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'Why Capitalism Has an Image Problem'
Hamilton Nolan · 07/30/12 09:20AMPhilosopher Reveals Why Chicken Crossed Road
Hamilton Nolan · 08/05/11 10:59AMWhy did the chicken cross the road? For eons, philosophers have debated the question, because that is philosophers' idea of a "funny" riff on their own weighty profession, which is why most philosophers are not "chick magnets." Well, we're happy to report that the question has finally been answered.
Mysterious Pottermore Website Might Be a Big Online Game
Richard Lawson · 06/22/11 01:58PMWhy Airline Food Sucks
Max Read · 10/15/10 01:12AMWhy Does the Universe Exist? Science May Have the Answer
Max Read · 05/18/10 02:04AMLost Finally Explained
Richard Lawson · 03/17/10 01:38PMFive Insightful Insights From the Hipster Grifter
Hamilton Nolan · 03/05/10 10:13AMMike Myers: International Man of Not-So-Much Mystery
Richard Lawson · 06/23/08 01:24PMThis morning's Daily News blind item—on a divorced comic star exploring a "groovy" new persona as an openly gay man—was as obvious as they get. Some of you commenters told us that the guy we were all guessing, Mike Myers, star of the "groovy baby" catchphrase-apalooza Austin Powers films and the current dud The Love Guru, has been out 'n proud in Toronto for years. Fair enough. We're not sure why it is that the Daily News would bother featuring this as a "blind item" only to use such dead giveaway clues, other than that they it would be too gauche to "out" Myers, um, outright. Seems like a bit of nasty piling-on to Myer's already miserable Love Guru bomb of a weekend.
Find Where Facebook Ranks Your Friends
Hamilton Nolan · 05/14/08 03:44PMThis morning we posted the "Nefarious O Value" theory of the mystery Facebook Stalker feature. Now, a second tech-savvy tipster writes in with step-by-step instructions for how to find Facebook's unexplained "O" ranking for every single one of your friends on the site. In other words—from what we can gather, at least—there's a file on your computer that tells you exactly how the site's algorithms rank each and every person in your social circle. The instructions are after the jump. Please write in and let us know what your results are. The code may soon be cracked!
Gawker Answers: Did You Have To Go There?
Chris Mohney · 07/26/06 06:00PMRarely, Gawker gets correspondence from readers, and even more rarely, some of this correspondence is not all positive. Even more rarely still, and more often randomly, we attempt to answer questions or concerns raised in such letters. For example, here's a criticism about a post regarding "wise old man with all his buttons" Daniel Schorr, the famed NPR newsman and broadcaster. Writes the reader: