Wired News: A Burning Need for More Porn
If you could buy a porn video, download it in about an hour and burn it to a DVD that will play in any standard drive, would you do it? What if it had built-in digital rights management (DRM) code that only let you burn the file to [...]

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All this week I’ve had food cravings. Not for the standard donuts-and-chocolate, but for:
sesame balls
red bean paste buns
sushi
mango
honey walnut shrimp
I guess it’s all about the Asian comfort food this time around.

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Mercury is in retrograde until the 25th.
Mercury retrograde, astrology’s Murphy’s Law

Computers crash, software develops unexpected glitches, traffic jams ensue, telephone service snarls up, letters get lost on the mail, machinery breaks down, new projects fail. Ah, yes, the trickster Mercury is up to his old pranks again. In fact, at least three times a year [...]

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How can I put this succinctly?
1. Our wifi router was out all day, at least when I was home.
2. I got brilliant idea to replace it.
3. I got it working.
4. I moved it to another room and re-assembled the network.
5. Three hours and two tech-support calls later, I gave up and put it all back [...]

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Can’t the media all get along?
It’s no secret the media is in the midst of a grand revolution. And like many of our society’s largest seismic shifts, the epicenter is here in the Bay Area.
The Well was dug from these hills. Craig Newmark compiled his list here. Steve Jobs’ Apple grew in the orchards of [...]

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More evidence that seniors have sex.
Priapic pensioner becomes garlic-powered porn star | The Register
A Russian grandad who wandered onto a porn set has become the star of his own series of grumble flicks. David Bozdoganov, 75, apparently believed he was about to enjoy a “muscle man show” at the studios of Gorodcki production company, Ananova [...]

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Story about Los Angeles selling the farm to developers:
South Central Farm: A Tribute
The South Central Farm is a 14-acre urban farm and community garden in South Central Los Angeles; it is considered to be the largest urban farm in the United States. After the Los Angeles Riots of 1992, the City gave the abandoned and [...]

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I almost forgot to post this today!
Best Way to Date: Collaborate?
A new service for singles attempts to consolidate online dating services so you can spend less time managing your love life and more time living it. Commentary by Regina Lynn.
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* Poetry from The Manly Geek
* Interview with Collaboradate founder
You can get a Wired column a [...]

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I don’t know what it is, but sometimes when I come to San Francisco, I am sad. Is it the fog and rain? Body memory of living here before and being depressed? The stress of trying to pull full-time hours at the day job while keeping up with Wired and book projects? I was born [...]

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There are people who read too much: bibliobibuli. I know some who are constantly drunk on books, as other men are drunk on whiskey or religion. They wander through this most diverting and stimulating of worlds in a haze, seeing nothing and hearing nothing.
– H. L. Mencken

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Got the podcast up now:
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And the column:
Secrets to Cybersex Success
A webcam chat administrator gives guidance on how to be a lover, not a loser, in adult chat.

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Senate Panel Blocks Eavesdropping Probe
The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence voted along party lines yesterday to reject a Democratic proposal to investigate the Bush administration’s domestic surveillance program and instead approved establishing, with White House approval, a seven-member panel to oversee the effort.
Chairman Pat Roberts (R-Kan.) told reporters after the closed session that he had [...]

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I don’t trust house-stuff companies without websites. That means painters, remodelers, contractors, plumbers, hardwood floor installers, and so on.
My initial hesitation about single-sex gyms has not only disappeared, it’s morphed into full-on support. I love having the day spa integrated into the experience even though I never have time to get services there. Its very [...]

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Mark Morford says it all.
S. Dakota Slaps Up Its Women / Another state you should never visit passes an appalling abortion ban, because they hate you
Attention all funky sexy single intelligent women of South Dakota (assuming there are any left):
It is time. Pack it up. Strip the bed, box up the cat, load the U-Haul, [...]

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He likes yodeling cowboy music.
I’m listening to the album Total Yodel by The Wild West & Wylie while I work and it makes me feel close to dad.

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