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iPod in Toilet Leads To Emergency Landing
Under new security regulations, even fetid catassers are terrorists. More »
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Lambda Legal Clucks Tongue At Blizzard For Anti-Lesbian Guild Policy
Speaking of virtual sex, Lambda Legal has gotten involved in the Blizzard debate over whether or not gay and lesbian friendly guilds (clubs of players who enjoy playing with one another in online games, for those unfamiliar with the jargon) are allowed to advertise in their wildly popular game, World of Warcraft. Lambda Legal is an activist group aimed at protecting the civic rights of gay, lesbian and transgendered Americans, and they've sent Blizzard a friendly letter, asking them to cave on their current policy: citing gay and lesbian players for mentioning their sexual preference, ostensibly because it makes them targets of bigotry. More »
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Blizzard Enforces Anti-Lesbian, Pro-Bigot Guild Policy
Blizzard has come down hard on a BGLT (bi-sexual, gay, lesbian and transsexual/transvestite) friendly guild. Note the word friendly as opposed to 'exclusive'. In one bold move, Blizzard has come down hard in favor of the bigot status quo of its player base. More »
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World of Warcraft 2.0: IRS Offices Patched into Ogrimmar and Ironforge
There are lots of taxes one pays in online games. They can be taxing to the marriages, health and even the sanity of emaciated South Korean nerds slowly irradiated into a shade of phosphorescent blue, like a deep-sea inverterbrate, by their112-hour binges in front of a monitor flickering Lineage mobs upon their retinas. And any World of Warcraft player knows that it can be taxing upon your intellect as well: being forced to endure the general chat channel of the Barrens will slough IQ points off like reams of skin after a first-degree sunburn. More »
