@Owen: What is with the American Apparel soft porn ads? I almost cannot browse this site at work anymore without looking like a homo. Almost. Har!

Soft porn? Damn my adblock extension...

Valleywag has ads?

@rebump: Between these and the Gizmodo Washlet ads, I'm convinced Gawker doesn't really want to keep their readers.

Forget this crap he wasn't funny anyway!

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Hilarious to watch Lyons chewing his way towards his knee over this. In his infamous "Attack of the Blogs" article, he had this to say:
"Web logs are the prized platform of an online lynch mob spouting liberty but spewing lies, libel and invective."

He has relentlessly hounded Pamela Jones of Groklaw on both his Floating Point blog and as Fake Steve, yet when valleywag was working towards unmasking him, he said that what they were doing:
"definitely fall outside the boundaries of what most decent civilized human beings consider to be appropriate behavior."

and:
"To whatever bit of pond scum is doing this stuff, let me say this: This was fun, up to a point. You've gone past that point. Stop."

Hypocritical? You bet.

As for Dan's wonderful devices used to make FSJ so popular: He *stole outright* the penchant for "pet names" for industry big wigs and the usage of "tard" as prefix and suffix from the Yahoo finance SCO message board, [messages.finance.yahoo.com]
a place frequented by Linux enthusiasts (who Dan likes to refer to as "bomb tossing zealots", "crunchies" etc).
Dan wrote a piece about the people there called "Revenge of the Nerds" several years ago and has been trolling the place ever since, plundering the vernacular and humor for his FSJ blog and, apparently, his upcoming book.

What a prince.
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