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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 ...
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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 ...
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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!)
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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.
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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 ...
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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 ...
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