Friday, December 07, 2007

New stories: High School Bully 3 by BBMSN, Kingdom Come by dymondbolt and The Office Boy by John D.

New stories:

FISA Confusion and Correction--Joe Klein fesses up while Time Magazine digs itself deeper into the hole they got themselves in.

Facebook caves in to Beacon criticism--Thanks to Slashdot's jnadke for collating a list of sites participating in Beacon: eBay, Fandango, College Humor, Busted Tees, iWon, Citysearch, Pronto.com, echomusic, Travelocity, Allposters.com, Blockbuster, Bluefly.com, CBS Sports, Dotspotter, ExpoTV, Gamefly, Hotwire, Joost, Kiva, Kongregate, LiveJournal, Live Nation, Mercantila, The NBA, The New York Times, Overstock.com, (RED), Redlight, Seamless Web, Sony Online Entertainment, Sony Pictures, STA Travel, TheKnot, TripAdvisor, Travel Ticker, Typepad, viagogo, Vox, Yelp, WeddingChannel.com, and Zappos.

Amazon Kindle a fraud?--Apparently the Whispernet network used for wireless downloads isn't available everywhere in the US as people are initially led to believe. Amazon should try better to rectify this misconception by making this info more prominent rather than burying it under all the marketing hoopla.

Sunday, December 02, 2007

New stories by Londonboy

New stories: Londonboy

Time Magazine's Joe Klein spreading FISA falsehoods--Glen Greenwald's masterful takedown of this pundit who has "neither the time nor legal background to figure out who's right". Salon

Sunday schooled

TSA screeners order soldiers accompanying body of their fallen comrade home to strip to their skivvies--Oh, I'm sure they were just doing their job... looking busy.

Saturday, November 10, 2007

New story: Eternal Bloom by Clarence591

New story: Eternal Bloom by Clarence591 (muscle theft)

Major League Baseball rips off fans who bought DRM videos--Looks like they've been embarrassed enough to do the right thing, but thanks to this debacle, the idiocy of DRM has been made plain and clear. These corporations are trying to shove the idea down our throats that we only rent or license and not own the stuff we buy.

Amazon's MP3 store rips off your fair use rights--They're asking you to "agree that you will not redistribute, transmit, assign, sell, broadcast, rent, share, lend, modify, adapt, edit, sub-license or otherwise transfer or use the Digital Content."

Larry Lessig: How creativity is being strangled by the law

Start 'em young: WIPO unviels children's copyright law workbook

Mark Twain's plans to compete with copyright "pirates" (in 1906)

Saturday, November 03, 2007

Wednesday, October 31, 2007

New stories: Monkey Meat and Un-Corked by dymondbolt, My Father's Child by Clarence591 and The Bulkery: White Bread by Redkage

New stories:

New morph: Here's how you can break into wrestling.

Stories I'm Reading: Sci-Fi

Halloweeners

Done to death

Tuesday, October 30, 2007

New stories: Learning to Share and Polywog by dymondbolt, Destiny Rewound by Clarence591 and Goody Two-Boots by Purplebootsgywr

New stories:

Stories I'm Reading: Fantasy

There's Something About Harry

Misgovernance

Monday, October 29, 2007

New stories: Hackers at the Womb Wall and Monumental by dymondbolt, A Man Like You by Clarence591 and The Diver by John D.

New stories:

Stories I'm Reading: Shrinking@CYOC (Copy the links and paste them in another window/tab to directly view the stories.)

Size matters

The Gay Stuff

Friday, October 26, 2007

Thursday, October 25, 2007

Happy Hallo-Week 2007! New stories by dymondbolt, Clarence591 and Rough Master

New stories: For this year's Halloween celebration, I've enlisted the aid of my three new contributors--dymondbolt, Clarence591 and Rough Master--to provide some fun reading for the week.

Stories I'm Reading: TF@CYOC (Copy the links and paste them in another window/tab to directly view the stories .)

Star Wars

How To...

Sunday, October 07, 2007

New story: Invisible: The Story of Nameless Tommy by muscl4life

New story: Invisible: The Story of Nameless Tommy by muscl4life

Stories I'm Reading: Family fun

Teacher: I was fired, said Bible isn't literal--So, the creationist crackpots are fighting back.

Lawyer admits destroying church porn evidence--Pretty unforgivable, I'd say.

Christianity's Image Problem--Causing division in society fails to make them multiply

What if you spent one year following every rule in the Bible?--Asked and answered.

Papal stargazers reach for heaven--Science and religion can mix.

Monday, October 01, 2007

New stories by stimle, Glaucon55, Texzilla, Londonboy and John D.

New stories: It gives me great pleasure--in more ways than one--in welcoming stimle aboard. For the past 5 years, I've been enjoying and been able to link to his authoritarian stories, apparently save for one.

Unintended Consequences: Seven Years under the DMCA

Fair Use Worth More to Economy Than Copyright, CCIA Says

Fair use is not a consumer right--I call shenanigans.

Know Your Rights: How does fair use work?

Do-It-Yourself Counter Notification Letter

Monday, September 24, 2007

Sunday, September 16, 2007

Saturday, September 08, 2007

New story: Ultimate Fucker by Magus

Naruto 2

New story: Marvel at the muscle magic of Magus, my site's newset contributor. Read Ultimate Fucker.

Brain Study: Concussions Caused Benoit's Rage--Unfortunately, he'll forever be associated with steriods.

We win some...

We lose some...

National Security Archive Sues to Recover 5 Million Missing White House E-mails--It's sad that it even has to come to this point.

Sunday, September 02, 2007

New story: An American Muscleman in London 16 by Londonboy

New story: An American Muscleman in London 16 by Londonboy

Creationist brainwashing--It scares me that an entire generation of kids is growing up believing this shit.

LA Times religious reporter loses faith--The truth shall set you free?

Century Village unit criticized for spending $11,000 to alter elevator for Sabbath--How does pressing a button constitute work when walking up a flight of stairs doesn't?

Megachurch founding pastors to seek divorce--Do as we say, not as we do.

Mother: Dress Code Unfairly Targets Religion--Uh, no it doesn't. "The policy states there are to be no logos or slogans on a shirt."

Malaysia paper apologizes over Jesus photo--Interesting turnabout.

It's praying men, Alleluia! It's praying men. Amen!--Never thought I see a hot priest calendar, but then it's probably too good to be true.

Sunday, August 26, 2007

New story: Kegger! by Purplebootsgywr

Gym Dude 3

New story: Kegger! by Purplebootsgywr

Front Line: Drug Wars

ACLU sues DEA on behalf of truck whose money was seized--So this is how they're funding the Drug War now.

Florida prosecutor refuses to drop drug charges against man with legal prescriptions even after appeals courts overturned his conviction--What a jerk.

Man Suffering From Pain Might Be Granted Clemency--"The sad irony is that while Paey is allowed to self-medicate in prison, it was his self-medicating that got him there."

DrugWarRant

Gym Dude 4

Saturday, August 18, 2007