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Sloppy Seconds: Nine-Year-Old Girl Marries in Texas

Emily Farris — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 23:39:00 GMT

This is the best news we've heard all day: apparently Andy Richter will serve as Conan O'Brien's sidekick when Conan takes over The Tonight Show on June 1. Dear Andy Richter, while we love you even when you're not by Conan's side, please do not leave this time to do any more sitcoms. Thank you. [AntiCool]

And the worst news we've heard all day: there's a Gmail phishing scam spreading like wildfire this evening. We've already gotten two requests. Read this before you open any 'chat' emails. [Mashable]

Diablo Cody + zombies = awesomeness. We hope. [AfterEllen]

Is it possible that Cameron Diaz is finally going to settle down? [FameCrawler]

If you'd like to read some psychohipsterbabble that we can't really wrap our heads around read this. [Vulture]

Best headline of the day: "Man sues ex-girlfriend for hairy postcards." [APP]

This is really sad and (we don't want to sound insensitive) but also, sort-of, um, creepy? Maybe we're just heartless and can't quite get behind the fact that a couple in Texas staged a wedding for their nine-year-old daughter. Perhaps what bothers us most is that at that age, the one thing she wanted to do before she died was get married. [Video: CNN]

Sloppy Seconds: More Sex and the City?

Emily Farris — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 23:53:00 GMT

Ada Calhoun, from our not so slutty sister site Babble, weighs in on Facebook's nipple ban. [TIME]

We're usually all about Kelly Clarkson's girl power lyrics, but not so much with her new single "My Life Would Suck Without You." [FadedYouth]

Speaking of girl power, did you know it's Women's Self-Empowerment Week? And do we really need a Women's Self-Empowerment Week? [Jezebel]

Jennifer Love Hewitt is back on the market, in case you're interested. (We're guessing you're not). [People]

Steve Jobs is not dying. He will continue to over-charge us for upgrades, monitors not covered under warranty and warranties. [Yahoo!]

Rich, happy, healthy Gwyneth Paltrow shares her secrets for shedding those pesky holiday pounds: just cut out meat, dairy, fat, potatoes, tomatoes, sugar, alcohol and caffeine. Easy! [Us]

Crazy lady and and Sex and the City stylist Patricia Field is starting a rumor: that there will be a Sex and the City: The Movie sequel. Are you excited? We are. Shut up. [MTV]

Sloppy Seconds: Kate Winslet's Secret

Emily Farris — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 21:33:00 GMT

Things seem to be looking up for Jennifer Hudson this year. Rumor has it, she may be singing the "Star Spangled Banner" for Obama's inauguration. [Radar]

Matt Dillon is facing a possible three months in jail if convicted for driving 103 miles an hour in a 65-mph zone. [Us]

John Travolta's son, Jett, is dead at 16. [Gawker]

Who is Lily Allen's new gray-haired mystery man? [FadedYouth]

The men's room at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport where Larry Craig was arrested for soliciting sex is losing its appeal as a tourist destination. [Queerty]

Like her mother before her, Bristol Palin went straight back to ~~work~~ school days after the birth of her son. Or so her mother would like us to know. [People]

Like us, Kate Winslet does not go to the gym. Unlike us, it works for her. [FameCrawler]

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Let There Be Babybook

Emily Farris — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 19:14:00 GMT

We have a bunch of friends who just had babies. Like, six couples within the last two weeks. And while we love you, and we love your babies (we really do!), we don't need to know every time your baby takes a shit, and frankly, we don't care that much.

We know you're excited, and we know that you care, and that's great and all, but do you really need to update your Facebook status to reflect your newborn's every move? Because remember when we said we loved your baby? Even though we want to look at baby pictures and drool over him every once in a while, you're actually making it very hard for us to love him right now.

Before you get all defensive, we have a solution we hope will work for everybody.

See, there are people who do care that you're having trouble deciding between Seventh Generation and Huggies diapers. There are other parents out there who are updating their status every five minutes and clogging their friends' feeds with 20 copies of the exact same picture except they're not the exact same picture because the baby's head might be at a different angle or his eyes might be open in this one.

You should be with those people.

That's why we want someone to start Babybook.com. It's like Facebook, but for people with babies. And when we want to see baby pictures we'll go look at Babybook and when we want to come home drunk and poke random dudes and not have to think about what might happen if that poke turns into more, we'll go to Facebook.

It worked for Nerve. When all the hookups resulted in baby-making Babble was born. Nerve keeps its edge, and when we want to talk about Ritalin and poopy diapers, we go to Babble.

Yes, we know someone is squatting at Babybook.com, but this will be big, we promise. Please just give us some credit. And $10,000.

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Reach Out and Touch Something Else

Emily Farris — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 16:12:00 GMT

We here at Scanner sometimes forget that in addition to pleasure, sex is also for making babies. But our not-so-slutty sister, Babble, pops in every once in a while to remind us that we should keep using the birth control for a few more years.

This week, they bring us the story of a woman who's been "over touched" by her kids—so much so that by the time her husband wants to to get intimate, she doesn't want any hands on her, especially not his.

[Babble: No Sex, Please; We're Parents]

They Are What You Eat: Diets Can Change A Baby's Sex

Brian Fairbanks — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 19:19:00 GMT

Do you eat a lot of calories? Well then, scientists in Britain say that means you're more likely to have one of these...

The sex of new babies is influenced by the mother's diet before she conceives, a new study suggests. According to a survey of 740 British mums to be, a high-calorie diet is more likely to lead to a baby boy in nine months' time.
The researchers are unsure of why this happens, although they suggest that it could be to do with levels of glucose in the blood. Male test-tube embryos generally require a more glucose-rich growth medium to survive in the lab — Mathews suspects that a similar process may operate in the uterus, so women with higher sugar levels are more likely to nurture a male embryo as it is implanted in the womb lining. [Nature News]

This article is way too intelligent for us to make snarky comments about... although that doesn't necessarily mean this study won't be debunked in six months or anything...

Via Nature News.

Babble Our Favorite to Rock the National Magazine Awards...

Bryan Christian — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 12:30:00 GMT

... but then, we might be a little biased.

The list of finalists for the 2008 National Magazine Awards—the magazine world’s equivalent of the Oscars—is out, and the New Yorker leads the field with 12 nominations.
[...]
First-time finalists include Nerve Media's Babble.com, Bloomberg Markets, Budget Travel, Chow, Domino, Good, Paste, Play and T (the New York Times sports and style magazines), Radar and Condé Nast Portfolio.

Hearty congratulations and best of luck to Ada and everyone at Babble. You know, in a former life, we were at a magazine that won a few of those Alexander Calder-designed awards, known familiarly (if uncommonly) as Ellies. We had tiny offices, and weren't sure just where to put the unwieldy, surprisingly big awards -- so for a while, one of them wound up on our desk. Probably the best paperweight we'll ever have had.

Click through to see the competition that Babble will CRUSH LIKE BORING LITTLE BUGS!

[via Gawker]

GENERAL EXCELLENCE ONLINE: This category recognizes outstanding magazine websites, as well as online-only magazines that feature original content. The award honors sites that convey a distinct editorial identity and create a unique magazine environment on the Web.

Babble.com
Chow.com
NewYorker.com
Runners World.com
Slate.com

(Oh, full disclosure may be in order here: Scanner Bryan works, in his other job, for the Condé Nast company, and has worked for the NY'er.com website off-and-on for many years. But don't let that fool ya -- we just know Babble's gonna wipe the floor with 'em!)

What Exactly Is Dora Exploring These Days?

Emily Farris — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 20:53:00 GMT

Sex toy or child's play?

[StrollerDerby: Top 9 Puzzling Dora Toys]

Nicole Kidman Pregnancy, Confirmed Therefore it Is

Emily Farris — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 15:02:00 GMT

Everyone in the entire world is reporting that Nicole Kidman is, in fact, finally pregnant. And like our little sister says "Perez Hilton is never wrong." So we're going with it. Plus it's, like, "confirmed."

We hope that she, and Keith Urban, and Scanner Bryan will be very happy.

New York Daily News: It's confirmed: Nicole Kidman pregnant

Babble: Breaking News: Nicole Kidman Pregnancy Confirmed

Felicity and Sydney Bristow Exist in the Same Universe?

Bryan Christian — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 16:30:00 GMT

We feel like there must have been some sort of crossover between Alias and Felicity at some point, right? We know, before Alias was ever on, Jennifer Garner showed up on Felicity as then-husband Scott Foley's girfriend, and JJ Abrams pretty much got the idea for Alias while half-jokingly blueskying ideas for the other show, blah blah blah. But what we're asking here is, like, the pink Power Ranger never wound up in one of those zillions of German raves that Sydney Bristow was always breaking into? Nothing like that?

Oh well. At least crossovers of a similar sort are possible in the real world of New York City, where Keri Russell and Jennifer Garner ran into each other this holiday while out walking their, er.... "celebuspawn" is the word that TMZ uses, but we'll go with "children" for now.

Is this more of a Babble item than a Scanner one? Maybe so... We'll try and sex this up a little. How about this: "Um, we see Keri Russell in our neighborhood in Brooklyn sometimes and she's totally a MILF." Ta-da!