June 30, 2003
Condom Manufacture
One thing I always find particularly amusing, and tragic, is how I am asked on a regular basis by female partners about when condoms will have been purchased based on their expiry.
Apparently these women's partners will have had some number of condoms stashed away. When discovered they will have some "story" about how these condoms came into their posession. Smelling a rat the women will contact me to see if they are being lied to.
Let me make this easy for you. "Yes."
Howard Dean
I just donated $25 to the Howard Dean campaign. I have been thinking of doing this for several weeks now. I have never ever donated any money to a political campaign. I feel hopeful that he is the guy who will take down the naked emperor.
June 27, 2003
Try Before You Sell
the ads really are not very intelligently placed. I just ran one for this site and it came back with several right wing ads for Hannity and such. Interesting idea and potentially useful to me. But it needs lots of work and maturing as a tool. Also the lack of control through CSS of the appearance of the ads is a definite deal killer for me. If I were to use it I'd have to filter the results for my own appearence requirements which would surely be forbidden by the license.
Answers Now on Distortion of Evidence
Dear friend,
The President took the nation to war based on his assertion that Iraq
posed an imminent threat to our country. Now the evidence that
backed that assertion is falling apart.
If the Bush administration distorted intelligence or knowingly used
false data to support the call to war, it would be an unprecedented
deception. Even if weapons are now found, it'll be difficult to
justify pre-war language that indicated that the exact location of the
weapons was known and that they were ready to deploy at a moment's
notice. With a crisis of credibility brewing abroad and the integrity
of our President and our foreign policy on the line, we need answers
now.
Please join me now in asking Congress to establish an independent,
bipartisan commission to investigate the distortion of evidence.
A President may make no more important decision than whether or not to
take a country to war. If Bush and his officials deceived the
American public to create support for the Iraq war, they need to be
held accountable.
Thanks.
June 26, 2003
SCOTUS Turns Nation Inside Out, Felching at 11
(UPI) June 26, San Antonio, Texas: In response to today's Supreme Court ruling declaring Texas' sodomy law unconstitutional, millions of American men burst forth from their homes into the nearest park, playground or public restroom and began legally buttfucking each other.
"I never did this before because it was illegal," panted 38-year-old IT specialist Drew Morecock between thrusts from a 49-year-old hirsute truck driver. "Here in Texas, we respect the law. I never even jacked off about a man until today. But once the Supreme Court—uuuungh—struck down our state's sodomy law, I didn't waste any time at all! UUUUNGH."
Percy Dovetonsils, a Baptist minister, said as he came up for air after deep-throating 27 men at a San Antonio gym, "If Scalia, Thomas and Rehnquist had gathered just two more votes, I certainly wouldn't have to have my stomach pumped like Rod Stewart. But since the Supreme Court has said yes to sodomy, how could I say no? Hey, you, traffic cop. Come here and plow my ass with your big black nightstick!"
Orlando Domingo, a 27-year-old hair stylist who no one ever suspect had gay urges, agreed. "While the sodomy law was in effect, it prevented me from even considering leaving my wife and two children for a splooge-soaked life at the local drag bar. But as soon as I get the plumber across the street to 'snake out my drainpipe,' if you know what I mean, I'm gonna slip my size-12 feet into the sweetest set of ruby red pumps you ever seen in your life. I'm just a bottle of peroxide away from turning into Jean Harlow! You know, I like the name 'Jean Harlot' even better."
Now that homosexuals will be free to engage in sweaty, spermy man-on-man sex in states where the law completely prevented it all these years, many other cultural changes are expected to develop. Auto repair employees will soon begin greeting each other with, "Oh, Mary!" Football players will continue to slap each other on their firm, round asses, but will follow that old ritual with deep kissing and armpit licking. Unisex toilets will become mandatory, where unsuspecting insurance salesmen will be forced into accepting the tongues of other men inside their virgin assholes until they beg, even plead, for hot, hungry cock. More cows will die to keep up with the surging demand in leather.
Of course the ruling also legalizes sex between women, but that's OK because it will be hot.
Postcards from the Bleeding Edge
It would be a far better world if more politicians spent more time pounding the flesh rather than pressing it. Every minute Clinton spent banging Monica Lewinski he wasn't screwing the rest of us or the world. Every time she knelt before that mighty cigar - she was a heroine.
Because - unlike most Americans - She could take everything a politician could put out - and swallow it!
Result - the greatest economic expansion ever - a massive decline in the murder rate - the biggest corporate party that anyone has ever attended - and something close to world peace was achieved.
Monica Lewinski deserves a frigging medal for all that.
After she stopped seeing the president, this country started going to hell.
Will the Real RSS Validator Please Stand Up?
Notice how Mark takes advantage of his own policy to draw attention to his own flame. Very fascinating the dynamic is which comes from these flame delimiters that Mark & Sam have introduced.
June 24, 2003
Doc Searls Does Chris Who Does the Dial
I fear this is just wishful thinking. Pamphleteers and broadsheeters would be a much better example of a blog-like media from history. At least with them there is some sense of a link between event and time to publish which roughly echoes blogs.
I agree with the comments about Emerson but attempting to run a direct line of blog descendency from journals such as the Dial is just to try and shoehorn a completely unique and new way of publishing into a very old and well trod method. It might feel good but that doesn't mean it fits.
I'd be more interested in tracing the line of ideas which came from the Dial, Pound, Fluxus, etc., and how they inform the milieau of blogs. I don't think structural comparisons really work. Ideas, that's where the gold is to be found.
Anatomy of a Well Formed Log Entry
This is something I can support (easy since I don't write tools for the public) if it results in more interop. I'd like to be able to migrate my posts from tool to tool without penalty or hassle.
Considering the disrespect many of those involved show for each other I am not exactly convinced anything good will come of this though. It was nice to see this morning that Dave linked to Sam's efforts.
Social Software, Clay Shirkey
The second innovation is taxation, because the power to tax is the power to destroy. They get around the LambdaMOO/object overflow problem by taxing player built structures. In the beta world, this seems to have created an event-driven social scene, where several players created an unbelievably intricate wedding palace, down to designing the decoration on the cake, and then took it down before the tax bots swept through.
Dr. Elna McIntosh
does good job of highlighting some of the interesting & difficult aspects of being bisexual. Especially appealing is her breakdown of the various shades of bisexuality, as defined by J.R. Little.
Clinton Administration Hunting Bin Laden at Handover, Bush Screws Pooch, 9/11
When President Bush took office in January 2001, the White House was told that Predator drones had recently spotted Osama bin Laden as many as three times and officials were urged to arm the unmanned planes with missiles to kill the al-Qaida leader.
But the administration failed to get drones back into the Afghan skies until after the September 11 attacks later that year, current and former U.S. officials say.
Top administration officials discussed the mission to kill bin Laden as late as one week before the suicide attacks on New York and Washington, but they had not yet resolved a debate over whether the CIA or Pentagon should operate the armed Predators and whether the missiles would be sufficiently lethal, officials told The Associated Press.
Liz Phair
Give me your hot white cum. Give me your hot white cum. Give me your hot white cum.
excellent album
June 23, 2003
Pepsi Advocates Something Better Than Masturbating
film at 11. (Wow the quality of this photoshop job is breathtaking.)
Scott Rosenberg
makes some very astute points here. Especially the last one. I love my unix based Mac. I can't tell you how nice it is to have a command line to run my laptop. When I bought my first Powerbook in 1995 I had been doing a lot of work on Sun and it seemed such a comfortable way of working to do everything through the command line. I remember writing a note to myself to look for a laptop that had a command line. I never found one. But I remember rumors of Linux builds on partitions on others laptops. When I started using OS X it was like a dream come true.
Erotica L.A. 2003
Saturday I spent the day at Erotica Los Angeles. It was a lot of fun. By the time midnight arrived I was exhausted and glad to be out of there. The world of adult entertainment is a lot of fun to visit. I wouldn't want to live there though.
In heterosexual circles the ladies tend be needy, insane, or heavy drug users. (I'd love to meet one that isn't though) Not exactly the kind of healthy combination I need in my life. Some of those ladies are so beautiful though.
(I don't know why but when I first wrote the above paragraph I used the word girl. I had to go back and change it afterwards. It troubled me that I chose the word girls. But I have no problems with being considered one of the boys?)
We were set up in a booth right next to the Spearmint Rhino pole dancing setup. For several hours I got to watch the ladies dance on that pole. Some of them were amazingly proficient. Some were obviously just learning the skills needed to dance a good pole. (Not that I would know what it takes - some day I'll have to post my two poor experiences in strip clubs) I cam away from it with a new appreciation for the skills involved in pole dancing. I think over the next few weeks I'm going to try catching a few strip clubs to see what it is like (now that I have decided to become an officianado of pole dancing.)
One of the strange things I encountered at the show is the Rubher. This just strikes me as they most bizarre sexual device. It's essentially a complete groin condom. But it has these little nubs inside of it. You put lube inside it and apparently it can make for some "exciting" walking, working, etc.. If you couple this with dry humping with a partner it could be fun. Perhaps I'll test drive one.
I have in my hand a Consent Condom. It is really hard for me to believe anyone would ever buy one of these. "Honey I love you, but would you please put your thumb print on this pad to certify that you fully intend to fuck me." "But your honor, judge, of course I didn't rape her, see here's her thumbprint. She consented to rough sex. "
June 22, 2003
David Frum's
"Axis of Evil" speech may send more Americans to their early graves than anything said since the Civil War.
June 21, 2003
Announcing the Launch of the Incest Project
Since I have the domain which returns the number one result for the key word 'sex' on Google and have had the site for a long time, five years now, I get an enormous amout of spam related to sex. I am currently receiving in eccess of 50k pieces of spam a month largely related to sex. One pernicious example of this category of spam are the incest stories.
Here's an example:
I get a twinge every time I see one of these messages in my in-box.
We're having technical problems. Back soon.
The Safer Sex Page
is down for server maintenance. It should be back up soon. I about had a heart attack because I feared I had gone over my bandwidth usage limit again.
June 20, 2003
Douglas Hofstadter
It occurs to me it is time to read pieces like Little Harmonic Labyrinth, Sonata for Unaccompanied Achilles, & Birthday Cantatatata... to K. I think she is of sufficient age. It could be a lot of fun if we listen to the appropriate Sonatas, learn about the myth of Achilles, the role of the turtle in the Greek myth, the role of the turtle in various creation stories, and really play up the stagingcraft of it she may really have fun and learn a bunch of stuff.
June 19, 2003
Recently Changed Weblogs
It looks like the Salon Community server will hit a high water mark today.
UPDATE Apparently I have been confused for a while. I was under the impression the update list was a 24 hour gig. It is not. Since I originally made this post the bottom of the list has moved from 6 something in the morning to 8 something in the morning. It looks like it's a trailing 12 hour period of reporting. I'm not sure how to understand this. (I am reminded of this.)
The end result being that the "high water mark" bears more to do with a higher frequency of posting rather than a higher volume of posts per day.
Blogshares Update
Arthur Coddington, Diggidy Dank (Is he any relation to Mulch Diggums?), Nat, & Jase Wells are shareholders in filchyboy. Apparently this blog is a good investment as it's value has grown over 900% in the last month.
June 18, 2003
Sound Advice from a Frustrated Doc
My Advice - Go private and waste your own money on something you are responsible for. Start reading my column to learn something about health issues, wear condoms, don't cheat on your girlfriend, and get a life.
June 17, 2003
Gay Marriage & Romantic Love
I can't help but wonder if anyone has ever written about how, if those against gay marriage continue to have their way, the "conservative" notion that gays are welcome to marriage all they want as long as they marry straights is tantamount to denying gays a marriage defined by "love".
As you may be aware long ago marriages were decided predominantly by familial political and/or fiduciary criteria. Eventually in Europe the notion of a romantic love was born. Today in most modern societies the notion of a marriage based upon love is considered to be normal. But not for gays; today, if a homosexual or lesbian choose to be married in most modern societies, they must marry for political or fiduciary criteria.
You Know You Are in the Wrong Lane
when the car in front of you has a placard in the window that says "student driver" and the person driving is reading the instructions and attempting to set up his new cell phone.
June 15, 2003
The Gay Agenda
Thanks for coming today, not that you had any choice. My name is Mr. Arthur, but you can call me Mr. Arthur. Today is your first day as officially gay, and I'm here to answer any questions you may have.
June 14, 2003
Alison Reminds Me
how traumatic and life changing my time was. I don't recall most of the details as it was so long ago. But I'll never forget the chap who was a tremendous pool shark and a very very very rich boy. He was in over his head.
I was pissed and resentful the whole time because my situation was just so damn unjust. In the end I stole two books as my own petty revenge. I walked out with the Illustrated Man & the first Foundation book and my head held high. If they could probe my ass for fear of my mom slipping a file up there then I could damn well walk out of YDC with purloined literature.
To this day I am proud of that.
June 12, 2003
Condoms for Prevention of Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Prevention is the most effective strategy for controlling the spread of infectious diseases. Prevention through avoiding exposure is the best strategy for controlling the spread of sexually transmitted disease (STD). Behavior that eliminates or reduces the risk of one STD will likely reduce the risk of all STDs.
I'm finally getting resources back in place after the recent move to a new server. It looks like many of the documents are going to fall into a more standardized format. One of my biggest problems for quite a while now has been the trailing pile of documents I have in the archives which have yet to be updated to the new format. I have put a lot of work into designing a way to avoid this from now on. Today I bring you a document originally published in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report from March of 1998.
One thing I am finding is that I really need to be more proactive about caching copies of page which I link to. I am finding lots of resources have simply disappeared. Very sad.
Font Edit
I'm changing fonts around here. I have been running Verdana around here for quite a while. Almost 3 years now I think. After checking out Torrez' recent build I decided to make a change. I know Gill Sans doesn't look as sweet on Windows but I don't care really. I do this for me, not you.
Although it may not be obvious I get to blog and work on this stuff all day today. Yea!!!
Which Reminds Me (Newly Digital)
I've been thinking about writing up my own piece for Newly Digital. The only problem is as far as I can tell is that since I don't run Moveable Type I don't have any method of pinging trackback. If you know of a way of doing it manually and would be willing to send me a link please do so. I'd really appreciate it.
Dave Pollard
has done some especially satisfying work here. He has managed to take the raw, very flawed, data contained in the reference stream on the salon blogs community server and cross index it with Technorati link data to get something actually very worthwhile and informative.
I'd like to see this automated so that it is always available. It would be a very nice addition to the toolset offered on the Salon server.
I linked to Dave's post and found it on Technorati just 7 minutes later. I know that Technorati reads the changes.xml file so it should be, at most, a very small lag between when I create the link and when it is recorded by Technorati. This reliance upon the changes file makes the ability to manage multiple changes files when looking at this type of data very important. Curious I checked and sure enough Technorati does read from multiple changes files as it matches Blogger's new changes files. I wonder if LiveJournal generates such a file? Obviously, looked at from my current vantage, it is in the best interest of LiveJournal, Greymatter, Moveable Type, and all the others to feed Google these files so any attempt, I'd wager, to knock Google off its ubiquity in search would have to incorporate this as well.
June 11, 2003
Time Flies Dixie Chicks
Today I was looking at a Los Angeles Times story about the Dixie Chicks at the Grammy Awards in 1999. Things certainly have changed since then. Back then I didn't have much respect for them. I hadn't heard any of their music. (I never heard them until this neweswt album) My only media interaction with them at that point was a silly article in a Southwest Airlines in-flight magazine story about them. I was offended, in some fashion, by the way they dressed. It seemed so anti-country. Normally that would be a boon for me but, I guess, given that I don't generally like country music it just struck me as false. Considering how stylized and false country music is i guess it's understandable to have such a reaction. Of course now I realize that the Dixie Chicks are very accomplished and even inspiring. The Maines remark about Bush was definately a plus.
Time Flies Dixie Chicks
Today I was looking at a Los Angeles Times story about the Dixie Chicks at the Grammy Awards in 1999. Things certainly have changed since then. Back then I didn't have much respect for them. I hadn't heard any of their music. (I never heard them until this neweswt album) My only media interaction with them at that point was a silly article in a Southwest Airlines in-flight magazine story about them. I was offended, in some fashion, by the way they dressed. It seemed so anti-country. Normally that would be a boon for me but, I guess, given that I don't generally like country music it just struck me as false. Considering how stylized and false country music is i guess it's understandable to have such a reaction. Of course now I realize that the Dixie Chicks are very accomplished and even inspiring. The Maines remark about Bush was definately a plus.
June 10, 2003
June 09, 2003
4.24.2003 9:03 PM (I'm part of a coincidence)
This is one of the strangest coincidences I've ever seen.
It started with this thread about Madonna.
Which led to this comment by FilchyBoy.
Which led to this comment by ZenMasterThis.
Which led to this odd connection by BirdDog.
4.24.2003 9:03 PM (I'm part of a coincidence)
This is one of the strangest coincidences I've ever seen.
It started with this thread about Madonna.
Which led to this comment by FilchyBoy.
Which led to this comment by ZenMasterThis.
Which led to this odd connection by BirdDog.
June 08, 2003
Have I Mentioned Recently
Bush is a toad. A dangerously incompetent man whose most likeable qualities are his stunning arrogance. The man should be tried for high crimes against the United States of America, its citizens, and the citizens of Iraq. All of this must blow up in his face. He can't be allowed to shape our poliical life, this lier, this dog, must be kicked to the curb.
Have I Mentioned Recently
Bush is a toad. A dangerously incompetent man whose most likeable qualities are his stunning arrogance. The man should be tried for high crimes against the United States of America, its citizens, and the citizens of Iraq. All of this must blow up in his face. He can't be allowed to shape our poliical life, this lier, this dog, must be
Have I Mentioned Recently
Bush is a toad. A dangerously incompetent man whose most likeable qualities are his stunning arrogance. The man should be tried for high crimes against the United States of America, its citizens, and the citizens of Iraq. All of this must blow up in his face. He can't be allowed to shape our poliical life, this lier, this dog, must be kicked to the curb.
Have I Mentioned Recently
Bush is a toad. A dangerously incompetent man whose most likeable qualities are his stunning arrogance. The man should be tried for high crimes against the United States of America, its citizens, and the citizens of Iraq. All of this must blow up in his face. He can't be allowed to shape our poliical life, this lier, this dog, must be kicked to the curb.
June 07, 2003
June 05, 2003
Cartoonist Loses Job
& pisses off boss. Meanwhile
>Michael Ramirez appears to be still, unfortunately, employed. Seriously Michael your cartoons sometimes just suck! You are supposed to skewer the powers that be, not tow the party line. Calling
>Berkeley Breathed. This is just plain sad.
Morrissey On t.A.T.u
Word: Did you hear t.A.T.u.'s version of "How Soon Is Now?"
Morissey: Yes, it was magnificent. Absolutely. Again, I don't know much about them.
Word: They are teenage Russian lesbians.
Morissey: Well, aren't we all?
"To Perceive the Space Around Myself
>
I stretch my tongue up in the air. The muscle dries. A rigid cracking of my buds as I turn them into the hot wind. I do this without moving my head as the sockets holding my ears pinch when I tilt my chin. To my left the blurring roar of industrial strength forced air popping machines. They pop my environmentally safe packaging, again. I assume I will be shipped out soon.
"The screen in front of my eyes shows, with exquisite detail, the manners and torsions of my body. My visual world exists at the edges of my lashes. Screen at my command I examine my body to vilify these doubts which keep me awake. My eyelids have been removed. Through the screen I examine my world, the great canals and arid expanses of my body.
"With scarcely a moment of trepidation I rectify my response time to coincide with the sweep of the electron gun. Now that our periods have meshed I am aroused. Blood flows through my fingers as my nipples harden and touch the cold stainless steel plate. I feel the striations of steel grip the areola of my left breast. And I am suck."
Cartoonist Loses Job
& pisses off boss. Meanwhile
>Michael Ramirez appears to be still, unfortunately, employed. Seriously Michael your cartoons sometimes just suck! You are supposed to skewer the powers that be, not tow the party line. Calling
>Berkeley Breathed. This is just plain sad.
Morrissey On t.A.T.u
Word: Did you hear t.A.T.u.'s version of "How Soon Is Now?"
Morissey: Yes, it was magnificent. Absolutely. Again, I don't know much about them.
Word: They are teenage Russian lesbians.
Morissey: Well, aren't we all?
"To Perceive the Space Around Myself
>
I stretch my tongue up in the air. The muscle dries. A rigid cracking of my buds as I turn them into the hot wind. I do this without moving my head as the sockets holding my ears pinch when I tilt my chin. To my left the blurring roar of industrial strength forced air popping machines. They pop my environmentally safe packaging, again. I assume I will be shipped out soon.
"The screen in front of my eyes shows, with exquisite detail, the manners and torsions of my body. My visual world exists at the edges of my lashes. Screen at my command I examine my body to vilify these doubts which keep me awake. My eyelids have been removed. Through the screen I examine my world, the great canals and arid expanses of my body.
"With scarcely a moment of trepidation I rectify my response time to coincide with the sweep of the electron gun. Now that our periods have meshed I am aroused. Blood flows through my fingers as my nipples harden and touch the cold stainless steel plate. I feel the striations of steel grip the areola of my left breast. And I am suck."
When I got to my office this morning 
