Gawker NY Times hires new, conservative op-ed columnist Newsday NEW YORK – The New York Times is describing its newest opinion columnist as young and conservative. More here:  NY Times hires

Longtime New York Post real estate columnist Braden Keil died last night, after a battle with melanoma … . Keil’s most famous Gawker moment was his momentary feud with Mario Batali . No obituaries

Yale junior Jesse Maiman is taking US Air to court over a an X-Box that he says was stolen from his luggage … and his favorite Halo 3 challengers from Moldova. As Gawker points out , it’s not just about having

the network I am using on this business trip is blocking Facebook. That is fine cos FB and I are in the process of breaking up, anyway. What seems to be a real teenage piss party is that I am also being blocked at times from sites that use Facebook Connect, like Gawker properties. So, the more ubiquitous FB Connect becomes