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Anatomical Confusion, Gold Dust, and More Hate Mail This Week
Our hate mail this week questioned the nature of tips@gawker.com, proposed a great idea about buying gold dust bars, and suggested some confusing courses of action. Some examples of the enlightened...
View ArticleAs many as seven people—including the shooter—were killed today in a violent...
As many as seven people—including the shooter—were killed today in a violent rampage across Santa Monica. Read updates to the situation here.
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Zuckerberg Releases Statement Calling PRISM Charges "Outrageous"
Mark Zuckerberg took to his personal Facebook account today to address charges that his company has cooperated with a secret NSA program called PRISM that monitors private citizens' internet...
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Tech Companies Admit to Helping Government Spy on Citizens
After their initial blustery outrage at yesterday's revelations about PRISM, tech companies, including Facebook and Google, have admitted that they have cooperated with the government, even changing...
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Nelson Mandela In Serious But Stable Condition
Nelson Mandela is in serious but stable condition after he was hospitalized early this morning for a recurring lung condition. Mandela has long suffered from lung problems after contracting...
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The NSA Sent a Takedown Notice Over My Custom PRISM-Logo T-Shirts
Want to buy a PRISM t-shirt? You can't: Someone is claiming copyright over the logo of the vast NSA surveillance operation, and they took down my Zazzle store. Like all real Americans, I am an...
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Girlfriend Had Written 'To-Do' List For Lazy Boyfriend Before She Died
Sylvie Cachay thought her layabout boyfriend needed to change a few things. She asked him to “Hold me after sex and say sweet things . . . Do not overuse paper towels . . . Show me that I should be...
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Officials Say Philly Demolition Operator Was High During Collapse
The demolition operator in the Philadelphia building collapse that killed six people was a felon with a lengthy rap sheet who was high on marijuana and painkillers at the time, officials say. Police...
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A British Television Host Took the Photo Used in the NSA PRISM Logo
The logo for PRISM—the huge NSA data-mining operation revealed by The Guardian and The Washington Post on Thursday—features a photo by Adam Hart-Davis, a writer, photographer and television presenter...
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Seven Mondays After the Marathon: On Leaving Boston
I’ve rejected Boston. On a good day, I’d say we are acquaintances. Polite. Not invested enough to step on the other’s toes. On a bad day, I’d say we’ll both heave a sigh of relief when I’m gone. After...
View ArticleNewark mayor Cory Booker has formally announced his candidacy for the Senate...
Newark mayor Cory Booker has formally announced his candidacy for the Senate seat vacated by the recently-deceased Frank Lautenberg. The special election will be this October. Chris Christie avoided...
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How To Make A Peach Cobbler So Good You'll Cry
Maybe you don't think of yourself as someone who makes dessert. Maybe you think of dessert as a spoon and a tub of Ben & Jerry's, or a bowl of fruit, or maybe you just don't eat dessert at all...
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Santa Monica Gunman Had Been Hospitalized For Mental Health Issues
The gunman who killed at least four people in a shooting rampage at Santa Monica College yesterday had previously been hospitalized and treated for talking about wanting to harm someone. CNN is...
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Brazil Will No Longer Run These 'Happy Being a Prostitute' Ads
Like most things in Brazil, prostitution is legal. Sex work even has its own holiday — June 2nd was International Day of the Prostitute. To raise awareness about safe prostitution and to work against...
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Meet Andi Sanderlin, The Mom Who Ran A $3 Million Grow House
She drove a Mercedes GL4 SUV and rented a five-bedroom, four-bathroom Mediterranean-style home in Scarsdale for $13,000 a month. She purchased a Friesian trotter horse named Magi, but later sold it...
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Rabinowitz Strikes Back: Pols Are Being Terrorized By The Bike Lobby
Dorothy Rabinowitz will not be intimidated by the all-powerful bicycle lobby. She will stand in defiance, even as her beloved city is crushed under the thumb of a psychotic mob of cyclists who feel...
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Humane Officer Accused of Killing Litter of Kittens in Front of Kids
An Ohio mom wept as she recalled how a North Ridgeville Humane Officer shot and killed a litter of kittens in her backyard earlier this week while her children watched on in horror. The unidentified...
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The U.S. Air Force's F-35 fighter jet, which is still in development, is projected to cost us $1.4 million per hour for the next 25 years.
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"Weaponize the Media": An Anonymous Rapper's War on Steubenville
One night this past December, sitting at his laptop in his bedroom in Winchester, Kentucky, Deric Lostutter donned a plastic Guy Fawkes mask, recently purchased on eBay. He turned on the camera of his...
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Cat Marnell Has a TEEN Publicist
Writer and fame sculptor Cat Marnell is too busy getting paid more than most people to write her memoir, so she has hired 18-year-old Alex Kazemi to handle her "publicity." (He's not pictured above;...
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