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more about #valleywag more comments → Shadowlayer: Seems pincus here has sent a whole bunch of "friends" to spam the place... more » VoxPopuli: People - can we all agree at least that Jillian Michaels looks like an itty-bitty dick centered between those giant balls? Yeah, thought I'd stop by a... more » raincoaster: Wow, smell all the earnestness in the comments section! How do I get back to Gawker from here? more » heywhat: I always thought the Biggest Loser was heavily edited. I thought there is no way this show would take dangerously obese people who have been sitting o... more » manchops: Ok, goin out on the gawker ledge here to defend this show: Sure, there are some not-so-good choices going on in having people use a cash prize/crash w... more » LatestBy: I understand they're angry at her, but squeezing Jillian Michaels' testicles like that won't help. more » Richard Petty Bourgeoisie: Not to mention the fact that The Biggest Loser is depleting attendance at America's zoos. more » morninggloria: One man's obese potential Biggest Loser contestant is another man's scariest high school offensive lineman ever. more » TheBusinessGuy: HamNo continues his interesting fascination with fat people, but at least this time there are no insults. The responsibility for what goes on on The ... more » Smitros: But all this leaves aside the question of what the contestants are doing to those monster implants. more » bluebears: I cannot watch that show, the shit they have these obese people doing is NUTS. Having a 300 lb man do any sort of squatting or jumping is just ridicul... more » m4ximusprim3: wait, but if you're fat, and then you gain 30 lbs of muscle in 6 weeks, how are you supposed to win when everyone else is dehydrating themselves? You... more » Pope John Peeps II: So the contestants themselves bear NO responsibility for their choices? This seems a dangerous precedent to be set on a gossip website. more » MisterHippity: "Contestants can get a little too crazy and they can get too thin," she said. In a competition where the whole point is to get as thin as possible? ... more » Alaska Miller: It's like telling a city bus to stop only at Burger King instead of McDonald's and expecting everyone to pay extra for free ice cream. more » -
#sadthings
Lymphoma Diagnosis for Paul Allen, Microsoft's Least Lucky Co-Founder
Paul Allen has been diagnosed with non-Hodgkins lymphoma. It's more tough news for the Microsoft co-founder, who has overcome more than his share of health problems before. More » -
#conspiracies
How the Swine Flu Joined Glenn Beck and the Huffington Post
Combine two dashes of the Huffington Post's culty, medicine-fearing "Living" section and one dash of Fox News' craziest host, and you've got Love in the Time of Swine Flu. Not even Dr. Dean Ornish could stop these paranoid fellow-travelers. More » -
#fashion
Sicko Grotesques Strut British Runways, Say Docs
At the start of London's Fashion Week, British psychiatrists called for a government crackdown on pro-anorexia websites, up fivefold in over two years according to a study by an internet filtering company. More » -
#shutuptwitter
Coastal Elites Can't Decide: Is Twitter a Force for Good or Evil?
Have you heard? All the trouble the president's been having with his health care initiative is Twitter's fault. So says ad man James Othmer in a New York Times op-ed. Wait, wasn't Twitter saving Iranian democracy like 10 minutes ago? More » -
#badvertising
Steve Jobs and the Journal's Frightful Ad Placement
Steve Jobs "appeared thin and spoke with a scratchy voice" on his return from medical leave, the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday. Apparently we had no idea! More » -
#comebacks
The Steve Jobs Video Wall Street Will Be Poring Over
"I probably need to gain about 30 pounds," Steve Jobs told the New York Times after his return to public life yesterday. Might as well concede the obvious if investors are looking for unexpected physical weakness. More » -
#health
Internet Your Way Out of Depression
In Britain, thedeath panelNHS commonly makes you wait a year to see a shrink, so some people just chat with therapists over instant messenger. Go figure: It actually works. So what about Tumblr, and so forth? More » -
#nerdspotting
Steve Jobs Driving Himself to Work Again, Apparently
As recently as late June, Steve Jobs was repeatedly spotted being chauffeured away from Apple's campus in a black car. Judging from this July 23 photo, the CEO has had enough of those vehicular ministrations. More » -
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#apple
SEC Still Investigating Steve Jobs, Stock Be Damned
The Securities and Exchange Commission is reportedly still investigating whether Apple misled investors about Steve Jobs' health. That the company's stock has nearly doubled in the intervening six months is apparently beside the point — as it should be. More » -
#publicrelations
Apple's Frozen Board Needs a Reboot
A hospital officially confirmed Steve Jobs received a liver transplant there, and did so with Jobs' permission. Meaning everyone is talking about the Apple CEO's sickness, except Apple. The pressure on the company's paralyzed directors is, justifiably, mounting. More » -
#dontcallitacomeback
Steve Jobs Had A Liver Transplant
The Wall Street Journal reports: Steve Jobs had a liver transplant in Tennessee two months ago, he's in recovery, and is going to be back to work before the end of the month. Just like they said he would be.
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#whatwouldjobsdo
Steve Jobs or Not, Apple Has the Reality Distortion Dept. Covered
There are any number of ways Steve Jobs could have made an appearance at Apple's developer's conference today. He didn't. Yet the company still built heavy buzz for what could have very easily turned out as a lackluster product refresh. More » -
#comebacks
Steve Jobs Returning to Apple After Nearly 'Starving to Death,' Says WSJ
Steve Jobs is set to return to Apple on schedule at the end of June, "people familiar with Apple" tell the Wall Street Journal. He might also end up at the company's developer's conference next week, the paper said. More » -
#health
Facebook Breast Ban Ended by Cancer Case
An outcry from breastfeeding mothers wasn't enough to get Facebook to lift its ban on "exposed breast" earlier this year. But a breast cancer awareness campaign has finally ended the absurdly broad restriction. More » -
#apple
Market Shrugs Off Reports of Steve Jobs' Imminent Return to Apple
Steve Wozniak told a Wall Street Journal reporter his Apple co-founder Steve Jobs sounds "healthy, energetic," signaling the CEO will return from medical leave at the end of June as planned. The market wasn't particularly interested. More » -
#mysteries
While Steve Jobs Is Away, Recruiters Will Pay
Apple CEO Steve Jobs is the ultimate telecommuter, working from home on a new, lightweight "netbook" while he's ostensibly on medical leave from Apple. Investors are calming down. So what are employees worried about? More » -
#trainwrecks
The Woz Feels the Weight of Geek 'Dancing' Expectations
On Dancing with the Stars, adorably lumpy Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak pranced his way into our hearts with a broken foot. Even the judges warmed to him. No one called him a "Teletubby" this time! More » -
#trainwrecks
A Wounded Woz Vows to Dance Through the Pain
Can anything stop Steve Wozniak, the goofy billionaire Apple cofounder who's waltzing across TV screens nationwide on ABC's Dancing With the Stars? Apparently not — not a roasting by the judges. Not even a fractured leg. More » -
#apple
How Steve Jobs Turned Minutiae Into Medical Drama
Steve Jobs won't attend Apple's shareholder meeting. He may have stopped using his computer altogether. No surprise, since the Apple CEO is on medical leave. But people just can't stop talking about him. More » -
#journalismism
Blogs in Contortions Over Steve Jobs's Health
A lordling of Silicon Valley, whom bloggers trust but don't dare name, surfaced to dismiss the notion that Steve Jobs, the ailing Apple CEO, was at Stanford Hospital for surgery Monday. Should we believe him? More »
