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more about #valleywag Beau Nerd: Gavin McInnes is gonna videotape it if/when he pees in his cornflakes and eats it, right? Because that's the only thing that matters right now. more » lukeoneil47: Didn't Gavin and company basically invent everyone else in the competition either directly or indirectly through the omnivorous, rapey tentacles of Vi... more » Jamie Peck: Jesus Christ ppl, Dov Charney is not a hipster. He has taken a douchified version of indie culture and commodified it for mass consumption all over th... more » A Message To Rudy: Someone hacked into The Devil's Google account because he uses No. 12. more » RandomLunatic: I keep voting for the people I have never heard of because I find the ones I have heard about so damned loathsome, I don't even want them to receive a... more » jessica.ann: People PLEASE stop voting for Kari Ferrell. She pretended to work for someone on the list (Gavin McInnes)! That alone should automatically disqualif... more » throwdetta: You know what is a great (and not moth-eaten) musical that would make an excellent and gorgeous movie AND deals with the foreign language thing in a r... more » lobstr: Appeal against the Grifter, Part III: Vote with your hearts, not your hotdogs, nor hallways! Ladies and Gents of the Gawkersphere, please read the f... more » momof3wildkids: That collection of pictures would have made a fine holiday card for Gawker. more » AndPreciousLittleofThat: You mean to say you're having a hipster competition and you've put in someone with one name who runs something called "Hipster Runoff?" I smell a rin... more » FitnessMadeSimple: I think I'll vote for Gavin McInnes, just because I harbor a grudge against him for giving me low scores in the US Air Guitar Championships. more » Dustin Likens: Sarah Palin is my vote - her entire political career has been one long masterful stroke of ironic hipsterism...right? All my friends are wearing McCai... more » intime: Kristie Alley and Chaz Bono as a couple will bring new meaning to the concept of 400lb duet. Instead of singing an opera aria they can pretend to hav... more » intime: I like to spend New Year's Eve with a bottle of Ketel One and some good weed. You can enjoy any lame bar or party with that combination under your b... more » bitch_pleaze: "There Is Such a Thing As Too Much Meta" Oh Gawker. Oh Irony. Oh my god. more » Magicant: No "swordfish" on the list. The Marx Brothers weep. more » iplaudius: We regret the errant tap of the space bar when we referred to Mr. Francis, therapist. more » Lucky: "Merry Xmas IDIOT!!!" I do believe Mr. Denton is Jewish. Do your research first, Douche! more » El_Gato: Glenn Beck allegedly took Joe Francis from behind while Bill O'Reilly allegedly got on the other side and face banged him, A-Frame style. Allegedly. more » cpjones: But what does Sylvia Browne have to say about these predictions with her sultry/smokey/emphysema voice? more » -
#shutuptwitter
The 370 Dumbest Passwords, as Compiled by Twitter
Twitter appears to have learned from its security scare earlier this year and seems to be taking password security more seriously than most Internet services.
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#shutuptwitter
How a Fake Twitter Death Report Tragically Came True
Last night on Twitter, someone impersonating a newspaper writer falsely reported the death of football player Chris Henry. Henry died about 12 hours later, according to news reports, finally making one of Twitter's many fake stories come true.
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#yourprivacyisanillusion
The Facebook Privacy Settings You've Lost Forever
While covering Facebook's systematic elimination of privacy, we've been deluged with questions from readers asking how to restore certain Facebook privacy protections. Sadly, many such settings appear to be lost forever. Here are the most glaring examples.
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#crime
Alisher Usmanov: The Scary Russian Oligarch Seducing Silicon Valley
Alisher Usmanov is nicknamed "the hard man of Russia," but he's good at seducing the softies in California's tech community: An investment firm he backs lead a $180 million investment in Zynga, the gaming company that trafficked in scammy ads.
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#notafraidtobeservicey
The Valleywag Guide to Restoring Your Privacy on Facebook
Facebook's privacy rollback is especially terrible because it's so hard to reverse. Settings are so bewildering that even CEO Mark Zuckeberg has fiddled his two-to-three times this month. So here's a guide to re-privatizing your profile.
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#marissamayer
Google Princess Opens Up to Vogue on Her Fairy Tale Wedding
It looks like we weren't the only ones covering Marissa Mayers' wedding yesterday: Google's cyborg polar fairy tried to give Vogue the exclusive on her hugely extravagant San Francisco nuptials, which were even more grandiose than we'd been told.
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#rant
Facebook's Great Betrayal
Facebook's privacy pullback isn't just outrageous; it's a landmark turning point for the social network. Facebook has blundered before, but the latest changes are far more calculated. The company has, in short, turned evil.
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#facebook
Facebookarazzi: Stalking Celebrities Just Got a Whole Lot Easier
The implications of Facebook's recent privacy rollback will likely take months to reveal themselves. But it's already clear they go beyond Mark Zuckerberg's stash of intimate pics; we're already starting to learn new things about Hollywood celebrities.
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#photogallery
Facebook CEO's Private Photos Exposed by the New 'Open' Facebook
Facebook controversially forced profile pictures into public and pushed users to share candids with the whole world. So now we're blessed with pics of the social network's young CEO shirtless, romantic, clutching a teddy bear, and looking plastered.
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#disasters
Facebook Wants to Steal Your Friends
Facebook's new "privacy" settings are even more nefarious than they first appeared: The social network has formally nationalized your friends list, like some Cuban sugar plantation, and published it to people who hate you. You have no choice.
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#yourprivacyisanillusion
Facebook Begins 'Privacy' Con
It would seem our conspiracy theory is coming true: Facebook's big push to give you "more control of your information" is actually an initiative to get you to give up control of your information. Step one: Frame greed as concern.
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#project
The Laziest Journalists on Twitter
Reporters everywhere are in love with "crowdsourcing," in which sources magically come to them, saving the reporters several backbreaking telephone calls. But some correspondents have gotten embarrassingly addicted to this journalistic crack cocaine. And it's time for a intervention.
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#requestforinformation
Is Google's Cupcake Princess Planning to Electronically Track Her Wedding Guests?
We're still gathering details on the fairy-tale wedding Google's glamour geek Marissa Mayer is having this weekend. The latest: Guests are murmuring about some sort of tracking system that sounds as creepy as SkyNet — or Google itself.
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#holidaze
Yelp's Holiday Party Way Lustier Than Yours
At Yelp, every review is a chance for free drinks, every email a chance for distasteful punning — and every company party a chance to leer, spank and orgy out. Judging from the pictures, 2009's holiday bash was no exception.
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#conspiracytheories
Facebook's New 'Privacy' Scheme Smells Like an Anti-Privacy Plot
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg issued an open letter to his 350+ million users; you probably saw it this morning when logging in. Facebook will kill regional networks like "New York." Why? To trick you.
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#revenge
How to Exact Online Revenge, As Taught by the Wall Street Journal
The internet is turning us all into nasty, vengeful monsters, according to a Wall Street Journal columnist's trend piece. And you can become one of those monsters, by using the eye-opening tactics outlined in the article. Service-y!
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#culturewars
Let's Fight About a Gay-Sex Videogame This Christmas Season
Dragon Age: Origins has taken the terribly awkward genre of videogame dialog and melded it with gay romance and, also gay sex scenes. Who, in these United States, could possibly object to foisting this content on teenaged boys? More » -
#rumors
LEAK: The Google Phone "Is a Certainty"
According to a trusted source who's seen it with their own eyes, the Google Phone "is a certainty." [Gizmodo] -
#media
A Glimpse of Google without News Corp.: No Big Loss
The media world is in a (relative) uproar over what the implications of News Corp. pulling its content off Google would be. But! A three-part Gawker investigation-type thing indicates the impact might be quite minimal for you, the consumer. Observe:
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#meltdowns
What the Hell's Wrong with Gavin Newsom?
Besides his Patrick Bateman hair, obviously. The San Francisco mayor and obvious prick went into hiding after mysteriously quitting the governor's race, and his silence-breaking TV interview was a mess.
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