http://cache.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/gawker.com.png http://gawker.com/tag/valleywag http://gawker.com/tag/valleywag http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5307985&view=rss&microfeed=true British secret agents are supposed to be exponentially smoother than their American counterparts. We get Ethan Hunt, they get James Bond. Except, not, because the chief of MI-6's wife had her... http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5306394&view=rss&microfeed=true Microsoft has heard your pleas: it's pulled its "Worst Tech Commercial Ever," which tried to use a puking theme to sell Internet Explorer. And you'll never guess who the director was! You will never... http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5304800&view=rss&microfeed=true You've read about the features, you saw the invites going out, but you might be wondering what, exactly, Google Voice could do for you. Here's our guide for the curious and uninvited on whether your... http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5305503&view=rss&microfeed=true The hot new idea among people who think about "journalism," and the sanctity thereof: let's ban linking, on the internet! Let's also ban wheels, in order to save the horse industry. Let's also ban... http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5305025&view=rss&microfeed=true AT&T failed to give Adam Frucci a sense of childlike wonder about his iPhone; Jimmy Jane's mobile device proved more satisfying to Melissa Gira Grant and Ana Marie Cox damned an internet conference... http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5305024&view=rss&microfeed=true Two blogs, Texts From Last Night and Look at this Fucking Hipster, scored contracts at Penguin's Gotham Books imprint in the past week, the latest in an endless series of such deals. Shouldn't you... http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5304947&view=rss&microfeed=true If Harry McCracken, who has been writing about personal computers for 29 years, says this Microsoft spot is the worst technology commercial ever, he's probably right. Warning: It's also gross. The... http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5304860&view=rss&microfeed=true YouTube co-founder Steve Chen has quietly left his baby behind, moving to a different Google division. Fellow co-founder Chad Hurley might leave too, PaidContent writes. Now comes a more Hollywood... http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5304616&view=rss&microfeed=true California won't let the gays marry but it does let people micro-blog (medical) drug deals. Meet former Northwestern J-school student Dann Halem, who is building an online business selling weed on... http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5304644&view=rss&microfeed=true Think these screenshots of Microsoft's Bing search engine and travel website Kayak look similar? So does Kayak, and an independent software-copyright attorney contacted by GigaOm. Can you tell which... http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5304147&view=rss&microfeed=true The deaths of Michael Jackson, Farah Fawcett and Ed McMahon were catastropic... to Tyler Florence's publicity efforts. Also apparently tragic: having to ride to a resort town on a private jet, and... http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5304045&view=rss&microfeed=true Apple won't say whether Steve Jobs was at the office today as part of his official return to the company. But a Valleywag spy spotted the CEO on his company's Cupertino campus. Jobs apparently left... http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5303891&view=rss&microfeed=true Big Ideas Author Malcolm Gladwell, a Manhattanite of the New Yorker, has issued a smackdown review of Free, Big Ideas Author Chris Anderson, a Berkeleyan of San Francisco's Wired. If that's not... http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5303803&view=rss&microfeed=true Steve Jobs is BACK! Oh, he's just stone cold striding into the office, high-fiving people, running marathon meetings, screaming his as... err, wait, actually, did we say "back?" More like backish.... http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5303748&view=rss&microfeed=true It's one thing for little nonprofit groups like Consumer Watchdog to hound Google for how it handles privacy and competitors. Much trickier for the company: A large corporation like Microsoft, can... http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5303706&view=rss&microfeed=true Jimmy Wales had an image problem. After bending his online encyclopedia's rules for a lover and, allegedly, for a benefactor, the Wikipedia co-founder faced rebuke and embarrassment. Then the New... http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5303150&view=rss&microfeed=true The Twitterati were obsessed with the less brilliant Michael Jackson: His most brain-dead lyrics, his worst video moments and his awful neglect at the hands of...you! New York's Jessica Coen knew... http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5303111&view=rss&microfeed=true MySpace's CEO purportedly keeps his body pretty tight. But he should lay off the weight obsession at work. Owen Van Natta said MySpace was "bloated" when he laid off 400 workers; now they're... http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5303068&view=rss&microfeed=true Airport-security gimmick Clear is just the latest example of Steven Brill failing investors (see also: Brill's Content, Inside.com, etc. etc.). But this time the mogul is just stone-cold ripping off... http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5303012&view=rss&microfeed=true Twitter won't just give you a black eye; as Flavia Maria Boricea found out, Twitter also kills. The Romanian teen was way, way too addicted to the microblogging service. Not only was she using it in... http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5302943&view=rss&microfeed=true Any doubts about Michael Jackson's megastardom should have ended after news of the singer's death tripped up Google and crashed AOL Instant Messenger, Wikipedia, TMZ and, of course, Twitter. A survey... http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5302746&view=rss&microfeed=true Well it's taken almost two weeks, but it looks as though The Week America Died is about to knock "#iranelection" out of the top ten Twitter trending topics. I just caught this screengrab off of my... http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5302652&view=rss&microfeed=true Julia Allison no longer has her last proper job, at Time Out New York. Her reality show fizzled; a business partner ditched her. The archetypal protocelebrity was reduced to shilling for an amusement... http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5302592&view=rss&microfeed=true With its many servers, Google devours electricity. And with search queries growing by 50%, it's only getting hungrier. The solution? Drill a two-mile-deep hole in the Earth, extracting geothermal... http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5302514&view=rss&microfeed=true How did the Virginia Quarterly Review connect Chris Anderson's book to Wikipedia, thus unraveling a plagiarism scandal? A strange use of parentheses. Anderson referred to a certain town as "Crescent... http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5302477&view=rss&microfeed=true It's been a full year since Time magazine dubbed porn "The iPhone's Next Frontier," and only now has an application publisher dared to distribute a truly adult application: An app called Hottest... http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5302324&view=rss&microfeed=true Ben Mezrich's forthcoming Facebook exposé was sold to film producers before it was even written. The Hollywood influence helps explain why the book answers such pressing questions as, "Who might the... http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5302318&view=rss&microfeed=true Genetics company 23AndMe can purportedly help you predict your health in decades to come, but we're hearing the three-year-old company can't even forecast its own near-term needs: A tipster tells us... http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5302260&view=rss&microfeed=true newVideoPlayer("/quittner_thomas_gawker.flv", 506, 423,""); We never imagined Josh Quittner would burn a previous Valleywag editor in effigy, but after seeing the video he's posted on Time.com, we... http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5302191&view=rss&microfeed=true Peter Thiel's objectivism and anti-immigration donations were hard enough for Silicon Valley colleagues to stomach. This attack ad he helped fund against climate-change legislation should be even... http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5302163&view=rss&microfeed=true Chris Anderson's plagiarism scandal is still unfolding; Brooklyn writer Ed Champion has found instances where the Free author copied material he was supposed to be summarizing. But there was... http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5302079&view=rss&microfeed=true A hospital officially confirmed Steve Jobs received a liver transplant there, and did so with Jobs' permission. Meaning everyone is talking about the Apple CEO's sickness, except Apple. The pressure... http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5301882&view=rss&microfeed=true A Daily Show host weirded himself out a little bit; a San Franciscan had pizza envy and Doree Shafrir discovered a yoga mat that automatically raises your blood pressure. The Twitterati were... http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5301831&view=rss&microfeed=true News broke earlier today that Nikki Finke had sold her Deadline Hollywood Daily blog to Jay Penske's Mail.com Media Corp. Now, fantastical numbers are being floated around about how much she got. Who... http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5301760&view=rss&microfeed=true Columbia Pictures is close to securing a director for its Facebook movie: David Fincher, of Fight Club fame, is reportedly in advanced talks. He'll be expected to move fast, before the market for a... http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5301674&view=rss&microfeed=true Chris Anderson has been caught lifting huge chunks out of Wikipedia for his book Free. The irony speaks for itself. But it's worth noting that the Wired editor's excuses are disconcertingly... http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5301581&view=rss&microfeed=true As the L.A. media otherwise disappers, Jay Penske is in empire-building mode. His hitherto low-profile Mail.com Media Corporation acquired Nikki Finke's showbiz blog and he backed Movieline in April.... http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5301465&view=rss&microfeed=true Fake Steve Jobs is back. Dan Lyons, author of the piercingly funny satire blog, insists his return may be temporary. But he wouldn't be having this much fun with Jobs' illness if he still worried... http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5301355&view=rss&microfeed=true The Department of Energy has made it official: Tesla Motors will, in fact, get $465 million in government loans to fund its Model S sedan. Chalk another one up for founder Elon Musk's improbable... http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5301201&view=rss&microfeed=true MySpace today confirmed the rumors it will lay off 300 international staff, on top of 400 U.S. layoffs last week. The social network also shoved aside purported co-founder Tom Anderson, who has a new...