Category: Tech

In the Mercury News, a victory for bloggers, the EFF and First Amendment protections. Snip: “In a 69-page ruling, the San Jose-based 6th District Court of Appeal broke new ground by concluding that bloggers and Web masters enjoy the same protections against divulging confidential sources as established media organizations. Civil liberties groups and journalism organizations…

I just sent out 191 rejection letters for submissions to Best Women’s Erotica 2007. I still have more to send. For some fucked up reason I decided to use Yahoo as my mail client for book subs. From the first reply to the last, I was stopped mid-send by Yahoo’s spam guard and required to…

My friend Scott is a huge Second Life fan. At his New Year’s party we spent a tipsy few minutes in the kitchen where he explained why I should be interested in it, and about its various controversies — which interested me more. I went home and signed up, downloaded it, and spent the next…

Must-see geek TV! This is my favoritest video that I’ve ever been in, ever! I attended Nerd Salon and spontaneously became my Geek Entertainment TV correspondent self to interview Annalee Newitz, Jennifer Granick and Phillip Torrone. We’re all having way, way too much fun. Watch and enjoy! Text: “How can anyone say no to cockfighting…

A reader who wishes to remain anonymous has tipped me to the SCOTUS decision that will effectively bury patent trolls. This is incredible news for the field of teledildonics invention and innovation, which has been kept in a stranglehold by a single patent and its enforcers for several years. It’s all thanks to eBay. Snip…

This is so cool: in about five minutes I learned how to turn one of my filthy dirty pics of lesbians having sex with feet and baguettes into a stencil. I was link checking my last post and got lost on the Make blog, then found their post on how to covert images into stencils…

Who reads Playboy anymore? I have no idea, but since striking up a friendship with the horny podcasters over at Playboy UK last year, I’ve been just kind of bemusedly watching our domestic version struggle along trying to catch up with… well, everything. The US version of Playboy, to me, has become synonymous with people…

Parents shouldn’t be worried about naughty podcasts or iPod porn — there’s a bigger threat out there… Juice Box Pr0n! Since I can’t seem to get Phillip to let me edit an issue of Naughty Make (he, in fact, pretends not to know me when I bring it up no matter how much blow and…

Hope this works! Blip.tv looks extra hella cool. Here’s my text: Liz Hickok’s amazing installation San Francisco in Jell-O was featured as part of the earthquake exhibit at the Exploratorium in San Francisco, last saturday, April 1st. This is my video of the teeny-tiny jello SF; I was sad it was only of the Exploratorium…