Interesting Links for 15-11-2015
- Fallout 4's release caused Pornhub's traffic to plummet
And Pornhub responded by looking at the data in some detail.
Interesting Links for 07-09-2015
- Releasing Osama Bin Laden’s Porn Stash
Or, more accurately, releasing the porn stash found in his compound.
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Interesting Links for 04-01-2014
- David Cameron's internet porn filter is the start of censorship creep | Laurie Penny
- Happy 40th birthday to Dungeons and Dragons | Mary Hamilton
- Facebook faces lawsuit for allegedly scanning private messages | PCWorld
'Swiss firm High-Tech Bridge, for example, reported in August it used a dedicated Web server and generated a secret URL for each of the 50 largest social networks, Web services and free email systems it was testing for their respect of user privacy.'
- I am the guy with two penises. AMA. — Reddit
NSFW text and links to NSFW images, duh. 'Just to summarize what we've learnt. He's bisexual. He's attractive. He's lives in a threesome. He likes fisting others and being fisted. He likes putting things down his urethra. He casually mentions the time six people had sex with him simultaneously. He shoots 12 times when he cums. Straight men magically turn bicurious around him. And on top of that, he has two penises. Well played, God. Good to know you didn't waste that extra penis on a prude.'
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Interesting Links for 16-08-2013
- www.themediablog.co.uk
Spare a thought for academic Dr Jude Roberts who admitted on Newsnight on Wednesday night that she uses porn. A minute or so later the caption writers at the BBC had made the necessary changes to her billing and stripped her of her PhD.
- 4 Copy Editors Killed In Ongoing AP Style, Chicago Manual Gang Violence | The Onion - America's Finest News Source
''graffiti tags in which the word “anti-social” had been corrected to read 'antisocial.''
- 27 Pictures That Will Change The Way You Look At The World
Ahh, data :)
- 'I said to Klaus Barbie: I want people to see your human side' | World news | The Guardian
'French lawyer Jacques Vergès has represented some of the 20th century's most notorious criminals.'
- Women who fear being forced to marry abroad told to hide spoon in underwear | World news | The Guardian
Charity advises women and young girls to set off airport metal detectors to give them more time to seek help from authorities
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Interesting Links for 15-08-2013
- Blood in Your Eye: Why We Need Violent Stories -- Vulture
'we generally demonize violent acts and violent work. We make them Other, and we just distance ourselves. They are Other, and they didn’t come from us, and we’re just going to stand over there and shake our heads sadly. And, moreover, anyone who gets closer to it in order to experience or understand it must be a freak.'
- Gmail Users Shouldn't Expect Privacy, Google Says In Filing : The Two-Way : NPR
- Newsnight strips "porn user" of her PhD - The Media Blog
Spare a thought for academic Dr Jude Roberts who admitted on Newsnight on Wednesday night that she uses porn. A minute or so later the caption writers at the BBC had made the necessary changes to her billing and stripped her of her PhD.
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Interesting Links for 01-07-2013
- Non-baby news events crunched into this week
'A BBC spokesman said: “We’re working with the Illuminati and other shady puppeteers to accelerate world happenings and ‘clear the decks for baby’.'
- BBC News - Web porn: Just how much is there?
'Many things in porn are exaggerated, including the statistics regularly quoted to show how much pornography is on the web.'
- BBC News - The rise of the extreme house-sitter
- BBC News - Smethwick fire: Chinese lanterns blamed for 'largest blaze'
'A huge fire involving 100,000 tonnes of plastic recycling material, thought to have been sparked by Chinese lanterns, has been contained say firefighters.'
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Interesting Links for 21-02-2013
- Prime minister's private dinners net Tories £700,000 | Politics | The Guardian
'Conservatives accused of taking cash for government access as Labour insists receptions for its donors are different'
- How one man's lies almost destroyed the comics industry
'A new investigation of Wertham's papers by University of Illinois information studies professor Carol Tilley has revealed that the psychiatrist fabricated, exaggerated, and selectively edited his data to bolster his argument that comics caused antisocial behavior.'
- Why do we let the Prudocracy police our sexual fantasies?
'I masturbate. You masturbate. Let's not get our knickers in such a twist about it'
- Juries could be open to more scrutiny, two top lawyers say - Telegraph
'Lord Woolf, a former Lord Chief Justice, and Lord Macdonald, a former Director of Public Prosecutions, said the system could be improved after a jury was criticised for showing "fundamental deficits of understanding" during the trial of Vicky Pryce.'
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Interesting Links for 23-01-2013
- Nepal to Issue 'Third Gender' IDs - ABC News
- '2 girls 1 cup' producer sentenced to 4 years in federal prison | Circa News
'for producing, distributing and selling obscene videos.'
- The dark side of Buddhism | Rationalist Association
Is Buddhism harmful? Karma suggests your life's events can be dominated by a past life's misdeeds, & if the thought, "I am happy right now", can never occur without an accompanying, "And I am just delaying my ultimate fulfillment in being so", then what, essentially, has life become?
- BBC News - Cameron speech: France offers 'red carpet' to UK firms
'France will welcome any businesses that leave the UK, should the country exit the European Union'
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Interesting Links for 16-12-2012
- BBC News - Internet porn: Automatic block rejected
Ministers have rejected plans to automatically block internet access to pornography on all computers, saying the move is not widely supported.
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Interesting Links for 27-03-2012
- MPs try to overturn 'God can heal' ad ban | Total Politics
'they want the Advertising Standards Authority to produce "indisputable scientific evidence" to say that prayer does not work - otherwise they will raise the issue in Parliament.'
- May be months to stop North Sea gas cloud - Total | Reuters
'A cloud of explosive natural gas boiling out of the North Sea from a leak at Total's abandoned Elgin platform forced wider evacuations off the Scottish coast'
- BBC News - Google under fire in UK MPs report into privacy
'called on Google to introduce an algorithm to remove search links found to be in breach of privacy - or face legislation to force it to do so.'
- How GPs are set to make a killing out of NHS reform - UK Politics - UK - The Independent
'One in three who publicly supports change may have conflicts of interest'
- O2 forced to expose 'porn downloaders' - Telegraph
'personal details handed to a pornographer who claims they unlawfully downloaded his films'