Gawker is looking for a writer with a strong obsession with women's magazines to work on various and sundry projects, the particular details of which may be revealed at some date in the mid- to far-future. This is a full-time job that pays accordingly. You should be based in New York City and ready to start more or less immediately. If you're interested, write a paragraph about yourself and a paragraph or two discussing a women's magazine of your choosing and email it to jobs@gawker.com. If you've got a blog, please include the URL. For our sanity, and yours, emails with resumes or attachments will be deleted unread. Don't make us get all Laurel Touby on you. Thanks.

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Wow, what a weekend! Pre-Halloween parties, another of those increasingly creepy Daylight Savings fallbacks that you don't even notice because your machines do it for you, and...and I don't have a third thing.

• Yes, Valleywag is alive today, just woke up late. Missed you too.

• Sources say venture capital firm Bridgescale is throwing a party for over 100 people at the Quadrus conference center on Sand Hill Road.

New Yorkers, we need you! Two events need Valleywag correspondents. Volunteers will write a quick (250-words-tops) report of each event or a particularly salient detail. If we like the write-up, they'll also be first in line for future Silicon Alley Valleywag work. To volunteer, e-mail tips@valleywag.com with "Alleywag" in the subject.

Last week, the Gawker Media overlords told site editors that this new open comment system (the one whereby you — yes, you — can leave a comment, pick a username and password, and get invited to the exclusive comments club based on that comment's merit) is all well and good, but it's time to kick some birds out of the nest.*

Finding stuff to do in Silicon Valley is hard. But whenever I go a few days without running one of the Valleywag to-do posts, someone e-mails me. "You'll do a to-do today, right? I need to know what parties to go to!"

Rev up the awkward "new baby" metaphors, Gawker launched a new title today. Idolator is the music blog too hip for music blogs, complete with manifesto, glitzy logo (Is that a heart or is it the RIAA's bag of souls?), and a new spin on the Gawker cynicism you know and love.

We could call it "private beta," but we really kept invite-only comments at Valleywag (and all other Gawker Media titles) because, deep in our fuddy-duddy hearts, we didn't want to admit the wisdom of the crowds. Well, the bridge is down, but there's still a troll underneath.

Did you get left behind on Valleywag's Comment Giveaway Day? If you sent an e-mail asking for a comment account on Tuesday, and you never got one, send a note to tips@valleywag.com. We'll get yours out to you right away.

Valleywag's search for an intern is over, and thank you to all the applicants.

Because everyone deserves a break, and because we've been so lax in answering some folks' requests for comment accounts, and because it looks like our comment invitation system finally works — today, everyone who asks for a comment account, gets one, no questions asked.

The info streaming through Valleywag is getting overwhelming. To keep this gossip machine churning, I need an intern.

Something's screwy in our server, so the rest of Valleywag will be a touch late tonight. Hold tight and cancel your plans; you're stayin' up late to catch the last posts of the week. Meanwhile, fill out that reader survey for your chance to win an iPod Shuffle. (I know you have a Nano. The Shuffle's for your kids.)

Hey waggers, Valleywag's writer got mugged last night (and punched in the face. It was actually kind of awesome), so posting today might be slow and grumpy. But I'm gonna milk this for all the sympathy it's worth, so if you wanna make this an easy Friday for me, send in your juiciest tips to tips@valleywag.com. Each good tip today earns a comment account.

• The "color the Flickr dots" contest closes tonight. Color in the two circles on the photo sharing site's new error message. Upload your art to Flickr and tag it "valleywag". The funniest artist (maybe Prentiss Riddle, whose entry is shown here) wins a Flickr pro account and a Valleywag comment account.

Sorry, folks, the comment system's smashed today. The techies are working hard to give you back your peanut gallery. In the meantime, why not fill out our reader survey?

I was told that Valleywag would be on Gawker Media's new blog system by today. It is. That should mean that all those comment accounts that kept breaking, work now.

Since a man got fired for reading Valleywag, it's time to solve the problem of office-hours wag-surfing.