Monday Nibbles: Royal Viagra Beer, Axel Braun’s iPhone Apps, WSJ Says “Scatterbrained” Women Prefer Romance Novels to Porn

by Violet Blue on May 2, 2011

Yes, Viagra beer. No, (sadly) not real Viagra, but I’d still LOVE to try it: Scottish Brewery Introduces Royal Viagra Beer (ABC News)

Really, I’m amazed to see the Wall Street Journal publish something with no peer review, so brazenly lacking accuracy and authority and offensive – really, AOL and Excite search terms are put forth as a “study”: The Online World of Female Desire (WSJ.com, thanks Jolie)

This screening party at Cher’s house sounds like ti was a lot of fun: Cher admires Chaz`s sex-change courage (Monsters and Critics)

It’s another one of those uptight parent stories, but it involves one of the books I recommend the highest for starting sex ed conversations with kids (it’s a really awesome book): Washington parent’s anger after 10-year-old given “graphic sex book” by school (Daily Mail Online)

The Unofficial Apple Weblog asked porn director Axel Braun (“BatmanXXX”, torrent lawsuits) what his three favorite apps are: Top 3 iPhone apps: director Axel Braun (tuaw.com)

This happened at a local SF Giants game – Atlanta Coach Assaults Giants Fans With Gay Slurs, Threats and the result is now: Braves coach fined, suspended for slurs (SFAppeal, UPI)

Photo from Ramona & Fanny by Richard Bernardin for Please Spring 2011 (fashiongonerogue.com).

Violet Blue

The London Times named Violet Blue "One of the 40 bloggers who really count" and Self Magazine named TinyNibbles one of the “Best Sex Resources for Women.” Blue is an autodidact and pundit on sex and technology, hacking and security, porn for women, privacy and bleeding-edge tech culture. She is a journalist for ZDNet, CBS News, CNET; she's an educator, speaker, crisis counselor, volunteer NGO trainer, and the author and editor of over 40 award-winning books.

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1 dotben May 2, 2011 at 7:43 pm: @Oscar (I help Violet look after tinynibbles) – we’ve always tried to make sure tinynibbles is compatible with Readability – we love them and Instapaper here!

All of the recent posts I’ve tried Readability on work other than this one – is there another that you have had problem with? In the case of this particular page, I think it is a bug with the way Readability determines what is ‘content’ and what isn’t. However, we will investigate marking up the pages with hNews micro-format to aid Readability.

Thanks!
2 Oscar May 2, 2011 at 6:20 pm: I have low vision so I use Readability more extensively than normal vision people. Anyway, just letting you know that your website doesn’t play nice with Readability.
3 Quizzical mama May 2, 2011 at 6:20 am: Unbelievable story about the mother’s complaint about the sex ed book! I read this book (What’s the Big Secret: http://www.amazon.com/Whats-Big-Secret-Talking-about/dp/0316101834) on a regular basis to my toddler daughter and promote it on my resource center devoted to holistic human sexuality information (www.lovesexfamily.com). Human sexuality educator Debra W. Haffner (author of From Diapers to Dating: A Parent’s Guide to Raising Sexually Healthy Children) recommends this book for children ages 3-8.