Valleywag is Gawker's column from Silicon Valley. Edited by Ryan Tate, it carries technology and internet gossip — the news too scurrilous and juicy for the industry's trade rags.
DevilsAvocado: During several years of cohabitation, my feelings towards my boyfriend had devolved from fondness, through ambivalence, to the inevitable nadir whereb... more »
octothorp: When I was a grad assistant in the Midwest some years ago, I kind of got involved with one of my undergrad students. Sparks were definitely flying whe... more »
Encantada: I was a very late bloomer. (I lost my milk teeth in eighth grade.) In sixth grade, I wore a training bra in the hopes that it would train my bosom t... more »
Eric R. Williams: I had been dating a guy for about 9 months when I decided to move to China for work. It was one year, and I told him that we could just end it when I ... more »
TheUptightMidwesterner: Sorry, this is long...
Fourth grade- I got one Valentine out of a class of 28 and had a teacher who was a smoker, so during the party she stepped outs... more »
GazelleFreestyler: Keywords for Valentine's Day 2009: Dry cleaning, bed bugs, and Nazis.
The night before Valentine's day, I discovered the source of the large, itchy w... more »
shostakobitch: A few Valentine's Days ago I was milking the cows when I accidentally got my penis stuck in one of the milking machines. After a series of several pe... more »
Omitofo: My second V-Day story (maybe better?). My freshman year college boyfriend got me a used "get well " card in which was written "I went to the store and... more »
curiousgeorgiana: I experienced both sex and GHB for the first time on Valentine's Day. At the same time. Courtesy of my then-boyfriend. That's right folks.
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So have you checked out this Chat Roulette thing? It's like Omegle, sudden instant e-chats with a stranger, only this time there's video and audio (which can both be turned off for anonymous browsing). Click, get a person, repeat.
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Google engineer and San Francisco partyboy Orkut Büyükkökten's wild housewarming may have been packed with internet billionaires like Sergey Brin last Saturday, but online pictures were reportedly forbidden. And yet here are snapshots of strippers and nude sculpture. More »
The beardier parts of the web-o-sphere have been abuzz about HTML5, the next version of the language that powers our internet. Will it revolutionize web apps? Will it kill Flash video? Will it fix our gimpy iPads? Yes... and no.
[Gizmodo]
Meet Stefan "Monty" Roberts. You might know him better as Stefan de Rothschild, whose $2.5 million donation to Haiti relief was heralded by the Washington Post, who was quoted by Reuters and who, naturally, had a Huffington Postblog. More »
New pictures from the Facebook movie's set have none other than script-originating novelist Ben Mezrich uncertain how he feels. With clips from corresponding portions of the script, we decipher Mark Zuckerberg's sleepy-time befuddlement and Timberlake's alpha male "fuck you." More »
Tesla Motors filed paperwork Friday with the Securities and Exchange Commission for a proposed initial public offering hoping to raise as much as $100 million. Oh, good, because they lost $31.5 million in the first nine months of 2009.
[Jalopnik]
By all accounts, Steve Jobspersonally drove the rapid creation and wildly successful hyping of the just-unveiled iPad. So you'd think his handlers would be confident in his healthy image, no matter how slowly he walks in public. (Update: Video.) More »
No doubt, Steve Jobs showed off a compelling tablet computer today, one that should excite people who make videogames, TV shows — even books. But today's Apple iPad debut was a big letdown for magazine and newspaper people. More »
One of the great modern pastimes — speculating and rumormongering about the Apple Tablet — will come to an end today when Steve Jobs finally unveils his messiah device. It's a game few are ready to stop playing. More »
If you're a Twitter user, congratulations: You're also a Huffington Post contributor! For a few hours last night, it appears practically all of Twitter was republished on HuffPo. But now our tweets have disappeared from the site. What's going on? More »
Here's how those "Charles & YaVaughnie" billboards came to be, according to people the couple spoke to: Charles was publicly sucking up to his wife, while mistress YaVaughnie was busy launching an incriminating online photo album. Spurned lover, much? More »
Some people want the Apple Tablet to run Mac OS X's user interface. Others think its UI will be something exotic. Both camps are wrong: The iPhone started a UI revolution, and the tablet is just step two. Here's why.
[Gizmodo]
An Oracle executive has been pledging himself to his "soulmate" on romantic billboards across the country. But it's not clear the gentleman approves; after all, the lady he's cuddling up to on the signs is not his wife.
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