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Is Google Feeling Less Lucky Today?
4:01AM Ryan Tate | Who amputated Google? For one my laptop, running Firefox and Windows, the buttons for “Google Search” and “I’m Feeling Lucky” were amputated from Google.com. Instead, there’s this taunting minimalist slogan… More »
Small Screen
Why Did Matthew Weiner Fire Mad Men’s Kater Gordon?
7:15AM Foster Kamer | Nikki Finke reports today that Mad Men creator Matthew Weiner has fired Kater Gordon, his personal assistant, turned writers assistant, turned Emmy-winning staff writer. But why? Gordon had a metoric rise to the top, peaking with an Emmy win. More »
Online
Bitter Breakup Splits Tech’s Biggest Boosters
6:22AM Ryan Tate | It should be a happy day for Mike Arrington and Jason Calacanis. The tech nabobs just wrapped their latest TechCrunch 50 conference, which captivated venture capitalists and the press. But the moguls are locked in Northern California-Southern California civil war. More »
Music
Rolling Stones Founder Brian Jones May Have Been Murdered
2:34AM John Cook | Journalism works! British police are reopening an investigation into the mysterious 1969 death of the Rolling Stones founder Brian Jones after a reporter handed over 600 documents from his files indicating that Jones may have been murdered. More »
People
Why Was Michael Phelps In A Tranny-Hooker District?
3:56PM the cajun boy | Earlier tonight Olympic stoner Michael Phelps was involved in a car accident in downtown Baltimore. Now we’ve learned that the precise location of the accident took place in heart of Baltimore’s tranny-hooker district. More »
Flotsam & Jetsam
‘Ghost Ship’ With Secret Cargo Mysteriously Disappears
12:58AM Hamilton Nolan | Somali pirates are dramatic to a point, but they lack that spy-novelesque element of international (supernatural?) intrigue. Luckily, there may be unknown pirate forces lurking in the seas off Europe—they’ve already grabbed one ship carrying…secrets? More »
Print
What Was The Real Reason For The NYT Kidnapping News Blackout?
1:40AM John Cook | Did the New York Times want to keep reporter David Rohde’s kidnapping in Afghanistan quiet because they feared for his safety, or because they didn’t want to drive up his ransom price? Rohde himself has suggested the latter. More »
Small Screen
What Was Up Gwyneth Paltrow’s Legs On The Tonight Show?
3:04PM Foster Kamer | Did you see Gwyneth Paltrow on the Tonight Show? We just watched it and can’t figure out what the hell was going on with her legs in the first segment! More »
People
Pot Behind PC World Editor’s Slaying, Accomplice Confirms
4:11AM Ryan Tate | Courtroom testimony appears to have solved the riddle of why tech journalist Rex Farrance was killed in a seemingly bizarre 2007 slaying: The thieves knew about all the pot stashed in his San Francisco Bay Area home. More »
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