‘Teens Love Drinking Hand Sanitizer,’ Say the Media (But Not Teens)
Caity Weaver · 04/24/12 06:05PMWill Facebook Crush an Anonymous Social Network?
Adrian Chen · 04/24/12 05:53PMThe Kardashians Will Never Ever Go Away and It's All Your Fault
Neetzan Zimmerman · 04/24/12 05:37PMWe've Been Shitting on the Wrong Show: Veep Beats Girls in Ratings
Max Read · 04/24/12 05:24PM
In the week before the premiere of HBO's Girls an average of 23 articles were published about the show every day. Veep, the network's other new half-hour comedy, was the subject of an average of 3.1 articles per day. (Data via Google Trends.) And yet Veep drew 1.7 million viewers for its premiere, while Girls picked up 1.1 million.
Russell Brand Delivers Passionate Testimony At Parliamentary Review of UK Drug Policy
Neetzan Zimmerman · 04/24/12 05:05PMTSA Forces Four Year Old Girl To Undergo Pat-Down After Unauthorized Hug From Grandma
Neetzan Zimmerman · 04/24/12 04:01PMFinancial Literacy for Kids: What Your Failing Schools Should Have Taught You
Hamilton Nolan · 04/24/12 03:51PM
Kids these days don't know about money. The problem, as laid out in this USA Today story, is devastatingly simple: today's high school students can't pass simple tests of financial literacy, even though they will most likely be heavily in debt and facing poor job prospects within a decade. Furthermore, most states don't teach kids anything about the topic.
Man With Surname of 'Boner' Does Something Newsworthy
Hamilton Nolan · 04/24/12 03:23PMSmartly Dressed Demonstrators Peacefully Protest Abercrombie & Fitch Takeover of Savile Row
Neetzan Zimmerman · 04/24/12 03:00PM
Yesterday morning, at the behest of pro-dandy British publication The Chap, "swathes of immaculately dressed chaps and chapettes" descended on No. 3 Savile Row, former home to the legendary Apple Studio, where they engaged in a peaceful protest of Abercrombie & Fitch's imminent soiling of the celebrated shopping street with a new children's clothing store.
World's Best Twitter User Jose Canseco Mysteriously Disappears From Twitter
Adrian Chen · 04/24/12 02:58PMFather Learns His Autistic Son Is Being Bullied by Teacher, Aides After Sending Him To School With a Wire
Neetzan Zimmerman · 04/24/12 02:01PMThe Gardening Dog: Another Nonsense Question From New York's Standardized English Tests
John Cook · 04/24/12 02:00PMToday's Song: Marina and the Diamonds 'Boyfriend' (Justin Bieber Response)
Rich Juzwiak · 04/24/12 01:30PMThere's nothing like a good answer song, and Wales' Marina and the Diamonds crafted a great one by opening up Justin Bieber's "Boyfriend" and rearranging its insides. If you were waiting for the female perspective on eating fondue, you'll be disappointed, but this does a really job of making the original's melody even ear-wormier while trimming the fat (i.e. the rapping). With a new Saint Etienne song called "Answer Song" having just been released yesterday, it's a good time for the medium. Check this space for my response to "Beez in the Trap," "Aunts on My Log."
'Niggas in Paris' Used in Campaign Ad of French Presidential Candidate François Hollande
Neetzan Zimmerman · 04/24/12 01:07PMJustin Bieber Exacts Revenge on Alleged Baby Mama with Tweet, Song
Neetzan Zimmerman · 04/24/12 12:20PMChuck Colson: Watergate Conspirator and God's Own Ratfucker
Mobutu Sese Seko · 04/24/12 12:04PMHa, RuPaul's Drag Race Trolled Us So Hard
Rich Juzwiak · 04/24/12 11:38AMLast night, Logo aired the ostensible finale of RuPaul's Drag Race Season 4. All the promos kept referring to it not as the end but the "final 3," so I knew something was up. And so it was: instead of crowning America's next drag superstar at the end of the episode, Queen Ru declared that the victor will be announced during next week's reunion show. There was also a call to attempt to influence the judges' decision by tweeting your pick: Sharon Needles (DUH), Chad Michaels (a glamorous queen who amazingly transcends the cheek implants she had put in to impersonate Cher) and Phi Phi O'Hara (human cat piss).
From Orphanage to Oxford: Armless Drummer Has Lived Quite a Life
Neetzan Zimmerman · 04/24/12 11:15AMDance Your Pants Off at the Governors Ball
Studio@Gawker · 04/24/12 10:59AMNew Yorkers! This summer, don't stand on a pier and be deafened by a PA the size of a Water Taxi! Don't sit on a pile of sticks directly behind a gigantic tree as your favorite band plays a football-field-length away! Instead, go to the Governors Ball—a legitimate music festival with all the trimmings taking place within your city's borders, on a fantastical place covered in green, green grass known as Randall's Island.










