Nailgate: A Rhapsody in Pink Roundup I’m a little bit late to the nail-painting party on this one, but it’s just so much fun to...
Oh, Also, They Found Atlantis While I was busy watching the silly frog waving the zirconium-clad fuel rods, they found Atlantis. Just goes to...
Bath Salts: The New Drug Menace It’s official. Putting a Google Alert on “Designer Drugs” gets you way more salacious news hits than “lighter than...
Guccione’s Smut-by-Mail Past, Alleged Mob Connections The official story on Penthouse founder Bob Guccione has always been that he entered the porn business in 1964...
New Huck Finn Edition Eliminates “That Word” A new edition of Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn edits out the N-word, which I hereby, in protest, refuse to...
Amazon Erotica Authors Complain of Content-Based Removal A kerfuffle has erupted recently among authors of erotica who have published Kindle titles on Amazon.com. It turns out...
The Cyberwar Scorecard Over at ZDNet, Techyum’s own Violet Blue offers the best explanation yet of what exactly is meant (or not...
Operation Confused Blogger UPDATE 12/12/2010: Check out CNET’s article on how Anonymous Anonymous really is, which mentions the one arrest so far...
Cyberwar! The Myth of Point/Counterpoint in the NYT and The Guardian When a cyberwar shows up on page 1 of the New York Times, you know it’s really a cyberwar,...
Why College No Longer Blows: Television and Brrrrrrrrrrraaaaaaaaaaaaiiiiiiiiiinnnnnnssss There’s a story by Debra Levi Holtz in today’s SF Chronicle about a new course at UC Berkeley that...