6 Degrees of Celebration comes to a close

Th-th-th-that's all folks. I'll be taking a short break from blogging to recharge my batteries. I don't think I'll be as crazy with the updates next year, but I'll cross that bridge when I get there. Hope you guys enjoyed "6 Degrees of Celebration"!

New artwork: This series of drawings was inspired by a CYOC chapter written by Alyn Roze and which he graciously let me help re-envision into a series of new stories.

New stories:

• CAFE Blues 2 by Jaypat
• Change the World by filllups44
• Confessions of the Muscle Stud Groupie by Esperanto Grrl
• Dungeons and Dragons by F_R_Eaky
• The Marines and the Scout Troop by Peterbilt
• Max Biggermen: The Rebirth of Max Biggermen by Alyn Roze and O'Melissokomos
• The Man in the Big Muscle Suit 2 by dymondbolt
• Neighbor Kids by Richard Jasper
• The Repeater System by zulator
• Struck 7 by Redkage and muscl4life
• Trevor Goes All The Way by derekph
• Unchained by Iainlthr

An Inalienable Right to Privacy

Understanding Privacy

On Privacy

Our Paradoxical Attitudes Toward Privacy

Big Think: "Privacy is in pretty great danger"

'I've Got Nothing to Hide' and Other Misunderstandings of Privacy

Security vs. Privacy

Our Data, Ourselves

Google says "complete privacy does not exist"--But doing evil now does?

New stories: Addicted to STUDD 2 by AbsMan420, Point, Click and Drag by zulator and Struck 6 by Redkage and muscl4life

New stories:

• Addicted to STUDD 2 by AbsMan420
• Point, Click and Drag by zulator
• Struck 6 by Redkage and muscl4life

McCain

• McCain Caves To Right Wing On Gay Adoption, Says Orphans Shouldn’t Have Gay Parents
• The Definitive McCain Iraq Timeline
• MSNBC beats on Fox for its 'anti-aging fix' for McCain

Accountability

• Senators Ask FBI to Explain Flawed 'National Security Letter' to Internet Archive
• Report Sees Illegal Hiring Practices at Justice Dept.--Process was infected by aides
• Federal Agents Raid Office of Special Counsel
• Witnesses say federal investigator pressured them to lie
• The Torture Memo, Redacted--And how.

Your Government at Work

• Town wants to pay for inspection, gov't says "No"
• Government asks court to block wider testing for mad cow
• Fannie Mae bailout: Taxing America’s poorest citizens to help the richest

Mark Dugdale--He's thick and built like a brick.

New stories: The Good Samaritan by Richard Jasper, Pleasure Growth 2 by F_R_Eaky and Struck 5 by Redkage and muscl4life

New stories:

• The Good Samaritan by Richard Jasper
• Pleasure Growth 2 by F_R_Eaky
• Struck 5 by Redkage and muscl4life

New morph: Fat2Fit 6

Fat Tuesday

• Obesity fuels growing 'boy-boob' problem
• Child obesity rates holding steady
• Inertia at the Top
• Fat Kids, the new norm

American Voices

• Muslim Woman Demands Obama Apology
• George Takei To Wed Partner
• Stress In Pregnancy Influences Asthma
• McCain Addresses NAACP
• Pope Decries Materialism

Women@Work

• Hot controversy: Fetching coffee for the boss
• Estate agent wins £30,000 compensation after boss ordered her to get smaller breasts
• Woman Says She Was Fired For Doing Jury Duty--Don't see how the her boss can flout US federal law.

New stories: Pleasure Growth by F_R_Eaky, The Shopper by Iainlthr and Struck4 by Redkage and muscl4life

New stories:

• Pleasure Growth by F_R_Eaky
• The Shopper by Iainlthr
• Struck 4 by Redkage and muscl4life

Wikipedia

• The battle for Wikipedia's soul
• British Village Attacked By Wikipedia Vandals
• Wikipedia Tries Approval System to Reduce Vandalism on Pages

Blogs

• Long Bet Winner: Weblogs vs. The New York Times
• Nobel winner blames cultural decline on "blogging and blugging"
• Media Savvy: NPR's Schorr vital link to 'responsible journalism'
• Blogging's Glass Ceiling
• "Against the Machine", Controversial critic and disgraced blogger Lee Siegel rages against Internet culture and blogofascism. Salon

Email

• Empty Thine In-box
• Struggling to Evade the E-Mail Tsunami
• Email Insanity & the 0.001 Challenge

New stories: Li'l Dude by Richard Jasper, The Man in th Big Muscle Suit by dymondbolt and Struck 3 by Redkage and muscl4life

New stories:

• Li'l Dude by Richard Jasper
• The Man in th Big Muscle Suit by dymondbolt
• Struck 3 by Redkage and muscl4life

Creationists

• Astounding Presentation On How Creationists Explain Evolution
• New legal threat to teaching evolution in the US
• Woman fired over death threat sent from work e-mail--The message was for an associate biology professor who criticized creationism.

Gay ol' time

• Note to the religious right: auto-replace is not your friend
• Anti-Gay Alabama A.G. Caught Being Gay
• Italian wins gay driving ban case
• Gay Hanky-Pranky Spurs $1.5m Alum-Letter Lawsuit
• Psychologists to Review Stance on Gays

The Jesus Phone 2.0

• The iPhone naysayers, one year later
• The Angry Drunk disses the freetards--And now the Free Software Foundation is targetting Genius Bar employees to waste their time. I normally support the DefectiveByDesign guys, but this stunt is "luser" behavior that's bound to backfire. (Disclaimer: I'm a regular Mac user, not an AAPL investor or anything of the sort.)
• Japanese iPhone Has Upskirt-Preventing Shutter Sounds

New stories: Promoting Jet 3 by Londonboy, Struck 2 by Redkage and muscl4life and Symbiote War: Prologue by Xygurrat

New stories:

• Promoting Jet 3 by Londonboy
• Struck 2 by Redkage and muscl4life
• Symbiote War: Prologue by Xygurrat

Stories I'm reading: Sleepy Saturday

• Forbidden Fruit (mb inc)
• The Placebo Effect (mt oral anal)
• Seduction of Chris (mt oral anal rim inc)
• Shawn's Graduation (mt true)
• Red Rocket (mm coll mast)
• While You Were Sleeping (tt true oral rim inc)

Zzz

• Understanding Sleep Sex Disorders
• Surgeon sued for giving anesthetized patient temporary tattoo
• Firemen feel the heat from health and safety for sleeping on the floor

MobileMassacre--Apple is rightfully getting hammered for their disgraceful handling of this paid service. Having no access temporarily is one thing; losing email permanently is another.

• Apple's MobileMe Is Far Too Flawed To Be Reliable
• Apple's MobileMess
• Who's to blame for MobileMe?
• Windows Me vs. MobileMe
• Apple pushes MobileMe surprise to XP, Vista via iTunes update--And now they want Windows users to suffer too.

New stories: Hunter: D.I.L.F. by Aardvark, My Boy by Richard Jasper and Struck by Redkage and muscl4life

New stories:

• Hunter: D.I.L.F. by Aardvark
• My Boy by Richard Jasper
• Struck by Redkage and muscl4life

Privacy

• Right to Information Privacy Campaign--American libraries on the forefront in protecting your rights
• New Systems Keep a Close Eye on Online Students at Home-"Tucked away in a 1,200-page bill now in Congress is a small paragraph that could lead distance-education institutions to require spy cameras in their students' homes."
• Police director sues for critical bloggers' names--He wants AOL to divulge the identity of the person behind MPD Enforcer 2.0

Laptops

• Clarity Sought on Electronics Searches--For one thing, it's Customs and not the TSA who are responsible.
• Setting Boundaries at Borders: Reconciling Laptop Searches and Privacy
• Appeals court upholds search of laptop at LAX

Border

• So Long, Canada Salon
• U.S. Plans to Screen All Who Enter, Leave Country
• Border Patrol "spot checks" on ferries provoke outrage in San Juan Islands

New stories: Arms of Steel: The Lost Crusade by Esperanto Grrl, BMOC 4 by ONIX and Overnight Pass by Peterbilt

New stories:

• Arms of Steel: The Lost Crusade by Esperanto Grrl
• BMOC: Black Mage on Campus, Chapter 4 by ONIX
• Overnight Pass by Peterbilt

Bushed

• Exposing Bush's historic abuse of power Salon
• Congressional hearing to examine 'Bush Imperial Presidency'
• Bush: 'Our Long National Nightmare Of Peace And Prosperity Is Finally Over'--"The ironic thing: this Onion article was published in 2001 and most of what it wrote came true."

The War on Terror

• US terrorist watchlist now has more than 1,000,000 names
• Want some torture with your peanuts?--Electro-shock bracelets today, explosives tomorrow.
• If my bra is a threat to national security, we're in big trouble
• Anti-Bush Sign Has Bridge World in an Uproar
• "Excuse me," he said, "you can't say those words. Those words are illegal."
• TSA Defends Nipple Ring Removal Order, Should Apologize
• Complain About X-Rated Security Screenings
• Are photographers really a threat?
• U.S. Confiscates AP Footage At Scene of Bloody Baghdad Bombing--They eventually returned it.

Constantinos Demetriou--He's almost perfect.

New stories: Fountain of Youth by zulator, Gemini by muscl4life and Onset by Richard Jasper

New stories:

• Fountain of Youth by zulator
• Gemini by muscl4life
• Onset by Richard Jasper

Logos

• The Evolution of Tech Companies' Logos
• Super Bowl Logos From The Past
• Wal-Mart Logo Timeline

Posters

• Dark Knight Posters
• Belarusian Movie Posters
• Incredible Polish movie posters
• 100 Greatest Movie Posters

Tech

• Photosynth
• Content-Aware Image Resizing
• Spore

New stories: He's Better Suited by Cicero, Getting Out by Iainlthr and In Time of Need by F_R_Eaky

New stories: It is with great pleasure I announce the return of one my favorite authors ever: Cicero!

• He's Better Suited by Cicero
• Getting Out by Iainlthr
• In Time of Need by F_R_Eaky

New morph: Fat2FIt 5

Fat Tuesday

• Tighten Your Belt, Strengthen Your Mind
• Lending heft to an anti-bias campaign
• Lardy lags get fitness trainers
• It's A Fat World After All
• Being fat is good for you
• Bigger Is Better, Except When It's Not

Privacy

• U.S. corporations massively read employee e-mail
• Worker Snooping on Customer Data Common
• Researchers Find Way to Steal Encrypted Data
• Encrypted E-Mail Company Hushmail Spills to Feds
• 'Hacker Safe' Web Site Suffers Security Breach
• Printer dots raise privacy concerns
• Logged in or out, Facebook is watching you

New stories: The Change by Richard Jasper, Doug 10 by fillups44 and My New Buddy's Arms by BBMSN

New stories:

• The Change by Richard Jasper
• Doug: One Man's Saga of Massive Muscle 10 by fillups44
• My New Buddy's Arms by BBMSN

Monopoly

• How to win at Monopoly - a Surefire Strategy
• Boardwalk Brouhaha: Monopoly Enters Debit Card Era
• Monopoly Releases Special 'Regular Monopoly' Edition

McDonald's

• Finalist In McDonalds/MySpace Jingle Contest Is Former McDonalds Armed Robber
• McDonald's tinkers with beloved fries--"When McDonald's said it was simply thinking about the change--but well before the change was actually made--some consumers began complaining to the company that they didn't like the change in the taste."
• Study: Food in McDonald's wrapper tastes better to kids--Hmm, might be way to get those brats to eat veggies. Introducing, the McBrocolli!
• Salty burger lands McDonald's employee in jail
• Jury awards $6.1 million in McDonald's strip search case
• Driver Rams McDonald's Over Botched Order Of French Fries
• Neb. woman with hearing disability sues McDonald's

Lego

• A golden anniversary for Lego--Check out the timeline and what's in their secret vault
• Lego Fun Snacks--"I would love to know what sick bastard at Kellogs came up with this genius idea. I just spent the first three years of my sons life trying to get him not to eat blocks, and now you're telling him they taste like fucking strawberries."
• Dopey the hamster, and his private LEGO elevator

New stories: The Coach's Formula 20 by Shade, Growers (Leo) by Richard Jasper and Promoting Jet 2 by Londonboy

New stories:

• The Coach's Formula 20 by Shade
• Growers (Leo) by Richard Jasper
• Promoting Jet 2 by Londonboy

Religion

• Pope sorry for priests' sex abuse--Though days ago a Catholic Bishop says abuse victims are 'dwelling on old wounds'
• Oregon to revisit faith healing
• Texas high court rules exorcism protected by law

Why ISP's 'Stand' Against Child Porn Is Actually Not A Stand Against Child Porn--Kiddie pr0n today; "undesirable" content tomorrow? While the crimes involving real children are indeed horrendous, the methods to combat them can be overreaching (even unconstitutional) and, as history has shown, easily abused by authorities (like overriding civil liberties).

• Cable operators across the US vow to block child porn
• Net Providers to Block Sites With Child Sex
• Communications Decency Act Tipping Under Cuomo Kid-Porn Accord
• Senators OK $1 billion for online child porn fight
• Child pornography loophole to be closed with cartoons and drawings ban
• Social networking site bans oldies over sex offender fears
• Scribd Goes Straight, Bans Porn
• Australian websites to get ratings for content, age

New stories: Addicted to STUDD by AbsMan420, The Coach's Formula 19 by Shade, Doug 9 by fillups44 and The Long Slow Road to Hugeness by Richard Jasper

New stories:

• Addicted to STUDD by AbsMan420
• The Coach's Formula 19 by Shade
• Doug: One Man's Saga of Massive Muscle 9 by fillups44
• The Long Slow Road to Hugeness by Richard Jasper

Stories I'm reading: Sleepy Saturday

• Billy's Dad the Cyclops (mb inc)
• Don't Wake Daddy (inc)
• Getting Dad Drunk
• Jock Dad (mb oral inc)
• My Sleeping Dad

Yawn

• Can brain be tricked into staying awake?
• Bodies don't 'spring ahead'
• Sleep After Hard Workouts? You Must Be Dreaming
• Sleeping soundly 'boosts memory'
• Guide to Better Napping

Language

• Who, er, whom do we have to thank for 'proper' English?
• Amazing Coincidences in Linguistics
• Æ, Ø and Å, three letters the world can't understand
• Chinglish as full-fledged English dialect
• Cabbie banned for bad grammar

New stories: Captain My Captain by F_R_Eaky, The Coach's Formula 18 by Shade and Mister by Richard Jasper

New stories:

• Captain My Captain by F_R_Eaky
• The Coach's Formula 18 by Shade
• Mister by Richard Jasper

TGIF--Transgender is fascinating

• How did the T get in LGBT? Salon
• Sex change Paratrooper wins £250,000 for 'hurt feelings'
• US 'pregnant man' has baby girl
• Man, I feel like a woman, says 'she-man'
• 'Mate, your girlfriend was a bloke'
• Stuck between a frock and a card place--"The Anti-Discrimination Act does not protect transvestites, it protects transsexuals."

Copyright and Fair Use

• The Pirates Can't Be Stopped
• A History of Copy Protection
• Why (most) authors and publishers need not fear online piracy
• Interview with Neil Young on Music Piracy, MP3 Hell and Finding Freaks on the Web
• On writers, ‘digital rights management’, and the internet
• 1,000 True Fans

Happy 6th Anniversary! Pollination the Comic and New Stories

It's been six years since I started this site, and over this time, a few of you have asked how you could help support it. Thanks to the generosity of Pride Sites and CYOC.net, it's been pretty much covered, and so for me the best way to show your support is to continue giving the contributors feedback, but if you're still interested and have some cash to spare, please consider donating to organizations that promote the protection of Freedom of Expression such as the EFF, Nifty, ASSTR, CBLDF and Creative Commons. Without their efforts, a site like mine probably wouldn't be around.

New artwork: After almost 3 years, I've finished my comic book adaptation of my favorite mind control/muscle growth story, AbsMan420's Pollination.

New stories: Say hello to Esperanto Grrl and jobberinnyc

• My New Buddy's Arms 3 by BBMSN
• Kenny's Workout by derek phillips
• Ripped Van Winkle 2 by dymondbolt
• Big Dragon – The Boyfriend Upgrade by Esperanto Grrl
• Doug: One Man's Saga of Massive Muscle 8 by fillups44
• Hold It by F_R_Eaky
• Back to a Future by Iainlthr
• CAFE Blues by Jaypat
• The Hellfire Club by jobberinnyc
• Promoting Jet by Londonboy
• The Curse by muscl4life and O'Melissokomos
• BMOC: Black Mage on Campus, Chapter 3 by ONIX
• Doug Brady, Marine by Peterbilt
• Teacher's Pet 4 by Redkage
• Unstoppable by Richard Jasper
• The Coach's Formula 17 by Shade
• The Interview by Titan
• Shift 11 by Xyggurat
• Here to Help by xythan_shadow
• One Size Fits All by zulator

The Dark Knight--Dread. From the opening scene, that was the overriding sensation I felt watching this powerful and engaging film directed by Christopher Nolan, but in the end, I also felt hope in the belief that adversity, no matter how dire, can be overcome. Christian Bale returns as the Batman but brings more out of Bruce Wayne, and Heath Ledger as the Joker delivered the performance of his tragically truncated lifetime.

New stories: The Coach's Formula 16 by shade, Curious Cat 2 by Richard Jasper and Shift 10 by Xyggurat

New stories:

• The Coach's Formula 16 by Shade
• Curious Cats 2 by Richard Jasper
• Shift 10 by Xyggurat

l33t speak

• The Real History and Origin of Woot and w00t
• The World’s Largest Lolcat, An Invisible Bike Mural
• The Adventures of LOLBAT
• From N00B to Nerd: The 4 Stages of Life on the Internet
• How Do You Tell a Web Name From A Typo?

Spam/Scam

• Russian Viagra and Penis Enlargement Spammer Murdered
• Convicted spammer challenging Va. law
• New E-Mail Scam: Hit-Man Threat
• Revenge of the Spam
• It's a new scam: beware of Nigerians bearing kisses

Antoine Vaillant--One hunky Québecois

New morphs and stories: The Coach's Formula 15 by Shade, Doug 8 by fillups44, The Freak by Richard Jasper and Shift 9 by Xyggurat

New morphs: Fat2Fit 3 and 4

New stories:

• The Coach's Formula 15 by Shade
• Doug: One Man's Saga of Massive Muscle 8 by fillups44
• The Freak by Richard Jasper
• Shift 9 by Xyggurat

Fat Tuesday

• Causes of Death Are Linked to a Person’s Weight
• Big Dietitian is watching you
• Bulging belly now could mean dementia later
• Snack diet doesn't help weight loss
• Diet Book Author Advocates New 'No Food Diet'--The Onion strikes again

New stories: The Coach's Formula 14 by Shade, Make Sure You Take Your Medicine by Londonboy, On the Bus by Richard Jasper and Shift 8 by Xyggurat

New stories:

• The Coach's Formula 14 by Shade
• Make Sure You Take Your Medicine by Londonboy
• On the Bus by Richard Jasper
• Shift 8 by Xyggurat

Fake out

• Police: Jewish GW Student Admits Putting Swastikas On Her Door
• Swede Arrested For Falsely Telling FBI Son-In-Law Is Jihadist, AFP Reports--The father-in-law defended his email, saying it's not his fault the "authorities were so stupid that they would believe anything."
• 4-year-old pulls kidnap hoax to punish mom
• Princeton Student Admits to Staging Attack, Police Say
• 20-year-old charged with making false rape claim
• Town Finds Drug Agent Is Really an Impostor
• The Times retracts Tupac Shakur story--And apologizes for falling for this forgery.

Definitely photoshopped--xkcd rocks.

• Jackson Confidential
• Wrongly identified victim's picture 'was manipulated'
• Digital Forensics: How Experts Uncover Doctored Images

New stories: Coach's Formula 13 by Shade, Doug 7 by fillups44, Grow For Me by R. Jasper, Shift 7 by Xyggurat and Survivor Muscle Beach 2 by F_R_Eaky

New stories:

• The Coach's Formula 13 by Shade
• Doug: One Man's Saga of Massive Muscle 7 by fillups44
• Grow For Me by Richard Jasper
• Shift 7 by Xyggurat
• Survivor Muscle Beach: Week 2 by F_R_Eaky

World religion

• Why Don't Jehovah's Witnesses Vote?
• Muslim call to adopt Mecca time
• Spanish church calls zombie parade blasphemous
• MP4s are devil's device, says Jewish Orthodox Court
• China tells living Buddhas to obtain permission before they reincarnate
• Australian Minister 'free to call Scientologists bastards'

New stories: Beyond Olympia by Richard Jasper, The Coach's Formula 12 by Shade, Shift 6 by Xyggurat and True Heroes 4 by Redkage

New stories:

• Beyond Olympia by Richard Jasper
• The Coach's Formula 12 by Shade
• Shift 6 by Xyggurat
• True Heroes 4 by Redkage

Stories I'm reading: Sleepy Saturday

• Afternoon Off Work (mm inc oral voy sleep)
• Go Wake Up Your Brother
• Sleepwalker
• Taking Advantage
• Web Cam Web Dreams

Sleeping at work

• Sleep deprivation is not a badge of honor
• Long Workweeks Keeping Americans Up Late
• Pwning for a yawning

Think of the children, suffer the adults

• "Don't Forget the Children"--Censorship overrides art
• Gordon Lee Victory Press Release--Rome District Attorney Leigh Patterson should be sanctioned for his vote-shilling crusade to punish a legitimate business.
• Booksellers, groups sue to block Oregon state law--Powell's, Dark Horse Comics are among plaintiffs who claim new law violates their free-speech rights
• Feds Charge Porn Producer With Selling Adult Content to Adults
• Brendan Nelson to call cops over nude child on magazine cover

New stories: Alaska by R. Jasper, Coach's Formula 11 by Shade, Doug 6 by fillups44, Shift 5 by Xyggurat, and Survivor Muscle Beach: Week 1 by F_R_Eaky

New stories:

• Alaska by Richard Jasper
• The Coach's Formula 11 by Shade
• Doug: One Man's Saga of Massive Muscle 6 by fillups44
• Shift 5 by Xyggurat
• Survivor Muscle Beach: Week 1 by F_R_Eaky

Bush Signs Spy Bill, ACLU Sues--Glenn Greenwald interviews ACLU's National Security Project Director Jameel Jaffer Salon

Obama-rama

• Betrayed by Obama
• Obama's FISA sellout: bad law, bad politics
• Response from Barack on FISA and Discussion with Policy Staff

Election '08

• Hard Evidence of Voting Machine Addition Errors
• Is it fair to play in the other party's sandbox and help pick their nominee? Answer: This is politics. What's ethics got to do with it?
• Group Behind Misleading Robo-Calls to Voters Answers Some Questions, Ducks Others
• Angry Clinton Supporters Start Rallying for McCain Online
• Obama Accuser Larry Sinclair Holds Stupefying Press Conference

New stories: BMOC 2 by ONIX, The Coach's Formula 10 by Shade, Do You? by Richard Jasper, Home on Leave by Peterbilt and Shift 4 by Xyggurat

New stories:

• BMOC: Black Mage on Campus, Chapter 2 by ONIX
• The Coach's Formula 10 by Shade
• Do You? by Richard Jasper
• Home on Leave by Peterbilt
• Shift 4 by Xyggurat

Global warming

• Inconvenient Truths: Get Ready to Rethink What It Means to Be Green
• Stop fighting over global warming -- here's the smart way to attack it.
• Global-Warming Deniers: A Well-Funded Machine
• Bjørn "The Skeptical Environmentalist" Lomborg feels a chill Salon
• Climate change: A guide for the perplexed
• Exxon facing shareholder revolt over approach to climate change
• Global-warming-ready gear

EPA

• EPA scientists complain about political pressure--Which I'm sure has nothing to with the agency's reversed stand on greenhouse gas
• White House Refused to Open Pollutants E-Mail
• Cheney's office denies meddling on climate

New stories: Adventures of Rex by R. Jasper, Coach's Formula 9 by Shade, Doug 5 by fillups44, My New Buddy's Arms 2 by BBMSN and Shift 3 by Xygurrat

New stories:

• The Adventures of Rex by Richard Jasper
• The Coach's Formula 9 by Shade
• Doug: One Man's Saga of Massive Muscle 5 by fillups44
• My New Buddy's Arms 2 by BBMSN
• Shift 3 by Xyggurat

FISA

• Aug. 8, 1974 vs. July 9, 2008
• Suing George W. Bush: A bizarre and troubling tale--U.S. officials went to extremes to stifle our legal challenge to Bush's warrantless surveillance -- but a federal judge says the program is criminal, anyway. Salon
• Amendment Would Put Spy Lawsuits, Amnesty On Hold Pending Investigation
• Online Movement Aims to Punish Democrats Who Support Bush Wiretap Bill--Starting with that flip-flopping Obama?
• AT&T Whistleblower: Spy Bill Creates 'Infrastructure for a Police State'

Movies

• How To Write A Movie
• How It Should Have Ended
• Don’t Quit Your Day Job: Directors’ Cameos in Films
• The Ten Video Games That Should Be Movies (and the Directors Who Should Make Them)
• A special "Where's WALL-E" edition of Why For?

New stories: The Coach's Formula 8 by Shade, Gym Fantasy by Richard Jasper, Shift 2 by Xyggurat and Skittish Stud Colt 3 by dymondbolt

New stories:

• The Coach's Formula 8 by Shade
• Gym Fantasy by Richard Jasper
• Shift 2 by Xyggurat
• Skittish Stud Colt at the Stedman Ranch 3 by dymondbolt

The new FISA compromise: it's worse than you think

FucksNews

• Fox News Finds Its Rivals Closing In
• Fox News airs altered photos of NY Times reporters
• Fox has 'fact writers' because...

Online Privacy

• Charter drops controversial customer tracking plan--They had the gall to call this an "enhancement" to the user surfing experience.
• Leaked Report: ISP Secretly Added Spy Code To Web Sessions, Crashing Browsers
• Did Deutsche Telekom Spy on Journalists and Board Members?
• Mozilla may be spying on you
• Web monitoring for ads? It may be illegal

Brian Chamberlain--Fireplug.

New stories: Tag, You're It by Texzilla, 10th Anniversary by Richard Jasper, The Coach's Formula 7 by Shade, Doug 4 by fillups44 and Shift by Xyggurat

New stories: A special shout-out to Texzilla for writing a whole new story just for my site's anniversary. Thanks!

• Tag, You're It by Texzilla
• 10th Anniversary by Richard Jasper
• The Coach's Formula 7 by Shade
• Doug: One Man's Saga of Massive Muscle 4 by fillups44
• Shift by Xyggurat

Your government and you

• ACLU And EFF Sue Justice Department To Uncover Records Of Cell Phone Tracking
• The political establishment and telecom immunity -- why it matters --The madness of King George Salon
• New FBI Database to Include Photos and Palm Prints

Kids these days

• 7-Year-Old Car Thief: "It's Fun To Do Bad Things"
• Law 'turns boys into rapists'
• Our little emperors: does worrying do more harm than good?
• Soccer Parents: Why They Rage
• Study: Divorce may not cause kids' bad behavior

New stories: The Brood by muscl4life, The Coach's Formula 6 by Shade and The Roomate by Richard Jasper

New artwork: This anniversary has really given me the drive to wrap up so many of my pending projects, this one for muscl4life's story, The Brood, that I started working on in 2005.

New stories:

• The Brood by muscl4life
• The Coach's Formula 6 by Shade
• The Roommate by Richard Jasper

Charity Should Begin with the Church

Bacteria evolve; Conservapedia demands recount--Don't fuck with Professor Lenski

Evolution Museum--Fight religious ignorance by improving science literacy

Vatican urges end to Amnesty aid

The Vatican's Product Recall

New stories: The Coach's Formula 5 by Shade, Doug 3 by fillups44, My New Buddy's Arms by BBMSN, and Two Brothers by Richard Jasper

New stories:

• The Coach's Formula 5 by Shade
• Doug: One Man's Saga of Massive Muscle 3 by fillups44
• My New Buddy's Arms by BBMSN
• Two Brothers by Richard Jasper

The War on Terror

• Supremes Restore Habeas to Gitmo Detainees
• CIA tactics given legal cover, newspaper says
• "If the detainee dies, you're doing it wrong."
• Believe Me, It's Torture--Christopher Hitchens gets waterboarded
• Italian 'rendition' trial begins with torture testimony--Beware travelers.
• Lost in Translation: Alhurra—America’s Troubled Effort to Win Middle East Hearts and Minds
• NFL Still Capitalizing On Pat Tillman’s Death, While Snubbing His Family--Perpetuating the lie
• Student researching al-Qaida tactics held for six days
• Terror profiling without evidence considered in U.S.
• Paper Shampoo lets you travel with clean hair without being branded a terrorist

New stories: The Coach's Formula 4 by Shade, Jallen by Richard Jasper and Ripped Van Winkle by dymondbolt

New stories:

• The Coach's Formula 4 by Shade
• Jallen by Richard Jasper
• Ripped Van Winkle by dymondbolt

Stories I'm Reading: Military

• Little Richard, Big Dick
• Navy Story
• Three Day Pass

Judge: FISA trumps state secrets, binds executive branch--And watch Congress neuter him

What a steal

• Pirated by iTunes, Artist Turns to BitTorrent
• A Travesty of Copyright Theft
• Hey, Isn't That...
• Artist's work looked familiar--Yup, it certainly does
• Funny, that was my joke--To paraphrase: Good comedians copy; great comedians steal.

New stories: The Coach's Formula 3 by Shade, Doug 2 by fillups44, The Fucking Machine by Peterbilt and What's It Like? by Richard Jasper

New stories:

• The Coach's Formula 3 by Shade
• Doug: One Man's Saga of Massive Muscle 2 by fillups44
• The Fucking Machine by Peterbilt
• What's It Like? by Richard Jasper

New morph: From Old to Young 2

Dicks

• Manhood road ad 'very successful'
• Men fear too small penis size
• Why Some Men Can't Have Orgasms
• Penis Power
• The Secret Life of Sperm Salon
• Low levels of male hormone could kill you
• Bedtime supplements, 'male enhancement' and the cult of the phallus

New stories: The Interview by Titan, The Coach's Formula 2 by Shade, and My Fetish by Richard Jasper

New stories:

• The Interview by Titan
• The Coach's Formula 2 by Shade
• My Fetish by Richard Jasper

Pics picks

• Photographing a Wedding and then an Earthquake--Powerful stuff.
• Ron Mueck: Hyper-Realist Sculptor
• Life Before Death
• Eustace Tilley artwork
• Amazing non-photoshopped pictures
• Mexican Superheroes
• Ugly Mickey

Simon Voyer--Canadian hunk

6 Degrees of Celebration, Happy Anniversary!

New stories: For the occasion of my site's sixth anniversary, get ready for an entire month of daily updates starting with stories from 6 new contributors: fillups44, F_R_Eaky, ONIX, Richard Jasper, Shade and Xyggurat.

• Doug: One Mag's Saga of Massive Muscle by fillups44
• Biological Inheritance by F_R_Eaky
• BMOC: Black Mage on Campus, Chapter 1: The Devil in the Details by ONIX
• Oral History Project by Richard Jasper
• The Coach's Formula by Shade
• The Roommate by Xyggurat

Eyeborgs--I came across this movie on IMDB, and from the way it treats the subject of privacy, it's right up my alley. Stars Highlander hunk Adrian Paul. Keep an eye out for it.

Senate Postpones Spy Bill Vote Until July 8

How telecoms are attempting to buy amnesty from Congress

Telecom Amnesty Flip-Floppers Got More Telecom Dollars

Hypocrite GOP House Leader Boehner wants wiretapping protection -- but only for himself

McCain: I'd Spy on Americans Secretly, Too