On Thursday evening, Rhode Island officially became the 10th state to allow...
On Thursday evening, Rhode Island officially became the 10th state to allow gay marriage.
View ArticleFDA to Decide if Anti-Bacterial Soap Is Actually Terrible for You
This is reassuring: the FDA says that, sometime this year, they'll finally get around to properly investigating triclosan, the germ-killing ingredient used in anti-bacterial soaps, mouthwash,...
View ArticleEither a friend (if you trust CNN) of Kris Kross' Chris Kelly or Kelly's...
Either a friend (if you trust CNN) of Kris Kross' Chris Kelly or Kelly's mother (if you trust TMZ) told investigators the rapper had used heroin and cocaine the night before he was found dead in his...
View ArticleLindsay Lohan Checks In to Betty Ford But No Structure Can Contain Her
Following a daylong adventure of dubious legality, World’s Most Complicated Human Lindsay Lohan has finally careened into a rehab facility. After initially planning to undergo a court-ordered 90 days...
View ArticleRat Meat Sold As "Lamb" In Multi-Million-Dollar Chinese Scam
The latest terrible fake food scandal from China resulted in more than 900 arrests after criminal meat processors sold the chemical-soaked flesh of rats and foxes as "lamb meat." As more Chinese...
View ArticleMore Reese Witherspoon Arrest Footage Emerges, Proves She's a Prophet
As a followup to yesterday's terrific arrest footage of proud American citizen Reese Witherspoon, TMZ has posted more footage from that fateful night. In this one, you can hear her say the immortal...
View Article#Followateen Twitter Trend Sparks Epic Teen Vs. Adult War
Have you heard of the twitter trend #followateen that everyone is talking about? No? Congratulations. Life is good. Turn off the computer now and go outside and enjoy your perfect life. Still there?...
View ArticleBeauty Queen Filmed Showing 5-Year-Old Boy How to Snort Special K
A beauty queen from Thailand who was among the 20 finalists in this year's local Miss Maxim competition has been disqualified by the publication after a video emerged showing her teaching a...
View ArticleInternational Clitoris Week Is Just Around the Corner
In a world that often seems like one big penis party, the clit is a many-splendored thing—and a marginalized one, too. This locus of female pleasure has more nerve endings than any other human body...
View ArticleAdam Yauch Park Is Now Open in Brooklyn
Almost one year to the day of Beastie Boy Adam Yauch's May 4 passing, Yauch's friends, family, and fans gathered in Brooklyn this morning to officially rechristen Palmetto Playground as Adam Yauch...
View ArticleTionna Smalls will star in MTV's Girl, Get Your Mind Right!, starting May 20.
Tionna Smalls will star in MTV's Girl, Get Your Mind Right!, starting May 20. This is her second reality show. Don't say Gawker never gave you anything.
View ArticleAmazing Satellite View Shows California Wildfire Smoke Over Ocean
This massive plume of gray-white smoke from the wildfires raging through Southern California's transverse mountain ranges is being pushed over the Pacific Ocean by the notorious Santa Ana winds. A...
View Article8 Totally Bizarre Celebrity Apps With No Reason to Exist
Celebrities endorsing products in weird, non-sensical combinations isn't anything new. Ozzy Osbourne, for instance, hocked I Can't Believe It's Not Butter, and Kiss wanted you to rest for eternity in...
View ArticleTech Bro's Agency Implodes After Sharing Dick Pics of a Client
Last time we checked in with Jesse Thomas, founder of the interactive agency JESS3, he was posting drunken dick pics of his friend Matt Monahan taken during a "Geeks on a Plane" jaunt to India,...
View ArticleProstitute Hired by 14-Year-Old Steals His Piggy Bank
He knew it was risky business, but a 14-year-old from Prospect Heights, Illinois, decided to take advantage of his parents' absence by hiring a prostitute over the Internet. Unfortunately, just like...
View ArticleAnswering a Question No One Asked: 13 Years of Williamsburg in the NYT
One might think that a newspaper called the New York Times, which employs contributors from around the world, in war zones and dictatorships, would be less in awe of Williamsburg, Brooklyn, a small...
View ArticleHowie Kurtz's Strange Video Show Has Government Ties [UPDATED]
Don't feel too bad for the recently canned Daily Beast pundit: Howard Kurtz still has the Daily Download, the bizarre internet talk show that kept him curiously busy even when he had a day job. And...
View ArticleIron Man 3 and the Uneventful Event Movie
Nothing much is at stake in Iron Man 3. The explosions only affect the bad guys (all an out-of-iron Tony Stark needs to do to deflect one is hide behind the door of a bag-ice freezer). No one of any...
View ArticleMicrosoft has announced that it is officially killing Hotmail 16 years after...
Microsoft has announced that it is officially killing Hotmail 16 years after launching the service. Say goodbye forever to your first email account/whatever accounts you made to sign up for porn sites.
View ArticleThe Medium Model: Can Writers Live Large?
What comes next after unpaid microcontent? Try 4,700 words about foreskins, at about $3 a word. That, according to a source, is what Sloane Crosley supplied to a new project called Medium, from...
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