New stories: Old Man Stevens 9 by Londonboy and Joey's Genie by RdyRoger

New stories: Old Man Stevens 9 by Londonboy and Joey's Genie by RdyRoger

Kiddie Pr0n

• Report Finds Online Threats to Children Overblown--Though cyberbullying is on the rise.
• Brit porn filter censors 13 years of net history
• ISPs charge child abuse investigators for data
• Child-porn cartoon conviction upheld
• Minister admits thought crime is on the agenda
• Home Office clueless over its own anti-child porn measures
• Prosecutor Who Threatened Teens With Child Porn Charges For Taking Pics Of Themselves Gets Sued--Question is, Is That "Sexting" Pic Illegal?

Protecting Adults from Minors

• Big brother filter plan insults parents
• Hey, Senator - leave us discerning viewers of pornography alone
• Graphic artists condemn plans to ban erotic comics

New morph: Boy2Bear 4 and New stories: Hank the Mechanic by bossfo and New Year's Resolution 5 by lthrjock

New stories: Hank the Mechanic by bossfo and New Year's Resolution 5 by lthrjock

New morph: Boy2Bear 4

Condom-nation

• Pope tells Africa 'condoms wrong'
• France chastises Pope on condoms
• Facebook users wage condom campaign against Pope-- Get out our bedrooms, Ratzinger.

Bad Cops

• Police officer sorry after detaining NFL player at hospital
• Cop seen on video knocking over bicyclist has been indicted
• In rush-hour labor, ticket delivered
• Former drug officer launches 'KopBusters' TV show
• LAPD tried to reverse a coroner's verdict in girl's death

Support Earth Hour! New stories: Second Chances 4 by Clarence591 and Not As I Do 8 by Flashpoint

Support Earth Hour

New stories: Second Chances 4 by Clarence591 and Not As I Do 8 by Flashpoint

D'OJ!--There's change we can believe in

• DOJ releases, abjures Bush administration surveillance memos
• Obama DOJ Defies Federal Judge
• Despite Obama pledge, Justice defends Bush secrets
• Obama Admin Backs Bushies On Missing Emails
• DoJ supports RIAA in Sony v. Tenenbaum three-ring circus

Poly Ticks

• Why some foreigners can't believe Obama won the presidency fair and square.
• Why Washington Worries--Eschewing Establishmentarism
• The newest fear-mongering campaign from the Right and the media Salon
• Social Security isn't broken; don't 'fix' it
• CIA Realizes It's Been Using Black Highlighters All These Years The Onion

New stories: An Alternative Choice by xythan_shadow and The Jocking: 3rd Quarter: 10:00 by CallMeCrazy

New stories: An Alternative Choice by xythan_shadow and The Jocking: 3rd Quarter: 10:00 by CallMeCrazy

Gay Marriage

• NY Sen. Charles Schumer now supports gay marriage
• Gillibrand Inches Leftward, Now Supports Gay Marriage
• Governor Douglas says he'll veto same-sex marriage bill
• Mick Huckabee and Jon Stewart on Gay Marriage
• Dallas same-sex divorce case a first for Texas
• Same-sex marriage movement looks to 'Obamify'
• Can California gays make it legal? Salon

AIG

• A.I.G. Sues Government for Return of $306 Million in Tax Payments
• Commentary: Boards are real culprits in AIG mess
• Ex-AIG boss slams bonuses
• Cuomo Says Some A.I.G. Bonuses Will Be Repaid
• AIG Europe Execs: Returning Bonuses Is Blackmail

New stories: His Cup of Tea 5 by Londonboy and The Gene Gene 6 by RdyRoger

New stories: His Cup of Tea 5 by Londonboy and The Gene Gene 6 by RdyRoger

Flaming

• How to Disagree
• Post Apocalypse
• Memo to Internet nutjobs: Please, think before you post
• You, Too, Can Be a Fanboy
• Court: No right to shout "douchebag" in a crowded blog

Trolling

• Trolls
• Flame First, Think Later
• Malwebolence - The World of Web Trolling
• The 8 Most Obnoxious Internet Commenters
• Local Idiot To Post Comment On Internet The Onion

New stories: Teacher's Pet 12 by Redkage and New Year's Resolution 4 by lthrjock

New stories: Teacher's Pet 12 by Redkage and New Year's Resolution 4 by lthrjock

UK not OK

• CCTV turned off - for privacy--Silly landlord. That's the government's job to spy on people.
• Rory Bremner: Our liberty is on the line. It's time to act
• Government abandons data-sharing scheme
• Gov't may track all UK Facebook traffic
• Private firm may track all email and calls
• Police set to step up hacking of home PCs
• UK filters in the Wikpedia amendments

Down Under

• Row over web blacklist
• Web censorship plan heads towards a dead end
• Australia's Internet filter ruled by a single bureaucrat
• Australia Censors Wikileaks Page
• 'Leaked list of banned websites' was not the ACMA blacklist, says Stephen Conroy

New stories: Second Chances 3 by Clarence591 and Not As I Do 7 by Flashpoint

New stories: Second Chances 3 by Clarence591 and Not As I Do 7 by Flashpoint

Premier Election Solutions AKA Diebold

• Report: Diebold Voting System Has 'Delete' Button for Erasing Audit Logs--Also it's unable to audit ballot deletions.
• State Files Claim Against Texas Firm--"...to recover $8.5 million spent by the state to fix problems with the company's touch-screen voting machines. "
• Serious Error in Diebold Voting Software Caused Lost Ballots in California County
• Diebold faces GPL infringement lawsuit over voting machines--Elections aren't the only things they've helped steal.
• Criminals sneak card-sniffing software on Diebold ATMs--I thought their ATMs were supposedly more secure their voting machines. (After all, bank money is worth more than your votes.)

Votes

• Al Franken stole the election? Prove it or shut up--So, will Norm Coleman allow "the healing process" to begin or continue the fight? Salon
• Pennsylvania State Supreme Court Allows Voting Rights Case to Proceed
• Supreme Court to hear challenge to voting rights act--"... now that a black man has won the presidency."
• Several Clay County Officials Arrested On Federal Charges--One of the charges was for 'Changing Votes at E-Voting Machines'
• E-voting security fixes will get us nowhere without stats

New stories: Hunter: BFF by Aardvark and The Jocking: 3rd Quarter: 11:00 by CallMeCrazy

New stories: Hunter: BFF by Aardvark and The Jocking: 3rd Quarter: 11:00 by CallMeCrazy

The New AIG: "Arrogance, Incompetence, and Greed"

• Fire the AIG management
• AIG bonus flap may cost recipients
• AIG chief asks for bonuses back
• Outcry builds in Washington for recovery of A.I.G. bonuses
• US to force AIG to repay bonuses
• The dishonest "Blame Dodd" scheme from Treasury officials Salon
• The real 'outrage' behind AIG's bonuses

Economy

• Note to NBC's boss: Dude, try watching your own channel sometime
• Does ABC News understand how income tax works?
• Weary of Looking for Work, Some Create Their Own
• Economic collapse puts graduates on unforeseen paths
• The Crisis of Credit Visualized--The short and simple story of the Credit Crisis

New stories: How Does He Do It? by MS_Alberta and The Gene Gene 5 by RdyRoger

New stories: How Does He Do It? by MS_Alberta and The Gene Gene 5 by RdyRoger

End of the Print Run?

• Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable
• Last Rites
• Newspapers are dying, but the news is thriving
• Seattle Post-Intelligencer to go Web only
• Internet Overtakes Newspapers as News Source--First demonstrated with campaign news, it's shown that its quickness outflanks the MSM.
• Skype Legend Morten Lund Bankrupted By Newspaper
• Is Jeff Jarvis gloating about the death of print?--"The fall of journalism is, indeed, journalists' fault. It is our fault that we did not see the change coming soon enough and ready our craft for the transition. It is our fault that we did not see and exploit—hell, we resisted—all the opportunities new media and new relationships with the public presented."

Blogging

• What Makes for a Good Blog?
• Will Blogs Kill Political Magazines?
• Blogonomics: The End of Micropublishing?
• Time to Hang Up the Pajamas: Growing Rich by Blogging Is a High-Tech Fairy Tale
• Who killed the blogosphere?

New stories: That Summer of Jake by bossfo and New Year's Resolution 3 by lthrjock

New stories: That Summer of Jake by bossfo and New Year's Resolution 3 by lthrjock

Vatican

• Vatican Backs Excommunications Stemming From an Abortion--So, they excommunicate a doctor who performed an abortion on a 9-year-old rape victim, and they welcome back an excommunicated Holocaust denier.
• Pope Concedes 'Mistakes' in Bishop Controversy--Where's your papal infallibility now?
• Stem cell go-ahead puts Obama at odds with pope--Ah, the kind of church and state separation I'd like to see more of.

Islam

• Malaysia re-imposes ban on word Allah usage
• ACLU to sue Twin Cities charter school that caters to Muslims
• The radical Islamist who came in from the cold Salon

Religulous

• Most religious groups in USA have lost ground, survey finds
• Why Believers are Ethically Bankrupt
• Christians should keep Scripture out of politics

New stories: Second Chances 2 by Clarence591 and Not As I Do 6 by Flashpoint and New morph: Beach Boy

New stories: Second Chances 2 by Clarence591 and Not As I Do 6 by Flashpoint

New morph: Beach Boy

Brawl Street Salon

• Cramer vs. Stewart, in person
• There's nothing unique about Jim Cramer
• On "Mad Money," Cramer back to normal

Money Men

• A.I.G. Planning Huge Bonuses After $170 Billion Bailout --Don't these guys ever learn? Updated: 15 Mar 09
• Madoff Goes to Jail After Guilty Pleas--What happens to his victims?
• RBS boss Sir Fred Goodwin: minister approved my pension and I'm keeping it
• Lehman Brothers' Richard Fuld 'sold' mansion to wife for $100
• Thain Refuses to Answer Cuomo's Bonus Questions
• Anger over executive pay misplaced--"We might do well to remember that much of the excessive compensation was a symptom of the economic crisis and not necessarily the cause of it." Interesting points, but the kinda hard to reconcile with all the shenanigans these CEOs engaged in.

New stories: The Jocking: 3rd Quarter: 12:00 by CallMeCrazy and The Interview 4 by Titan

New stories: The Jocking: 3rd Quarter: 12:00 by CallMeCrazy and The Interview 4 by Titan

Digital Restrictions Management

• Friendly DRM Is An Oxymoron
• Ebook DRM provider goes dark, the books you paid for disappear
• Microsoft defends return to DRM
• Gears of War DRM screwup makes PC version unplayable
• Apple, MPAA, RIAA attack DRM circumvention requests

Fare Use

• Judge: 17,000 illegal downloads don't equal 17,000 lost sales
• Copyright cop wedding crashers fined by Spanish court
• Court Upholds DMCA Protections In Suit Brought Against It By UMG
• Judge says BU can't turn over infringers' IPs in P2P case
• FCC chair nixes MPAA bid for selectable output control

New stories: Mr. Muscle Daddy's Prize 2 by Londonboy and The Gene Gene 4 by RdyRoger

New stories: Mr. Muscle Daddy's Prize 2 by Londonboy and The Gene Gene 4 by RdyRoger

80 mol of Ge's

• 8 Racist Words You Use Every Day
• The Disturbing Origins of 5 Common Nursery Rhymes
• The 13 most famous Numbers and their stories
• Row, Row, Row Your Boat into the black void of nothingness
• Canada's Hokey Pokey cause of England dust up

Words, words, words

• Phwoar, look at that fit stud muffin, says OED
• Exciting new word? Meh.
• When Languages Die
• Where Words Come From
• University aims to save 'good words'

New stories: Facets by screamingmoist and New Year's Resolution 2 by lthrjock

Today is International Women's Day. You go, girlfriends!

New stories: Facets by screamingmoist and New Year's Resolution 2 by lthrjock

A Memo to Straight Women Seeking A Gay Male Friend

Beauts

• The Sexiest Women Over 35
• Top 5 Stars that grew up Hot
• Physical Laws: Mathemeticians Figure Out What Makes Women Beautiful

Sheilas wanted! Australia tries to lure our single women with promises of sun, sand and Mr. Right--I thought Australia was "suffering 'man drought'."

New stories: Second Chances by Clarence591 and Not As I Do 5 by Flashpoint

New stories: Second Chances by Clarence591 and Not As I Do 5 by Flashpoint

New Zealand and the Net

• Section 92A - "cut off anyone who *might* be breaking the law"
• Campaign to Stop File-Sharers Being "Guilty Upon Accusation"
• ICT Industry Moves To Address Copyright Confusion
• Kiwi "three strikes" law countered with "Internet blackout"
• New Zealand P2P disconnection plan delayed after outcry

Oh, Canada

• Canadian ISP Bandwidth Consumption Growth Falls 45%--ISPs say they're overloaded which justifies throttling their services, but their usage has in fact dropped.
• All Major Canadian ISPs Slow Down P2P Traffic
• Canadian ISPs stand up for content blocking, throttling--Ignoring net neutrality in favor of double-dipping.
• Canada looks into ISP tax for $100m Web content fund
• Canadian judge: No warrant needed to see ISP logs--Welcome to Soviet Canuckistan.

New stories: The Island of Dr. Mortimer 2 by baboonfan and The Jocking: 3rd Quarter: 13:00 by CallMeCrazy

New stories: The Island of Dr. Mortimer 2 by baboonfan and The Jocking: 3rd Quarter: 13:00 by CallMeCrazy

Bushies

• Mirror, Mirror on the Wall
• GOP Witness: By Historical Standards, Bushies' War On Terror Conduct Was "Exemplary"
• Steele to Rush: I'm sorry--Pathetic pandering to pompous petulant pundit.
• Jindal Admits Katrina Story Was False--Or does he?
• Former Bush administration officials are having trouble finding work
• A Loyal Bushie Burrows Into Obama's System
• Alexandra Pelosi, "Right America: Feeling Wronged" Salon
• 'Joe the Plumber' Book Not Generating Much Buzz Locally

War on Terror

• CIA destroyed 92 interview tapes
• UN official: Enough evidence to prosecute Rumsfeld for war crimes
• Missing Iraq billions could be 'greatest fraud in US history'

New stories: Old Man Stevens 8 by Londonboy and The Gene Gene 3 by RdyRoger

New stories: Old Man Stevens 8 by Londonboy and The Gene Gene 3 by RdyRoger

Anonymity

• Maryland appeals court refuses to unmask anonymous donut shop critics --And sets standards for online anonymity protections.
• Texas judge orders site to identify anonymous trolls, flamers
• Yale Students' Lawsuit Unmasks Anonymous Trolls, Opens Pandora's Box
• "Skanks in NYC" blog post leads to lawsuit against Google
• Appeals court: First Amendment protects forum trolls too
• Bloggers battle India's supreme court over prosecution for internet threats
• Yahoo Fined By Belgian Court For Refusing To Give Up E-Mail Account Info--Yet how easily they caved to China.
• Korbel Sues To Force Comcast To Reveal Identities Of Anonymous Critics
• A plague of anonymity

New authors and stories: Read Muscle Encounter by bossfo and New Year's Resolution by lthrjock

New stories: Please welcome muscle worship wordsmith bossfo and authoritarian author lthrjock into the fold. Read Muscle Encounter by bossfo and New Year's Resolution by lthrjock.

Holocaust

• Pope move ignites Holocaust row
• Jews outraged by Holocaust-denying bishop
• Vatican: Bishop's apology on Holocaust not enough

Catholic

• Why Catholic Indulgences Are Making a Comeback--Those who don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
• Importing priests for U.S. Catholics
• "Make no mistake about it, if [teacher's union bill] passes, it will mean the end of Catholic schools in the Diocese of Scranton."

Westboro

• Hate Mongers to Menace College Drama Club--For producing a play based on the death of Matthew Shepard.
• Westboro protest draws student counter protest
• God Hates Signs protest waged against Westboro Baptist Church