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Vlog Hot: Epilogue
So yes, the
Vlog Hot poll was in the semifinals, but we respect the need for closure. Therefore, after the jump, you can peruse the "final" vote tallies, such as they were. In related news, the is back on! The gentlefolk at Zazzle offer these same excellent keepsakes without requiring a trip to some seedy mall…
A skillet, a microwave, and thee
Sun Microsystems' loitering chairman Scott McNealy, when
asked about the dining preferences of Jonathan Scwartz (his successor as Sun CEO): And let's not forget that awesome . [Photo: Getty]
Google bus confidential
Inside, most riders appeared to abide by the shuttle's etiquette rules. Cellphone conversations are allowed if they are work-related and sotto voce. But loud personal calls are definitely out. In fact, except for a couple snuggled together, no one sat on adjacent seats.
Snuggling couples on the commuter bus? So…
"Slacker" net music player service thing debuts this week
March 14 is set for the SXSW debut of
Slacker, which is some part of the musicology initiative from Dennis Mudd (formerly of Musicmatch, sold to Yahoo in 2004) and tune-gadget dudes Jim Cady and Jonathan Sasse. Details are sketchy, as this new endeavor has only been as an "internet music ecosystem," though it's part…
Richard Branson moves in on Google girl
A disturbing moment from the TED conference captured by eBayer
Pierre Omidyar's Flickr stream. Sergey Brin's fiancée Anne Wojcicki canoodling with the rebel billionaire himself, Sir Richard Branson. Such unseemly public head-rubbing.
Calacanis + Cuban to open New York studio?
More details on the
major podcasting-video venture from Jason Calacanis and Mark Cuban. In addition to the much-discussed Los Angeles studio space, rumor has it there will also be a New York franchise, run in partnership with an as yet unnamed media entity. This location would allow for block closings and live…
Yahoo Mail plagued by bugs
Yahoo Mail has been screwed up or down altogether since this weekend, causing "anguished cries" from the Bay Area according to one tipster. Apparently local nerds are being unfairly denied their Craigslist responses. Widepsread and ongoing problems — dating back weeks or months, as noted in some reports — are
blamed…
Vlog Hot: Hacked!
"Sport spirit does not have this number here anyhow no more." So true, those words, as written by
Katrin Bauerfeind fan "codemonk" and badly if poignantly translated from the by Babelfish. This refers to a Bauerfeind partisan (commenter "votekatrin") in our poll who was so determined to see his gal win that he wrote…
Vlog Hot: Boys Semifinals Heat 2
And for today's final semifinal in the
Vlog Hot reader poll, here's your last serving of man-meat. Voting will run through this week and conclude at noon Eastern time on Sunday, March 11. You can vote in all heats once per day by clearing browser cookies from polls.gawker.com. In this installment, your choices are Ron…
Vlog Hot: Babes Semifinals Heat 2
Wrapping up the fair-sex semifinal side of our
Vlog Hot reader poll, here are the last four females. Voting will run through this week and conclude at noon Eastern time on Sunday, March 11. You can vote in all heats once per day by clearing browser cookies from polls.gawker.com. This course of the menu includes Aida…
Vlog Hot: Boys Semifinals Heat 1
Continuing the semifinals in our
Vlog Hot reader poll, here's the first log cabin full of hearty male specimens. Voting will run through this week and conclude at noon Eastern time on Sunday, March 11. You can vote in all heats once per day by clearing browser cookies from polls.gawker.com. In this heat, enjoy Kevin…
Vlog Hot: Babes Semifinals Heat 1
The first 16 heats of the
Vlog Hot reader poll have concluded, so it's time for the semifinals — four heats of the top vote-getters (two heats of ladies, two heats of gents). Voting will run through this week and conclude at noon Eastern time on Sunday, March 11. You can vote in all heats once per day by clearing…
Guest editor over & out
CHRIS MOHNEY — Thanks for letting me muck up the place this past month. It's been fun, and though I'm not either of the Nicks who've been hanging out here lately, readers were receptive enough to my presence not to roast me outright. It's been more of a slow burn, lobster-style, cooking me steadily before I even…
Twitter used to solicit votes, hookups, crystal meth
Social connectivity site
Twitter has so far not reported to parents any cases of the service being used by K-12 students to request immediate sexual intercourse during school hours. There also appears to be no connection between Twitter users and attempts to for the poll, since all the vloggers on Twitter are losing…
A VC fund for Apple?
If Apple does indeed have $12 billion in cash and easy liquidity, then what to do? Purchase Yahoo? Or perhaps North Dakota?
Business Week that big-time acquisitions are passé, and that the smart play is to turn a portion of that money into venture capital. It's a neat idea, not so much because of actual return…
Does everyone need a Myspace?
The
Guardian that Reuters plans to launch a subscriber-only Myspace-like social media construct aimed at the financial industry. Perhaps I radically underestimate the desires of fund managers to add each other as friends and play obscure emo tracks on their homepage, but this seems like needlessly reinventing the…
What's on Steve Jurvetson's desk
On the occasion of his 40th birthday, DFJ's Steve Jurvetson gives
an annotated Flickr tour of his desk space. Not quite as detailed as the , but he's got Bill Clinton in the mix.
The simple stink of Pay Per Post
Whatever our differences with Jason Calacanis, we're foursquare on his side when it comes to the ickiness of
Pay Per Post. PPP's Ted Murphy has been vs. Calacanis lately as part of a continuing campaign to prove the worthiness of PPP as a business. Certainly Murphy must be making money, but that doesn't make his…
Vlog Hot: Last chance to vote
Voting in the first round of our
Vlog Hot poll ends Sunday, March 4, at noon Eastern time. We've had a few shifts in the close races, but remember you can keep voting to support your vlog-crush. Vote once per day by clearing out your browser's cookies (specifically, the cookies from polls.gawker.com). Many of the…