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Lady Hackers Fight For Their Place In An Increasingly Powerful Group

Lady Hackers Fight For Their Place In An Increasingly Powerful Group

May 9, 2011 No Comments

Hacking is one of the coolest ways to be a vigilante. It’s like you can be a super hero (or an evil genius) as long as you’re smart enough to know what you’re doing. Hacker groups were responsible for taking down websites like Amazon.com and Visa.com when they refused to support Julian Assange. These multi-million ...

Computer Nerds Are Getting It On

Computer Nerds Are Getting It On

April 28, 2011 No Comments

Geek is no longer just chic. It’s badass. While you may think that most tech-savvy dorks are sitting behind their screens with braces and bad acne, probably playing computer games, they’re actually up to some risky business. Computer nerds between 10 and 16-years-old are 50 percent more likely to have sex, smoke, drink and do ...

The Wealthy Can Wipe Away Their Internet Embarassments (The Rest Of Us Wallow In Our Smut)

The Wealthy Can Wipe Away Their Internet Embarassments (The Rest Of Us Wallow In Our Smut)

April 20, 2011 No Comments

Naked photos of Vanesss Hudgens, Miley Cyrus smoking up, and Christine O’Donnell’s witch history: While it may embarrass them, this stuff is our guilty pleasure. But is this kind of internet dirt becoming a thing of the past? New businesses have emerged to help customers hide their dirty internet pasts. They use algorithms to hide ...

Saving Journalism, One Naked Lady At A Time

Saving Journalism, One Naked Lady At A Time

February 3, 2011 No Comments

Journalism is dying. Companies have tried all kinds of interesting ways to revive it, from charging for access to their websites to publishing more and more sensational opinion pieces. Yet there is only one thing that seems to be common across the board: Naked Ladies. Media Matters just published a delightful mash-up showing just exactly ...

It’s Not Your Story To Tell

It’s Not Your Story To Tell

October 1, 2010 1 Comment

Her Oversharing An anonymous college girl wrote down the names, penis size, and sexual ability of the men she slept with, including pictures. Then she put it all in a power-point presentation which whipped around the internet until Jezebel picked it up and published it, in full (the easily identifiable pictures did have blurred faces, ...

One In Three Kids Has Seen Porn By The Time They Are Ten, Study Shows

One In Three Kids Has Seen Porn By The Time They Are Ten, Study Shows

June 7, 2010 No Comments

A British study has found that most children experience porn before they experience relationships, leaving experts to wonder what damage this is causing them. With only one quarter of parents discussing porn with their children, there is no help to make sense of these images.

The Other Man: A Very Special Post

May 22, 2010 No Comments

Hey guys. I’m going to take a break from the usual Hollywood dish and tales of female disenfranchisement — it’s been fun, at least for me — to talk about something really serious. In fact, I’ve probably seen more otherwise healthy relationships go down in flames for the following reason than any other.

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Real Baby Dies As Virtual Child Grows

Real Baby Dies As Virtual Child Grows

April 2, 2010 No Comments

A backwards, mixed-up tragedy has occurred where a South Korean couple spent hours a day raising a virtual child online while they let their real child starve to death.

Porn, We’ll Hardly Miss You

Porn, We’ll Hardly Miss You

March 27, 2010 No Comments

The most amusing blog post of the week has to come from EgoTV, which sat in a windowless, darkened room for hours before emerging with 7 Things That Would Happen if ISPs Banned Porn.  It was funny, it was delightfully naughty, and it exposed the blog editor’s porn collection on film for the first time. ...

Murder Them And Throw The Body In A Canal, Or Block Them?

Murder Them And Throw The Body In A Canal, Or Block Them?

October 19, 2009 No Comments

Almost half the youngsters are happiest when they’re online. Is this the end of the world? Easy access to porn aside, there are actually some good reasons why the world wide web is preferable to the world, at least according to the Times’ Caitlin Moran. For one thing, you don’t have to murder people to ...

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Laptop Bags: Too Big And Too Sparkly

Laptop bags; conspiracy of the patriarchal overlords. Oh yes. I am a woman with hands. The average-sized hands of...

Body Hair Is The Pits! Seriously?

The British nation stood shocked this morning. No, it was nothing to do with us being back in recession...

Racist Family Offending My Spouse

Dear Madame X, I am in an interracial marriage. Things are fine most of the time, but members of...

Young Adam Is A Misogynist

There’s not much that hasn’t been said about Alexander Trocchi’s treatment of women, real and literary. I read Young...

Lazy Sunday Hair Post

Check out 200,000 years of of women’s hair and makeup!

Nobody Likes A Cock

My attention was brought this week to an article claiming that men exaggerate more than women. Nothing new in...

Tampon Conspiracy; There Is One

There I was in the supermarket. It was an ordinary day, in an ordinary shop. Nothing sinister about the...

Titanic Feminism

Don’t tell anyone — but I turned 30 today! Last night, to celebrate the last day in my 20s,...

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