oh huh http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2014/03/gawker-editor-john-cook-joins-first-look-media.html
― eric banana (s.clover), Tuesday, 11 March 2014 18:02 (ten years ago) link
http://gawker.com/against-editors-1623198702
― j., Monday, 18 August 2014 20:53 (nine years ago) link
dude acting like he invented http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Principle
― socki (s1ocki), Tuesday, 19 August 2014 15:30 (nine years ago) link
Writers have never been in more need of editors than now
― ιΎ, Tuesday, 19 August 2014 15:37 (nine years ago) link
^^^ tbomb
― i was a downy lad, and twee (stevie), Tuesday, 19 August 2014 15:51 (nine years ago) link
check avclub.com if u disagree
editors are vital obviously but i love the look of a writer writing against editors addressing himself to and being answered on-site by his own editor
― j., Tuesday, 19 August 2014 16:17 (nine years ago) link
Kinda feel bad for him that n+1 rejected his piece so he had to default to his regular platform
― ιΎ, Tuesday, 19 August 2014 16:20 (nine years ago) link
max u r a treat
― zombie formalist (m coleman), Wednesday, 20 August 2014 02:23 (nine years ago) link
what is w/ this nonsense?http://gawker.com/all-the-things-not-to-do-when-you-capture-your-own-chil-1623421423
― Mordy, Wednesday, 20 August 2014 19:20 (nine years ago) link
"Filed to: WHITE PEOPLE" LOL
White guilt gets clicks I guess.
― everything, Wednesday, 20 August 2014 21:03 (nine years ago) link
http://www.slate.com/articles/life/scocca/2012/05/how_to_cook_onions_why_recipe_writers_lie_and_lie_about_how_long_they_take_to_caramelize_.single.html
Enjoyed Scocca as onion truther
― ιΎ, Wednesday, 3 September 2014 21:21 (nine years ago) link
they really do take aaages
― Number None, Wednesday, 3 September 2014 21:36 (nine years ago) link
real answer is SPLOID
― holla back for a dope nakh (how's life), Sunday, 16 November 2014 12:52 (nine years ago) link
I found a super annoying but otherwise v helpful counterpoint to this that is p helpful. guy actually demonstrates in a video that it takes about ten mins
― gbx, Sunday, 16 November 2014 17:27 (nine years ago) link
link plz
― slam dunk, Monday, 17 November 2014 01:14 (nine years ago) link
http://www.stellaculinary.com/podcasts/video/how-to-qucikly-caramelize-onions-short-version
his normal cooking videos are actually p good, though his voice is annoying. for some reason with this he decided to do this full-on comic book guy nerd rant with stupid funny voices and its like uhhhhh
the short version is tolerable tho
― gbx, Monday, 17 November 2014 14:52 (nine years ago) link
thanks!
― slam dunk, Monday, 17 November 2014 23:22 (nine years ago) link
I always feel duped when I land on a Gawker sister site that has that ~earnest~ tone that appeals to the self-proclaimed "nerds" that dudes like Max and Sam make fun of on the daily
"SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us on Facebook or Twitter."
and
Who Would Ever Want To Dirty These Custom Adventure Time Hand Towels?
Toyland: We love toys. Join us on Facebook or follow us on Twitter.
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Tuesday, 6 January 2015 21:59 (nine years ago) link
They have a blog about toys
http://i.imgur.com/ZzFtEQW.jpg
A Working NES Inside an Ecto-1 Is Everything Great About the '80s
The Definitive Darth Vader Figure Even Has His Iconic Breathing Sounds
This R2-D2 Figure Is So Articulated It Could Probably Teach Yoga
Look At This Yoshi Figure
An Incredible High-res Gallery Of All the Original Star Wars Toys
The 1982 Sears Wish Book Featured Some of the Best Toys From the '80s
The 1985 JCPenney Christmas Catalog Is a Great Nostalgia Trip
Possible First Leaked Photo of Star Wars: The Force Awakens Figures
http://i.imgur.com/7WOj5.gif
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Tuesday, 6 January 2015 22:02 (nine years ago) link
really did you REALLY think sam biddle thinks bullying should be "brought back"?
― Rallsballs@onelist.com (stevie), Tuesday, 6 January 2015 22:24 (nine years ago) link
do you think sam biddle's issue with nerds is that they like star wars figures or that when people suggest video games should be held to the same standards as other artforms they form weird little cliques and persecute women?
― Rallsballs@onelist.com (stevie), Tuesday, 6 January 2015 22:26 (nine years ago) link
i wonder i wah wah wah wah wonder
Max's lengthy Game of Thrones explainers were pretty earnest
― polyphonic, Tuesday, 6 January 2015 22:30 (nine years ago) link
http://gawker.com/justine-sacco-is-good-at-her-job-and-how-i-came-to-pea-1653022326
― gr8080, Tuesday, 6 January 2015 23:04 (nine years ago) link
heh
― example (crΓΌt), Tuesday, 6 January 2015 23:10 (nine years ago) link
SPLOID is one of the better gawker subsites. "I Don't Understand This At All, But Holy Crap Can You Believe How Cool It Looks?" is a hell of a lot better than "Installment 14 of our Weird Grudge Against Amanda Bynes" or "Making Fun of Celebrity Baby Names".
― how's life, Wednesday, 7 January 2015 12:59 (nine years ago) link
destroy tech blog hegemony
― maura, Wednesday, 7 January 2015 13:01 (nine years ago) link
the rockism of blogs
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Wednesday, 7 January 2015 16:51 (nine years ago) link
i liked gawker when it first came out, back when it focused mostly on the NYC publishing and media scene. now it's all about publicly humiliating mentally ill actresses and reposting Reddit content.
"so what's in the news today? a popular former child actress is slowly developing schizophrenia - what a loser!" it's like one of those dark parodies of tabloid journalism, but for real.
― CoolRadio, Wednesday, 7 January 2015 18:30 (nine years ago) link
probably the worst site for those stories that i've read is LAist (don't know about the other "ist" sites)
― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Wednesday, 7 January 2015 18:31 (nine years ago) link
Jalopnik and Deadspin are good reads IMO.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Wednesday, 7 January 2015 19:55 (nine years ago) link
i liked gawker when it first came out, back when it focused mostly on the NYC publishing and media scene. otm tho gawker stalker was gross back then too.
― Mordy, Wednesday, 7 January 2015 20:12 (nine years ago) link
love me some gawker
― flopson, Wednesday, 7 January 2015 22:42 (nine years ago) link
yeah, i don't want to be disingenuous, i probably read gawker too much for my own good
― CoolRadio, Thursday, 8 January 2015 03:52 (nine years ago) link
This was the most tone deaf thing I've read so far this year:
http://gawker.com/woman-who-sleeps-22-hours-a-day-craves-unhealthy-food-1678481884
This is a sensitive topic for me because my wife has a debilitating sleep disorder. It has ruined her life. And one of the challenges that people with sleep disorders face is that there's almost no public understanding of them, and a tremendous stigma around them. So here we have a Gawker writer mocking somebody with a debilitating disease, undermining its severity, like, "lol, you sleep 22 hours a day? who hasn't been there? I wish I got to sleep in all day!"
I just don't get the lack of basic sensitivity. I'm sorry, but if you can't understand how having to sleep 22 hours a day would completely torpedo even your most basic hopes and dreams, or your ability to live something resembling a normal, happy life, then you are a monster. The basic lack of decency/sensitivity our society extends to the disabled is utterly appalling, and I don't get how somebody could write this, or how an editor could allow this, without realizing how cruel it is.
― Evan R, Friday, 9 January 2015 17:03 (nine years ago) link
Again, sorry to vent about all this, but lack of public awareness about diseases is a huge challenge that many disabled people face. Insensitive shit like this, as inconsequential as it might seem on the surface, can actually have a huge on people's quality of life, because it fans the stigma around certain conditions. I usually try to temper my outrage over stupid Internet content, but in this case it's actually making people's lives worse, so I feel the need to try to do something to correct it.
― Evan R, Friday, 9 January 2015 17:07 (nine years ago) link
having been in the professional blogging trenches, i think in the grind you become a cross between joel mchale on the soup and jake gyllenhaal in nightcrawler
― da croupier, Friday, 9 January 2015 17:33 (nine years ago) link
p4reene to reenter Gawker trenches btw
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Friday, 9 January 2015 17:39 (nine years ago) link
dan lyons seems not very bright and very un-gawker-like :(
― π ππ’π¨ (caek), Tuesday, 20 January 2015 17:05 (nine years ago) link
Lyons, whose idea of a joke involves strikethrough text and whose idea of a lede is "Imagine a room full of these things,"
loool
― π ππ’π¨ (caek), Wednesday, 21 January 2015 00:10 (nine years ago) link
i'm never ever #teampando but their piece on lyons was in very nice form http://pando.com/2015/01/18/dan-lyons-career-an-obituary/
― celfie tucker 48 (s.clover), Friday, 23 January 2015 02:07 (nine years ago) link
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/02/28/why-i-m-coming-out-as-a-christian.html
― hunangarage, Monday, 2 March 2015 22:07 (nine years ago) link
a fish a barrel and ilx
― mushaboom kids (rip van wanko), Monday, 2 March 2015 22:11 (nine years ago) link
St. Ann O'Tate
― maura, Monday, 2 March 2015 22:14 (nine years ago) link