Blog Profile / Gawker
| URL : | http://gawker.com/ | |
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| Filed Under: | Pop Culture / Celebrity | |
| Posts on Regator: | 58469 | |
| Posts / Week: | 214.4 | |
| Archived Since: | March 3, 2008 | |
Blog Post Archive
Scammers Buy Gas Station with Bad Check, Sell Gas at Super-Low Price
Investigators in Minnesota say they are looking for the people behind a "bizarre" scam that involved purchasing a gas station from its owner using a bad check, and then selling all the gas at cut-rate prices. Read more...
Finally an interesting angle to this whole 3D printing business: 3D printed pizza.
Finally an interesting angle to this whole 3D printing business: 3D printed pizza. Read more...
Mom Punishes Tween by Turning Her into the Coolest Girl in School
A Utah woman who hoped to teach her daughter a lesson about bullying succeeded only in turning her into the coolest, chicest girl on the block last week. Read more...
Don't Ask, Don't Tell, Faggot: Inside Marine Corps Boot Camp
What is Marine Corps boot camp really like? According to an email that a current recruit sent to a bunch of his friends, it's a lot of being called a "faggot" by your drill instructors. And, if you happen to be brown-skinned, a lot of being called "terrorist." Not to mention "beast mode" workouts. Read more...
Yet Another Gay Man Was Attacked in New York City Last Night
Just a few days after a homophobe murdered gay man Mark Carson in Manhattan's West Village, another gay male was attacked in the latest addition to New York City's recent string of anti-gay hate crimes. Read more...
The New York Times is sending political reporter Jim Rutenberg to cover the Hamptons all summer.
The New York Times is sending political reporter Jim Rutenberg to cover the Hamptons all summer. Rich people vacation spots are, uh, important. Read more...
Daily Show Creator Sorry for Saying OK Tornado Targeted Conservatives
Comedian and Daily Show co-creator Lizz Winstead faced sharp criticism from both sides of the aisle after she joked on Twitter that yesterday's devastating tornado was in Oklahoma, "so clearly it has been ordered to only target conservatives." Read more...
Courts are now using Urban Dictionary—an online crowd-sourced compendium of slang, slander, and imma
Courts are now using Urban Dictionary—an online crowd-sourced compendium of slang, slander, and immaturity—to provide definitions to words and phrases such as: catfishing, dap, to nut, and grenade. Read more...
iPad Hacker Andrew "Weev" Auernheimer Is Still Trolling From Prison
The last we heard of notorious troll and hacker Andrew "Weev" Aurenheimer, he was partying in New Jersey before being sentenced to three and a half years for his role in hacking AT&T. But being locked in federal prison has not completely silenced him. Read more...
Florida Teacher Suspended for Touching Student with 'Banana Penis'
A former Teacher of the Year at North Marion High School in Marion County, Florida, was suspended without pay after a student complained that he touched her inappropriately with a banana during a college-level lecture on "cylinder objects, phalluses and/or sex symbols." Read more...
Suicide Closes Notre Dame In Paris, Saddening Many Tourists
The beloved 850-year-old cathedral on Île de la Cité is closed after a man reportedly shot himself inside the historic tourist trap visited by 12 million people a year. Read more...
Source: ESPN Laying Off Hundreds
ESPN is laying off a portion of its staff today, a network spokesman confirms to us. How many? ESPN won't say. A tipster told us earlier today that it would be more than 400 staffers. A source at ESPN said that number is a little high, but it appears to be in the hundreds. Read more...
DC Has America's Highest Concentration of Student Loans
The latest Fed report on student loan debt includes some neat-o maps showing how all of America's student debt is distributed geographically. Washington DC sure is smart, and broke! Read more...
Apple Avoided Paying Billions in Taxes
Senate investigators have found that Apple avoided paying taxes on "tens of billions" of dollars over the past four years by taking advantage of U.S. and Irish tax loopholes. Read more...
Jimmy Savile, Hugh Hefner, Simone de Beauvoir, Jean-Paul Sartre, Margaret Mead, Jean-Jacques Rousse
Jimmy Savile, Hugh Hefner, Simone de Beauvoir, Jean-Paul Sartre, Margaret Mead, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and the horrid philosophical justification for sexually victimizing children. Read more...
Zach Galifianakis' Red Carpet Date: A Woman He Saved from Homelessness
Twenty years ago, after moving to LA to "be discovered," a then-25-year-old Zach Galifianakis met and befriended an elderly laundromat volunteer named Elizabeth "Mimi" Haist. Read more...
Dave Zinczenko's New Magazine Is Exactly Like His Old Magazine
Last year, longtime Men's Health editor Dave Zinczenko was let go, reportedly because bosses tired of his "relentless self-promotion." Zinczenko was hired by AMI to revamp its smaller Men's Health rival, Men's Fitness. And now, former colleagues are grumbling that Zinczenko is doing little more than ripping off Men's Health for his new venture. Read more...
Did Pope Francis Perform an Exorcism?
Did Pope Francis just perform an exorcism or do people just freak out when they see a Pope? Read more...
Airbnb Is Illegal in New York City
The world's most popular room-renting service is now illegal in the largest city in the United States, CNET reports. This could be a setback. Read more...
BASE Jumper's Harrowing 1,000 Foot Fall Caught on Headcam
An extreme sportsman who leapt off a 1,000-foot cliff in Lake Garda, Italy, only to suffer a parachute malfunction and tumble helplessly to the ground, shockingly managed to escape the harrowing ordeal with only minor injuries. Read more...