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Comment of the Day: As Zuckerberg Gets Older, So Too Does Facebook
Richard Lawson · 09/22/11 05:55PM
Today we looked at Facebook's new Timeline feature and shook our heads. What's the use? Why put that feature in? Well, one commenter explained it.
Sexualizing Kids Sure Is Expensive
Hamilton Nolan · 09/22/11 03:12PMMark Zuckerberg Is Now Richer Than Google's Geezers
Ryan Tate · 09/22/11 02:42PMChief of CIA's 'Global Jihad Unit' Revealed Online
John Cook · 09/22/11 02:28PM
The CIA is having trouble keeping its secret agents off the internet. First, it allowed the White House to publish a photograph of the man behind the operation to kill Osama bin Laden. And now the identity of the woman who runs its "Global Jihad Unit"—and who has a long (if pseudonymous) history of being associated with some of the agency's most disastrous boondoggles—has been published online by two documentary filmmakers who sussed it out with the help of some "savvy internet research."
The Many Campaign Trail Adventures of Michele Bachmann
Jim Newell · 09/22/11 01:36PMJennifer Lopez Is Moving On with a New Hamptons Shack
Leah Beckmann · 09/22/11 11:51AM
Jennifer Lopez don't need no mans, no siree! The Gigli and Jersey Girl star is poised to purchase her second home on Long Island (the first she purchased in 2006 with then husband and El Cantante co-star, Marc Anthony). But it is a new dawn and a new day for J. Lo, and she needs a proper Hamptons hideaway to call her own.
Al Gore Is Apparently Unaware That Steve Jobs Hates Snitches
Ryan Tate · 09/21/11 08:19PM
Speaking at a conference in South Africa, Apple board member Al Gore blabbed about "the new phones coming out next month." Now everyone's expecting two new iPhones. Apple'll probably be cool about it. It's pretty laid back about iPhone launches.
Amazon Recruits Medics for Its Sweatshop
Ryan Tate · 09/21/11 06:11PM
This weekend, Amazon.com was revealed to have repeatedly landed warehouse workers in the emergency room because it refused to open doors amid extreme heat. Now the online retailer is hiring medics to care for workers the next time it refuses to open warehouse doors amid extreme heat. Progress!
Kate Middleton Needs Princess Lessons
Richard Lawson · 09/21/11 04:41PMRidiculous Fashionista: 'I'll Eat When I'm Dead'
Maureen O'Connor · 09/21/11 03:28PM
Daphne Guinness—wild-eyed couture addict, eccentric beer heiress, and taker of violent baths—has coined the most wonderfully paradoxical fashion mantra ever: "I'll eat when I'm dead." She subsists on nothing but Red Bull and Ensure, and is working on a memoir. [New Yorker, image via Getty]
The Unauthorized Autobiography of Julian Assange
John Cook · 09/21/11 02:39PM
Perpetual shit-show Julian Assange has notched another screw-up in his long list of self-undermining failures: The much-vaunted memoir, for which he received a $1.5 million advance, and wherein he was to lay out for once and for all a defense against the malicious attacks leveled at him from all sides, is going to be published tomorrow against his will because he is an impossible human being.
Are These the New Real Housewives of New York?
Richard Lawson · 09/21/11 01:16PM
After the unceremonious firing of four cast members of Bravo's Real Housewives of New York, fans have been abuzz (positively abuzz!) about who would replace them. It seems now they might have an answer.
R.E.M. Has Officially Broken Up
Brian Moylan · 09/21/11 01:03PM
The '90s indie sensation R.E.M., who you haven't thought about since Automatic for the People, has officially broken up. Oh thank God. They had gotten to be like a novelist who lived too long and wrote all these crappy books that sullied the reputation of their sterling early works.
Gay Ex-Staffer Files Suit Against Jesse Jackson For Sexual Harassment, Discrimination
TPM · 09/21/11 12:17PMComment of the Day: The Michele Bachmann Distortion
Richard Lawson · 09/20/11 06:15PM
Early this morning we noted that famous lost 13th disciple Michele Bachmann is always having her words twisted around by the media. It's a truly terrible, unfair thing, agreed one commenter.
What Should Robert Pattinson's Album Be Called?
Richard Lawson · 09/20/11 03:49PM
Shocking and sexually thrilling news comes today that Robert Pattinson, shimmer-skinned vampyr hero of Twilight, is recording an album! Of music! How exciting.
Buzz Aldrin Is Having a Sex Scandal
Maureen O'Connor · 09/20/11 12:54PM
81-year-old former astronaut and Dancing with the Stars geezer Buzz Aldrin is having a sex scandal. After 23 years of marriage, he left third wife Lois Driggs Cannon to be with 51-year-old marketer Michelle Sucillon, whom he met while signing books. Though not yet divorced, Buzz and Michelle have reportedly been "making out like teenagers" in public. Now Lois is giving scorched-earth interviews accusing Michelle of being "a predator," and Buzz of having "a midlife crisis in old age." Once you've been to the moon, it's hard to get thrills. [P6, Image of Buzz and Lois via Getty, Michelle via Facebook]
Famous Rapper Wreaks Havoc on College Bar by Demanding Drinks for Free
Maureen O'Connor · 09/20/11 12:19PM
It was the coolest of times, it was the crappiest of times. B.o.B., a famous rapper, came all the way to Ithaca to play a show at Cornell University. This was, according to locals, cool. But then he went and ran up a $1,060 bill at a local bar, and refused to pay the waiter. This was, according to locals, not cool. The Cornell Daily Sun reports: