Year: 2010

* This afternoon, porn companies Wicked Pictures and Vivid suspended production after the AIM quarantine of an HIV-positive male performer. AIM is quarantining and testing all performers known to have worked with the Individual. (latimesblogs.latimes.com, blogs.laweekly.com, google.com/AP) UPDATE 10.16.10: Radar is stating that the identity of the performer is becoming known, and he may be…

OkCupid has done some great dating data mining for posts on their OkTrends blog, and some not-so-great. This week they posted Gay Sex vs. Straight Sex where they examine the widely-held cultural assumption that gay dudes will do anything to have sex with straight guys and that gay people inherently intend by their very nature…

It wasn’t the intention, but it was the outcome. Now we know for certain that “sex positive” is illegal (and offensive/obscene) in Libya. It is also apparently a criminal thing (be it noun, verb or adjective). Even in the Libyans’ response, it’s clear they don’t understand what sex-positive means. They seem to think it means…

* Who needs a link shortener? Okay, I’m sick of it now, too… High on the success of their bras promising to make women’s breasts two sizes larger, UK department store retailer Marks and Spencer is doing the same thing for men, ostensibly to give the impression that they have longer linkage than the next…

Official: vb.ly Link Shortener Seized by Libyan Government

This is also posted on Techyum if you want a work-safe link. Also read this chilling post about what happened with vb.ly in The .ly domain space to be considered unsafe (benmetcalfe.com). It’s official: the Libyan government has seized vb.ly. This was done with no warning. Despite the fact that vb.ly was a one-page link-shortening…