- Barry Ardolf, 46, repeatedly hacked into his next-door neighbors’ Wi-Fi network in 2009, and used it to try and frame them for child pornography, sexual harassment, various kinds of professional misconduct and to send threatening e-mail to politicians, including Vice President Joe Biden. Wi-Fi–Hacking Neighbor From Hell Sentenced to 18 Years (Wired.com)
- Sex advice columnist and It Gets Better founder Dan Savage stopped by The Cobert Report to discuss monogamy in marriage. But the best part is when Savage makes Colbert break character at around the 18:20 via a saucy hat tip to three-way sex. Dan Savage Makes Stephen Colbert Break Character (SFist)
- Catherine Kieu Becker was arrested by Garden Grove police on suspicion of aggravated mayhem, false imprisonment, assault with a deadly weapon, administering a drug with intent to commit a felony, poisoning and spousal abuse. Woman accused of cutting off husband’s penis held on $1 million bail (LA Times)
- Fueled by this post from XKCD’s Randall Munroe, Google announced that gender could be hidden from public profiles. Google+ will let users conceal gender (CNET News)
- A Russian man who tried to rob a hair salon ended up as the victim when the female shop owner overpowered him, tied him up naked and then used him as a sex slave for three days. Robber who broke into hair salon beaten up by black-belt owner and kept as sex slave for three days… fed only Viagra (Mail Online – VB note: as this is a Mail piece, commenters are doubting the truth of the article.)
- Have you heard about The Protecting Children from Internet Pornographers Act of 2011? It’s the latest in a l-o-n-g line of just terrible bills proposed to calm (though never quite eliminate) the fears of middle-aged people about what that scary Internet might potentially do to Our Children. Washington Attempts to Make us All Culpable for Online Child Pornography (Reason Magazine)
- Porn industry leaders held an expert/legal summit with .XXX’s rep as the new TLD readies for launch. The Q&A to form adult’s business plans for .XXX did not go well. The future of vanity TLDs: Porn’s .XXX business plan (Pulp Tech) Manwin, which owns numerous blue-chip online adult franchises, including Brazzers, Twistys, YouPorn and others, said that registration of its domain names without its consent “will constitute a violation of Manwin’s rights.” Manwin Demands ICM Prevent .XXX Exploitation (XBIZ.com)
- The New York Post’s “scoop” on Dominique Strauss Kahn’s accuser is getting fishier, to the extent that’s possible. The paper appears to have had documentation challenging the reliability of its only source in a story alleging that the accuser had worked as a prostitute. New York Post prostitution story gets shakier (The Washington Post)
- Gov. Jerry Brown has signed a bill making California the first state in the nation to add lessons about gays and lesbians to social studies classes in public schools. Calif. gov signs landmark law to teach gay history (The Associated Press)
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How do you have time to sleep? Furthermore, how do you sleep after reviewing all of this stuff? Savage and Colbert was excellent. Russian story seems like a new theme opportunity at kink.com.
I would just like to say that I think I am now in love with Randall Munroe. You may carry on now that this information vital to the world has been conveyed.
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