?
Because David Gergen, Jon Meacham, Howard Fineman, Mike Allen, Josh Marshall, David Brooks, and Gail Collins did! Also: Mara Liasson, who works for NPR and the Fox News Channel that Obama wants to destroy. More » -
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#disasters
Cornell Employees' Email Blunder from Hell
A tech consultant at Cornell University somehow CCed the entire campus emails to his mistress, a Cornell staffer and fellow married person. The naughty man is in no position to be "SPANKING that FINE ASS of yours" now! More » -
#inventions
A History of the Theater Gimmicks Meant to Save Hollywood
You may not have known you wanted it, but now you're going to get it. 3D redux is here with its biggest tentpole to date, Disney's $180 million Christmas Carol, followed shortly after by the release of James Cameron's Avatar. More » -
#mixedbag
10 Things You May Have Missed On TV This Week
In this week's compilation of pop culture crap we've got women with acrylic toenails, Kirstie Alley remembering her coke days, and Mary Hart, who still hates Jon Gosselin. [Jezebel] -
#pettytyrants
Taylor Jacobson's reign of terror ends. She leaves Rachel Zoe to style on her own.
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#freeverse
An Ode to the Real Housewives of Orange County
Our beloved bottle blonds returned to us last night with skydiving, poverty, and plenty of bitch fighting. There is only one thing that can contain all the emotions we are still feeling: poetry!
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#spitzerfiles
Magazine for Flacks Commends the New York Times for Being So Nice to Flacks
PR Week, a trade journal for and about flacks, has come to the defense of the New York Times after we published a batch of emails showing how deferential some Times reporters were to flacks. Imagine that! More » -
#exclusive
Morena Baccarin: I Am Not Obama
We spent ten precious minutes with V's Morena Baccarin, our favorite alien visitor — and she answered all our questions, as long as they painted her in a positive light. Of course, we had to ask her if she's Obama. [io9] -
#kidstoday
Six Child Media Prodigies You Should Fear
That 16-year-old TechCrunch writer with 120,000 Twitter followers, who we wrote about yesterday, is part of a burgeoning child punditocracy. Children are operating in virtually every facet media — and doing so successfully. Fear for your job. More » -
#recaps
Project Runway: Getty Us the Hell out of Here
Project Runway is all about vision and delusion. The vision to be inspired by art. The delusion that art begets art. The vision that tears will save you. The delusion that the judges care about your emotions. More » -
#tv
Mika Brzezinski Has the Worst Job in Television
Finally, we understand why Mika Brzezinski constantly looks crazed and upset: because Joe Scarborough gets his kicks from constantly humiliating and belittling his co-host. [Gawker.TV] -
#breaking
1 Confirmed Dead in Florida Mass Shooting, Shooter In Custody
With possibly 8 people shot and 2 dead (authorities confirm 1 dead and 5 shot), police have locked down downtown Orlando, Florida, looking for Jason Rodriguez, who shot up an office building earlier today. Update: Rodriguez has been apprehended. More » -
#traderoundup
Justin Timberlake Lands Role of His Lifetime: Yogi's Sidekick Boo Boo
Since he first stepped into the solo spotlight, Justin Timberlake has been Hollywood's prince in waiting, just one perfect role away from claiming his crown as the biggest star in the world forever. Now he has found that part. More » -
#disasters
'Tardy for the Party' Live Will Give You Nightmares
Yesterday Real Housewife of Atlanta Kim Zolciak sang her hit song "Tardy for the Party" live for the first time. It is the scariest thing to happen on television since Britney Spears crashed an burned at the VMAs. Worse even! More » -
#fthood
Ft. Hood Shooter Previously Had Concealed Handgun Permit
Add this to the data pile on the Ft. Hood shooter: We've learned that Nidal Hasan applied for and received a permit to carry a concealed handgun in Virginia in March 1996. More » -
#realestateporn
Inside Lachlan Murdoch's $21 Million Mansion
Rupert Murdoch's oldest son Lachlan and wife Sarah have landed a mansion in the inner suburbs of Sydney. Here are the sort of digs being an heir to the News Corp. family fortune buys you. More »
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#underarock
Did 30 Rock Out Hugh Jackman?
On last night's episode of 30 Rock Jenna and Tracy need to find a bunch of funny gays in a hurry. Their first stop? A line of guys waiting to watch Hugh Jackman's taping of Inside the Actor's Studio. More » -
#rumormonger
Another Google Heir Is Born: Larry Page's Son
Larry Page is now the co-creator of something other than the most important internet site in the world: A tipster whispers the Google co-founder is the father of a baby boy, as of Thursday. More » -
#dailyshow
The Coming War for Glenn Beck's Internal Organs
On last night's Daily Show, Jon Stewart performed a bravura 8-and-a-half minute monologue in the style of Glenn Beck on the subject of Glenn Beck's appendicitis.
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#fearmongering
'Allahu Akbar!': The Wingnut Right Has the Jihad Nugget They've Been Hoping For
The Associated Press is reporting that, according to Ft. Hood's commander, witnesses to yesterday's massacre say Maj. Nidal Hasan was shouting "God is great" in Arabic as he was firing on his fellow soldiers. More » -
#opencaption
Luck Is No Lady Tonight
[Katy Perry wears a questionable outfit to the roulette wheel at the MTV Europe Music Awards in Berlin last night. Image via Getty] -
#advertisement
It's Getting Cold Out. This Survey Will Keep You Warm
Your mom called and said you need a new set of sheets, blankies and pillows. Make her happy for once. Take this survey, email the last question to surveys@gawker.com, and you could win a $150 Macy's gift card. [Rules] -
#blinditems
Which Singer Intentionally Wets the Bed?
Everyone needs something to keep them warm at night, but bodily fluids? Another singer uses a fake wife to get his rocks off, and a third is being investigated for underage sex. It's the same old song and dance. More » -
#thegreatrecession
The official unemployment rate is now 10.2%, higher than analysts expected, according to Bloomberg.
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#polygamy
Extreme Mormon Sect Member: It Wasn't Rape, It Was 'Spiritual Marriage'
This wonderfully creepy man, of the Yearning for Zion Ranch in Eldorado, Texas, faces 20 years in jail. But it was all just polygamist love, and you don't know and you weren't there he says. More » -
#gossiproundup
Dina Lohan: Lindsay Punched Me in the Face
Dina Lohan recounts corporal punishment at her daughter's hands, Tom Cruise converses with doorknobs, and footage of Joanna Krupa at Snoop Dogg's Girls Gone Wild party surfaces. Come, stroke the supple hide of Friday's gossip. More »
