Gizmodo's Sam Biddle sluttin' it up at CES. (Photo: Gizmodo)

News of the first annual Objectify a Male Tech Writer Day swept across the web this morning following an article penned by one of the event's founders, gaming and social media reporter Leigh Alexander. "From booth babes to harassment, snide comments to double standards, women have often had a hard time feeling comfortable around the tech industry," she wrote. In order to demonstrate "the absurdity of objectifying people you claim to agree with or support intellectually," she's encouraging female tech writers to give gendered compliments or make sexist proclamations to men about their work.

Though the actual Objectify a Male Tech Writer Day isn't until February 1st, Betabeat--comprised primarily of female writers--could hardly contain ourselves. Here are 25 gendered comments for 25 of our favorite male tech writers.

Walt Mossberg: What's a pretty face like yours doing buried in those product specs?

Mike Isaac: Shut up, honey, the women (Kara and Liz) are talking.

Ryan Tate: Started a flame war with Steve Jobs just to get some attention.

Sam Biddle: Hey baby, want a massage?

Mat Honan: It's cute how you just discovered two-step authentication last year.

David Pogue: All your scoops come from your PR girlfriend.

Michael Arrington: Swaggy? More like bitchy. Men should keep their opinions to themselves.

Steven Levy: Only wears glasses to look more authentically geeky.

John Herrman: 17 Ways John Herrman Uses His Looks to Get Ahead

Peter Kafka: You smell amazing.

Farhad Manjoo: Maybe I'd take you more seriously if your Twitter avatar wasn't so suggestive.

Anil Dash: Nag!

Peter Ha: Only a celebrated reporter because he can fill out a hoodie.

Carl Franzen: Just because it's an all-night hackathon doesn't mean you shouldn't put in a little effort.

Om Malik: He just googled some companies to look cool, he doesn’t really get tech.

Eric Eldon: We know Alexia does all the work and you were just hired as window dressing.

Ben Popper: Why are you being MEAN to STARTUPS?

Josh Topolsky: Why don't you go back to makeup reviews?

Steve Kovach: Your obsession with Snapchat proves you're a sexting slut.

Jason Del Rey: Your Twitter presence is adorable.

Nick Bilton: Maybe try an industry where you'd fit in better, like construction.

Ashlee Vance: Who'd you sleep with to get on the Techmeme leaderboard?

Bryan Goldberg: We never see you around at tech parties. You should come outttttt more.

Christopher Mims: FAKE GEEK GUY ALERT

Adrian Chen: Pretending to like Reddit so he can be the only boy in a girls' club.

Brian X. Chen: What's a nice boy like you doing at a gadget convention?

How we feel when Twitter is down.

Twitter has been in and out, in and out for the past three hours, and the company finally has an explanation, albeit limited to 140 characters: "Today's outage is due to a cascaded bug in one of our infrastructure components. We'll provide updated information soon." At first, we suspected this BuzzFeed service piece, which explains how to make any animated GIF your Twitter avatar.

Twitter's policy explicitly prohibits animated GIF avatars, probably to avoid having the site go all Myspace on everybody or maybe because pulsing and looping hurts Larry T. Bird's tiny brain. The site started experiencing issues the day after the great GIF invasion. Did the GIFs had anything to do with it? Twitter declined to say, instead forwarding on the above tweet. There goes that theory.

Ms. Klein (Photo: Pulse2)

On June 19th, just before a heat wave clutched New York in its punishing grip, a YouTube user named CapitalTrigga uploaded a video to YouTube entitled "Making the Bus Monitor Cry." The video shows a gaggle of middle schoolers from Greece, New York hurling vicious insults at a senior citizen bus monitor named Karen Klein, who is forced to don her sunglasses to hide the fact that she's crying. The cruelty drags on for a painful 10 minutes and 9 seconds. Anyone who was bullied as a kid will certainly find it difficult to watch.

The local school district quickly moved into damage control mode and held a press conference about the video, but several enterprising Internet denizens decided to take matters into their own hands. A Ukranian nutritionist named Max Sidorov started an Indiegogo campaign with a goal of $5,000 for Ms. Klein to help raise money for a much-needed vacation following the incident. As of this writing, the campaign had raised over $175,000.

Skeptical Internet sleuths were initially wary of Mr. Sidorov's campaign. When he first set it up, he hooked it up to his own PayPal account instead of contacting Ms. Klein and adding her information. When concerned users pointed this out, he contacted Ms. Klein's sister and added her to the campaign, changing the account information to hers. "I have spoken to Karen, her daughter, news agencies, and Indiegogo," he wrote in an update published late last night. "Please stop accusing me im getting nothing out of this, all i want to do is help."

But Mr. Sidorov isn't retreating into the ether empty-handed. He's officially become part of the story. ("Can someone tell LA Times my last name is Sidorov please lol!" he wrote in an update.)

Additionally, to reward him for his kindheartedness, another Indiegogo user named Case Prince set up a campaign to raise $2,000 for Mr. Sidorov. "Max Started the campaign that turned into a landslide of support for Karen Huff Klein and against bullying," wrote Mr. Prince. "I feel Max deserves a small reward himself."

When the Internet is nice, it's apparently really nice.

Mildly tainting this feel-good story, however, is the fact that Mr. Sidorov is advertising the campaign for himself--which has hit almost 50 percent of its goal, with 30 days to go--on Ms. Klein's highly popular campaign page. In an update posted about an hour ago, Mr. Sidorov added a link to the campaign raising money for himself, as well as a link to his own ebook on Amazon entitled "7 Steps to Health."

"Guy who raised over 100k for a bullied bus monitor is promoting a fundraiser for himself: over 1k," tweeted Buzzfeed's John Herrman. "Not how this works!"

Ms. Klein, for her part, has become a sensation herself, emblematic of the notion that anyone, anywhere, at any age, can be bullied. She appeared on Good Morning America and TODAY this morning to tell her story. "Everyone at Indiegogo was so proud this morning to see Karen Klein on television talking so bravely about her experience," Indiegogo CEO Slava Rubin said in a statement emailed to Betabeat. "We hope that this Indiegogo campaign contributes positively to the important national discussion about bullying."

A sampling of FWD's first posts:

• The Verb
• It's the Software, Stupid
• But Does It Feel Good in the Hand?
• The Numbers We Don't Know

BuzzFeed/FWD promises to answer such question as:

• Why can’t I watch Jurassic Park II on Netflix?
• How did Google know I was going to type that?
• Is Klout... real?
• What is Bing?
• Is it weird to sleep with your phone under your pillow? Or on top of your computer?
• Does Apple hate us?
• Is there a right way to send pictures of naked body parts to other people?
• Fuck/marry/kill: Foursquare, Twitter, Bing

Points for using the word "fuck" in the first letter from the editors. And, oh yeah, fuck Foursquare, marry Twitter, kill Bing. That's not really a fair fight.