Merry Christmas! Today's special: 20 new stories

Merry Christmas! I've been pretty busy the past couple of weeks wrapping up work before the holidays, and since I'm going on vacation today, I thought I'd unleash a torrent of stories including some from the site's newest contributors: Walter Ego, rtrose, Ultrabeef7, and z119z. And if you enjoyed any of the stories, please give the authors the gift of feedback.

New stories:

• Before and After by John D. (musc)
• Christmas on Campus by Peterbilt
• Christmas Present by Iainlthr
• Craps by Drakkenfyre (fant body swap)
• Doctor Ryder and Mister Buck by z119z (hypno)
• Finding Santa by BBMSN (musc)
• Freshman Year by Richard Jasper (musc)
• Genie Trouble by Ventrego (tf)
• The Good Doctor by Londonboy (musc)
• Hit F1 to Continue by Tyler Bernard (mc musc)
• It's What You Want by Touchstone (hypno)
• Legacy 7 by Redkage (fant)
• Look Where Thinking Can Get You 3 by Louis DePasquale (hypno inc)
• Make It Stop!? by rtrose (ap musc bear)
• The Master Computer Program by Alyn Roze (mc musc)
• Muscle-Frat by Ultrabeef7 (musc)
• Not Gay by Walter Ego (hypno)
• Sub-Way Trainer by Gearsale (hypno)
• The System by muscl4life
• Young Danny by Derek Phillips

New stories: The Vu Doo That You Do, Yon Don Deux Well by F_R_Eaky and The Destroyers 2 by fillups44

New stories: The Vu Doo That You Do, Yon Don Deux Well by F_R_Eaky (musc) and The Destroyers 2 by fillups44 (musc)

Law and Disorder

• Demanding Settlement for Clearly Baseless Lawsuit = Criminal Extortion
• Children: Father didn't abuse us: Ex-Vancouver police officer spent nearly 20 years in prison
• Law students help free three-strikes offenders
• Texas police will return cash in case that prompted lawsuit
• 'Accidental' Download Sending Man To Prison

New stories by Derek Phillips, Drakkenfyre, Peterbilt, Touchstone and Tyler Bernard

New stories:

• Chewing Gum? by Drakkenfyre (inanimate)
• The Show Must Go On by Touchstone (hypno)
• The Tamperer Gets Tampered by Tyler Bernard (bd nc)
• Todd's Big Brother Scott by Derek Phillips
• Wilderness Park by Peterbilt

New stories by baboonfan, Drakkenfyre, eigh, Richard Japser and Touchstone

New stories:

• Another Bad Penny... Oh Puck! by Drakkenfyre
• A Real Bug's Life by baboonfan
• Under His Wing by Richard Jasper
• The Wallet by Touchstone
• Youth Sleuth Inc. & the Case of the Fallen Superheroes by eigh

New stories: The Destroyers by fillups44 and He's That Into You 4 by Londonboy

New stories: The Destroyers by fillups44 and He's That Into You 4 by Londonboy

Bad Blogging

• A lesson for bloggers: go to the source or look like a fool
• Errors By Bloggers Kill Credibility & Traffic, Study Finds
• Stuff blogger eats media lunch

FucksNews

• Stewart annihilates Fox News' purported opinion-news division: "It's a perpetual revulsion machine"
• FOX rolls wrong video, heads may roll--"FOX has done it again, and this time, once again, FOX says its misplay of the wrong crowd video was another regrettable mistake."
• In Which Fox Edits Lies into the News--Manure-facturing outrage.
• When Blame Knocks on the Wrong Door--"Since Fox News wrongly identified a La Habra home as that of a terrorist, its five- member family has faced an angry backlash."
• Murdoch papers paid £1m to gag phone-hacking victims--"Rupert Murdoch's News Group News­papers has paid out more than £1m to settle legal cases that threatened to reveal evidence of his journalists' repeated involvement in the use of criminal methods to get stories."

Happy Thanksgiving! New stories by Aardvark, Drakkenfyre, Londonboy, Peterbilt, Redkage, Touchstone and Tyler Bernard

New stories: Happy Thanksgiving! Please welcome hypno author Touchstone and male transformer Drakkenfyre.

• Black and Blue by Tyler Bernard
• Escaping to America by Drakkenfyre
• Friends Share by Touchstone
• He's That Into You 3 by Londonboy
• Hunter: Fantasy, Football, Frenzy by Aardvark
• My Brother-in-Law by Peterbilt
• Teacher's Pet 14 by Redkage

New stories: He's That Into You 2 by Londonboy and Muscle Machine by Richard Jasper

New stories: He's That Into You 2 by Londonboy and Muscle Machine by Richard Jasper

Think of the children

• School officials, parents meet after controversial lesson--The controversy? Showing pictures of embryos to 5-year-olds.
• Single father turned away from swimming pool... because health and safety rules say he can't supervise his two sons
• Utah passes pointless, worthless underage game sales bill
• A Republican state senator says he wants to keep alcohol out of the view of minors in restaurants -- at least until it reaches a customer's table--Sparing them the horror of watching alcohol being poured out of a bottle
• State Silences Young Guitarist

Paying for someone else's mistake

• Man pays for county's mistake in child-support case
• Man must pay child support, despite DNA tests
• Not The Father? You Still Owe Child Support, Says Georgia Law

New stories: The Butter Ball Parade 2 by baboonfan, The Gifted Child 7 by Jaypat, and Rematch 2 by Randy Dragon

New stories:

• The Butter Ball Parade 2 by baboonfan
• The Gifted Child 7 by Jaypat
• Rematch 2 by Randy Dragon

App Store

• Apple's Mistake--Driving away the good developers
• Facebook iPhone Dev Quits Project Over Apple Tyranny
• Instapaper update rejected for iPhone icon--But a photo is allowed for a Star Wars app.
• Apple rejects iPhone app for containing "iPhone" in title
• Bug fixes for Airfoil Speakers Touch held up for four months
• Apple rejects "objectionable" political Bobble Rep app--This incident really highlighted the weakness of the app store's approval process, and I wasn't surprised that Apple turned tail at all the bad publicity they deservedly received. Thanks, Tom Richmond.
• There's no app for that--What if Apple starts restricting applications on our desktops/laptops?

Apple is no longer the Nordstrom of Tech, they’re the "New Nordstrom"

New stories: He's That Into You by Londonboy, Timmy and Tom by muscl4life and Redkage, and When the Bow Breaks, the Hero Will Fall by eigh

New stories:

• He's That Into You by Londonboy
• Timmy and Tom by muscl4life and Redkage
• When the Bow Breaks, the Hero Will Fall by eigh

Porn

• Even porn can't keep a Playboy's pockets lined
• 3D porn to revolutionise industry
• Porn producer invokes the Bush/Yoo defense Salon

Sex

• Safety First: Condom Dispensing "Don't Panic" Button For Emergencies
• Artificial foreskin lets you keep your sensitivity AND the covenant of Abraham!
• Chocolate sex spread taken off shelves over chemical fears

New stories: The Gifted Child 6 by Jaypat, Rematch by Randy Dragon and Zeus' Folly, Hulk's Pain by fillups44

New stories:

• The Gifted Child 6 by Jaypat
• Rematch by Randy Dragon
• Zeus' Folly, Hulk's Pain by fillups44

Net worth

• Is the Internet melting our brains? Salon
• Is Google Making Us Stupid?
• Literacy Debate: Online, R U Really Reading?
• The Critics Need a Reboot. The Internet Hasn't Led Us Into a New Dark Age.
• Technology Doesn’t Dumb Us Down. It Frees Our Minds.

New art and new stories: The Gifted Child 5 by Jaypat, Hunter: Glimpse by Aardvark, and Mister Nice Guy by muscl4life

Couple of things:

First off, here's a big thank you to PrideSites for giving the site more space. Since July I've been actively looking for ways to keep the site going, and even just last week I had considered moving out some of the stories to make room, but thankfully now I don't have to do that for a long, long time. I also would like to take this opporunity to thank Changes and CYOC.net for hosting my drawings, which take up a hella lot of space too, and Blogger.com for keeping the archive going. As for my morphs, well... maybe there's a way I can get some of them back online.

And second, whenever my internet connection at home dies, so does my drive for drawing, but since things have been stable for the past two weeks, I can feel some of my enthusiasm returning, and I'll start things off again with a few Muscle Makeovers, this one of mann007 in the left pic who incidentally made the scary-ass rendition of me ala Sin City in the picture to the right.

New stories:

• The Gifted Child 5 by Jaypat
• Hunter: Glimpse by Aardvark
• Mister Nice Guy by muscl4life

Happy Halloween! New stories by CallMeCrazy, Clarence591, dymondbolt, Eigh, Jaypat, Londonboy and Richard Jasper

New stories: Happy Halloween

• The Coven Coin: The End by Clarence591
• The Jocking: Finale by CallMeCrazy
• Jonathan's Journey by Richard Jasper
• The Hypno-Master is Always Faster 2 by Eigh
• My Hero by Londonboy
• On the Tip of My Tongue by dymondbolt
• Trick or Treat by Jaypat

Science Under Siege

• Saving science from "Unscientific America"
• 'Right to science' deserves more support
• Scientific illiteracy all the rage among the glitterati
• Lacking control drives false conclusions, conspiracy theories and superstitions
• The dumbification of Spore
• One backwards leap for Texas
• Flat-earthers

New stories: House Rules by Wrestlr, The Hypno-Master is Always Faster by Eigh and Serial Muscle by Richard Jasper

New stories:

• House Rules by Wrestlr
• The Hypno-Master is Always Faster by Eigh
• Serial Muscle by Richard Jasper

In the Name of Science?

• Test Subjects Who Call the Scientist Mom or Dad--What could possibly go wrong?
• Nazi angel of death Josef Mengele 'created twin town in Brazil'
• Designer Babies: Like It Or Not, Here They Come
• Autism test would deprive the world of geniuses
• Pointless research: top 10 Ig Nobel award winners for silly science

New stories: The Coven Coin: The Other Side by Clarence591, The Gifted Child 4 by Jaypat and My Boyfriend's a Warlock... & He Controls TV! by Eigh

New stories:

• The Coven Coin: The Other Side: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 by Clarence591
• The Gifted Child 4 by Jaypat
• My Boyfriend's a Warlock... & He Controls TV! by Eigh

Ooga-booga

• Should we resurrect the Neanderthals?
• European Neanderthals had ginger hair and freckles
• Neanderthals ‘had sex’ with modern man

Science and Religion

• Divine intervention from the scientists
• Brain Differences Found Between Believers In God And Non-believers
• Homosexual Scientists Isolate Gene for Christianity

New stories: Coach Control by Wrestlr, Hypnosis in the News 3: To Dream Perchance To Sleep by Eigh and Journey of a Muscle God 3 by F_R_Eaky

New stories:

• Coach Control by Wrestlr
• Hypnosis in the News 3: To Dream Perchance To Sleep by Eigh
• Journey of a Muscle God 3 by F_R_Eaky

Mind Games

• Using Internet Boosts Older Brains
• ABC News: Body-Swap Illusion Tricks Mind in New Study
• 'Sex Chip' Creates Pleasure in Brain, Could Treat Disease
• Porn and Mirror Neurons
• How the city hurts your brain

New stories: The Gifted Child 3 by Jaypat, Hypnosis in the News 2: Sleeper Cell by Eigh, and Stress Relief by Richard Jasper

New stories:

• The Gifted Child 3 by Jaypat
• Hypnosis in the News 2: Sleeper Cell by Eigh
• Stress Relief by Richard Jasper

The Science of Fun

• The doctor who dropped his trousers on top of the world
• Coin-tosses aren't fair
• How Kevin Bacon sparked a new branch of science
• Human sex from the inside out
• Fifth-Grade Science Paper Doesn't Stand Up To Peer Review The Onion

New stories: The Coven Coin: MVP by Clarence591, Hypnosis in the News by Eigh, and Teamwork by Wrestlr

New stories:

• The Coven Coin: MVP: 1 | 2 by Clarence591
• Hypnosis in the News by Eigh
• Teamwork by Wrestlr

Hoax and Dreams

• Mythbunkers
• Seven of the greatest scientific hoaxes
• Top 10: Widely Believed Myths
• 8 Moon-Landing Hoax Myths -- Busted
• Debunkers fail in $10,000 challenge of NASA photos

New stories: Brotherhood of the Sole by Eigh, Hunter: Family Man by Aardvark, and Journey of a Muscle God 2 by F_R_Eaky

New stories:

• Brotherhood of the Sole by Eigh
• Hunter: Family Man by Aardvark
• Journey of a Muscle God 2 by F_R_Eaky

Science by the numbers

• 6 Insane Discoveries That Science Can't Explain
• 7 Man-Made Substances that Laugh in the Face of Physics
• 9 Words You Might Think Came from Science but Which Are Really from Science Fiction
• Top 10 Greatest Mysteries in Science
• Top 25 fictional ads in sci-fi movies

New stories: The Coven Coin: Say the Word by Clarence591, The Change Continues by Richard Jasper, and Fair Play by purejetfuel

Happy National Coming Out Day (UK), Columbus Day (US) and Thanksgiving Day (Canada)

New stories:

• The Coven Coin: Say the Word: 1 | 2 by Clarence591
• The Change Continues by Richard Jasper
• Fair Play by purejetfuel

Mainstreaming

• Gays, lesbians march on Washington, calling for full equality
• Obama again pledges to change policy on gays
• What Happened In 1990?
• PM apology after Turing petition
• Lesbians given equal birth rights

The Onion

• New Anti-Smoking Ads Warn Teens 'It's Gay To Smoke'
• Conservatives Warn Quick Sex Change Only Barrier Between Gays, Marriage
• Only Gay Guy In The Office Says He's Not The Only Gay Guy In The Office

New stories by Absman, Clarence591, Richard Jasper

New stories:

• The Coven Coin: Whipped by Clarence591
• Kept Boy by Richard Jasper Updated
• The New Adventures of Kake & Pekka (A Tom of Finland Rhapsody) by AbsMan420

Apple

• Before Apple introduced the iPhone…
• DoubleTwist Remakes Apple’s Classic 1984 Ad With A New Dictator: Steve Jobs
• Apple's Animal Farm
• Mobile Opportunity: Is Apple too powerful?
• Apple tries to silence owner of exploding iPod with gagging order
• Apple Claims New iPhone Only Visible To Most Loyal Of Customers The Onion

AppStore

• iSinglePayer iPhone App Censored by Apple--They've since allowed this "politically charged" app promoting US healthcare reform through.
• Pass the lubricant as we’re getting fucked by Apple too
• The Inhospitable Land of the App Store
• How John Gruber Got the Google Voice/App Store Story Wrong--Or did he?
• Apple bans App Store’s 3rd-most prolific developer
• Cheating the App Store: PR firm has interns post positive reviews for clients

New stories by Clarence591, John D., Londonboy, Solomon and Xyggurat

New stories: Say hello to Solomon, who I hope will be sharing more of fantasies with us

• Awakening the Shy Muscleman 5 by Londonboy
• The Best Night of My Life by John D.
• The Coven Coin: The Beautiful Corpse: 1 | 2 by Clarence591
• The Jock Hunter by Solomon
• Work Ethic 2 by Xyggurat

Breathalyzers

• Manatee judge tosses DUI breath tests--Breathalyzers should be subject to rigid scrutiny.
• Eating Ice Cream Causes False Breathalyzer Positive Test Result
• Software Problems with a Breath Alcohol Detector

Don't tase me, bro

• Man tased 19 times and dies, jury finds force not excessive--WTF?
• Pregnant mother tasered at baptism party
• Police Taser boy with broken back 19 times--"Authorities say their use of a Taser weapon should not be questioned, because they were trying to help Hutchinson to safety." That's trying to help?
• Merced police Taser double amputee
• Mom Tasered in front of kids ‘posed no threat’--The tasing may have been defensible, but leaving her kids alone in the car for 40 minutes isn't.

Bad Cops

• Family Says 911 Tape Caught Cops Planning Cover-Up After Shooting
• Cop pushed woman downstairs for no reason then charges her with assault
• Cop berates woman with father in critical condition for cursing on 911 call

New art and new stories by Clarence591, Mango Deville, Richard Jasper, Xyggurat and xythan_shadow

Naruto & Sasuke

New stories: Please welcome the site's newest contributor, Mango Deville.

• The Coven Coin by Clarence591
• Fant-C Hair: (H)imported Muscle by Mango Deville
• Gym Watching 2 by xythan_shadow
• Two Brothers by Richard Jasper Updated
• Work Ethic by Xyggurat

Pic Tips

• How to take a Web head shot
• How to Look Thinner, Younger, and Taller in Pictures
• How to Look Better in Photos
• What makes a great portrait?
• 21 Ways to Shoot Better Photographs
• Best picture quality with 6 megapixels--See why the megapixel race needs to end
• 6 Tips for Better Camera Phone Pics
• 12 Tips For Taking Great Digital Pix

Galleries

• Gallery European Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2008
• LIFE photo archive hosted by Google
• Earth Album
• The Beauty Of Urban Decay
• Google Maps Typography

Aang & Zuko

New art, links and new stories by AbsMan420, John D., Londonboy, lthrjock and Richard Jasper

Kid Devil

New stories:

• Awakening the Shy Muscleman 4 by Londonboy
• Nipplesluts by AbsMan420
• The Nubian Prince by Richard Jasper
• Undercover 6 by lthrjock
• Youth Camp by John D.

New links:

• Baralai's Bastion
• Best Gay Muscles: Musclemorphs
• Dabbler.X
• GMPics
• Hulumulu's Cave
• Linkin's Giant Morphs
• Male Transformation Blog

Marriage Equality

• Gay marriage bill signed into law in New Hampshire
• Gay Wedding Announcement Draws Fire From Hoosiers
• Are Gays Too Late to Destroy Marriage?
• Census To Count Gay Marriages The Onion
• Betty Bowers Explains Traditional Marriage to Everyone Else

Vote Load

• Gay Marriage Opponents: Enough Signatures For Referendum in Maine
• Election offers peek at gay marriage fight in Iowa
• CA Marriage Equality Leadership Summit an Utter Failure - Shame On All of Us

Deadman

New art and new stories by muscl4life, Redkage, Richard Jasper and Tyler Bernard

Red Robin

New stories:

• Aisle 13 by Richard Jasper
• Darkness and Light by muscl4life and Redkage
• The New Uncle by Tyler Bernard

Economy

• Investigating Sesame Street's role in the financial collapse
• Bank crisis lessons 'not learned'
• For all Obama's talk of overhaul, the US has failed to wind in Wall Street
• Wall Street’s Toxic Message
• Vatican runs deficit amid economic crisis
• Banks' 'courtesy' loans at soaring rates irk consumers
• Al Lewis: Wells Fargo Bank Sues Itself
• Private Equity Slams Proposed Banking Rules
• Dodging Credit-Card Reform

Porn

• Economic woes hit porn industry
• Tough times in the porn industry
• The trouble with pornography: Hard times

Beast Boy

New Cartoon Muscle and new stories by Louis DePasquale, muscl4life and Richard Jasper

Kid Flash

New stories:

• Look Where Thinking Can Get You 2 by Louis DePasquale
• Something Else by Richard Jasper
• The Wild: Game #1 -- The Affalo by muscl4life

UK not OK

• Deaths on rise as anti-knife crime strategy fails
• Now elf 'n' safety chiefs ban swimmers from doing lengths
• Honest Guy Returns Cell Phone, Gets Arrested
• Green shop owner is fined by council...for not producing any rubbish
• Pupils walk out of lessons in protest against Big Brother cameras

Mary Jane

• How marijuana became legal
• Man in anti-drug ad charged in pot bust
• Argentina rules on marijuana use
• Drug czar: Feds won't support legalized pot
• California sprouts marijuana ‘green rush’
• America's Love-Hate History with Pot
• He's Not High: Inside Barney Frank's Plan to Legalize Marijuana
• Marijuana Growers Linked To California Fire The Onion

Superboy

09/09/09 -- New artwork and new stories by Londonboy, lthrjock, Redkage, Richard Jasper and Tyler Bernard

Anti-bully Measures

New stories: Didn't want to let this auspicious date pass without a new post, which also gave me a good reason to introduce the stories of Tyler Bernard.

• Awakening the Shy Muscleman 3 by Londonboy
• Legacy 6 by Redkage
• Something Different by Richard Jasper
• Undercover 5 by lthrjock
• Weaponised by Tyler Bernard

End Kindle In Them

• Lawsuit: Amazon Ate My Homework--Will their apology be enough to stop this?
• Lost or stolen Kindle? Amazon says you're out of luck
• Lose Your Amazon Account and Your Kindle Dies
• The Kindle Experience
• Cory Doctorow: Authors have lost the plot in Amazon Kindle battle

Tech Suits

• Cheerleader sues school, coach after illicit Facebook log-in
• Landlord sues tenant after tweet about moldy apartment
• Court Allows Woman to Sue Bank for Lax Security After $26,000 Stolen by Hacker
• Monticello, Minnesota Wins Right To Run Fiber, TDS Telecom loses a series of appeals to kill the project
• Filtering Companies Can’t Be Sued By Blacklisted Firms, Court Rules

Tech@Work

• AP Reporter Reprimanded For Facebook Post; Union Protests
• Police Officer Forced to Resign Over Old MySpace Pics
• Off the clock? Hyperconnected workers sue employers

Midgetized Muscle

New art and new stories by Aardvark, Louis DePasquale and RdyRoger

Grower at the Shower before

New stories:

• The Car Lot: Keep It Classy by Aardvark
• Look Where Thinking Can Get You by Louis DePasquale
• The Salt Interlude: The Lab Assistant by RdyRoger

Not-so-manly Men

• It Pays To Play Nice, Harvard Study Says
• In Hollywood, Beta Males Best Alpha Dogs
• Nerds rejoice: Braininess boosts likelihood of sex
• Men Who Do The Housework Are More Likely To Get The Girl
• It's official: Men really are the weaker sex

Grower at the Shower after

New artwork and new stories by Londonboy, lthrjock, purejetfuel, Richard Jasper and Wildman410

Lab Partner

New stories:

• Ape Shit by purejetfuel
• Awakening the Shy Muscleman 2 by Londonboy
• Best Buds by Richard Jasper
• It Changed Me 2 by Wildman410
• Undercover 4 by lthrjock

Don't Ask, Don't Tell

• Gay Boise Air Force Pilot 'outed' by false accusation
• Mullen advises 'measured' approach to gay policy
• Military's Gay Policy Being Reevaluated The Onion

Intolerance

• Anti-Gay-Rights Group Gets MSNBC Clip Pulled From YouTube
• Wal-Mart CEO Backed Gay Adoption Ban
• "Gay Panic Defense" Used To Acquit Illinois Man Who Stabbed Neighbor 61 Times
• Too 'gay' item taken off menu
• Two gay men kicked out of Chico's Tacos restaurant for kissing
• Kept From a Dying Partner’s Bedside
• My bullied son's last day on Earth

Skater's Riser

New artwork and new stories by Aardvark, AbsMan420, derek philips, Glaucon, Londonboy, lthrjock, and Richard Jasper

Not So Little Bro

New stories:

• Awakening the Shy Muscleman by Londonboy
• Camp Summersex by derek phillips
• The Dean's List by Glaucon
• Hunter: Reunion and Rebirth by Aardvark
• Jessie's Girls by Richard Jasper
• Secret Origins of the Buff Models -- (The Porn Star & The Go-Go Boy) by AbsMan420
• Undercover 3 by lthrjock

Creationism

• Chris Matthews 'Destroys' GOP Rep. Mike Pence On Evolution/Science Question
• Texas is only 6000 years old!
• US teacher broke law by describing creationism as 'superstitious nonsense'--How about calling it a religious agenda?
• Creationists, Now at your Local Planetarium
• Judge clears way for dinosaur park to be seized

Big Boy 2

New artwork and New stories by BBMSN, Londonboy, and lthrjock

Muscle Sex 2

New stories:

• The Creation of Mr. G 3 by Londonboy
• Marooned 5 by BBMSN
• Undercover 2 by lthrjock

Developers, developers, developers

• Apple's Chickenshit Approval Process Has Gone Too Far
• There's No App for That
• Dear Mr. Jobs, I have some ideas about how to improve your phone
• Application Submission Feedback--Crowd-sourced documentation
• Where do I sign up?
• Serious doubts
• Fed Up, A Popular Mac Developer Quits The iPhone--He'll come back when things get better.
• Rejected By Apple, iPhone Developers Go Underground

Ninjawords

• Ninjawords: iPhone Dictionary, Censored by Apple
• Phil Schiller Responds Regarding Ninjawords and the App Store
• Why Ninjawords Drew a Response

CrAppStore

• Apple, the App Store just isn't you
• The Emperor’s New Clothes
• Apple: Secrecy Does Not Scale
• I Quit the iPhone
• As Apple Rots, iPhone Users Revolt
• Is Google Voice a Threat to AT&T?

Powergeek 3

New stories by Londonboy, lthrjock, Rdyroger, Richard Jasper and screamingmoist

New stories:

• The Creation of Mr. G 2 by Londonboy
• Facets 4 by screamingmoist
• The Salt Interlude: The Gym Bunny by RdyRoger
• Undercover by lthrjock
• Wow by Richard Jasper

The Kindle burns

• Why Amazon went Big Brother on some Kindle e-books
• Amazon Says It Will Stop Deleting Kindle Books
• Kindle’s DRM Rears Its Ugly Head… And It IS Ugly
• How Amazon's remote deletion of e-books from the Kindle paves the way for book-banning's digital future
• Jeff Bezos apologizes for Amazon's actions--Sorry, but this episode and another one by Barnes & Noble have proven the cost of licensing DRM'd content is not worth it. Better to buy the hardcopy that you own.

Breach of privacy

• Network Solutions Suffers Large Data Breach
• Card Processor Admits to Large Data Breach--And announced it on the day of Obama's inauguration hoping it wouldn't get much coverage. Good luck with that.
• Monster.com Reports Theft of User Data--But doesn't email users about it.
• Hackers hit Monster.com's customer data again.
• Aussie stumbles on 19,000 exposed credit card numbers
• Visa and MasterCard Issue New Breach Warning
• Vast Spy System Loots Computers in 103 Countries
• Sony Dinged $1 Million for Child-Privacy Breach

Identity indemnities

• Four million British identities are up for sale on the internet
• Registered with the do-not-call list? Expect more calls, says consumer watchdog--Oh the irony. Why are these lists even on sale in the first place?
• 21 million German bank accounts - yours for only €12m
• Hackers hold hospital histories hostage
• Your records for sale to the highest bidder

Happy 7th Anniversary!

I suppose a Happy 7th Anniversary is in order despite the site being at an ebb, but I'm not sure when the tide will turn as work continues to come in ever increasing waves, and so far I've managed to keep my head above water at the expense of the free time I used to have. And if ever I do need to submerse myself into work even more, I'll let you guys know.

New stories:

• The Bet 4 by Jaypat
• BMOC Beat Down by cicero
• The Creation of Mr. G by Londonboy
• Facets 3 by screamingmoist
• The Freak Show by Redkage
• Marooned 4 by BBMSN
• No Strings Attached 3 by muscl4life
• Retrospective by Richard Jasper Updated 31 Jul 09
• Ripped Van Winkle 3 by dymondbolt
• The Salt 9 by RdyRoger

Wiretaps

• Illegal, and Pointless
• Spy Memo Author to America: No Apologies for Tapping You
• Bush’s Secret NSA Spying May Have Tainted Prosecutions, Report Warns
• New and worse secrecy and immunity claims from the Obama DOJ
• Ninth Circuit rejects gov't appeal in wiretap case
• Report: Bush's surveillance program larger than previously thought
• Report: NSA surveillance program too secret for its own good
• U.S. Wiretaps Were of Limited Value, Officials Report

Froomkin

• Froomkin Departs, Leaving Angry Loyalists And Questions
• Why Did the Washington Post Sack Dan Froomkin?
• The Froomkin firing
• White House Watch--Froomkin's last column on the Washington Post
• Dan Froomkin hired by The Huffington Post

New stories by Aardvark, CallMeCrazy, Jaypat, Londonboy, lthrjock, RdyRoger and Redkage

New stories:

• The Alpha Dog Gets a Leash 5 by Londonboy
• The Bet 3 by Jaypat
• Hunter 18: Unrequited Love by Aardvark
• The Jocking: 3rd Quarter: 01:00 by CallMeCrazy
• New Year's Resolution 13 by lthrjock
• The Salt 8 by RdyRoger
• Teacher's Pet 13 by Redkage

Gays and Education

• School can expel lesbian students, court rules
• Pro-Gay Sites Filtered From Tennessee Students
• ACLU Sues School Districts for Blocking Gay-Rights Web Sites
• At Whitman, A Protest Over Poet's Lifestyle
• My bullied son's last day on Earth

A Gay, Gay, Gay World

• Gay sex decriminalised in India
• Dutch signs point to gay sex seekers
• Peru 'bar gay people from police'
• Uruguay to lift ban on gays in the military
• United States endorses U.N. gay rights text

New stories by CallMeCrazy, dymondbolt, Jaypat, lthrjock and RdyRoger

New stories:

• The Bet 2 by Jaypat
• The Jocking: 3rd Quarter: 02:00 by CallMeCrazy
• New Year's Resolution 12 by lthrjock
• The Salt 7 by RdyRoger
• Special Delivery 4 by dymondbolt

Bad for Business

• Wordpress resists Canon attempt to take down Fake Canon blog
• Google submission hammers section 92A--"In its submission, Google notes that more than half (57%) of the takedown notices it has received under the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act 1998, were sent by business targeting competitors and over one third (37%) of notices were not valid copyright claims."
• Goldman Sachs hires law firm to shut blogger's site

Rotten Apple

• App Store Lessons: the game changer rejection
• Apple Rejects EFF Updates App, Claims Parody Content Is Objectionable
• Whither Eucalyptus?

Customer Disservice

• Source: Office Depot Associates Routinely Lie about Notebook Stock
• More Office Depot Employees Report Lying to Customers, Changing Price Tags
• FTC: Lying About Notebook Inventory Violates Federal Law

New morph and New Stories by baboonfan, CallMeCrazy, dymondbolt, Jaypat, lthrjock, muscl4life and RdyRoger

New stories:

• The Bet by Jaypat
• The Butter Ball Parade by baboonfan
• Duke and the Fox by muscl4life
• The Jocking: 3rd Quarter: 03:00 by CallMeCrazy
• New Year's Resolution 11 by lthrjock
• The Salt 6 by RdyRoger
• Special Delivery 3 by dymondbolt

New morph: Hypnohunk 2

Three Wolf Moon Amazon reviews--Crowdsourcing reaps hilarious rewards yet again, as highlighted in this YouTube parody of this ridiculously-awesome T-shirt.

Credit Card

• A Consumer’s Guide to the New Credit Card Rules--An issue that finally got noticed.
• What Does Your Credit-Card Company Know About You?
• Credit Card Industry Aims to Profit From Sterling Payers

Economy

• Citigroup Spends Bailout Money Lobbying Student Lenders To Sabotage Obama Plan--Bad enough these students are already in bad debts
• Guatemala police arrest Twitter user for 'inciting financial panic'
• British Airways ditch first class in new planes as age of austerity bites--Doubt their planes will get repossessed, unlike these Learjets Salon.
• Accountant saves cash, calories by cooking at home
• Nation Ready To Be Lied To About Economy Again TheOnion

New stories by Aardvark, baboonfan, CallMeCrazy, Clarence591, dymondbolt, lthrjock and RdyRoger

New stories:

• Hunter 17: Living the Dream by Aardvark
• The Island of Dr. Mortimer 3 by baboonfan
• The Jocking: 3rd Quarter: 04:00 by CallMeCrazy
• New Year's Resolution 10 by lthrjock
• The Salt 5 by RdyRoger
• Second Chances 9 by Clarence591
• Special Delivery 2 by dymondbolt

Police Powers

• Justices Ease Rules on Questioning
• Supreme Court Eases Limits on Evidence
• Supreme Court says police may search even if arrest invalid

Pushback

• Supreme Court: Feds Abusing Identity Theft Law
• Supreme Court scales back police right to search cars
• NY Top court: Police cannot track suspect with GPS--Tell that to Wisconsin.

Prop. 8

• Prop. 8 upheld, but existing same-sex unions to stand
• Prop. 8 ruling draws attention to state's easy amendment process
• The Olson/Boies Challenge to California's Proposition 8: A High-Risk Effort--Bush/Gore lawyers team-up

New stories by CallMeCrazy, Clarence591, Jaypat, Londonboy and lthrjock

New stories:

• The Alpha Dog Gets a Leash 4 by Londonboy
• The Gifted Child by Jaypat
• The Jocking: 3rd Quarter: 05:00 by CallMeCrazy
• New Year's Resolution 9 by lthrjock
• Second Chances 8 by Clarence591

New morph: Speedo Kid 5

War on Terror

• Rachel Maddow: Indefinite detention? Shame on you... President Obama--And Glen Greenwald gets into the nitty-gritty of this unconstitutional proposal.
• Why Sen. Lindsey Graham thinks anti-torture laws sometimes need to give a little
• And He Shall Be Judged--Donald Rumsfeld hopes history will vindicate him.
• CIA destroyed 92 interview tapes
• UK apology over rendition flights

Torture

• Torture planning began in 2001, Senate report reveals Salon
• Waterboarding Used 266 Times on 2 Suspects
• My Tortured Decision--FBI agent Ali Soufan speaks up and speaks out against enhanced interrogation techniques.
• Call It Torture --Dan Froomkin takes a look at one of the Bush administration's dark legacies.
• Showing the money--Olbermann pledges to donate $10,000 to charity after radio talkshow host and frequent Fox & Friends guest "Mancow" undergoes waterboarding which he calls "absolutely torture." Hannity, you watching? You should also listen to your friend Shep.

New stories: Green Legacy 8 by Jaypat, The Salt 4 by RdyRoger and Special Delivery by dymondbolt

New stories:

• Green Legacy 8 by Jaypat
• The Salt 4 by RdyRoger
• Special Delivery by dymondbolt

Mary Jane

• Supreme Court Hands Medical Marijuana Major Victory
• Legalizing Marijuana the Federalist Way
• Schwarzenegger: High Time for Marijuana Debate
• U.S. to yield marijuana jurisdiction to states
• Stiff sentence upheld for medical pot supplier
• Human Brains Make Their Own 'Marijuana'
• Marijuana Advocates Point to Signs of Change
• 420: Thoughts on Pot vs. Alcohol from a Former Police Chief
• Michael Phelps, marijuana, feigned outrage Salon

New stories by BBMSN, CallMeCrazy, Clarence591, Londonboy, lthrjock, RdyRoger and Texzilla

New stories:

• The Alpha Dog Gets a Leash 3 by Londonboy
• Jekyll Genes: My Friends Call Me Pony by Texzilla
• The Jocking: 3rd Quarter: 06:00 by CallMeCrazy
• Marooned 2 by BBMSN
• New Year's Resolution 8 by lthrjock
• The Salt 3 by RdyRoger
• Second Chances 7 by Clarence591

Torture and Religion

• The Religious Dimensions of the Torture Debate
• An Evangelical Call on Torture and the U.S.--Written two years ago, this declaration seems largely ignored and forgotten by their own.
• Richard Land of SBC: No room for torture in U.S. intelligence-gathering

The Onion

• Christian Salt Introduced
• It Was Then That I Carried You vs. Bullshit, Jesus, Those Are Obviously My Footprints
• God Makes Surprise Visit To Local Church
• Panicked, Sweat-Covered Pope Reverses Longstanding Ban On Abortion
• Muslims To Boycott All Pope Merchandise