Occupy Wall Street Spawns New 'I'm Getting Arrested' App
Adrian Chen · 10/26/11 11:08AMAmy Winehouse Drank Herself to Death
Maureen O'Connor · 10/26/11 10:55AMHow You Can Dress Like The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Brian Moylan · 10/26/11 10:35AMWhich Actress Is Trying to Get Pregnant for Publicity?
Brian Moylan · 10/26/11 09:57AMDead Malls Reborn as Anything But Malls
Hamilton Nolan · 10/26/11 09:34AMArtists Catch Rats and Turn Them Into Stuffed Pikachus
Lauri Apple · 10/26/11 08:53AMPsst: Nobody Needs a Magazine About 'Social Media'
Hamilton Nolan · 10/26/11 08:34AM
Here's the thing about the internet sites Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, and Google: you do not need to read a magazine about them. For one thing, if you want to learn about them, you can simply type their address into your internet browser, and there they are, updated constantly, by the second, rather than monthly, as would be a case with a magazine. Want to know more? Why not read one of the thousands and thousands of blogs and online news sites that talk about them each and every day?
Obama Announcing Plan to Help You Pay for Your Expensive, Dumb Degree
Lauri Apple · 10/26/11 08:11AMIs Frances Bean Cobain Marrying a Kurt Cobain Look-Alike?
Lauri Apple · 10/26/11 07:10AM
The O.C. Weekly is speculating that teenage property tax payer Frances Bean Cobain and rocker Isaiah Silva are getting married after a year or so of successful dating. Their primary evidence: screenshots of comments the two lovebirds left on each others' Facebook profiles, including one in which Cobain gushes about spending "the rest of my life loving my best friend," and Silva refers to his "fiance."
Man Attacks Cat for Making Him 'Depressed'
Lauri Apple · 10/26/11 05:22AMWhiny Conspiracy Theorist Gets Yelled at by Rock Star
Lauri Apple · 10/26/11 04:04AMHere we see a man named Richard Lee (not Rick, but Richard) raising a ruckus at a recent Seattle University event starring financial analyst/sports writer/columnist/former Guns n' Roses bass player/current Velvet Revolver+Loaded member/memoirist Duff McKagan. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer tells us that Lee is a local personality of sorts who espouses the theory that Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain did not commit suicide but was murdered by, like, everyone he knew. One of his pastimes is to ambush Courtney Love, Crisco Twister master/Nirvana bassist Krist Novoselic, and other famous people who were close to Cobain and inspire them to seek restraining orders against him.
A Ketchup for the 1%
Seth Abramovitch · 10/26/11 03:27AMA Short Interview with James Franco's Ass
Seth Abramovitch · 10/26/11 01:55AMObama Dodges Jay Leno's Questions About Kim Kardashian
Matt Cherette · 10/26/11 01:53AMThe first lady let it slip in a recent interview that the president doesn't want the Obama girls tuning into Keeping Up With the Kardashians. So what is it about the show (well, besides everything) that bothers him so much? Jay Leno tried delving into the president's anti-Kardashian position on Tuesday's Tonight Show, but beyond admitting that he's never even seen the show, Obama wisely avoided any remarks that could have risked alienating the Kardashian voter base.
Apple Threatens to Sue Tiny German Café Whose Logo Is an Apple
Seth Abramovitch · 10/26/11 01:11AMStephen Colbert Parodies Herman Cain's Bizarre Campaign Ad
Matt Cherette · 10/26/11 12:33AMJon Stewart: Republican Candidates Are Too Extreme Even for Other Republicans
Matt Cherette · 10/25/11 11:26PMOn tonight's Daily Show, Jon Stewart brought up the increasingly extreme rhetoric being spewed by Republican presidential candidates, noting that even Pat Robertson expressed his concern about it in recent days. Of course, it's not that Robertson really disagrees with the candidates. He just wants them to keep their voices down long enough to win the general election: "The first rule of Right Club? Don't talk about Right Club."
Strawberries Will Protect Your Stomach from Alcohol
Max Read · 10/25/11 11:05PMSimon Cowell and LA Reid Trade Insults on The X Factor
Matt Cherette · 10/25/11 10:39PMThe X Factor whittled its contestant pool down to a dozen during its first live show tonight. One contestant hoping to impress the judges was Simone Battle, who'd advanced previously thanks to Simon Cowell and against the wishes of co-judge LA Reid. So when Battle's performance fell flat tonight, Reid wasted no time taking Cowell to task, setting off a little pissing match that you can see for yourself above.












