Jen Ingalls from Google's Atlanta sales team works extensively with the Special Olympics.

Because as far as we're concerned there's no better way to celebrate the spirit of Valentine's Day than by remembering everything that makes us hate the idea of romance — and also because a sponsor is paying us to do so — we're very proud to present a Valentine's Date Worst Date Contest. Brought to you by the star-crossed folks behind Date Movie, for people who love date movies and people who hate them, the Worst Day contest wins promises a dinner at Balthazar for the Gawker reader with the very worst bad-date tale.

While his blog was still an internal corporate one, AOL vice-chairman Ted Leonsis, challenges anyone to beat him in an AIM Fight. For the remedial class: AIM Fight measures how many online AIM users have you on their buddy lists right now (and their buddies, out to three degrees). An AIM Fight score shifts as people log on and off, but Ted Leonsis says he can beat almost anyone, especially during business hours. He whispered his screenname in my ear and I ran him up against a few other highly connected AIMsters. Here are their scores:

The Flip Trifecta is still open for your predictions (sent to tips@valleywag.com with the subject "flip trifecta"). Entries must be in by Monday at noon or when the first company sells, whichever comes first.

Ludwig Gatzke organized around 200 dot-com logos in this beautiful and very trendy mashup:

After the New York Post reported that Google would buy Napster, a Google spokesperson denied any such plans. Looks like someone's trying to float a rumor and sell their stock. Meanwhile, Technorati's looking to sell its search tools, Six Apart might stay solo, and Digg.com is fighting lucrative sale rumors.

Free cigarettes for this week's sponsors, who help us buy loosies when we're not finding free packs on the street. Care to huddle around an ashtray with us? There's info here.

Thanks to this week's sponsors, whose support is allowing us to take a sabbatical in order to complete our latest embellished memoir. Interested in subliminating your message on our free-spending readers? More info here.

We provide you with all the important information — Anna Wintour is to lunch at Balthazar today, and the restaurant has found her a shrubbery so as to provide the requisite privacy — and we make a simple request, that one of you snap a quick picture. Our demands weren't tough. We didn't need a Liebovitzian production; there was no need for assistants or glamorous lighting or even makeup artists. Any old cameraphone thing would have done, which, we thought, made the challenge easy enough.

A very reliable, double-super- secret, you'll-never-ever- figure-out-who-it-is Spring Street source checked in this morning from Balthazar, where he'd learned these interesting bits of news:

We don't understand, either, why Nordstrom is advertising on Gawker — one imagines that Bergdorf's is simultaneously running an extensive campaign on, say, Seattlest — but, still, they're paying us money, and they're sponsoring a lovely contest, and so we're happy to do whatever they'd like.

We're popping marshmallows in hot chocolate for this week's sponsors, who help ensure our cocoa is nicely spiked. Want to join our apr s-ski shindig? There's info here.

Carefully written thank-you notes for this week's sponsors, who some day, when we become men, will help foot the bill for our rock-starrific b'nai mitzvah. Care to stuff a few checks in our suit pocket? More info here.

Just to prove that we never exaggerated intelligence reports regarding our yellowcake, here's the Billy's Bakery confection that was delivered to our Millerpalooza Sweepstakes winner Sunday afternoon.

Oh, how our dark masters with the deep pockets have smiled upon you today, dear readers! Too generous to simply wait until our normal Friday advertorial contest time, VH1 has taken it upon themselves to celebrate hump day with some always-welcome free shit.

Thanks to this week's sponsors, who keep us bathed in goats' blood and swaddled in white robes. Interest in joining the lucrative cult? More info here.

After so many seasons of shared LOLs, the relationship between Hills stars Lauren Conrad and Audrina Patridge appears to have come to an unfortunate, WTF-tinged end. Rumors are flying that Conrad betrayed her friend by hooking up with Patridge's vacant, hirsute ex-boyfriend Justin "Bobby" Brescia, and today, Patridge took to the Ellen DeGeneres Show to further fan the flames.

Thanks to this week's sponsors, who are paying for our special silent birthing room. Interested in ushering our TomKittens into the world? More info here.

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