There are lots of wonderful things about spending a week in my hometown, Brattleboro, Vt. Here we have a stocked kitchen, two dogs, a fireplace, and the maple syrup flows from the sink faucets. And as of this morning, there is lots of snow. So much snow that the local newspaper, the Brattleboro Reformer—which is wonderful but like any local newspaper has a history of making unfortunate typos—led with it on page one.
A man in Tunisia lost a bet and his life after consuming 28 raw eggs in a single sitting for the entertainment of his friends.
On the day of the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, two new petitions were added to the Obama administration's home-brewed "We the People" petitioning system.
If you opened up the dictionary to "laughing to keep from crying," you'd probably find this video.
If you're rich and famous, sometimes surviving a hurricane hell-fire on a private island can lead to true love. Such was the case with Kate Winslet and the amazingly named Ned Rock'nRoll. According to Winslet's rep, the couple were married earlier this month in a secret ceremony in New York. Completing the bizarre, disaster-born romance, the bride was given away by none other than Leonardo DiCaprio, her Titanic co-star.
After a recent program revealed that five percent of the city's high schoolers tested positive for STDs, including HIV, Philadelphia is installing free condom dispensers in nearly a third of its high schools. The 22 schools chosen were the ones with the highest rates of sexually transmitted diseases.
Your family doesn't get you at all. This Christmas, they got you $50 gift card to Forever 21, a $25 certificate to Starbucks, and a $30 card to Blinds to Go, when at heart, you're a caffeine-allergic nudist who lives in a windowless hut. Why couldn't they have just given you cash?
Although he might be.
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Go to Deadspin to read the full story of what happened to these poor people at the Shanghai Orient Shopping Center when this totally necessary live shark tank set up in the middle of a supermarket explodes. 15 humans suffered minor injuries, but, sadly, three sharks died because they lived in a shark tank in the middle of a supermarket.
What happens behind the scenes at Gawker? We know you ask yourselves this question every single hour of every single day, and we don't blame you. We are fascinating. Sometimes we order sandwiches for lunch, and sometimes we order burritos. Sometimes we listen to music while we blog, and sometimes we do not. Sometimes Max Read picks his nose, but not always. With all this in mind, we're sharing with you our official "behind the blog post" backstories for all of the posts you clicked the shit out of this year. First up: Kate Middleton's Boobs.
