What's with the redesign?

Valleywag, along with other blogs published by Gawker Media, has adopted a new, condensed format, making the page faster to load and headlines easier to scan. More »

Valleywag recommends

It may shock some of our most fervid readers, but there are other websites on the Internet. Valleywag's editors even read some of them. We're experimenting with a new feature: A "Recommended Stories" post, culled from some of the sites which frequent our RSS feed, will appear daily at 9 a.m. The post will have links to the original stories, and also an excerpt page on which you can discuss it with other Valleywag readers. We'll also feature some stories from around the Web on our homepage, throughout the day. Some stories require a debunking or explication from Valleywag; others are worthy of a simple link. Please let us know what you think of it; suggestions for sites we should watch

That was fun while it lasted

Saner heads have prevailed, and we've bowed to the wisdom of the crowds who populate our comments: Valleywag will retain its new thread features, announced yesterday, but we'll display comment threads in chronological order, oldest to newest.

How to subscribe to Valleywag by email

Valleywag has added an option to subscribe to our most popular stories by email. I can hear the disapproving Twitters being typed already. The overflowing inboxes of Silicon Valley's hypercommunicative elite have led them to disdain the medium of email. The MySpace generation is said to have rejected email as a tool of parents and teachers, opting for private Web-based messaging instead. And yet email remains immensely popular — universal, reliable, and simple. Most importantly, it's something readers have been asking us for. Here's how you can subscribe to Valleywag, and what you'll get. More »

Where to find our stats

Valleywag publisher Nick Denton likes to boast that our traffic statistics are published for anyone to peruse. As a former user interface developer, I'm painfully aware that we've made it impossible to find them. Here are the hot links to two of our three separate site statistics feeds. Thank God the numbers don't add up, or I'd really doubt them. More »

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Defamer Artists

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