There are a lot of things to get upset over in life. Video games are not one of them. Here are the ten best video game freak outs on the web.

There is something hypnotic about watching the world in time-lapse. Things we normally aren't patient enough to experience become immediately accessible when captured with a slow frame rate. Here is a wide spectrum, one for each hour of the day.

You can't find them at PETCO and they won't bring the emotional gratification of a real pet's affection, but if you're itching to replace kibble and fish flakes with batteries and power cords, check out these robot animals.

These plays are so sneaky, so diabolical, so full of rooski, you're sure to be scratching you head in amazement saying "hey, wha happened?" Football happened, my friends. Football. To the trickery!

We hope everyone is enjoying their Thanksgiving. As everyone gets ready to roast, fry, or otherwise cook their turkey, Gawker.TV would like to remind everyone about the importance of fire safety... with a round-up of our favorite turkey disasters.

There's a new subculture popping up in all over schools across the nation, it's called "emo" and it could potentially be lethal to your child's health. Is your child "emo?" What you need to know below.

Were you one of the proud few indulging in DOS adventure games in the late 80's and early 90's? Here's a video collection of some of the great moments in adventure games, from Leisure Suit Larry to Monkey Island 2.

The only thing better than an old joke is when it's being old by an old Jew. Here are our top ten favorite Old Jews Telling Jokes jokes.

Today marks the 40th anniversary of Sesame Street, a landmark in public television and children's educational programming. Through the years there have been a substantial number of celebrity cameos, many unlikely. Here are some of the best.

Mario Lopez, Jennifer Love Hewitt, and Fergie, Oh My! Can't you just feel the mortification oozing from your computer screen?

Today's the glorious 60th anniversary of China's rebirth as a communist nation. And, as it does, the government pulled out all the predictable, synchronized stops to celebrate. Yawn. We've seen it all before. Let's take an excessively red-blooded American look.

As Perez Hilton readers know, Cuban dictator Fidel Castro died two years ago today, when he fell off some cliffs in New Zealand while filming a movie with Jeff Goldblum. Despite that, the Cubans keep releasing new photos of him!

Want to know how awesome starlets Lily Allen and Kate Moss stay in shape? This isn't a joke about blowcaine! You can do it, too. Kate and Lily took the most awesome Rock Chick vacay ev-ah and looked awesome. How?

Well here you go. Best Week Ever managed to get their grubby mitts on some images of Mad Men hunky-dory Jon Hamm on a (maybe fake? maybe ad campaign? maybe real? who cares, really) vacation, playing boardgames, smoking, and drinking.

There're parades, and then there are Pride Parades: today's New York's turn, but that doesn't mean that there haven't been awesome ones around the country over the last few weeks as well. Here's a gallery of some of the best:

On Tuesday, the New York Times' hosted a party for same-sex couples whose weddings have been featured in the Times' Weddings pages. Out.com has a wonderful, picturesque gallery of the attendees (including former NJ Governor Jim McGreevy). [Out.com

Last night, the country's media-tech-social scene collided in something called The Webutante Ball. Instead of forging an alternate universe in a Big Bang-esque explosion, it thankfully existed for one evening atop the Empire Hotel. We braved it for you.

Cuba will begin performing sexual reassignment surgeries it was announced today, a year after a nationwide ban on the operation was lifted. To cover the story, AFP photographer Adalbert Roque took shots of some transsexual women in Havana, which are intriguing and lovely in an odd, quiet way. A gallery:

Who are these kids, exactly? Rachelle Hruska's not-a-nightlife-blog blog, Guest of a Guest, kicked off "summer" and a new season of Hamptons coverage with an apocalyptically cloudy rooftop tequila drinking thing on Sunday.

This isn't crazy, or terrifying: alongside Robert Draper's GQ piece on Donald Rumsfeld being called out by former colleagues, they're running covers of his White House morning defense briefings. You have to see these.