Tag Archives: internet

Utah: Online Porn Capital Of The USA

It’s kind of fascinating that Utah turns out to be the highest per capita consumer of online porn, innit? A Harvard Business School study has compared two years of online porn purchases with the zip codes attached to the purchasers’ credit cards. “When it comes to adult entertainment, it seems people are more the same than different,” says Benjamin Edelman …

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KeepMeOut.com

If you find yourself compulsively checking Facebook or whatever, there’s a web nanny site that will block you for returning within whatever time limit you set. I know you’re not gonna put this here website thingy in there, right?

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The Internet Is Fast

In response to Wednesday’s story about the Passion 4 Christ Movement, somebody is already out with these. You can also get one that says “Liberal Masturbator”, but sadly there’s no “Ex-Ex-Homosexual.” Yet. (Via – Slog)

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TIME Hates Facebook’s 25 Things Meme

In another one of those items that Gawker always derides as “trend pieces”, TIME Magazine’s Claire Suddath takes on the latest Facebook meme, that “25 Things About Me” bit that so many of you have done. And she hates it. Facebook’s “25 Things About Me” meme seems harmless enough; people write 25 facts about themselves and post them on their …

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Sanctity Of Marriage, Vol. XLIII

Hey, did you know there’s a dating website with over 3 million members that’s just for heterosexuals looking to redefine the definition of marriage? AshleyMadison.com’s slogan: “Life is short. Have an affair.” The company tried to run an ad during the Super Bowl, but were turned down by NBC and the NFL. However a local station in Texas (which is …

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Daily Grumble

As I just Facebooked: “Joe ponders the futility of activism blogging when the top two searched items in years are ‘Aretha’s hat’ and ‘bacon explosion’.” Image via my pal Kitchenbeard.

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Facebook Kills Whopper Promotion

Facebook has stepped in and deleted Burger King’s Whopper promotion because it violated their rule about notifying people when you unfriend them. While many trivial actions do prompt Facebook to post an alert to all your friends — adding a photo, changing your relationship status, using Fandango to buy tickets to “Paul Blart: Mall Cop” — striking someone off your …

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CA Court: Religious Schools Can Expel Gays

A disappointing ruling from California in the case of the Christian school whose teacher spied on students’ MySpace pages and had two girls expelled for being gay. After a Lutheran school expelled two 16-year-old girls for having “a bond of intimacy” that was “characteristic of a lesbian relationship,” the girls sued, contending the school had violated a state anti-discrimination law. …

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McCain Discovers Twitter

Anthony Hecht at Slog writes: “A fascinating mix of exactly what you’d expect McCain to Twitter (‘I am working in my office on Capitol Hill today.”, “I’m traveling today with Senator Lindsey Graham and Senator Joe Lieberman.”, “GET OFF MY LAWN!”), and bizarre use of internet acronyms that no one over 25 uses (ICYMI).”

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Google-Bomb Boomerang

Remember how hilarious it was to Google-bomb Dubya so that searches for “miserable failure” brought up his name? Now those same searches are finding our new president. In 2003, haters of President George W. Bush with a mean streak and tech savvy managed to Google-bomb him as a “miserable failure” — meaning that a rash of users linked Bush’s name …

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O-Tube

Here’s Barack Obama’s first weekly message via the White House’s fancy new official YouTube channel. It’s rather comical to read the usual YouTube quality of comments on an official presidential channel. “OMG! LOLOLS!1!! U totally pwnd Gitmo! URULE!1!”

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More On Aretha’s Hat

It cracked me up yesterday to watch my post about Aretha’s hat become one of the most searched items in almost five years on writing JMG. Aside from zillions of Google hits, the post was top ranked over on BuzzFeed’s viral videos chart, where readers went into a photoshopping frenzy. My favorites are my SF pal Ggreg Taylor’s creation below …

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Prop 8 Donor Maps Now Online

Interactive Google maps showing the amounts, names and locations of Prop 8 donors are now online for three locations including Salt Lake City. From the conservative legal site Volokh Conspiracy: Proposition 8 Donor Maps for San Francisco, Salt Lake City, and Orange County, are now posted at EightMaps.com. Proposition 8, of course, was the proposition that amended the California Constitution …

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Burger King’s (Friendship) Killer App

Man, you really gotta hand it to Burger King’s ad people for finding all these innovative ways to get folks talking. First there was the creepily hilarious Subservient Chicken, then the hamburger-scented body spray, and now, probably best of all, this. It’s a common problem for anyone who joined Facebook some time ago. You look at your friend list and …

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123456

Via Slog, the top 500 worst passwords. The chart below is a starter…

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Hackers Take Down Pam’s House Blend And Other Liberal Blogs

Someone claiming to be from the Asta La Vista hacking group has taken down Pam House’s Blend and several other liberal blogs. Via Pam: “I just found out Soapblox.net, the service that hosts many of the state blogs, has been hacked. Pam’s House Blend, RadicalRuss.net, American Liberalism, BeThink.org are some of the sites affected. I haven’t gone down the whole …

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The Day Of Hilarious Twitter Hacks

HuffPo has the story. Damn kids! UPDATE: Twitter explains how the hackers did it. Oldest trick in the book.

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Israeli Army Launches YouTube Channel

Yesterday the Israeli army launched their own channel on YouTube so the world can witness the mighty mighty power of their American-made-and-paid-for technology.

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Love Is Blind

JMG reader Wilson tips us to Porn For The Blind, a “not-for-profit organization dedicated to producing audio descriptions of sample movie clips from adult web sites. This service is provided free of charge.” From their Wikipedia entry: Since pornography is primarily designed for visual media, there have been few methods for the sightless to enjoy this type of entertainment. A …

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Santa Gmail Account

You must embiggen to enjoy – the whole thing is a riot: the IM box, the subject lines, even the status messages. (Via – Someone In A Tree)

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