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more about #valleywag more comments → lionboy: I'll throw in the Old Whitey McWhitneyness comment: I'm sorry. I barely know who the white people are in this movie. If name recognition helps sell t... more » Phyllis Nefler: I'm firmly in the "Not (Any More) Racist!" camp. I mean, I think the US poster may even be worse. #racism more » VioletViolet: I hate to repeat myself, but it's still not as bad as the Polish Microsoft ad were they awkwardly took out a black person and added a white person. [... more » Go Like Hell Machine: I'm not going to weigh in on whether it's racist or not, since it seems like a fantastically awful movie. But Time consistently has the slowest serve... more » ronniedobbs: My sample size is admittedly small ("Love Actually," "Dirty Pretty Things," and "Secrets and Lies," among other examples), but I'm inclined to say tha... more » IamnotStarJones: It would be racist if they photoshopped Madea into the poster. At this point, it's just marketing! #racism more » unclevanya: "tempermental/fuckingmental" wins you the Pillsbury Blue Ribbon. #sarahpalin more » Drunken Economist: ..and now she's on Vivek Wadhwa's camel: (Sarah Lacey spews Pro-India Anti-China piece while on Wadhwa's Camel) [mindtaker.blogspot.com] .. and writ... more » VioletViolet: Still waiting for Fantastic Mr. Fox to reach non-selected cities next weekend. I know Gawker is all, "waah, hipster appeal! hoodie nation!" about it, ... more » SpyMagician: I’d like to go to the movies, but it gets dark at like 6:00pm now and all movies are about death, dying, when you will die, things dying, living... more » Helio: I have a long standing desire to make it to the end of the world just to see it all crash and burn. The grey and dusty and boring parts is more the po... more » If_I_Had_a_Poodle: Also: where are the birth certificates for these Alaskan children? How do we know these children weren't kidnapped from aliens who landed on the tun... more » Glib and Bitchy: Compare this weekend's Precious take of $6 million on 174 screens ($35,000 per screen) to last weekend's $1.8 million on 18 screens ($100,000 per -- I... more » Curatorial: "These folks are whack - didn't know it was as bad as it is... what's the upside in giving them any celebrity venue a ratings boost? That's Todd's inp... more » Spirit Fingers: Let's all just hope that: 1) Sarah has intimate knowledge of Levi's wang. 2) this knowledge turned into Trig. 3) A sex tape exists documenting bo... more » -
#rumors
Killing Them Softly: The ______ Is Dead Twitter Meme
If the New York Times' The Moment blog and its Twitter feed "hear" that Moz is dead, does it actually happen? Former Idolator editor Maura Johnston writes: "This inspired a lot of panicked e-mails to me late last night." Why? More » -
#rolemodels
The Time Marissa Mayer Invented Google
Another month, another glossy fashion magazine spread for Marissa Mayer, this time in Glamour. We get it, already: the Google veep is a computer scientist in Oscar de la Renta; a nerd invited to prom. Why embellish her achievements? More » -
#exclusive
The Revolution Will Not Be Tweeted Because Only 0.027% of Iranians Are on Twitter
Remember the storyline about a new Iranian revolution after the elections this summer? The one fuelled by the internet generation? The one that got the state department to intervene to help Iranians Twitter? Not so much.
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#kidstoday
Six Child Media Prodigies You Should Fear
That 16-year-old TechCrunch writer with 120,000 Twitter followers, who we wrote about yesterday, is part of a burgeoning child punditocracy. Children are operating in virtually every facet media — and doing so successfully. Fear for your job. More »
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#fameballs
Buy a Private Jet Trip with Ice Cream-Licking Art Star of Silicon Valley
Drue Kataoka sells engulfing quick dips in art and culture to rich Silicon Valley workaholics. Now she's selling the ultimate fast immersion: the chance to "leave your mark" on Kataoka's art during a private jet ride. More » -
#yourprivacyisanillusion
Big Google Is Watching: Meet Your Creepy Google Dossier (and Mine)
Today Google rolled out the "Google Dashboard," which is supposed to "protect your privacy" by offering control panels for the company's many products. But, really, it just scares the crap out of you. Google knows all. More » -
#dontbeevil
Is Google Using Pilfered Maps?
The town of Argleton, England doesn't exist, but you can search its white pages, look for nearby chiropractors and map a jog through town, because "Argleton" is on Google Maps. How'd the phantom town get there? Funny you should ask.
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#crime
Yelp Fights Make Leap To Real-World Violence, Says Reviewer
To hear Yelp reviewer "Sean C." tell it, San Francisco's Ocean Avenue Books really didn't appreciate his pan of the "TOTAL MESS" of a store: The owner somehow found his home, he said, and tried to force her way in.
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#breakups
Julia Allison's Secret, Staggeringly Heartbreaking Boyfriend
Julia Allison has broken up with her unlikely boyfriend, Christopher "Toph" Eggers. Yes, that Eggers: the younger brother of author Dave Eggers written about in Eggers' breakthrough memoir A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius.
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#photogallery
What Does Arianna Huffington Really Look Like?
The Huffington Post has brought back its old trick of posting embarrassingly high-resolution photos of celebrities, Portfolio.com notes, to much controversy. HuffPo defends its pics as "playful spin on our... fascination with celebrity images." OK, let's "play." With your founder. More » -
#layoffs
On Firing Day, Busy Wired Editor Had Other Places To Be
Chris Anderson has plenty of distractions from editing Wired, including a lucrative sideline on the global lecture circuit and a tour to promote his new book. Anderson's prior commitments even removed him from the office on Wired's layoff day. (Updated)
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#geeksgonewild
What Gets a Freaky Google Overlord Excited at Night
Google co-founder Sergey Brin is a weird guy. A smart programmer whose ideas lifted humanity, but a weird guy nonetheless. A coder who dislikes coffee. An American who knows virtually nothing about baseball. And then there are his evening jollies. More » -
#thecinema
Facebook, as Cast by Hollywood
It appears Aaron Sorkin has confirmed many of the casting choices for his upcoming Facebook movie. If only Silicon Valley were this good looking. There's someone from Gossip Girl, Melanie Griffith's daughter — even a very built male model. More »
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#geeksgonewild
Yahoo Lap Dancers the Latest in a Chorus Line of Tech Sexism Scandals
Yahoo has apologized for providing lap dances on stage at a Tawian programming event. Critics aren't mollified, and that's probably just as well: it's all but certain something like this will happen again soon. More »
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#crime
Arrest Over Facebook 'Poke' Makes Meaningless Gesture Risque
When the internet was young and innocent, it was acceptable to "finger" college classmates. These days, a simple Facebook "poke" can land you in jail, in Tennessee, and CNN has say "alleged" poking, because, hey, libel. More » -
#linesofquestioning
Queen Bees, Wannabes & How Technology Has Changed Teens Forever
Rosalind Wiseman is the author of Queen Bees & Wannabes, the 2002 book that inspired the movie Mean Girls. A new edition comes out today—and pretty much scares the shit out of me. [Jezebel] -
#exclusive
In Messy Divorce, Ex-Yahoo President Accused of Being a Druggy, Philandering Spy
Sue Decker's tenure as Yahoo president was full of corporate intrigue. But it's nothing compared to her ongoing divorce in which her husband's lawyer is brandishing accusations of illegal drug use, "extramarital affair(s)" and secretly recording him at home.
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#google
Any Data You Give to Google Can and Will Be Used Against You
The uber-geeks who run Google don't seem like to think about the messy world of law and politics. But it can't be avoided. The latest example: A Bear Stearns manager done in by a GMail account he thought was closed.
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#rumormonger
Layoffs at Forbes?
A source close to Forbes tells us another layoff round is imminent, the third this year. Ouch.
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#videuhoh
Watch Larry Ellison Flip Out At His Own Idea
Larry Ellison threw a fantastic tantrum against the mindless cult of "Cloud Computing," a fascination of "nitwit" Silicon Valley investors, as Ellison calls them. But the Oracle CEO was himself once a "nitwit." Just look: More »
