What's even worse is the stereotype of Japanese people perpetuated by the misguided moment of "silence". Hey game organizers, not all Japanese people are ninjas, alright?

"I've always heard bad things about New Jersey, but I've been impressed so far."

"I don’t card them. I don’t ask for birth certificate." - A defiant Lane Kiffin, when asked by reporters about his questionable solicitation of a minor through an "acquaintance".

Too soon.

+1. Still laughing 3 minutes later. Fucking gold.

Bring a knife to a pillow fight.

Just saw your post about the album after I posted the link.

For anyone into this sort of thing... You can stream the new Strokes album on their website: [new.thestrokes.com]

Goddamn delicious indeed. It's a regular menu item around Dallas, especially in the new hipster areas.

Sorry my Seahawks-loving internet friend, but I'd rather drive the Oscar Mayer Wienermobile to work than an Aztek. Those things are awful. Nick Denton should be proud to be mentioned in the same class as that atrocity.

I know bullshit when I see it. I haven't seen such an untimely and empty "pledge" to make real changes since Hosni Mubarak was President of Egypt.

Well done. This may be the only Delta Burke reference of 2011. I can tell someone's seen Designing Women lately.

It's a solid town. It's definitely a much slower pace than Dallas. I like to think of it as a really really big small town, with Sundance Square and lots of nice folks. There's lots of good food - typical Texas stuff like tacos, Tex-Mex, BBQ, which is one of the things they do better than Dallas. And it's more of a…

The editorial team did a good job preempting complaints by framing the redesign as "the updates are here, and only pussies complain about change."

Honestly, I don't know. My guess is that the site hasn't always been that slow since the original format was so much simpler and didn't feature that god damn Trident ad and images catering to Gawker Media's blind demographic.

@Phintastic: Your imagination may run wild at times, but not in this instance. Site traffic is down significantly across all Gawker Media in the last week.

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I haven't checked out this new album, but I fucking loved Lights & Music. That was the anthem for one of the most epic Memorial Day weekends ever.

@BROnaldinho: A rule of thumb I generally go by is rooting for the team that eliminated you from the playoffs. That way, you can at least be comforted by the fact that you lost to the champ, and not some team of overachievers that arguably didn't deserve to be there.

@vodkanaut: Strong to quite strong.