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?

Mr. Kanojia (Photo: informitv.com)

New York Tech Meetup heroes Aereo released a new deal today geared towards those who want to try the broadcast TV streaming service without actually having to commit. Paging NYC dudes under 30! (Ba dum tsch.)

The new feature, called "Try for Free," allows users to access Aereo for one hour daily without ever having to sign up or input their credit card info. So if you start watching a program on Aereo at 3 p.m., you'll have access to the service until 4 p.m. You won't be able to DVR anything, though.

Try for Free is a rather ingenious ploy, staged to pull in new users who may hit their hourly usage max and opt to go for one of the paid plans. It also broadens Aereo's reach, pulling in new users who were maybe skeptical about the service at first, but who are willing to try it for free. And, as AllThingsD Peter Kafka pointed out, think about how useful it could be for people interested in catching a bit of a football game come Fall.

“We know that one size does not fit all, that’s why we’ve designed our new pricing structure to work for a wide variety of lifestyles,” said Aereo CEO Chet Kanojia in a press release.  “Whether you want a day pass to watch the ‘big game’ on your mobile device or an annual membership that provides you with 40 hours of DVR storage, we have a plan that works for you. Our pricing is designed to work with the consumer – not against them.”

And, as if you needed any more reason to move to New York, it's still only available to people based in NYC. Sorry, Valley.

GUNS AND STEEL. Remember Silk Road, the website with an absurdly-long URL where you can buy drugs and other wonderful things with Bitcoin, and lots of its harmless customers gave quotes to Gawker? There's a similar underground site that's a little more ominous, a source tells Betabeat. It's called Metal Storm--another common name that makes it tough to find by a search--and senators might want to pay more attention to this one, because it sells guns.

GROUPME'S MILLIONS. Betabeat reported that Skype payed "more than $50 million" (and 47 signed Taylor Swift CDs!) for GroupMe, a figure we confirmed with two sources close to the company. But later All Things D reported $85 million and the blogosphere ran with it. Welp, we figured, that is more than $50 mm. But now TechCrunch king Mike Arrington, who's been historically possessive of news around the start-up born at his own hackathon, is saying something different in a post titled "What Skype Really Paid for Groupme." Well. "Our sources close to the companies say the initial payment for GroupMe is $43 million, and deferred payments (or an earnout) can get the GroupMe shareholders as much as $68 million over four years. The founders will receive another few million dollars as part of their long term employment agreements."

But here's the fun part. "As an aside, when we add estimated acquisition prices to CrunchBase, we usually put in the higher number instead of a range. I like being optimistic, and we can always edit it downward later if new information becomes available."

SEED-STAGE SLAUGHTER. Blind item! What mommy-centric group-buying start-up with a New York founder just acquired another mommy-centric group-buying start-up based in Manhattan?

NEW THING. Forrst founder Kyle Bragger has a new start-up and it's "now finished enough to start using it for real." The site is password-protected, and so far the Twitter account is mum.

REPUTATION MANAGEMENT. Real-time mini-gig sites like Coffee & Power, Fiverr, Zaarly and the grand-daddy Craigslist are fueling the market for fake reviews on Yelp, Google Places, and even Foursquare. "My team will write 6, 5-star, KEYWORD reviews of your business or website listed on Google Maps reviews. All reviews 5 star. These are very postive reviews, saying great things about your listing. Not only will these reviews help get on page one in Google Maps, but they will help you tremendously to make sales. They serve as testimonials as well as sales pages at the same time. One paragraph long. Up to 60 reviews per listing available. No adult."