• In Edinburgh for a few months, what’s the best mobile phone to use to make international calls to US (amongst other places) from Scotland? [Link]
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Joe Francis: Girls Gone Wild Founder, Violent Thug, Rapist
By 8.7.06
Breasts make men crazy. The hypnotic jiggling of rose-tipped orbs have been enough to make men do all sorts of insane things: bungee jump, wear leather pants, claim to have coined the phrase “Pardon my French.”
Spam Me a River
By 7.5.06
A new study finds that people are 280 times more likely to click on porn spam than pharma. The analysis by Ciphertrust found click through rates of 5.6% for sex site emails, versus .02% for pharmaceutical spam. In third place were ads for Rolex watches, at 0.0075%,
The News; The Devil Wears Ketchup
By 6.28.06
• Congressmen shocked and outraged to find porn on internet. [NYT] “Internet Companies Divided on Plan to Fight Pornography”
The News; Dance Like Nobody’s Buying
By 6.23.06
• The Googleplex paid him off in lifetime supply of candy, hair combings. [LAT] “Lawmaker’s Porn Suit Against Google Dropped”
Another Wipe Your Hard Drive Parable
By 6.2.06
To tell this story, I need to point out that, when I was a bachelor, I sometimes went to various web sites to satisfy my more elicit and transient urges. Probably nuff said, unless any of our sexy single female readers want to email me requesting a more vivid description.
The News: Sex, Goats and Self-Serve
By 6.1.06
• To turn around sales, Saks 5th to feature fewer fake goats in store. They made the loyal Park Ave goats jealous. [NYT]
The Sexiest Town on the Internet
By 5.22.06
Trends is perhaps one of the more hypnotically useless applications to come out of the Google hive mind lately. For example, Google Trends confirmed what Ben and I already knew: we need to infuse this site with a lot more porn, if we’re going to get more visitors from cities like Elmhurst, Illinois. Specifically anal porn, because not only is Elmhurst the most smut minded of all American cities according to Google Trends, but they are also the city most interested in sodomy.
UPDATE: Secret Spam Message!
By 4.11.06
Hey, remember that “spam from the future” we told you about last week? The message contained is so powerful, so advanced… it crashes Thunderbird, our email program. All day long, Thunderbird crashed through the canopy, over and over again, cracking goose eggs like our skull banging on the desk as we futilely attempted to mine the tip line.
How Many Posts are Yakking about DRM?
By 2.16.06
Does the glut of DRM drama have you reaching for the dramamine? As the chart below illustrates, you’re not crazy, lots and lots of people are talking about it. Here’s a graph of DRM mentions over the past year by post count.
For God’s Sakes… Save The Porn!
By 1.25.06
We know that when we linked the story about the Prada store burning down, our astute readership recognized the post for what it was: shameless quota-meeting filler on a slow news day. “So Paris Hilton has one less ten thousand dollar handbag—how does that affect me, Joe or Jane America?” you might have asked yourself, depending on the configuration of your genitals or gender image. We admit, it wasn’t much of a story, and we’re sorry to have wasted your time with it. To use the parlance of consumerism, it added little take home.
