- I am so proud of Apple for admitting that they released a product before it was finished. (Meanwhile, Siri still thinks rape is a domestic dispute, and no one notices.) And no, I’m not done with this topic yet. Apple Says Siri’s Abortion Answers Are a Glitch (NYTimes.com)
- Lady Gaga really bares all for Annie Leibovitz in Vanity Fair’s January 2012 issue. Lady Gaga: Vanity Fair January ’12 (Fashionising, image via)
- Instant chills, of the good kind. Michele Bachmann tries to railroad a young student about gay marriage and civil rights, and has her ass handed to her. Hero High School Student Fights Michele Bachmann Over Gay Marriage (Gawker)
- A damn good question for Guardian UK about biased sex coverage from Dr. Petra Boyton. #pornified conference (Twitter)
- Friends with benefits, booty calls, hook-ups and one-night stands are just a few of the arrangements outlined in a new study exploring the sexual landscape among Canadians ages 18 to 24. And it found each relationship has specific ground rules when it comes to behaviour, communication, monogamy and secrecy. The study, released Thursday, was published the Canadian Journal of Human Sexuality. New sex study finds all kinds of friends with benefits (The Star)
- A $20 program to go through your hubby’s computer and rat out his porn collection… is a great trick, but definitely signals a serious relationship issue. The article is fantastic, and the comments where hackers and technologists try it out and find to to be a fraud are… priceless. Find His Porn: Evil Website of the Week (Hacker News)
- Students at a top-rated Massachusetts public high school are blasting WFXT and investigative reporter Mike Beaudet for confronting a teacher about his apparent porn star past. Students Blast WFXT for Investigating High School Teacher’s Porn Star Past (TVSpy)
- It’s all about the cartoons and lady parts, apparently. A nine year old gets his cousin’s laptop for a minute and guess what’s found in the history? So I let my 9 year old cousin on my laptop… Here’s the history (Reddit)
- They got this meme wrong… Soooo wrong, it’s tragicomic. Hey Onion – is this you reporting on Pedobear and the dangers of cute bears online? Pedobear on KRQE News (YouTube)
- A small church in Pike County, Kentucky has voted to ban interracial couples from most church activities “to promote greater unity among the church body.” Kentucky church bans interracial couples (The Raw Story)
- BRAVO! “We’ve received a ton of negative feedback lately on our Girls and Boys Novelty Kits categories, through emails, blog posts, tweets — you name it. Today, I’d like to announce a change to our site — one that better reflects our beliefs. We have officially removed the Girls and Boys Novelty Kits categories from our site and replaced them with a single Novelty Science Kits category.” On Girls/Boys Novelty Kits (Edmund Scientifics’ Official Blog, thanks ThrstleFantstic)
- The agency representing Olla Condoms targeted specific men and created actual Facebook profiles for their unborn children (by tacking “Jr.” on to their names), who then attempt to friend Daddy. Friend Request From Your Unborn Child Is Actually a Condom Ad (Adweek)
- “When Victoria’s Secret wants to use a corset in their annual fashion show, who do they call? They call Period Corsets.” An Interview with Period Corsets®: The Corset Makers For the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show (The Lingerie Addict)
- Penn State University officials paid $200 per domain and bought up .xxx URLs that included the terms Penn State, PSU, Nittany Lions and The Pennsylvania State University. Penn State Buys Up Porn Domains (NBC Philadelphia)
JT and AK image via Canv.as.
Regarding the Pedobear news segment — that was surreal! This time of year, though, it occurs to me that this segment gets even creepier if you replace “pedobear” with “santa”. Try it “they put [santa] in games designed to attract children to their websites” or “[santa stickers] even seen on two cars in albuquerque”.
@Michael Martine: I thought she did, and that’s my opinion. I appreciate you disagreeing with me, but if you explained yourself instead of just driving by and saying ‘you’re wrong!’ you’d be leaving a more constructive comment and looking less like someone who just wants to disagree for the sake of it.
That article of the Kentucky church is absolutely appalling. But thank you for posting it.
@Michael Martine: One of the funniest things to understand about the Bachmann incident is that she’s basically claiming that what is the law of the land is right and moral, and what is right and moral is the law of the land, and neither the twain shall change. Except that she’s saying so in Iowa, where marriage is a right to all couples, regardless of the sexual identity of the individuals in that couple. By her logic, in Iowa, “gay marriage” (or, as we like to call it, “marriage”) is right and moral.
And the “find his porn” thing only tells me that I need to be more clever about encrypting second and third partitions on the laptop’s hard drive.
Thank you for the mention! Loving the link to Lady Gaga’s new shoot.
I didn’t see anything in that Bachman video that even remotely qualified as having her “ass handed to her.” Which is too bad, because that would’ve been awesome if it actually happened.