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How Mark Zuckerberg’s Sister Descended Into Reality Television (and How Tech Is on the Same Path)
Ryan Tate · 04/05/12 03:27PMRandi Zuckerberg has been awarded a Bravo reality show, a show that will follow young people trying to become "Silicon Valley's next great success stories." The mere existence of the program shows how the myth of golden opportunity in the Valley is, once again, far surpassing reality. But beyond that, the show's a clear signal that ridiculous, highly public interpersonal drama will continue to swirl around the Zuckerberg clan for some time to come.
It's Official: That's Poop In Your Tasty Chicken Dinner
Jessica Benjestorf · 04/05/12 12:28PMWomen Can Do Science Too; Wikipedia 'Bout to Find Out
Caity Weaver · 04/04/12 10:46PMLisa Vanderpump Gets Her Own Show, Can Finally Afford to Send Giggy to College
Caity Weaver · 04/04/12 08:50PMFrench Academic Found Dead, Naked, in NYC Hotel Room
Caity Weaver · 04/03/12 10:46PMThe director of the one of the world's top universities, the Institute of Political Studies in Paris (known popularly and in your French oral examens as Sciences Po), Richard Descoings, was found dead in a New York hotel room Tuesday afternoon. Police have opened an investigation into his death, because the circumstances surrounding it bear more than a passing resemblance to the opening scene of the Da Vinci code, which is to say, they are suspicious.
Are You Actually More Productive When Working From Home or Do You Just Lie About That?
Caity Weaver · 04/03/12 06:02PMBack on February 8th, a British telecommunications company let one quarter of its 12,000 employees work from home. The results of that experiment are in, and it seems that, basically, everything is more amazing when you can futz around in your pajamas all day instead of putting on clothing like a respectable human being.
Two and a Half Men Co-Creator Half-Apologizes for Being a Total Dick
Louis Peitzman · 04/02/12 07:19PMAnn Romney On Mitt's Stiffy: 'We better unzip him and let him out!'
Leah Beckmann · 04/02/12 11:29AM80 Year Old Woman Talks About Receiving The First Silicone Breast Implants
Caity Weaver · 03/29/12 11:13PMCarson Daly Clinging to the Spotlight with Strange Gay Jokes
Leah Beckmann · 03/29/12 09:28AMCarson Daly made some poor choices this week. Daly used Tuesday's JetBlue pilot meltdown as fodder for his radio show, telling listeners: "if that were me... with my luck, it would be like, 'This is the flight going to the [gay] pride parade in San Francisco…Uh, we're headed down to Vegas for the floral convention.'" A regular cut-up, this guy. No wonder he is so good at—
Gallup Poll 'Finds' What We Could Have Guessed: America's Most and Least Religious States
Caity Weaver · 03/28/12 08:24PMTom Friedman Travels the World to Find Incredibly Uninteresting Platitudes
Hamilton Nolan · 03/28/12 09:51AMMustachioed soothsaying simpleton Thomas Friedman long ago mastered a formula for justifying business trips all over the world by writing columns about them—columns that, while not genuinely insightful or even pleasant to read, contain a sufficient number of plausible-sounding platitudes to enable your average Xerox Corporation regional manager to sound informed during his morning meeting with underlings and sycophants.
Where is The Lorax Who Speaks For the Trees? Seriously, He Was Stolen.
Caity Weaver · 03/27/12 11:26PMFrank Bruni's Too-Good-to-Be-True Abortion Tale
John Cook · 03/27/12 12:12PMFrank Bruni, America's Worst Newspaper Columnist, served up a hack's dream on Sunday: His old college pal is an abortion doctor, Bruni says, and once performed an abortion on one of the most vocal and angry anti-abortion protesters that plagued his clinic. Just goes to show you that things are never quite as they seem, I suppose. But did it happen?
Baton-Wielding 'Ninjas' Foil Medical Marijuana Delivery
Emma Carmichael · 03/26/12 04:30PMKim Kardashian: Flour-Bombing Me 'Is Not Acceptable' (UPDATED)
Louis Peitzman · 03/24/12 11:00AMGood Afternoon, Lana Del Rey and Marilyn Manson Are Dating?
Leah Beckmann · 03/23/12 11:14AMGerman publication B.Z. has shed some light on the apocalyptic coming together of the Manilow*, Manson, Del Rey trio, pictured together at the Echo Music Awards in Germany: Marilyn Manson and Lana Del Rey are dating. B.Z. is supposedly in possession of photographic evidence that the once-rumored Wonder Years star and forever-rumored self-fellating rocker is having hotel sleepovers with Lana Del Rey.