I’m nostalgic for Sex Drive Daily today.

The Explorers Blog announces that Canadian sex ed site Sexuality and U is now using Browsealoud, software that reads the site content aloud for you. You can also record the audio to MP3 for later listening — sort of like TiVo for your sex ed.

Young women outnumber young men in social media, says Rapleaf, which I found through ReadWriteWeb. Who’s surprised? I’ve always felt that girls are more likely to express themselves in writing, to keep journals and diaries, to discuss everything in excruciating detail with other girls … it’s not going to change just ’cause it’s gone all electronic ‘n’ stuff.

I do think it’s interesting that LinkedIn, of which I was an early adopter and still a big fan (despite a backlog of updates and communications; I’m sorry folks I’ve been so slammed for so long!), is still mainly male. I wouldn’t lump it in with other “social networks” though. I still think of it as a professional networking site, and while professional and social do blend quite a bit, putting LinkedIn in the same category with Facebook or MySpace seems too broad. I would never flirt with someone on LinkedIn, so to my mind, it’s not social. Funny to realize that’s my barameter!

Lucrezia Magazine highlights a new robot who responds to love and abuse in similar ways to human response. It relaxes when it receives affection and gets anxious when it is hit or yelled at. The idea is that artificial emotional intelligence is not as far away as we might think, and that this teddy bear is a forerunner of an interactive sex doll.