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ISPs in Iran, Tunisia also use SmartFilter (which blocks BoingBoing as “nudity”)

Monday, February 27th, 2006

Snip from a June, 2005 post on the Global Voices blog, about a report issued last year by The OpenNet Initiative and Berkman Center -- Internet Filtering in Iran (PDF). Snip from executive summary (PDF): Iran is also one of a ...

Microwaved penis in Pittsburgh turns out to be sex toy Whizzinator

Friday, February 24th, 2006

The severed penis a gas station clerk spotted in a microwave turned out to be a pee-filled sex toy gadget for drug test evasion. A couple entered the GetGo station in the 200 block of Fifth Avenue about 5:10 p.m., and the ...

Vintage mink Olympic penis-cozy for sale on eBay

Tuesday, February 14th, 2006

All you need to know: "THE JETSTREAM DELUXE FUR PENISMUFFLER 100% REAL MINK, HANDMADE BY PROMINENT NYC FURRIER IN THE 1960'S, NEW & NEVER USED. SELECTED BY THE US SKIING OLYMPIC COMMITTEE (SEE PICS)." Link. (Thanks, Violet Blue!)

Electronic Musical instruments from 1970 to 1990

Monday, February 6th, 2006

On obsolete.com, a comprehensive history of 120 years in electronic music machines. Shown here: Elisha Gray's Musical Telegraph of 1876. Gray accidentally dicovered that he could control sound from a self vibrating electromagnetic circuit and in doing so invented a basic single ...

Found in Korea: “Brack Power” condoms. “Piece! Respect!”

Sunday, February 5th, 2006

While traveling in South Korea, Boing Boing reader Newley Purnell happened upon a box of black-colored condoms in a Seoul shop. The copy on the box reads, "Keep it real. Keep on faith. Keep on going. Piece! Stay real! We are ...

What would you do with one hundred 99-cent dildos?

Friday, February 3rd, 2006

Greg Nog says, Back in August, you had a link to an Amazon sale on less-than-a-dollar sex toys (Link). Upon following the link, I did the only thing any upstanding young man would have done: I bought 100 of them, and ...

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 ...