* I got an invite to Diaspora, the would-be rival to Facebook: it’s very sexy. And did you know their stance on gender is already so controversial it’s caused an epic public freakout? “Suffice it to say, if Facebook were a dominatrix, she would be out of business by now. Even when your business is customer fear and torment, you still need customer satisfaction and trust. Facebook has neither. Dominatrixes at least know the importance of safeguarding your secrets. Facebook gives people who administer pain and humiliation for a living, a bad name.” Read Diaspora in Pictures: A Candid Walkthrough in Alpha (zdnet.com)
* If a porn site finds users trading illegal porn, should they turn monitoring of the site’s users over to the FBI? Whatever your answer, thanks to The Smoking Gun we now know that it’s already happened at least once. In Porn Site Gave Federal Agents Free Rein, they expose that feds secretly monitored Free6.com users for 16 months. (thesmokinggun.com, via Viviane)
* A very entertaining post by a very sweet pal explores dudes with Asian girl fetishes – in tech, it’s such a thing. Read Mr. Asian Fetish and get a bit of perspective from a straight Asian girl who doesn’t think it’s bad, as she’s shopping for a man, but makes a few things crystal clear. (manshopping.wordpress.com)
* Dear friend Tristan Taormino has a new video coming out next week that I think is going to be on the “required” list for viewing, and likely to go in the standard recommendations: get a peek in her gallery post for The Expert Guide to Female Orgasms. (tristantaormino.tumblr.com)
* Random porn: sometimes I find these really sexy videos of women playing solo, but I hate the “teen” marketing text websites use to sell the content. What do you think? They’re usually not teens anyway (ask any performer). I never know if I should share the hot videos with you. This is one of them; I think she is super sexy. (www.ifgirls.com)
Image of Roxy from CafeGlow (sound alert), featured with video in this post.
Thanks for the shout-out in your post! It rocks my socks to be on a list of Wednesday Nibbles!
Wow. Not having the gender binary makes diaspora much more interesting to me. I’ll have to go check what GNU Social does, although the status.net base doesn’t bother asking for gender at all.
Regarding IFGIRLS… a shaved/waxed/groomed twat is definitely way better like those gurls have there!
Sexy is sexy. Your reader base doesn’t seem the type to either buy into advertising hype, or dismiss something because of it.
I for one welcome our random sexy content!
Interesting article about the feds monitoring the porn site.
I’ve thought for a while now that one of the biggest problems we have regarding the internet is an epidemic of people being unaware of what constitutes “privacy” online. I mean, there are still people who are surprised they can be fired for calling their boss names on Facebook. Nobody seems to understand just what happens to the information they put into their computer and out onto the web, and what their rights are regarding that information.
Unless you are running your own servers, and maintaining your own website and email programs, you don’t have real privacy online. Mails between me and my friends are read by Google because I use Gmail; Amazon compiles and analyzes my every purchase, product rating, and review in an attempt to understand what makes me tick. Hell, even a lot of news sites and blogs anymore analyze my viewing history to find out exactly why I’ve come to their website, and what my motives are (great blog post about Answers In Genesis doing that here: http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2010/12/another_reason_to_avoid_visiti.php#more) Even so-called “private chats” are really taking place between me, the person I’m chatting with, and a third-party server located who-knows-where and monitored by who-knows-who. And that’s not nefarious; that’s just how the internet works.
So for people to be openly trading child pornography via a website (especially one that has the disclaimer “Any illegal activity will be reported to local authorities)… that’s just asking to be arrested, in my opinion. To me, that’s like sitting in a Burger King and conversing where anyone can here you, “Hey man, I’ve got some kiddie-rape videos in my car, if you’re interested.” Would anybody be surprised if a cop that was having lunch overheard and arrested them, or if a manager called the police? No.
People need to learn that just because you’re sitting at home, alone, in the dark, typing on a computer… doesn’t mean that you’re alone on the interwebs. Oh, except for child-molestors: they need to be encouraged to post ads for their material as publicly and openly as possible. Maybe on their Facebook wall, or in an email to fbi.gov.
Sorry for the long rant.
Hi! Love this site. Glad I found you. Keep it up!
Cheers,
Dyna:)