The Year End Party Is Over for Yahoo, We're Told

Ryan Tate · 12/02/09 08:02PM

We hear Yahoo is canceling its annual "Year End Party" for 2009. That's quite a change for a company that last year held three company parties and additional bashes at the departmental level, amid layoffs.

Washington Times to 'Become a 21st Century Multimedia Company,' Fire Almost Half Its Staff

Gabriel Snyder · 12/02/09 07:37PM

The Moonie-owned Washington Times today issued all 370 employees a WARN Act notice, which is required 60 days in advance of layoffs that involve 100 or more people. Michael Calderone reports that the paper will be shedding around 40% of its staff. In the press release, though, this devastating cut is just a part of a bold "transformation into a 21st century media company." In that the future of media in the 21st century does not involve drawing a paycheck, yes, this is accurate. In every other way, the release is a lie.

Shopping with the Enemy

Ryan Tate · 12/02/09 07:01PM

A purged BusinessWeek-er ran into the leader of the new guard; Loren Feldman heckled some oversharing newlyweds; and a celebrity devoured a whole McRib thing. The Twitterati swallowed the awkwardness.

Cop a Feel

Brian Moylan · 12/02/09 06:23PM

[Two security guards take pictures of radio host Meredith Walusek outside of Tiger Wood's house in Florida. Her sign says, "Tiger—They offered me $500,000—I'm keeping my mouth shut!" Image via Getty]

So You're Into Haggis?

Hamilton Nolan · 12/02/09 05:30PM

Yesterday we received a press release. It declared, "Hello! I recently found your blog post about Haggis and want to introduce you to our website." Oh? Which blog post was that?

The Man Who Was Really There

John Cook · 12/02/09 05:25PM

Firas Al-Qaisi is an Iraqi attorney who risked his life helping the American forces in Baghdad which led to weeks of torture and dentention by Shiite militias. Now he's suing the U.S. for $200 million for trying to murder him.

Boogie Star Wars Nights Movie Trailer Mashup

Richard Blakeley · 12/02/09 05:19PM

In 1977 a kid from nowhere had a dream of getting somewhere. It was a time when disco was king, sex was safe, pleasure was a business and business was booming.

What's in #tips Today?

Gabriel Snyder · 12/02/09 05:06PM

We get lots of suggestions of what Gawker should cover every day. Let's take a look at what's been posted over on the #tips page:

King of the Condoms

Daniel Barnum-Swett · 12/02/09 04:30PM

Mr. Condom is a lovable Mario look-alike on the cutting edge of new prophylactic trends (pleasure nubs are in). Savvy enough to know what AIDS means for sales, he stands by his products, enjoying strawberry lube on ice cream sundaes.