Month: October 2007

Image by aeric meredith-goujon, also seen here. I’ve just sent my Canon PowerShot TX1 off to the service center in some square state, wah! See you in (probably) December, my much-loved, much-used, very needed little video friend. The display suddenly decided the world was upside-down, obviously channeling my internal world these days. At least I…

* Mistaken Identities (fleshbot.com) * Sex Journo Violet Blue Sues Porn Star Violet Blue Over Name (blog.wired.com) * Writer Violet Blue Sues Performer Violet Blue (xbiz.com) I’ll add that if you saw my name listed for a “guest appearance” at the Exotic Erotic Ball this weekend, it’s not me.

My breaking post 6th Circuit 2257 Ruling: 2257 Unconstitutional just went live at Fleshbot! It’s important to read the full article for the details (and they have a copy of the .pdf ruling for download if you want to check it out). But as we all suspected — and now we know we’re not alone…

Censorin’ UR n00dz. Check out this Google AP (!) item — my 2.0 Porn or Not? talk was the same day, sigh: New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo on Tuesday announced an agreement with social networking Web site Facebook to enforce safeguards against obscene content and sexual predators using the site. The agreement calls for…

Seeing images of clothes-on, clothes off in identical poses is one of my fascinations; I think it’s relatively easy (okay, easier) to do with today’s tech. I’ve previously blogged a retro version here and a modern version in full here. But imagine my surprise when I got (1920s, San Francisco based) photographer Albert Arthur Allen’s…

Not sex-related (by strict definition, anyway), but… if you haven’t seen it yet, Galacticast‘s “Starfleet Academy” is one of my favorite episodes to date. Okay, maybe I’m biased — especially to see one of my closest friends, Sean Bonner make a cameo as Wil Wheaton! It’s really kind of dirty just how young Sean looks…

As I mentioned a post back, last night at the DNA Lounge in San Francisco, I gave a five-minute talk for the nationwide O’Reilly Radar Ignite series — my talk was called “Porn or Not?” and discussed how online 2.0 social networking communities (like Flickr) are trying to police their users for adult (or “offensive”…