Twitter’s down this morning. Guess I’ll have to resort to shouting random things at crowds of people as I walk down the street. Sort of like College Humor’s Dan Gurewitch here.

nyconvergence:

The New York State Senate has voted on a bill (that the state assembly approved) that outlaws using portable electronic devices to text, play games or surf the Web while driving.  The new law is a…

Great. Awesome. This is all CarandDriver’s fault I won’t be able to text and drive anymore. Damn you Mike Austin!

BTW, check out this US Atlas of texting-while-driving laws to see where New York falls on the map.

Sad to see how much Billy Mays son’s twitter account has grown over the past two days after his father died and he tweeted about it. [screen shot via TwitterCounter]

After Ford’s social media “guru” Scott Monty finally “realized” he should be using the Ford Twitter account rather than his own, there’s been a battle royale between @Ford and @GMBlogs. Two twatterers enter, one twatterer leaves!

After initially rebuffing our argument that using his own name was more about fluffing up himself than fluffing up the brand that pays his paycheck, social media diva Scott Monty finally saw the light that tweeting under the brand name actually makes more sense.

Looks like there’s an added benefit as it appears to generate followers quickly — with the new @Ford account on its way to almost 5,000 followers in the past month. Who knew that could happen so quickly? Oh wait…

The other fun thing is, if you take a look at the screen-shot above, it looks like @Ford’s not only caught up to its cross-Detroit rival @GMblogs, and may even surpass them in the next day. So, who’s going to win in what I’m dubbing “Auto Twit Wars.”

Make your voice heard — vote for either @GMBlogs or @Ford by following them.

Also, feel free to add us @raywert and @jalopnik

adamfrucci:

Sarah Palin is going to appear on American Chopper. That is all. [via]

Why god? Why?

juliaroy:

“Save the whales, kill the pigs”

Fail Pig [PIC]

I don’t dine on the swine — does that make me immune?

(via craigdaitch)

whatevs:

soupsoup:

biteofpythias:

Every once in awhile a gawker commenter raises a question that really gets to the issue of where we are going to find the balance between citizen and corporate rights…

Exactly! The more and more I think about this bailout bullshit — I had a relative who lost his job after giving more than 30 years of his life to The General just this week — I realize what a load of crap it all is. Thanks for nothing, jerks in DC!

FUUUUUCCCCCKKKKKK!

So say we all.

Or do they need someone to do his job because, you know, he couldn’t be bothered to do all the stuff he should be doing when he’s busy tweeting all the time? [CommunityGuy Jobs]

UPDATE: It’s the latter.