LinkedIn's Monster IPO Is Terrifying

Ryan Tate · 05/19/11 12:58PM

LinkedIn shares more than doubled in price in their first day of trading, valuing the annoyingly pointless social network at more than $8 billion. Now that the social networking bubble has reached the masses, it isn't just annoying, it's dangerous.

Gabby Giffords Completes Successful Skull Surgery

Jim Newell · 05/19/11 12:43PM

Rep. Gabrielle Giffords' surgery to replace part of her skull and stop fluid buildup in her brain, which sounds like an absolutely terrifying operation, went "very well" yesterday, according to her doctors. But who trusts doctors anyway? Fortunately her husband, astronaut Mark Kelly, was able to confirm the good news from outer space today, while bouncing around.

Lars von Trier's Nazi Comments: The Awkward, Stuttering Video

Maureen O'Connor · 05/19/11 11:39AM

Lars von Trier's trainwreck press conference is the gift that keeps on giving. The Telegraph posted video of von Trier's Nazi meltdown, and it's the second-most awkward press conference footage I have ever seen, right after Gloria Allred's baseball bat masturbation press conference. Seated next to Von Trier, Kirsten Dunst covers her face with her hand and looks mortified. Unless it's leftover mortification from Lars' "really, really, really hardcore" comment?

American Idol: The Fall in the House of Idol

Richard Lawson · 05/19/11 11:36AM

The final threeee! We are so close to the end of this thing you can almost taste it. But we're not quite there yet, so we are still tasked with the business of unpacking it all, sifting through and trying to find some clarity.

Facebook is a Failure

Remy Stern · 05/19/11 11:26AM

Facebook wants to be your life. They want you to chat, exchange messages and publish your photos using their services. That's ok. It's a good concept. Too bad Facebook's technology sucks to the point of being unusable at times. [Gizmodo]

Be Scared: Dick Cheney's Memoir Due in August

Jim Newell · 05/19/11 11:14AM

America's most huggable teddy bear, Dick Cheney, has been working on his memoirs from his CIA-bunker house ever since leaving office. It should have been on bookstore shelves for a year or so by now, former vice president's rather serious heart problems got in the way. But now that's all over! In My Time: A Personal and Political Memoir will hit shelves on August 30, so grab your sleeping bags and head over to the nearest bookstore entrance now.

Illinois Minority Leader Quotes Wu-Tang Clan on State Senate Floor

Brian Moylan · 05/19/11 11:01AM

There was a debate on the floor of the Illinois Senate yesterday about the state's budget crisis, and Republican senate minority leader Christine Radogno got up to make a "point of personal privilege." The point just happened to be a quote from a Wu-Tang Clan song.

What to Do With Your Pinched Pennies This Spring

Studio@Gawker · 05/19/11 11:00AM

Spring is here. The grass is green, kids are doing kid-type stuff, the birds are making bird noises, the bunnies are hipping, or hopping, or whatever bunnies these days do, and you most likely have better things to do than worry about wasting money on an over-priced cell phone bill, right?

Which Actor Has Three Secret Baby Mamas?

Brian Moylan · 05/19/11 10:04AM

This screen idol is paying child support to multiple women—and, no, it's not Schwarzenegger. This millionaire is into some sick porn. And this star is undergoing fertility treatments. Maybe she just needs to get with that very fertile actor?

The Bin Laden 'Arab Spring' Tape Drops

Jeff Neumann · 05/19/11 06:13AM

Depending on who you ask, Osama bin Laden might be dead, but he's certainly not forgotten. And just when you thought people were starting to forget, a new tape has surfaced on jihadi websites of the Qaeda honcho praising the so-called "Arab Spring" uprisings across the Middle East and North Africa.

An Encyclopedia of Every Other Awful Thing Arnold Schwarzenegger Has Done

John Cook · 05/19/11 05:30AM

While we're busy contemplating what an awful human being Arnold Schwarzenegger is for fathering a child out of wedlock and lying to his wife about it for 14 years, let's not forget all the other horrible things about America's favorite gay-porn-modeling, serial lady-groping, Nazi politician/statutory rapist.

Can Viagra Make You Deaf?

Jeff Neumann · 05/19/11 05:15AM

We already know what overdosing on Viagra can do to you: blurry vision, a head ache, and an extended period of time during which wearing sweatpants is inadvisable. But what about reports of men starting to lose their hearing from taking Viagra? The number of cases is growing! The Telegraph has some details: