;-)
― old man yells at cloud computing (am0n), Tuesday, 21 December 2010 18:23 (thirteen years ago) link
re: weird bragging, I think that if I were a Gawker/Jezebel writer my #1 priority would be to craft posts that encourage people to share their SAT scores
― A B C, Tuesday, 21 December 2010 20:27 (thirteen years ago) link
iirc gawker used to have (or maybe still does have) an 'exclusive' commenter policy, so long story short i nvr got an account
cried my darn eyes out lol
― moholy-nagl (history mayne), Tuesday, 21 December 2010 20:31 (thirteen years ago) link
On the plus side no one is using your bank account to buy boats
― mmmm... yung hummus (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 21 December 2010 21:02 (thirteen years ago) link
Okay, hawkers, you've made your point. I should have used different passwords for each of my accounts, but it was so much easier to remember that my son's birthday followed by my blood type would access my email accounts while the last four digits of my social security number and what my driver's license says I weigh would get me onto ebay, Paypal, Etsy, You Tube, GoDaddy, Amazon and assorted sites I used in my quest to find the tastiest olive oil.
I don't remember ever visiting gawker, but apparently there was a time when I was curious about whether or not Gwyneth Paltrow might have been photographed eating carbs in a trendy Soho restaurant as I had an account. That was my undoing as having a Gawker account made it possible for you to pass yourself off as the online me.
Would you use my Etsy account to buy a hand loomed scarf? My Amazon account to push some obscure author to number one? My PayPal account to score elite tickets to "The Merchant of Venice" or a New York co-op? I was desperate to create new passwords and would now take it more seriously, avoiding using my birthday or schools I'd attended that are published on Facebook, and not being lazy like those who grasp at the most popular passwords: 12345, password, lifehack, qwerty, abc123, 111111, monkey, consumer, 0, letmein, trustno1.
AOL provided instructions for strengthening a password, which helped me arrive at a formula impossible to penetrate. The trick is to mix capital and lower case and accompany the letters with numbers. I capitalized the second letter of Hackers to make my password a most improbable "hAckers" (clever, no?). And I split up the word by inserting my area code, 212, at different points between the letters. I don't mind telling you I feel slightly smug and just hope Julian Assange doesn't spread this around on WikiLeaks.
Seemingly the only site not penetrated by you is my web site - www.sybilsage.com. But you and everyone else should feel free to go there and buy mosaic art with complete confidence that you will be completely secure.
Follow Sybil Adelman Sage on Twitter: www.twitter.com/Sybil Sage
― old man yells at cloud computing (am0n), Tuesday, 21 December 2010 21:14 (thirteen years ago) link
it's really amazing how 2 Gawker writers and 20 or so commenters (suckers!) can discuss 'the year in film' and mention exactly one foreign-language title (the crap I Am Love).
really, what is wrong with the Millennials?
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 28 December 2010 01:41 (thirteen years ago) link
gawker did the "dude with funny name wins at cannes" story, i think u may be expecting a bit much from them
― zvookster, Tuesday, 28 December 2010 02:15 (thirteen years ago) link
I just find it weird that ppl who are fairly sophisticated compared to the Great Unwashed about literature, politics etc persist in only being aware of mall movies.
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 28 December 2010 02:17 (thirteen years ago) link
are you saying that bloggers shower
― BIG SANTA aka the sleighdriver (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 28 December 2010 02:17 (thirteen years ago) link
Foreign language cinema still gets a pretty low circulation rate.
― mh, Tuesday, 28 December 2010 03:34 (thirteen years ago) link
also: why aren't gawker writers out plowing the streets
― BIG SANTA aka the sleighdriver (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 28 December 2010 03:37 (thirteen years ago) link
hard 2 read subtitles while texting
― johnny crunch, Tuesday, 28 December 2010 03:40 (thirteen years ago) link
Foreign language cinema still gets a pretty low circulation rate among bloggers who call Inception "smart."
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 28 December 2010 07:41 (thirteen years ago) link
http://lifehacker.com/5688167/the-best-way-to-complain-is-to-make-things
― markers, Wednesday, 5 January 2011 06:51 (thirteen years ago) link
so is gawker down for everyone?
― congratulations (n/a), Thursday, 27 January 2011 15:05 (thirteen years ago) link
just you
http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/
― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 27 January 2011 15:08 (thirteen years ago) link
huh weird
― congratulations (n/a), Thursday, 27 January 2011 15:08 (thirteen years ago) link
we decided we didnt want you reading us anymore sorry
― max, Thursday, 27 January 2011 15:47 (thirteen years ago) link
http://tv.gawker.com/
― markers, Tuesday, 1 February 2011 18:57 (thirteen years ago) link
max, we need t shirts w/ your column portrait on em.
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 1 February 2011 18:58 (thirteen years ago) link
the new layout is kinda weird imo
― smang a goon (get it on) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 1 February 2011 18:59 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah, it's going to take some getting used to
― markers, Tuesday, 1 February 2011 19:00 (thirteen years ago) link
i have the original in my apt, its v creepy, the eyes follow you
xp
― max, Tuesday, 1 February 2011 19:00 (thirteen years ago) link
woah u live at hogwarts bro
― smang a goon (get it on) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 1 February 2011 19:44 (thirteen years ago) link
feeling kind of mixed on the new design, doesnt feel smooth right now re scrolling clicking etc, just txt headlines no images or excerpts in the side nav is not that exciting like theres much less info available on the home page than there used to be - on the other hand i like the clean appiness of it def wave of the future more refined than the stuff weve seen in beta tryin a be twittr or w/e - when does it go live on the big site
― ice cr?m, Tuesday, 1 February 2011 19:53 (thirteen years ago) link
http://tv.gawker.com/classic
― markers, Tuesday, 1 February 2011 19:57 (thirteen years ago) link
(btw, the dude's link in that post -- to http://www.tv.gawker.com/classic -- doesn't work)
broepstorff Am amused that web design is basically reverting back to frames (see: twitter 2.0, jalopnik 5.0).1 hour ago Favorite Retweet Reply
― ice cr?m, Tuesday, 1 February 2011 21:15 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.observer.com/2011/tech/nick-denton-gawker-redesign-only-facebook-matters
― markers, Tuesday, 1 February 2011 21:26 (thirteen years ago) link
"Gawker went live with its redesign on two of its web sites this morning, io9, Gawker TV and Jalopnik."
...
At least it's keeping vip.xml, right?
― James Mitchell, Monday, 7 February 2011 11:56 (thirteen years ago) link
http://gawker.com/
― markers, Monday, 7 February 2011 17:47 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/business/gawker_web_redesign_met_with_bronx_rYsc2jleh5rVzUV7ozUb9L
― velko, Tuesday, 8 February 2011 08:29 (thirteen years ago) link
"lesser blog posts"
― max, Tuesday, 8 February 2011 08:51 (thirteen years ago) link
kind of weak that the writers' names don't show up on the front page
― the most revered deity in the universe (history mayne), Tuesday, 8 February 2011 08:56 (thirteen years ago) link
what a disaster for nick denton
― velko, Tuesday, 8 February 2011 08:58 (thirteen years ago) link
http://gawker.com/#!5755071/married-gop-congressman-sent-sexy-pictures-to-craigslist-babe
On the morning of Friday, January 14, a single 34-year-old woman put an ad in the "Women for Men" section of Craigslist personals. "Will someone prove to me not all CL men look like toads?" she asked, inviting "financially & emotionally secure" men to reply....Finally, if someone had hacked into his account and was seeking to discredit the politician, why shoot in the dark with such relatively benign emails to a totally random middle-aged woman on Craigslist, who didn't seem motivated one way or the other to us, beyond wanting to share a funny story? And funny it is.
Finally, if someone had hacked into his account and was seeking to discredit the politician, why shoot in the dark with such relatively benign emails to a totally random middle-aged woman on Craigslist, who didn't seem motivated one way or the other to us, beyond wanting to share a funny story? And funny it is.
Seriously?
― Damo Suzuki's Dead Parrot (kkvgz), Friday, 11 February 2011 15:36 (thirteen years ago) link
People have been grinding that axe everywhere on the web. Pretty hilarious.
― w/no hesitation (mh), Friday, 11 February 2011 15:37 (thirteen years ago) link
yikes!
http://techcrunch.com/2011/02/17/gawker-redesign/
― he do the waka lyfe (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 18 February 2011 17:08 (thirteen years ago) link
i've definitely been reading gawker less since the redesign, not out of like aesthetic rage but just because it's more awkward and difficult to use
― congratulations (n/a), Friday, 18 February 2011 17:10 (thirteen years ago) link
Maybe they just don't like Max.
― Peyton Flanders (Nicole), Friday, 18 February 2011 17:10 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah, it's hardly worth reading, now.
― Le mépris vient de la tête, la haine vient du cœur (Michael White), Friday, 18 February 2011 17:21 (thirteen years ago) link
^lol
― Elegant Bitch (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Friday, 18 February 2011 17:24 (thirteen years ago) link
it's more awkward and difficult to use
Totally. The side scroll bar doesn't work for me at all, ever. Also for some reason today the 'traditional' view actually seems to be refreshing more slowly than the 'top story' view. And they've posted the same story (Paris Hilton) twice today.
― franny glass, Friday, 18 February 2011 18:25 (thirteen years ago) link
pretty sure the paris hilton story has only been posted once
― max, Friday, 18 February 2011 18:49 (thirteen years ago) link
i would've been completely adjusted to the re-design already if the sidebar ever properly scrolled
― teenage cream (J0rdan S.), Friday, 18 February 2011 18:53 (thirteen years ago) link
so can you not search for old posts now or am i being dumb?
― call all destroyer, Friday, 18 February 2011 19:00 (thirteen years ago) link
the old design was definitely archaic in some ways and def not elegant but i always thought that might have been a strength in a weird way
― he do the waka lyfe (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 18 February 2011 19:05 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm not super familiar with the Gawker redesign. Just curious why a lot of people don't praise it.
― buzza, Friday, 18 February 2011 19:08 (thirteen years ago) link