If you're anything like us, you've spent the last few weeks conceptualizing and constructing your Halloween costume. Why let all that hard work go to waste when you could post some pictures here and win a prize?
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This is the Obamarator, a vibrator modeled after the 44th President of the United States of America, Barack Obama. It can be yours! All you have to do is write a dirty story starring the Commander in Chief.
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Today was the 23rd Tarragona Castells Competition in the Catalonia region of Spain, in which groups of "colles" made up of skilled "castellers" try to build very complex human towers using crazy techniques. More pics of human towers inside.
We're sure that Jersey Shore's Snooki, the greatest literary mind of her generation, needs no help writing her upcoming novel A Shore Thing!, but still we charged you with penning the first page of her book. Your submissions were genius.
The greatest literary mind of her generation, Jersey Shore's Snooki, is set to publish her first novel next year. Audition to be her ghostwriter by penning the first page of her novel! You could win a fun prize.
The Karaoke World Championships are over! An American telephone engineer, Edward Pimentel won over the audience, receiving the the most fan votes for a prestigious prize of one million Russian dumplings. The judges chose two Finns for first place.
If you're in the greater NYC area, we got our hands on a pair of tickets to tonight's premiere of Howl, featuring James Franco. It's never too last minute to give away a pair of free tickets, right? Details inside!
The Karaoke World Championships are under way right now in Russia! Singers from around the world have gathered for three days of intense competition, but only one person will leave Moscow with the first prize of one million dumplings.
We asked readers to redesign the classic I ♥ NY logo—and outdo readers of the New York Times in the process—and naturally you rose to the challenge! Here are your creative submissions and the winner of Tuesday's contest.
A school in New Zealand last week held a Possum Hunt and Gala, where students shot possums and then competed in a carcass-throwing contest. Answering critics, principal Colin Martin said, "Colyton School is about letting kids be kids."
We tasked you, our loyal readers, to go out there and take pictures for our Fashion's Night Out Scavenger Hunt and, boy, did you people deliver. Here are the best snapshots you came up with, including multiple Anna Wintours!
Four-time Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest champ Joey "Jaws" Chestnut is the new record holder for burrito eating, after winning the Garcia's World Burrito Eating Championship in New Mexico yesterday by inhaling 47 beef and bean burritos in 10 minutes.
Brian Moylan & Maureen O'Connor · 09/09/10 05:30PM
We know that you're plotting your course to the Fashion's Night Out event closest to you tomorrow night. We have a way to make it even more fun. Join our scavenger hunt, snap some pictures, and you could win cash!
Today in the Serbian village of Ozrem the seventh annual World Testicle Cooking Championship took place, where, as you've probably guessed, people cooked and ate testicles. One of the more popular dishes? "Bulls' testicles" cooked "goulash style." Yum.
American design and architecture firm Choi + Shine has entered a design for giant electrical pylons in the shape of humans into the Icelandic High-Voltage Electrical Pylon International Design Competition. Now Iceland just needs some cash to pay for them.
The Artists Den is giving Gawker readers a chance to win tickets to a secret Grace Potter & The Nocturnals concert in NYC on 8/19. For a chance to win, head over to our official Gawker Facebook page.
It's Sunday and it's raining outside. So here's a video of this year's 2010 World YoYo Contest in Orlando, Florida, and the winner of the 1A (One Handed String Trick Division), Canadian Jensen Kimmitt. He won the title yesterday. Dazzling!