It Turns Out Seal Was Kind Of A Dick To Heidi Klum

A.J. Daulerio · 01/23/12 12:24PM

TMZ reports that part of the reason the two are getting a divorce is due to Seal's "volcanic temper" and partially because their schedules could never sync-up. Don't bother Googling "angry seal" because otherwise, you'll get this Urban Dictionary definition: A sexual act where when a male is having sex with a female on the beach, pulls out, rubs his member in the sand, and then slides it back into her vagina.

Gawker Will Be Conducting An Experiment, Please Enjoy Your Free Cute Cats Singing And Sideboobs

A.J. Daulerio · 01/23/12 11:45AM

This week, the writers of this site have all agreed to participate in an obnoxious, but worthwhile exercise. Each day, a different staff writer will be forced to break their usual routine and offer up posts they feel would garner the most traffic. While that writer struggles to find dancing cat videos and Burger King bathroom fights or any other post they feel will add those precious, precious new eyeballs, the rest of the staff will spend time on more substantive stories they may have neglected due to the rigors of scouring the internet each day to hit some imaginary quota. The writers not relegated to traffic-whoring duty will still post, just less frequently than many of them are probably used to.

Which Boy Band Star Is a Closet Case?

Brian Moylan · 01/23/12 10:22AM

This boy band member had a string of fake girlfriends so that no one would know he's gay. This actress is keeping her pregnancy a secret, and this actor is married to a woman but secretly gay. Is there nothing but closets in Hollywood?

Anonymous Is Launching a MegaUpload Alternative?

Adrian Chen · 01/23/12 10:00AM

Anonymous really loved Megaupload. Still reeling over the loss of the best place to download the entire TLC discography on the web, members of the hacktivist collective have apparently launched an effort to build a replacement for the file-sharing service killed by the feds last week: Anonyupload.

Inside Perry's Campaign: "Some Count It Among The Worst Experiences Of Their Careers"

Bobby Finger · 01/22/12 11:07AM

The Austin American Statesman and Houston Chronicle are reporting today that a major factor leading to the failure of Rick Perry's presidential campaign was friction between its two very different teams: the "loyalists" like Rob Johnson and Dave Carney, who had worked with Perry throughout much of his 12 years in Texas politics, and the "nationally known veterans," one of whom was former G.W. campaign manager Joe Allbaugh.

Private Clinics Given Right to Advertise Abortions on British TV

Bobby Finger · 01/21/12 12:58PM


It was announced Friday that private clinics in Britain would be allowed to advertise their planning services, including abortion, on British television starting April 30. It's a right that, until yesterday, had existed only for non-profit clinics.

Man Shoots Nail Into Brain, Uploads X-ray To Facebook

Bobby Finger · 01/21/12 09:09AM


While en route to an Illinois hospital after doctors discovered a nail lodged in his brain, one man did what anyone with a smartphone and shocking personal news would do: he uploaded a photo of the X-ray to his Facebook profile.

The 'Gay Kim Jong Il of the Media World' and Other Well Thought Out Insults

Leah Beckmann · 01/20/12 06:14PM

TGIF ladies and germs, and welcome back to the second installment of Tail of Mears, a new feature in which we publish some of the emails we received from you this week. How's that name, everybody? Any meerkats out there I'm offending? Please continue to hate-email/blog/tweet/comment if so.