A very happy holiday wish to all readers, whatever holiday you happen to be celebrating tonight. Me, I’m in bed with a touch of the flu, looking at a night of solitude, Ricola, and Internet TV — actually a night like any other when I’m not out tearing up the town. I’d really hoped to do a podcast for you tonight; a special xmas eve treat, but my throat is where the symptoms are focused, and so a podcast is not going to happen (very, very sadly, as I was really looking forward to that). Nevertheless, inbetween feverish naps, you’ve got me all holiday long. Here are some things of interest that happened in sex, culture, science and news over the past few days:
* True Blood fans: I have your Anna Paquin nude scene on video right here (hbo.com, taxidrivermovie.com).
* A so-called “sex chip” is in development and experimentation by scientists who have discovered that small shocks to the part of the brain that covers pleasures like food and sex can make you horny, darling. Neurosurgery professor Tipu Aziz said: “There is evidence that this chip will work. A few years ago a scientist implanted such a device into the brain of a woman with a low sex drive and turned her into a very sexually active woman. She didn’t like the sudden change, so the wiring in her head was removed.” (telegraph.co.uk, also @ Engadget)
* A new “decency” group is not targeting smut and obsceity in YouYube’s content, they’re going after the vile filth in the comments. Anyone care to comment on that? If so, your a fag. (arstechnica.com)
* Did you know that International Orgasm Day was canceled? Me neither; it was to be on December 21, an orgy, and planned by an Israeli group — though, put your tinfoil g-strings back on — GlobalOrgasm.org was driven into existence by the Raeliens. (inquisitr.com, via Scott)
* Phone apps and porn — or so-called “obscene” content — are having a difficult week. First, we had Banned in Cupertino, where the novel Knife Music by David Carnoy was ejected as an e-book by Apple’s iPhone App Store for having the character dialogue, “fuck me like you meant it” in the text. It wasn’t even a dirty book; it was a crime novel. Thanks, retarded word-matching software. Then, Microsoft released the Seadragon graphics app for the iPhone which is apparently quite well done — except Seadragon was accidentally released with two subfolders of porn. Which were promptly removed (though I’d love to see the pr0n, out of curiosity). If anyone still has “home_two” and “home_s12” let me know… (news.cnet.com, theregister.co.uk)
* This week in dated religious ignorance: the Pope said that defending heterosexuality is as important as saving the world’s rainforests from destruction. Because everyone knows how bad homos are for the environment — why, the methane produced from a single act of lesbian sex could take out an entire island in Greece… oh, right. (guardian.co.uk)
* Sideboob alert, Faith-style: Fleshbot has a nice gallery of Eliza Dushku’s shirt-removal scene from her upcoming film The Alphabet Killer (alphabetkiller.com, sound alert). Looks to me like she had nip-cups on, or her nipples are the same color as her skin. Either way, I’m always excited by the sideboob action. gets me every time. (fleshbot.com)
Yeah, I have to admit, those nipples hold an almost hypnotic power. I’ve seen the pic, checked out the gallery link, etc. – but I keep scrolling down (farther and farther as time passes) every time I visit the page, simply to gaze upon their magnificence.
thank you sooo much! curating the photo for each post is often the most time-consuming part, and it’s something I really love to do.
you have absolutely impeccable taste in photos. wow. those nipples literally made (ok, are making) me drool. can’t blame the snowman for those protruberances at all. yowza. thanks for the xxxmas gift!