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Caity Weaver · 02/23/12 08:42PMLive Blogging Project Runway All Stars, Week 8
MisterHippity · 02/23/12 08:00PMMeat Loaf and Lucy Liu and Ghosts
Caity Weaver · 02/23/12 07:13PMGood Luck Taking Your Eyes Off These Incredible Before-and-After Photos of Japan
Max Read · 02/23/12 05:23PM
The Atlantic has an amazing collection of exact before-and-after photos documenting the reconstruction of Japan in the wake of last year's quake that should, if we're calculating this right, occupy exactly enough time for you to make it to the end of the work day. [The Atlantic, image via Getty/AFP/Atlantic]
NYT Reports That Living Alone Makes You Behave Like an Insane Person
Emma Carmichael · 02/23/12 04:55PMHow I Found the Human Being Behind Horse_ebooks, The Internet's Favorite Spambot
Adrian Chen · 02/23/12 04:15PM
Horse_ebooks became a bona fide internet celebrity when organizers of ROFLCON, the premier conference on internet pop culture, asked in January: "Anyone know how we might be able to get in touch with @horse_ebooks?" Horse_ebooks has 40,000 Twitter followers and a wildly passionate fanbase, but you're unlikely to see public appearances any time soon. Because Horse_ebooks is a robot.
Occupy Wall Street Videographer Films His Own Baby's Birth In Back of NYC Taxi
Adrian Chen · 02/23/12 03:02PMOccupy Wall Street welcomed its newest supporter yesterday (?) when this Occupy Wall Street videographer's wife had their baby in the back of a livery cab in New York. He filmed it, of course.
The Paris Hilton 'Drunk Text' Ringtone Collection
Maureen O'Connor · 02/23/12 02:58PMHow the GOP Primary Became a Contest Among America's Rich Drunk Uncles
Mobutu Sese Seko · 02/23/12 02:05PMYes, Jennifer Aniston is Aware That Her Boyfriend Looks 'Like a Serial Killer'
Emma Carmichael · 02/23/12 01:25PMJ.K. Rowling is Writing a Book for Grown-Ups
Emma Carmichael · 02/23/12 12:41PMParis Hilton Now Dabbling in Spoken Word Techno Music (UPDATE)
Emma Carmichael · 02/23/12 12:00PMYour Ticket to Tonight’s Live Bill Maher Show Must’ve Been Lost in the Mail
Studio@Gawker · 02/23/12 11:59AMBill Maher is going to be performing tonight in Silicon Valley, and unless your company just filed for a kagillion-dollar IPO, you probably won't be there.
Mormon-Spotting Is the New Jew-Spotting
Maureen O'Connor · 02/23/12 11:38AMWhich Singer Is Being Hounded by Her Former Religious Community?
Brian Moylan · 02/23/12 11:25AMYouPorn Security Breach Exposes Millions of Horny Users' Emails and Passwords
Emma Carmichael · 02/23/12 11:16AM
There are certain things we hold sacred in this world, and one is that our Internet porn logins, should we choose to have them, will be protected from the public eye. But nothing is sacred anymore, people: A security breach has exposed emails and passwords of more than a million chat users for the porn site YouPorn.com.
If Sacha Baron Cohen Wants to Attend the Oscars, He'll Have to Play By The Academy's Boring Rules
Emma Carmichael · 02/23/12 10:42AM
Sacha Baron Cohen just received some great free publicity for his new comedy, The Dictator, courtesy of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Deadline Hollywood reported last night that the actor had been "banned" from the awards show on Sunday because he'd been planning on showing up dressed as his next character, an anti-democratic dictator named General Aladee.
Barney Frank Is Charming As Ever on Jimmy Kimmel Live
Matt Toder · 02/23/12 01:10AMBarney Frank is retiring from Congress and also marrying his longtime boyfriend in the near future, which means he had plenty of charming material while guesting on tonight's Jimmy Kimmel Live. He's really one of the good guys.
Stephen Colbert and Nancy Pelosi Debate the Ethics of Super PACs
Matt Toder · 02/23/12 12:18AMTonight on the Colbert Report, Stephen Colbert welcomed House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi even though she had previously told Stephen she would never appear on the show. The two debated the ethics of Super PACs and the Disclose Act in a spirited and insightful discussion.











