Month: November 2006

Update: sites were down, now back up! I’m enjoying being on the Hegre mailing list so much that I’m going to stay on it — the galleries aren’t always great, but when they’re hot they’re sizzling, like a few of this week’s selections. Plus, it’s fun to get these links at around midnight thursday, and…

As of this post, you’ll notice a new right-hand sidebar featuring the ubiquitous Laughing Squid logo, my Metblogs posts, and a new column of text ads. My friends have been pushing me for a while now to sell ad space here, and I’ve been staunchly against it because I’m opposed to commodifying my message. But…

So, Pelosi’s all set to become Speaker of the House. And conservatives like Bill O’Reilly and Newt Gingrich have tried to use “San Francisco values” as a derisive term. And lots of pundits are being all nice about what they think San Francisco values are, citing pot clubs and immigrants and the environment. In this…

Best Women’s Erotica 2007 is here!!! I’m so excited to see this anthology hit the stores; the online stores anyway — it’s still so fresh out of the oven than the contributors and I don’t even have copies yet! I’m thrilled about this book — I culled over 300 submissions for the very best in…

Is it wrong for me to lust after these USB Diamond Drives? I mean, I did bling my Shuffle. On another, unrelated note: has anyone found a decent podcast-to-phone service? I’m wondering what podcasters and listeners think of these services. It seems like there’s a new on every day, and I’d like to find a…

Casino Royale opens this friday and I actually want to see it. I liked the original David Niven Bond spoof, and I plan to be underwhelmed, but I have a headcold (broken thermostat, rain, landlord out of town) and am desperately seeking mindless entertainment. In keeping with the Bond theme I’m perusing Bond-esque fetish sites…

I am on an AI (sex) doll tangent tonight: * First, you have to watch the video of the new Actroid Robot in a shiny black latex fetish outfit speaking in English making her debut at Wired’s Nextfest 2006, NYC. (Image via cmurphy) Here is the Actroid site, with more images and videos; I see…