The Golden Gobblers: Biggest tech turkeys of 2010

24.11.2010

. Did it never occur to any of these people that might be a little beyond stupid, not to mention immoral, illegal, and just plain creepy? Shame on the geeks for not thinking, and shame on their managers for not knowing.

. In the space of just a few hours, the erstwhile editress of Cooks Source magazine with her clueless arrogance and claims that the entire Web is in the public domain. Hope she's got her turkey ready for the oven, because her goose is already cooked.

. The publisher of Gawker Media (and thus Gizmodo and Valleywag) earns his Gobbler for giving checkbook journalism an even worse reputation than it already has. Paying that loser was bad enough, but buying the story of -- complete with far more information about the bewitched senatorial candidate's personal grooming habits than we really wanted to know -- was a new low. Classy operation you got there, Nick.

No, not that awful movie with Ashton Kutcher and Katherine Heigl (though if you want to talk turkeys, that one's a 25-pound Butterball). No, I'm talking about any blogger who ever used the term in a non-ironic context. With this many murderers on the loose, you'd think the Net was a serial killers convention.

. They sent for using the slogan "the new white meat," which apparently was too close for comfort to the porkers' "the other white meat" catch phrase. The problem here: the "new white meat" refers to canned unicorn -- an April Fool's Day prank from the geek novelty site. The funny thing about unicorn meat? It tastes just like turkey.