http://www.boingboing.net/2005/06/22/rottencom_our_gaping.html
It's getting harder to enjoy oneself sexually in the Best Nation on Earth™ because, apparently, the poor Christian minority feels threatened. This law purportedly is designed to stop the exploitation of minors, but it affects all pornographers. Pretty soon you'll have to prove that ( Read more... )

From rotten.com, quoted by me 'cause I'm angry:

CENSORED BY US GOVERNMENT
18 USC 2257
Yes, that is correct. The things that used to be here, the very funny things that you want to see, have been made retroactively illegal by the US government, in a side-handed attack on the pornography industry.
The government is mandating that we meet certain ( Read more... )

I am an atheist. I don't believe in supernatural things, but I'm interested in the rules behind other belief systems, and today I want to look at souls. Let's say the soul is the source of one's thoughts. Is the soul part of the brain? Does it control the brain? It is sometimes stated that animals do not have souls, perhaps because they lack a ( Read more... )

About her autopsy.

So the story of those opposed to Schiavo's husband is something like this: her husband beat and/or strangled her into suffering grave brain damage. When she began to show signs of recovery, he wanted her dead and had to fight for many years to kill her off before everyone's eyes.

Of course, the actual autopsy and article doesn't ( Read more... )

Extra, extra! Democrats make bad choices, wonder why they can't get a candidate elected! Read all about it!

This morning I check the DNS record for webscr-login-page-cgi2.com and they no longer have any address records listed. This doesn't mean they don't still have hosting, just that their domain is unresolvable ("host not found"). So I rigged it up in my /etc/hosts file: 68.142.234.46 webscr-login-page-cgi2.com (That address serves lots of sites and ( Read more... )

The phisher is STILL THERE! Argh! Yahoo, it's your fault!

I just got an e-mail from a phisher. Their domain info:

Domain Name.......... webscr-login-page-cgi2.com ( Read more... )

If you happen to live in West Virginia, this article may be interesting: Man Arrested for Wearing Grinch Mask. Apparently, wearing masks in public is illegal in the state. Does the law go too far? Is the restriction justifiable?

From http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05/25/AR2005052501467_pf.html: Federal agents shut down a Web site that they said allowed people to download the new Stars War movie even before it was shown in theaters.