Year: 2008

Canada’s obscenity ban includes an old standard, classic comic

I caught this item at Slate, a little bit on how The Canada Border Services Agency prohibits the importation of any materials “deemed to be obscene”, and that their new guide is a bit puzzling (and the irony is not lost on me that they published their new guidelines for obscene DVDs, books, comics, etc.…

Still from Vampyros Lesbos via Tmrrw Never Knows’ great collection. There’s a very obvious reason Anne Rice’s Vampire Chronicles were so cult-like successful: they were erotic to the core, and Lestat was evil, an anti-hero rife with sexual tension and bloodlusty pathos. I just read that fallen atheist, born-again (after she wrote the good stuff)…

Image via h.andras_xms. The Geek Squad has been known for their file-rifling, porn-stealing issues for a while (thanks to Consumerist). But only when local blogger Ariel Waldman asked about their classic, “it’s sex so who cares” issues at a San Francisco marketing and customer service summit conference, did Best Buy’s Geek Squad’s privacy, porn, sex…

Back when I had expendable cash, I purchased an Eye-Fi card, in hopes that I could liveblog parties and conventions/summits and events from my nice(er) camera than the phonecammy (but crazy reliable) Helio Ocean. I got it off Amazon, it worked once. In someone elses’ house; I tried to reconfigure it to work in *my…

Today I’m on the front page of Melbourne’s newspaper, The Age (story here): It’s officially a meme — the hilarious Steve Jobs Is Your New Bicycle generator comes up with this as a possible result (thanks C!): And it just wouldn’t be a nice day without seeing something like this (Merkley??? does household chores):