It was a big week for women working at Napa Valley's vineyards—for the the first time in 12 years, women were allowed to compete in a prominent annual pruning contest.

In this video, the cast of Downton Abbey give you the top ten reasons to enter to win a day on their set in London. And they're all hilarious!

Even though the title of sexiest banker was given out long ago (Meredith Whitney, duh), some who work in finance remain unsatisfied, I guess. What other possible explanation would there be for a banking career website to sponsor a "sexiest banker poll" and invite users to vote? And what deep, all-consuming sadness…

Now that we’re all happily up to our necks in nerd shit, a former national spelling champion has returned to remind us that being a self-avowed nerd wasn’t always cool. In fact, it used to be quite uncool.

Philadelphia "hot hits of today" radio station Q102 teamed up with Monarch Med Spa to give away a breast augmentation surgery to one "lucky girl." Dream big in 2013!

Brooklyn-based photographer Fiona Gardner and journalist Amy Zimmer have tracked down — through dark subway tunnels, steam-washed alleyways, and maybe even with the old, "I'm your long-lost daughter" bait-and-switch — 50 former Miss Subways for a new Transit Museum exhibit, something the New York Post describes as a…

The competition for the title of World's Ugliest Dog, held annually in Northern California, is stiff, judged on "the natural ugliness in both pedigree and mutt classes." 28 dogs competed this year, and while they're scraggy and gross, they're also sort of beautiful in their own way. I'm lying, they're just gross.…

Picking the best of all the exciting entries in the Jezebel (Very) Short Fiction Contest was difficult indeed — but at long last, we have a winner! Well, two winners, to be precise.

Want to show off your storytelling chops, and win some great books? Now's your chance to do both by entering our (very) short fiction contest. It's easy!

Former creative outspoken nerdy children, curse that you weren't born late enough to participate in the "90 Second Newbery" film festival, which encourages young readers to humorously condense award-winning young adult fiction.

Sadly, the framers didn't provide American citizens with the right to vote for Miss America, which was anti-democratic of them. But the official pageant organization has decided to let citizens Facebook-vote for their favorite contestant. America, land of the free!

Holy shit: the internet is teeming with awesomely horrible people for you to date. We asked for your stories, and you good god, you delivered. Let's skip the foreplay and get right to the dirtiest half-dozen.

Another weekend, another chance at free stuff—could Fridays be any better? Chase the dream with this week's Bounty Contest, which rewards your clever cleverness.

It's Friday, therefore it is time for swag. Put on your clever caps, and win Etsy stuff through sheer wit.