Archive for December, 2005

YASGL (Yet Another Sexy Geeks List for 2005)

Tuesday, December 27th, 2005

Wired News has compiled a list of carbon-based lifeforms who tip the hot-ometer reading to "circuit overload." This list of 2005's top ten sexiest geeks includes podcaster Violet Blue, publisher Nick Denton, and -- my heart be still! -- "Judge John Jones ...

Dirty holiday podcast from Violet Blue

Sunday, December 25th, 2005

Not so much a war on Christmas, as subversion from within. 30 MB of "hot holiday smut" in this week's edition of author and blogger Violet Blue's "Open Source Sex" podcast. Details, and download link. NSFW, sexually explicit.

Tribe.net pre-emptively censors groups in fear of fed 2257 law

Thursday, December 22nd, 2005

Over at Fleshbot, Violet Blue writes, Once upon a time there were plenty of reasons to visit social networking site Tribe.net, even if you weren’t a member; the online community fostered groups with open dialogues about sex and culture and created resources ...

Violet Blue’s Top Ten Sexiest Geeks of 2005

Wednesday, December 21st, 2005

Multimediatrix and sex educator Violet Blue has posted her list of "Top Ten Sexiest Geeks of 2005." Quite a few BoingBoing pals and people whose names are familiar to BB readers made the list. How exciting! Ken Goldberg, Jacob Appelbaum, and ...

MP3s of Everything You Know About Sex Is Wrong

Monday, December 19th, 2005

My favorite forbidden information muckraker, Russ Kick, says: "Violet Blue, Jill Morley, Libby Lynn, and Russ Kick read portions of their essays from the anthology 'Everything You Know About Sex Is Wrong.'" Link

Tribe.net self-censoring to conform with 2257 porn laws?

Friday, December 9th, 2005

Author and sexblogger/podcaster Violet Blue tells Boing Boing that popular social networking site Tribe.net is proactively, voluntarily applying 2257 laws to its members and service architecture. This makes approximately zero-to-the-tenth-power sense. Tribe is not a producer of content, they're a forum for ...

Rhinestone Brass Knuckles

Wednesday, December 7th, 2005

Make the world your bitch -- elegantly -- with a set of rhinestone-encrusted brass knuckles in gold or silver. Link (Thanks, Violet Blue!)