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What Actress Is Leaving Her Celeb Husband Because He’s Addicted to World of Warcraft? [Blind Items] (Gawker)

The Best Warcraft Online (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009

webmaster@technorati.com wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptLoving a nerd is one thing, but who could stand a guy constantly plugged into an online universe? Is it worse than a wife who gets frisky in a hot tub or a singer pimped out by a rap star? 1. “This… Share and Enjoy: These icons [...]

• Which Actress Is Leaving Her Husband Over World Of Warcraft? (Defamer) - The Best Warcraft Online

Facebook Named in Federal Class-Action Suit over Scammy Zynga Ads (Ryan Tate/valleywag - Gawker)

TechSheep (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009

Ryan Tate / valleywag - Gawker: Facebook Named in Federal Class-Action Suit over Scammy Zynga Ads — Facebook and Zynga are the defendants in a federal class-action lawsuit filed Tuesday, which seeks upwards of $5 million for social network users scammed in online game ads. Neither company’s top-drawer investors can be happy.

• Facebook Named in Federal Class-Action Suit over Scammy Zynga Ads [Lawsuits] - Valleywag
• Facebook Named In Federal Class-Action Suit Over Scammy Zynga Ads - The Business Insider

Levi Johnston's Playgirl Photos Are Now Up

Daily Intelligencer - New York Magazine (Free subscription) | yesterday

After a tease earlier this week , Playgirl.com has posted 25 shots of Levi Johnston nude. So you can now pay $19.99 to see his butt. If you do, please describe it for us, 'cause with no full-frontal, that $19.99 buys less than we saw (unexpectedly!) of Kevin Bacon in Wild Things , and there's a recession on. [ Playgirl.com (NSFW) via Gawker ] Read more posts by Lindsay Robertson Filed Under: sex on...

Wingnuts approximate “clever” while threatening the President

feminist blogs (Free subscription) | yesterday

by Amanda Marcotte Via Spencer, Gawker reports on a growing movement of Christians using religious “jokes” in order to call for the assassination of Obama.  The “joke” is this T-shirt, citing a verse from the Bible that...

Levi Johnston Playgirl Pictures: MORE Beefcake Shots (PHOTOS)

The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | yesterday

(Lucky') Playgirl.com members now have access to even more beefcake shots of former Alaskan First Grandbaby Baby Daddy Levi Johnston. The first Levi Playgirl photo was released last week, and now, via gawker, are two more (tamely cropped) shots. But, for those who pay, there is some more body action than the innocent chest (hairless) and brooding headshots seen below. PHOTOS: Get HuffPost Entertainment...

Selling t-shirt and coffee mugs calling for the ASSASSINATION OF THE PRESIDENT

Mirror On America (Free subscription) | yesterday

From The NYTimes November 19, 2009, 10:30 am Psalm 109:8 ‘Let His Days Be Few’ An anti-Obama bumper-sticker slogan which seems to urge people to pray for an end to the President’s days (in office?). “There’s a hilarious new meme in the wingnut sectors of the internet,” Gawker announced: Posters to various message boards tell stories of seeing bumper stickers with...

• Disgusting: Pray for Obama T-Shirt - Psalm 109:8 “Let His Days Be Few” - An anti-Obama bumper-sticker slogan (This absolutely repugnant!) - Audacity Of Hypocrisy & Deception

The A.P. at Last Stand

The Daily Transom (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009

Gawker's Hamilton Nolan owned the week's A.P.-layoffs story, and this morning he took an elegiac tone: "We hope you will all receive much grander tributes to your individual careers than a single line in a Gawker post. Good luck to everyone." Since it's elegy time, the A.P.'s official online history traces the last 163 years of American history--and the tragic fate of many A.P. writers....

Paradou, Take 4: In what is probably not the...

Eater (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009

In what is probably not the final chapter in the Paradou saga, Gawker records their phone call between writer Gabriel Snyder and the Vadim Ponorovsky, the owner of the Meatpacking District restaurant who made the blogs today after a hostile...

pop nosh: jude law doesn't like being spied on

Popbytes (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009

» sexy lothario jude law needs to lighten up or move out crazy days & nights « » what? michael jackson's face appeared in an ultrasound? gawker « » guess who's the sexiest man living? (it's not johnny depp!) salon « » suri cruise and her bear play a little cautionary limbo popsugar « » rihanna is on the prowl for a well endowed guy! cele|bitchy...

92YTribeca: Harbinger of What’s Cool

92Y Blog (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009

A pattern seems to be developing here. Choire Sicha, previously editor of Gawker , and current Los Angeles Times columnist and proprietor of The Awl , wrote a blurb for Tina Brown ‘s The Daily Beast: Smart People Recommend . The premise being having an insider in their field offer one recommendation. Spending his days online, Choire wrote: When you find an entrancing Web site that offers something...

Navel gazing versus observing on Twitter

One Louder (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009

Oversharers that we are, Twitter has been asking us "What are you doing?" and we have responded with responses, squeezed into that little box. I don't like having my personality squeezed so. And so I have opted to update my status on Facebook (or both Twitter and FB when I remember) and blog here where people can't tell me to "zip it, lady" part way through a post. Whatever. I...

Paradou Owner Vows to Make the Streets Run With Blood

Grub Street - New York Magazine's Food and Restaurant Blog (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009

Paradou owner Vadim Ponorovsky just called us in a huff because he says that after Gawker and other blogs published an angry e-mail he fired off to employees, his wife, who answers the phones at Paradou, is now receiving anonymous death threats along the lines of “we’re going to kill you” and “we’re going to burn down your restaurant.” Vadim says, “This has...

Paradou Owner Says Tirade Against Staff Was a Restaurateur's ‘Howl’

Grub Street - New York Magazine's Food and Restaurant Blog (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009

Paradou ’s weekly newsletters are so warm and welcoming (they’re how we found out about their three-for-one deal !) that it’s hard to imagine the man who pens them (owner Vadim Ponorovsky) as anything but a teddy bear. But a tipster has sent Gawker an e-mail in which Ponorovsky calls his employees “assholes,” “lazy motherfuckers,” and a “bunch of fucking...

Former Editor: Playgirl's "A Relevant Brand Name Once Again," Thanks In Part To Levi

MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009

Levi Johnston with the author, Nicole Caldwell, at last week's Playgirl photo shoot Levi Johnston is standing naked in a 13th-floor studio in midtown Manhattan holding a hockey stick. He swivels his head and looks into the camera as -- click -- the photo is taken. This is the money shot: the one Daniel Nardicio is tweeting about right now; the one Levi's manager Tank Jones will gush about to Us Weekly...

Freakshows: Owner of MePa's Paradou Goes Apeshit on All Employees

Eater (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009

Neil Ganic isn't the only restaurateur to make the Batshit Crazy Files this week. This morning Gawker gets their hands on an what is apparently an email from Vadim Ponorovsky, the owner of Paradou restaurant in the Meatpacking District, to...