The video of Neda Agha-Soltan's death, during protests against Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's re-election in Iran, is the first anonymously shot piece to win the prestigious George W. Polk award. David Grann's New Yorker piece on the death penalty and David Rohde's five-part New York Times series on being held by the Taliban were also honored.

At the end of one of his frequent guest appearances on the O'Reilly Factor tonight, Glenn Beck made an exciting announcement.

Your lovely and talented Gawker crew has a new member joining up next week. As a lad in Mystic, CT, Alex Carnevale dreamed of one day getting his MFA in fiction writing from The New School. Well, he did that last year. He's over here now. Alex is the founder of the arts and culture blog This Recording, so it's fitting that he'll be covering the high culture beat starting Monday. We're gonna have high culture! Alex notes that he's also a fan of "the lowest of the low." Why am I introducing him? Well, he's covering for me this weekend, because I'm giving up my weekend duties for a while. Allow me to overshare? I'm kind of burned out. It doesn't require a treatment facility or anything, but I do need to use the weekends as actual downtime while I concentrate a little harder on the work I do during the week itself. Also, I'd like to spend some quality time not reading any newspapers, anywhere, ever, and return to getting all my news directly from Gawker, MSNBC, and The Daily Colbert Show Report. I'm going to keep contributing to Gawker, just not on such a structured basis for the time being. Anyway, talking about the future makes me itchy, so I'll leave it at that. This is not a goodbye so I won't be doing anything mushy. Here are Drunk Monkeys, Buffy, and that Surfer Dude.

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Valleywag's Web Infinity Plus One SloshCon, House of Shields, 9 tonight. Let me spell it out for you:

Thursday night brings the Valleywag Web Infinity Plus One SloshCon — a conference about the Internet, held at the San Francisco bar House of Shields. The bar tab's topping a thousand bucks, thanks to two new sponsors (Sustainable Web Sites with $100 and Supreme Platinum Sponsor Supr.c.ilio.us with ten bucks).

As announced yesterday, Valleywag holds its first Web Infinity Plus One Conference next Thursday night. The venue is San Francisco's favorite blogger bar, the House of Shields.

No joke, we're holding a Web Infinity Plus One Conference at the House of Shields a week from today! The top room's reserved and the sponsors are ponying up for the bar tab. The deets:

With the posting of the millionth article about Buck's Restaurant (this time in the Seattle P.I.), the Silicon Valley pancake house is now officially in a new golden-brown age.

Another shot in the "What will Apple announce" dark:

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.