The Caged Bird

Prison may cost you your freedom, prison may cost you your dignity, but prison needn’t cost you your Twitter followers. It seems you can be as despicable as you like IRL, it doesn’t seem to harm your #numbers. Here’s how some of the worst offenders are faring…

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The Disrapture

Tech has been toying with media for many years now, but Peter Thiel’s recent multi-million dollar attack on Gawker is the clearest sign yet that Silicon Valley might be ready to unleash a cataclysmic assault on the fourth estate. Is Thiel the final horseman? And, if so, who rode in before him?

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Helping Hands

Another question you may have asked yourself in the course of this whole celebrity injunction is: “How on earth does one go about setting up an olive oil paddling pool sex party?” If you’ve been curious about the logistics of putting it all together and then pulling it all down, we asked the industry people who would know…

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Between The Spreadsheets

Perhaps you heard the details of PJS’s trysts – in particular that extremely exotic-sounding olive oil/paddling pool ‘wrestling experience’ – and thought “Ooh, yeah. I could be up for that.” How much would a thing like that set you back exactly? What are the costs involved? We crunched the numbers for you…

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The Letter Of The Law

Last week, we received a legal letter from one of the UK’s most prominent law firms, making various threats to try to get us to take down an article. We wanted to show you what it’s like to receive a legal threat, but the law makes it a little tricky. Tricky, but not impossible…

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Primary Urges

Politics, in general, is a deeply unsexy business. Yet it seems our appetite for porn parodies is so great that people are even willing to script, shoot and sell political filth of all stripes. With the presidential primaries now in full thrust, who’s pulling ahead in the smut stakes?

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Latent Registration

Modern psychologists don’t put a great deal of stock in Sigmund Freud’s five-stage theory of psychosexual development anymore. It’s widely considered to be ‘pop-psychology’. So what happens when you apply it to actual pop? Can Freudian analysis explain Kanye West’s anal fixation? You bet your bottom dollar…

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Pick ‘n’ Max

Practically everything Swedish superproducer Max Martin turns his hand to becomes an international, multi-platinum mega-hit. His music is estimated to have earned him $250m. Fancy a slice of that action? Of course you do. So here’s all you need to know to compile your very own Max Martin style hit.

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