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Please Stop Telling Teen Girls Vampires Are Bad For Them
6:30AM Brian Moylan | Vampires are huge. Ratings for fang banging shows are unbelievable and the anticipation for the Twilight sequel is vomit inducing. We’re sick of the undead too, but please stop telling girls that liking vampires will warp them! More »
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Shrek 4 Audio Booth Secrets Are The First Casualties Of Hollywood’s War On Twitter
3:11AM Richard Rushfield | Last week, we reported that Hollywood has begun taking steps to wipe out the first outbreak of free-speech showbiz has seen since the Hays Code, eradicating the threat of stars communicating directly and banally to the public via Twitter. More »
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Why Twitter Scares The Hell Out Of Hollywood
4:47AM Richard Rushfield | While most of the world is latching onto Twitter as a lifeline to break through the media clutter in desperate times, an increasing number in Hollywood are seeing it as something else entirely — a threat to everything they hold precious. More »
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Cyrus Tweeted Out
2:39PM Andrew Belonsky | Brace yourself, internet: Miley Cyrus deleted her Twitter account. How ever will we go on?!
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Nudes Running The Streets Of Williamsburg
2:33AM Hamilton Nolan | First there was the nude guy at the taco truck. Now there’s another nude guy running the Williamsburg streets in broad daylight, for laffs. We thought you should know. More »
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Scariest Science News You’ll Read This Morning
12:02AM Gabriel Snyder | “While daily bathroom showers provide invigorating relief and a good cleansing for millions of Americans, they also can deliver a face full of potentially pathogenic bacteria…” [Science Daily]
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Twitter-Crazed Courtney Love Wants Dave Grohl “Ass-Raped”
5:19AM John Cook | Courtney Love did not authorise that Hellish Guitar Hero version of her dead husband that she authorised, for money—it’s all Dave Grohl’s fault and she’s going to sue and she wants a British journalist to rape him. More »
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The Ten Types Of Harvard Wannabes
4:06AM Hamilton Nolan | William Fitzsimmons, Harvard’s dean of admissions, is taking questions on the New York Times‘ website. So far, 788 queries have been submitted. What do these questions tell us about American higher education? That it can make you crazy, times ten. More »
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Twitter Addicts Bringing Down New York Times Computers
8:04AM Ryan Tate | How Twitter-addled is the New York Times newsroom? Well, it’s gotten so bad that the newspaper’s system administrators have cautioned the Twitter addicts against using their beloved Twitter syringe, “TweetDeck,” to get on the microblogging service. It’s crashing the system! More »
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