Dick or Not a Dick: Jesse Eisenberg
Dicks: Many people have them and some people are them and some people are them but do not have them and some people do have them but are not them. Today, our challenge is to determine whether or not...
View ArticleWelcome to Dodge&Burn
Hi team! My name is Victor, this is Dodge&Burn, and we are Gawker's newest bastard child. D&B is an image-based site that will, in Susan Sontag's words, "participate in another person’s (or...
View ArticleFlorida Man Kills Coworkers for Making Fun of His Poor Shooting Skills
Police in Florida arrested a man they say killed three coworkers who made fun of him for being a poor shot. According to authorities in Ocala, Andrew Joseph Lobban, 31, shot and killed 25-year-old...
View ArticlePlease Hold Your Phone SIDEWAYS When Shooting Video
Look at this amazing video of some kind of demon bursting out of a manhole cover in New York today. And it would be so much more amazing if this citizen journalist had simply held his or her phone...
View ArticleWhat Is Going on in Turkey and Do I Really Need to Care?
Thousands of people have gathered in Istanbul and elsewhere in Turkey, organizing under the hashtag "Occupy Gezi" and broadcasting scenes of brutal police violence to the world. But why are they there?...
View ArticleI Can't Stop Looking at This Picture of Edith Bunker and Alice Cooper
Sad to learn of Jean Stapleton's death, but it gives me an excuse to repost this picture of her with Alice Cooper: twitter.com/andyzax/status… — Andy Zax (@andyzax) June 1, 2013
View ArticlePecans Are the Third-Best Nut
When I tell people how much I like pecans, some people are surprised. "Hey, I think this or that other nut is tastier than a pecan," they'll say. Well, okay, fine. That's your right. My honest feeling,...
View ArticleFather of Boy Named Adolf Hitler Wears Nazi Uniform to Custody Hearing
A New Jersey man best known for naming his son Adolf Hitler is back in the news today for showing up at a custody hearing wearing a Nazi uniform. Heath Campbell of Holland Township and his...
View ArticlePhotojournalist Replaced by iPhone Uses iPhone to Document Joblessness
Photojournalist Rob Hart was among the 28 staffers laid off when the Chicago Sun-Times decided to get rid of its entire photography department last week. To busy himself, Hart has started a Tumblr,...
View Articleio9 Why do we sit through the brutality of Game of Thrones every week?
io9 Why do we sit through the brutality of Game of Thrones every week? | Gawker What Is Going on in Turkey and Do I Really Need to Care? | Kotaku One Author Breaks Down the Reality of Violent Games in...
View Article6 Minutes of People Losing Their Shit Over Last Night's Game of Thrones
Potential spoilers ahead: If you've already read the dead-wood edition of A Song of Ice and Fire, then you knew that carnage was coming on last night's episode of HBO's Game of Thrones. If you've only...
View ArticleNew York City's greatest rock venue—Maxwell's in Hoboken, N.J.
New York City's greatest rock venue—Maxwell's in Hoboken, N.J.—is shutting its doors because your youth inexorably slides away from you and nothing is familiar anymore.
View ArticleTechnology is now providing us with new and better ways to ignore our...
Technology is now providing us with new and better ways to ignore our burdensome elders: "Elderly adults have a new best friend: robots."
View ArticleSevere Turbulence Strikes Plane During Meal Service, Makes a Huge Mess
A recent Singapore Airlines flight carrying 328 passengers and 28 crew members from Singapore to London was halfway through breakfast service when the plane experienced some unexpected turbulence and...
View ArticleKe$ha is "happy" that she drank her own pee on her reality show.
Ke$ha is "happy" that she drank her own pee on her reality show. This is what pride looks like in 2013.
View ArticleLadies, Daniel Radcliffe Is Ready to Give Birth to Your Child
Great news if you've been meaning to have a baby with Daniel Radcliffe for a while but have yet to broach the subject with him because you're worried he'll say no or won't know what a baby is or won't...
View ArticlePolice Officers Salute Sick K-9 Colleague on Farewell Walk to Vet
Kaiser, a 2-year-old German Shepherd who has served valiantly as a member of the Plymouth (MA) Police Department's K-9 unit since he was five months old, had to be put down last week after a rapid...
View ArticleArya Stark's Game of Thrones "Red Wedding" Reaction Video Is the Best
Spoiler alert. This is from Maisie Williams' Vine. Click on it if it doesn't load automatically.
View ArticleMan Who Grew Up As A Kidnapped Baby Finds Out He Was Just Abandoned
Paul Joseph Fronczak is not actually Paul Joseph Fronczak. Nor is he Scott McKinley. In fact, he has no idea who he is. When a baby went missing from a Chicago hospital in 1964, a nationwide search for...
View ArticleA second protester has died while participating in a demonstration in Turkey,...
A second protester has died while participating in a demonstration in Turkey, this time from a gunshot wound.
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