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When Rightbloggers Tell You the Battle of Chick-fil-A Isn't About Gay Rights, It's About Gay Rights

In years to come, rightbloggers will tell their grandchildren many stories of the glorious summer of twenty-twelve. They'll tell 'em how they warned America about the socialist menace of the Olympics. They'll tell 'em how, in the wake of the Aurora shooting, they defended assault weapons against Dem ... More >>

Does Dan Savage Think It's OK To Laugh During Sex?

This week in Savage Love, which you can check out here, Dan answers a couple of questions -- from the existential crisis of a straight woman who wants to see a man in lady panties to condom safety in gay threesomes. It's all interesting stuff, but the story of the woman with the crossdressing-partn ... More >>

Ray Bradbury Would Have Hated Your Blog Post, Tweet, or Facebook Status About His Death (And This Too)

Ray Bradbury, the Pulitzer Prize-cited sci-fi scribe who penned Fahrenheit 451 and The Martian Chronicles, died Tuesday night at 91. And he wouldn't have wanted you to blog, Tweet, or Facebook about his death -- just like we're doing right now. Much like his contemporary Kurt Vonnegut, Bradbury wa ... More >>

Mixed-Martial Arts Still Banned, Headlines Containing 'KO' Ensue (Just Like This One!)

Albany pols announced yesterday that a bill legalizing mixed-martial arts wouldn't even make it to the Assembly floor for a vote, as detailed by the Wall Street Journal (H/T City & State.) MMA has been banned in New York since the mid-1990s and the sport's boosters have since worked to overturn th ... More >>

New York City Has Its Pigeon Protectors

Pigeons: "rats with wings," grudge holders, poopers. Yes, our cohabitors have kind of a bad rap, even though we at Runnin' Scared have pointed out that they probably don't deserve the hate they get. But who really bestows any love upon them? The New York Times has answered that question in a story ... More >>

Lance Armstrong Invites You To Go On a Run With Him Today

​What are you up to this afternoon? If you're anything like us, you'll be watching an illegally downloaded copy of The Smurfs 3D while eating the party sub you've been saving since Bastille Day. If you're feeling a little more active, Lance Armstrong has cordially asked you to run through New ... More >>

100 & Single: Is It Okay For Katy Perry To Bum-Rush Her Way Into The History Books?

​Chart fandom makes strange bedfellows. Six months ago, if you'd asked me what act I'd root for in a head-to-head chart battle between pop princess Katy Perry and electrodance goofballs LMFAO, I'd probably have picked Perry, whose song catalog includes at least one or two gems. Her current hit ... More >>

Internet Week Kicks Off With Speech From New York Senator Chuck Schumer

Esther Zuckerman​During a question and answer session at Internet Week New York this morning, Senator Chuck Schumer quipped that he was of "the older generation." And even as Schumer looked forward in his keynote speech, which kicked off IWNY at its headquarters in the Metropolitan Pavilion, h ... More >>

Sarah Palin's Emails as Governor Coming Soon; New York Times Read Goldman Sachs Emails

​Maybe this really is the age of WikiLeaks. Transparency, hacks and secrets of all stripes are currently getting big play in media news, ranging from the travails of Anthony Weiner's penis to shady New York Times snooping and the Freedom of Information Act at work. We've seen the latter in the ... More >>

Naked Gaming Party Fools Internet, Still Funny

Thinkmodo, the viral marketing company behind the Times Square video screen gag (really an ad for the bad action movie Limitless), is at it again. This time, they convinced a bunch of websites and publications that a group of people in New York City were sitting around naked playing video games with ... More >>

Donald Trump vs. Jerry Seinfeld: What's the Deal With Demagoguery in Public Discourse?

​Jerry Seinfeld has ended up in Donald Trump's doghouse after pulling out of a performance for the Donald's son's charity foundation. Yahoo reports that Seinfeld cited Trump's persistent attacks on Obama's citizenship as the reason he backed out of the fundraiser that was to benefit St. Jude's ... More >>

So Why Don't More Women Win Top Chef?

Mike Isabella and Richard Blaise: Top Chef finalists, and men.​Another dude has won another season of Top Chef, and that's provided another opportunity to ask why there aren't more female chefs not only in the winners' circle, but also in the upper echelons of the kitchen hierarchy.

Huffington Post Folds AOL Sites, Hires a Few More; Howard Stern Sues Sirius Radio

Boss​Arianna Huffington's website, recently joined with (bought by) Tim Armstrong's AOL in an attempt to usurp the internet content throne together, has been making all sorts of media news headlines early in this 2011, and up to this point, they have fit into one of two categories. First, ther ... More >>

You Might Want to Take Your Phone Number Off Your Facebook Profile

​Facebook is about to make you mad. Facebook is about to make you storm off to your computer (oh, wait, you're already here?) and go into your profile settings, and very nearly delete yourself from Facebook, except how would you live with yourself not knowing which of the popular girls from hi ... More >>

Craigslist Crime is Rampant and You Could Be Next, According to Craigslist Competitor

​We're going to play this game where we talk about an interesting news story from today, but instead of naming the company that made it a news story to get publicity based on unscientific lies about Craigslist, its competitor, we're just going to call that company Craigslist Competitor, even t ... More >>

Foodily Is Being Called 'The Facebook of Food'

Friend your food.​Two unstoppable forces -- foodieism and social networking -- come together in a new startup called Foodily.

Sex Offender Suing MySpace Because He Got Caught

"Why don't you have a seat?"​From Adweek comes the troubling story of a convicted Georgia sex offender, Cory Hubbard, who is suing MySpace for providing authorities his information based on an out-of-state warrant. Hubbard's lawsuit in Manhattan federal court alleges that the struggling social ... More >>

New York Times Opens Hangover Rooms, Goes WikiLeaks; Rupert Murdoch Babies His Kids

""recoverycouch.jpg" via​It happens: some mornings you get to work without having been home the night before and you pull a freshly starched white shirt from the bottom drawer of your desk, you brush your teeth under the fluorescent light of the men's room with one of those little things you p ... More >>

Bloomberg Names First Chief Digital Officer; New York Times Readies Online Paywall

​Rachel Sterne, a 27-year-old child of New York City's burgeoning start-up scene and a citizen journalism early adopter, has been named the city's Chief Digital Officer by the Bloomberg administration. What on earth does that mean? Find out inside Press Clips, our afternoon media round-up. Plu ... More >>

The Daily Kill Dossier: A Hit List of News Corp's Freshest Poaches

​As it's been noted, News Corp's daily newspaper built just for the iPad -- The Daily -- is on the way. It is Rupert Murdoch's newest child, the Draco Malfoy to his Voldemort. As such, they're hiring or trying to hire every editorial staffer this side of the Bangkok Bugle Tribune, which I just inv ... More >>

Waiflike Dick Cheney Shows Off Results of "Heart Surgery Diet"

Skinny, skinny Cheney, via Yahoo.​The proof is in the pudding. Or, the lack thereof. Former VP Dick Cheney showed up at a groundbreaking ceremony for George W. Bush's planned presidential library in Dallas yesterday, and...he is crazy skinny. Like, Lindsay-Lohan-dating-Sam-Ronson-skinny. Or Ra ... More >>

Morning Links: First NY Governor's Debate Tonight; Super Typhoon Hits Phillippines; Teachers Fired for Inappropriate Facebooking

​• A sure-to-be-fun (and perhaps the only) debate among New York's seven gubernatorial candidates -- including Andrew Cuomo, Carl Paladino, Charles Barron of the Freedom Party, former "Manhattan Madam" Kristen Davis, Howie Hawkins of the Green Party, Jimmy McMillan of the "Rent Is 2 Damn Hig ... More >>

Who Paid Sarah Shourd's $500,000 Iranian Bail Money?

​How much does it cost to get out of the slimy grip of a dictatorial government? Try 500 G's. And that doesn't even get her friends off the hook! But the question remains: Who paid it?

Oil Plume in the Gulf Exists to Spite Tony Hayward

​Here's a new word, everybody! Let's all say it together: Plume. Doesn't that just roll off the tongue, all slick and oily? Despite what you might think, it doesn't mean the feather in a dapper man's cap, or a particularly French shade of plum. It's the latest in our ongoing explorations with ... More >>

Who Is Gawker Trying to Stalke(r) Now? College Students, Available Stalkers: Find Out!

​For a while, infamous Manhattan media gossip site Gawker was synonymous with Gawker Stalker: A trademark real-time map of bitchy celebrity sightings reported to the site. Now, it's been relegated to a sad little tag, as they've grown up to doing the stalking and sourcing the stalkers in-house the ... More >>

New York Times' Renewed Sense of Competition with New Funding Strategy: Satan

​Genius. Is there a better investment opportunity out there for a media outlet? The New York Times has apparently uncovered the answer to all of their fiscal issues of recent: Satan.

Obama: Ain't No Party Like A Birther Tea Party 'Cause A Birther Tea Party Don't Stop

​Also, it won't ever be of concern to President Barack Obama, because Barack Obama is an intelligent, rational person, who won't dignify stupid, irrational people. Which he basically implied to America when he sat down for a Today Show interview with Matt Lauer yesterday.

Brooklyn Flea Vendors to Feed SummerStage; The Best Bars for Babies

​Food vendors from the Brooklyn Flea have been enlisted to sell their fare at the 36 performances of SummerStage in Central Park this summer. Look for Pizza Moto, The Red Hook Lobster Pound, and Asia Dog, among other favorites. [NY Times] Orthorexia, an unhealthy obsession with eating healthy ... More >>

Chinese Winemakers Go High-End; Anheuser-Busch to Make More Beer with Less Water

​After years of producing cheap, bad wine, Chinese winemakers are creating high-end offerings, catering to a an increasingly affluent and sophisticated Chinese consumer. [Wall Street Journal] Christie's has announced it will auction Pablo Picasso's portrait, "The Absinthe Drinker," for betwee ... More >>

7 Political Ads That Might Be Weirder Than Carly Fiorina's "Demon Sheep"

The internet gazed in wonder yesterday at the "Demon Sheep" campaign ad put out by Carly Fiorina, Republican candidate for the Senate in California. It has many brain-searing qualities: a tortured sheep metaphor (teased out with pigs, an alpha sheep that tumbles from a pedestal through a storm-rip ... More >>

Toby Young Admits to Brit Bias

Wondering just how and why Toby Young scored the Top Chef judge gig? Us too.As we suspected, it had a lot to do with his nationality. As demonstrated by Simon Cowell, America loves a bitchy Brit at the reality show table. Talking to Yahoo TV, Young concedes that he got the Bravo call out of the blue ... More >>

End Run

How a few black publishers are making a play for the Maxim man

NY Mirror

People's Google

Erase your history, crash your hard drive—and surf like it's 1999 at del.icio.us

Wealth

When I came in, there were cockroaches all over. I was crying.

Pic Your Friends

Phenomenology, folksonomy, and the reification of personal experience made fun, easy, and social

Lost in America

From Nicholas Berg to Abu Ghraib, the search for something to trust

Horoscope

Trojan XL

How to Get the Malicious Delude Program Out of Your Computer

Refill 'er Up

Executive Bitch Slapping

The Widening Wage Gap Between Male and Female Managers Is a Corporate Equivalent of the Cultural Backlash

Sports

Why I Flame

Confessions of a Corporate Hatchet Man

Future Shock; Führer Schlock

E-Bombs Away! Protest, Panic, and the Politics of Packet Monkeys

High-Tech Pep Squad

Blind Alley

Surfing Through the Scuttlebutt

Year of Living Digitally