Did Ron Jeremy Sleep in Rupert Murdoch’s Bed?

Both Rupert Murdoch and Ron Jeremy were seen within 24 hours by this reporter at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco.  Murdoch owns some of the largest   media assets in the world and Jeremy  – famed adult film star – is also renown for his sizable assets.   Murdoch was addressing the Silicon Valley Intelligencia and [...]

Facebook Friend Request Lands Man in Jail

And remember kids, if you’ve got a restraining order against you, be careful about those super pokes:
A 37-year-old British man had been given a no-contact order after harassing his wife with text messages and phone calls. When he joined Facebook, he checked the box that would invite his entire address book to join as well. [...]

The World’s Largest Wifi Community

Whoa, this is astonishing news. British Telecom, the behemoth dinosaur telco of the UK, has just announced a mega deal with FON, the free community WiFi service. The upshot of the whole shebang is that BT’s 3 million broadband customers will be encouraged – say that again? – to share WiFi and their home broadband [...]

Bush OK’d torture: Warning Graphic Images

The level of hypocrisy here is  staggering even by political standards:
WASHINGTON – The Justice Department under Alberto Gonzales’s leadership issued a secret opinion in 2005 authorizing use of painful physical and psychological tactics against terror suspects, including simulated drownings and freezing temperatures, it was reported.
The secret opinion, which explicitly allowed using the painful methods in [...]

Jail for Canadian Students

Ok, so I admit the headline here is a bit sensational but I couldn’t resist given the subject.  I just got this email from my alumni:
Queen’s University and Canada Lands Company (CLC) today announced that the university will acquire the former site of the Federal Prison for Women in Kingston effective January 2008.
“We’re very pleased [...]

Oops… Senator accidentally shows students porn

This is priceless.  It’s not often you get to tag a news story with both ‘civics lesson’ and ‘nude’.  I’d go through High School all over again just to witness the discomfort this must have evolked…
State Rep. Matthew Barrett was giving a civics lesson Tuesday when he inserted a data memory stick into [...]

Wes Clark vs. Rush Limbaugh

Wesley Clark is asking Congress to take Rush off Armed Forces Radio:
Last week, Rush Limbaugh labeled any American soldier who supports an end to the war in Iraq as “phony.” We challenged Limbaugh through an email campaign to invite VoteVets.org’s Jon Soltz to his show and repeat these same insults to an Iraq war veteran’s [...]

Once-puritan South Africa holds its first sex fair

When I lived in South Africa Playboy was illegal.  It seems the country has now found its mojo:
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – South Africans queued to learn about sex toys and pole-dancing this weekend, at the first sex fair ever held in a country founded by conservative Christians and still home to many sexual taboos.

The exhibition, modeled [...]

Support the Monks’ protest in Burma

A Day of International Action for a Free Burma
Free Aung San Suu Kyi & Support the Monks in Burma
Saturday 6TH OCTOBER 2007
Time: 12 NOON in every major city across the world
We are marching in solidarity with the monks and ordinary people of Burma who are risking their lives for freedom and democracy.
We appeal to all [...]

Verizon Gets into Censoring Text Messages

You’d think Verizon would want to stay as far away from this as they could but…
Verizon Reverses Course on Abortion Text-Messaging: “If you want to see what the Internet will look like in a few years without net neutrality, you need look no further than this week’s stories about Verizon Wireless’ attempts to censor messages [...]