Blog Profile / Gawker
| URL : | http://gawker.com/ | |
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| Filed Under: | Pop Culture / Celebrity | |
| Posts on Regator: | 59240 | |
| Posts / Week: | 214.4 | |
| Archived Since: | March 3, 2008 | |
Blog Post Archive
Protests in Brazil Explode as 100,000 Take to Streets
As many as 100,000 Brazilians took to the streets on Monday to protest the poor public services, violence, corruption and high-taxation in their country. Protests have been ongoing in Brazil since earlier this month, when a small demonstration broke out in Sao Paulo after authorities there increased bus and subway fares. Read more...
Here Is a List of Everyone Currently Rotting in Guantanamo Bay
Thanks to a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit filed by the Miami Herald's Carol Rosenberg, the U.S. Department of Justice today released—with certain classified omissions—a list of its Guantanamo Bay detainees and their formerly shrouded detention statuses. Show More Summary
The latest rich person to attempt to crowd-fund a vanity project?
The latest rich person to attempt to crowd-fund a vanity project? None other than our old friend James Franco, who is attempting to raise $500,000 to adapt three of his own short stories into a film trilogy. In Franco's defense, all profits from the films (if there are any) will go to charity. Read more...
7-11 Store Owners Accused of Running “Modern Day Plantation System”
The owners of 14 7-Eleven stores in New York and Virginia were charged on Monday by federal authorities with fraud, identity theft, and concealing undocumented immigrants. Authorities said conditions for undocumented employees at the stores were like a “modern day plantation system." Read more...
The 2013 edition of the Oxford English Dictionary will expand the definition of “tweet” to include "
The 2013 edition of the Oxford English Dictionary will expand the definition of “tweet” to include "to make a posting on the social networking service Twitter." In other communication news: the world's last telegram will be sent on July 14 in India. Read more...
Drunk British Man Survives Fall From 15th Floor Apartment Balcony
Losing your keys while you're drunk is something that happens to most people, eventually. What doesn't usually happen is the next part of 20-year-old Tim Stilwell's story: surviving a fall from a neighbor's 15th floor balcony at 2 a.m. after attempting to jump to a balcony below. Read more...
Mom Wants Class Photo Retaken After Disabled Son Pushed to the Side
A heartbreaking photo of a second grader with spinal muscular atrophy who was forced to "sit out" his class photo went viral over the weekend, sparking accusations of discrimination directed toward the school photography company Lifetouch Canada Inc.
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America's Kids Under Constant Threat of Being Crushed by Toilet Seats
Toilet seats: your penis belongs dangling in front them, not crushed underneath them, but try telling that to America’s dumb kids. A new study published in urology journal BJU International (summarized in Reuters under the ominous headline...Show More Summary
Lack of sleep makes you stupid, vulnerable, cancerous, ugly, fat, diabetic, depressed, diseased, inf
Lack of sleep makes you stupid, vulnerable, cancerous, ugly, fat, diabetic, depressed, diseased, infected, angry, moody, inattentive, forgetful, slow, and, eventually, DEAD. When will you learn? Oh right, you're too tired. Read more...
Gizmodo What's Wrong With the iOS 7 Icons?
Gizmodo What's Wrong With the iOS 7 Icons? | Kotaku The Xbox One Believers | Deadspin Shushing Your Kid Is Idiotic | Gawker Internet-Famous Preteen Metalheads Are Being Bullied for Being Awesome | Valleywag Silicon Valley Housing Explosion Means This Cottage Costs $1.1 Million Read more...
Teens Steal Credit Card, Use It to Take Incriminating Photo Booth Pics
Police in Maryland are seeking the public's assistance in tracking down a group of teen criminal masterminds who allegedly stole a Crofton woman's credit card and then proceeded to take incriminating photo booth photos of themselves holding the card. Read more...
The petty fights your children have with one another are actually screwing up their mental health fo
The petty fights your children have with one another are actually screwing up their mental health for life, and it's all your fault. Read more...
Hairless Dogs Flock To Yearly Ugly Dog Competition
This Friday, the Sonoma-Marin Fairgrounds in California will host the 25th annual World's Ugliest Dog contest. The winner usually has something in common with many Californian genital areas: Hairlessness. Many of these hair-free dogs are Chinese Cresteds who descend from ones bred by famous stripper, Gypsy Rose Lee. Show More Summary
A man who caused a scare on a flight from Hong Kong today was taken into FBI custody after telling f
A man who caused a scare on a flight from Hong Kong today was taken into FBI custody after telling fellow passengers "he was poisoned, had secrets from the CIA and mentioned Edward Snowden's name a number of times." The CDC found no evidence of poison on the plane. Read more...
Everything Is Different Now In Our Amazing New Economic Paradigm
Yesterday, the front page of the New York Times brought joyous news: "Even Pessimists Feel Optimistic About the American Economy." Indeed, some of our most prominent economic pundits are telling us that everything is different now. BEWARE. Read more...
Cory and Topanga Smile Upon Child They Created via Sex (for TV)
Proving once and for all that people who pray for Boy Meets World sequels pray harder than people who pray for an end to world hunger, God has answered the cry of His most highly favored children: the Disney channel announced Monday that it had ordered a full series of Girl Meets World, the much-hyped follow-up to its 1990s TGIF bildungsroman. Read more...
This Lazy Airplane Loader is the Living Embodiment of Monday
Footage of an incredibly inept cargo loader at China's Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport haphazardly hurling boxes onto a conveyor belt suddenly took off today, almost exactly a year after it was first uploaded to YouTube. Read more...
VICE Is Sitting on a Blockbuster Exclusive Interview With Kim Jong Un
We were all excited for the season finale of HBO's VICE on Friday, since we were promised it contained a rare exclusive interview with North Korea's reclusive Boy King, Kim Jong Un. At least that's what VICE's Shane Smith told Charlie Rose last month. Read more...
Silicon Valley Housing Explosion Means This Cottage Costs $1.1 Million
The little 7o-year-old house at 353 Carmelita Drive is about as unspectacular as American real estate gets: two bedrooms, one and a half baths, and a modest 960 square feet. Elsewhere in the country (or at least the state) you could probably snatch it up for around a quarter million: but in Google's back yard, it's four times that. Read more...
This Yearbook Typo Is Only Terrible If It's a Typo, Otherwise It's Worse
As far as yearbook typos go, we've certainly seen worse. Read more...