Congressional cafeteria food may not be all that different from elementary school cafeteria grub, at least if you consider the case of Democratic Rep. Dennis Kucinich, who is suing a congressional eatery for serving him a sandwich “that was unwholesome and unfit for human consumption.” (more)
A federal judge on Saturday ordered Gawker Media to pull leaked pages of Sarah Palin’s forthcoming book “America by Heart: Reflections on Family, Faith and Flag” from its blog. (more)
NEW YORK (AP) — The publisher of Sarah Palin’s forthcoming book filed a lawsuit against Gawker Media on Friday for leaking pages of “America By Heart: Reflections on Family, Faith and Flag” before its release next week. (more)
Despite a sometimes-testy race for the Delaware Senate seat, Chris Coons has strongly condemned the Gawker.com article about his Republican opponent Christine O’Donnell. (more)
The National Organization for Women on Thursday condemned the tabloid website Gawker for publishing an anonymous account of a man’s sexual encounter three years ago with Republican Senate candidate Christine O’Donnell. (more)
(Aug. 23) — Facebook may be the world’s largest social-networking website, but in some ways it still maintains the features of a tiny dorm room startup. Case in point is this story from TechCrunch, which notes that it is impossible to block Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Instead, any user who attempts to block Zuckerberg’s profile will receive a message that reads, “General Block failed error: Block failed.” Surge Desk gave blocking Zuckerberg a shot and got the same response. (more)
Talked about on numerous blogs and websites, covered by the New York Times, attacked by The Daily Show and attracting upwards of 38m global page views a month, the women’s website Jezebel has clearly come of age. (more)
The search for doctored BP photos is on. And it’s a bit like finding Waldo in the famous game. (more)
So what was the Securities and Exchange Commission doing while the economy fell to pieces? (more)
Gawker founder Nick Denton counts himself among Brits who are “sceptical” — that’s British for “skeptical” — of a consensus on climate change. (more)
Rumors of a David Paterson expose in the New York Times took root last week and haven’t let go. (more)
During last night’s airing of The Daily Show, host Jon Stewart took a crack at former Gov. Sarah Palin’s handwritten notes, which she awkwardly referred to during the National Tea Party Convention. But the joke — which, ironically, is about shoplifting — appears to have been lifted word-for-word from a comedian who posted it on Twitter. (more)
Last week was a fascinating example of how fast a false story can spread across the Internet and make its way onto television. Specifically, there were dozens of reports citing a study that blonde women are more “warlike” due to a phenomenon known as the “princess effect.” However, according to Dr. Aaron Sell, the lead researcher of the study, no such study exists and most of the quotes about him were fabricated. To make matters worse, pundits subsequently attacked Sell based on these fictitious quotes. How could this have happened? (more)
