New stories: The Young and Not So Young by Peterbilt and Muscle for Hire 7 by Londonboy

New stories: The Young and Not So Young by Peterbilt and Muscle for Hire 7 by Londonboy

Forget Miley Cyrus. Check out Disney's Chinese underwear ad.--Maybe Hannah should talk to Harry.

Educamation

• Teachers say principal threatened to kill them if TAKS test scores didn't improve
• Teacher fired for refusing to sign loyalty oath
• Teacher Fired for Magic Trick, County Calls It "Wizardry"--This is why Florida has a special Fark tag all its own.
• Maybe He Shouldn’t Have Spoken His Mind--One university's reprehensible retaliation against an outspoken critic
• 8-year-old boy suspended for sniffing marker
• School Bill Would Force Parents To Volunteer
• When school bullies get out of hand

Think for the children

• How Dangerous Is the Internet for Children?--Not as much as it's being hyped
• Sex Offender E-Mail Registry Proposed To Protect Minors Online--Completely ineffectual except at showing they're doing "something".
• MySpace to Let Parents Block Their Kids From Joining--Ditto this.

New stories: Dads and Sons by Peterbilt and The Trickster by xythan_shadow

New stories: Dads and Sons by Peterbilt and The Trickster by xythan_shadow

Fair Use and copyright

• Big Content in worldwide "whisper campaign" against Fair Use
• Schneier on Security: Law Review Article on the Problems with Copyright
• Fair use advocates hit back with copyright principles of their own
• EU suggests singers and musicians should earn copyright fees for 95 years
• History suggests copyright crusade is a lost cause
• Controversial Pro-IP Act sails through Judiciary Committee--Can this be appealed to a higher standard?
• Troubling "Digital Theft Prevention" Requirements Remain in Higher Education Bill

New stories: Making Out of the Team Bus by Peterbilt and High School Bully 8 by BBMSN

Happy Mother's Day

New stories: Making Out of the Team Bus by Peterbilt and High School Bully 8 by BBMSN

Missed Spellings

• The Isle of White
• Poor spellers to be shamed by university
• Boulder County fixes historic typo near Gold Hill--"It could have been a mistake, like the pictures you see of the road-painting guys who misspelled 'school.'"

Shop 'n shave

• Man hair: How to Turn Your Body Into A Hairless Wonderland With Gadgets
• How To Shave The Modern Male
• Wax on, wax off

Rome, if you want to

• Cave of Romulus and Remus located in Rome
• Ancient Roman road map unveiled
• I'm Sorry, Marcus--The politics of computer gaming

Stories I'm Reading: Entries for the 2008 EroticGayHypnosis Master of Amateurs Story Contest

Stories I'm Reading: Entries for the 2008 EroticGayHypnosis Master of Amateurs Story Contest

• All’s Fair
• Big Boy Billy
• Dan
• Defiance
• The Masseuse
• The MC Gym
• The Customer is Always Right
• Video Booth

Music

• Does She Look Like a Music Pirate?
• Why the Music Industry is Lying to You
• The Democratization of the Music Industry
• From major to minor
• RIAA: Piracy fight more important than net neutrality bill--A Democratic Senator begs to disagree
• RIAA files supplemental brief in Atlantic v. Howell; argues personal copies ripped to computer are unauthorized
• RIAA Believes MP3s Are A Crime: Why This Matters
• RIAA boss: Move copyright filtering from ISPs to users’ PCs
• Home copying - burnt into teenage psyche
• Why Apple is more expensive than Amazon

Stories I'm Reading: Entries for the 2008 EroticGayHypnosis Master of Masters Story Contest

Stories I'm Reading: Entries for the 2008 EroticGayHypnosis Master of Masters Story Contest

• Detention
• Empathy
• In Too Deep, Part 1
• Just Right
• Lifetime Alterations
• My Wish is Your Command
• One Step at a Time
• Revisionist History (Lindros edition)
• Swap Around

Drug raising

• Father of LSD takes final trip
• Dutch bill to ban magic mushrooms
• 18 fictional drugs

A hoax upon you

• "Skeleton of Giant" Is Internet Photo Hoax
• China Eats Crow Over Faked Photo Of Rare Antelope
• Photofakery

Taking lapse

• CSS Homer--Drawing a character, character by character
• Cherry blossoms in bloom
• Clock of clocks

New story: Boarding House by Peterbilt

New story: Boarding House by Peterbilt

Happy 10th Anniversary PVP--Newsarama.com looks at the history and success of this webcomic in this four-part interview with creator Scott Kurtz.

Pics picks

• Shadow illusions
• Cube art
• Dirt car art
• Double entendre ads
• Sticking out
• Perfect timing
• Matchstick man

Sometimes keeping fit is not enough

New story: Jumper by zulator

New story: Jumper by zulator

Iron Man--For me, it's the best Marvel movie adaptation since Spider-Man thanks to Jon Favreau's skillful direction, ILM's amazing animation, and Robert Downey's wonderful portrayal of cool exec-with-a-heart-of-steel Tony Stark. Stick around after the credits for an ultimately cool comic book geek-out surprise. Salon

Borne false witnessing

• 26-Year Secret Kept Innocent Man In Prison
• Man falsely jailed for 20 years
• Exoneration Using DNA Brings Change in Legal System
• State doesn't have 'we're sorry' fund for Tim Masters
• How To Survive in Prison as an Innocent Man Convicted of a Sex Crime
• Man Threatens Suit After Being Wrongly Jailed For 37 Days
• Chicago Man Sues after Prostitution Arrest
• Duke lacrosse players file lawsuit against prosecutor, others
• Wrongly Convicted Man Sued for Child Support
• FBI's Bullet Lead Analysis Used Flawed Science To Convict Hundreds Of Defendants--The Silent Injustice is deafening
• Man Imprisoned for 9 Years for Murder Is Released in Wake of DNA Evidence

New story: Muscle for Hire 6 by Londonboy

New story: Muscle for Hire 6 by Londonboy

DRM

• DRM sucks redux: Microsoft to nuke MSN Music DRM keys
• UK retailers to record labels: DRM is killing us
• Amazon and Wal-Mart unwittingly team up against DRM
• Roll over, Beethoven: Deutsche Grammophon ditches DRM
• Universal's CEO Once Called iPod Users Thieves. Now He's Giving Songs Away
• Sony BMG to sell DRM-free downloads through stores--And here's why it won't work.
• Content Cartel Taking Control of USB? New Revision To Include DRM--Looks like it's true.

Oh, Canada

• Canadian labels: We get "absolutely zero credit" for not suing fans
• Canadian Heritage Copyright Policy Rocked By Conflict of Interest Concerns
• CRIA about-face on iPod levies tied to concerns over legitimizing downloads
• Canadian coppers admit making up piracy figures
• Canadian DMCA Introduction Delayed--Would (and still could) be very bad if it passed
• "iPod Tax" smacked down in Canada
• DRM violates Canadian privacy law
• Uninvited to the Public Policy Forum Symposium

New chapters added to A Better Man by Clarence591

Updated story: Three new chapters added to A Better Man by Clarence591

10 impossibilities conquered by science

At 71, Physics Professor Is a Web Star

Brain Scanners Can See Your Decisions Before You Make Them

Under the sea

• Swimmers' Sunscreen Killing Off Coral
• Oral sex gene helps male fish fake it
• Giant Squids Inject Selves With Semen, Die

Bad Science Journalism and the Myth of the Oppressed Underdog

Top 10 science hoaxes of all time

New story: Lee Goddard, Jock by Peterbilt

New story: Lee Goddard, Jock by Peterbilt

Men

• Masturbation may prevent prostate cancer--Gentlemen, start your engines
• High Testosterone Linked to Men's Lower Death Risk
• Deep-voiced men father more children
• Autistic children linked to same sperm donor
• More men turning to implants for chests of gold

Height

• Hey shortie, grow up
• For Small Woman and Tall Man, Size Doesn't Matter
• 7 Feet 7 and 360 Pounds, With Bigger Feet Than Shaq’s

Food

• Top 10 Bad Things That Are Good For You
• Fast-food toxicity comparison chart
• 'This, Not That' practical for fast-food diners
• "Too much 'sugar-free' chewing gum can lead to severe weight loss and diarrhoea"--But another study ties artificial sweetener to weight gain
• Good trans fats could reduce heart disease, diabetes risk--Gah.

New stories: Muscle for Hire 5 by Londonboy and Innocence on the Wind 2 by dymondbolt

New stories: Muscle for Hire 5 by Londonboy and Innocence on the Wind 2 by dymondbolt

Disapproval of Bush breaks record

Behind TV Analysts, Pentagon’s Hidden Hand

What Every American Should Know About the Middle East

The Green Light--How torture was given the go-ahead

The Difference Between Feeling and Reality in Security

Montana Governor: DHS 'Blinks' on Real ID

Innocent photographer or terrorist?

New stories: Muscle for Hire 4 by Londonboy and The Orphanage 9 by Jaypat

New stories: Muscle for Hire 4 by Londonboy and The Orphanage 9 by Jaypat

Access Denied: report on Internet censorship around the world

Web creator rejects net tracking

UK ISPs To Start Tracking Your Surfing To Serve You Ads

Bad Phorm? UK ISPs to sell clickstream data to advertisers--And of course, they lie about it

Newspapers Argue For First Amendment Right to Snoop on Readers

ISPs Meddled With Their Customers' Web Traffic, Study Finds

When Monetizing ISP Traffic Goes Horribly Wrong--Why are they fiddling with subdomains they don't own in the first place?

New stories: Muscle for Hire 3 by Londonboy and The Rise of the Ubermen by muscl4life

New stories: Muscle for Hire 3 by Londonboy and The Rise of the Übermen by muscl4life

The stupidity of banning gay priests

Six Things in Expelled That Ben Stein Doesn't Want You to Know...

Dutch Islam film website 'shut'

Parents Indicted in Faith-Healing Death

Praying passenger removed from flight

Church Explodes In Downtown Oconomowoc

The Rules of Living Biblically

New stories: Muscle for Hire 2 by Londonboy and Cadet Firefighter by Peterbilt

New stories: Muscle for Hire 2 by Londonboy and Cadet Firefighter by Peterbilt

Much ado about Mukasey

• Michael Mukasey's tearful lies
• Attorney General Mukasey lies about 9/11 and international spying
• US Attorney General: Piracy funds terror

Privacy matters

• Harman: It's Not My Fault I Couldn't Figure Out Domestic Wiretapping Was Illegal
• Telcos Spent $10K Per Telecom Amnesty Vote, Sunshine Group Says
• Feds Use Phone Bills to Get Journo's Sources on NSA Spy Program

Vote machinations

• Whistleblower: Voting Machine Company Lied to Election Officials About Reliability of Machines
• The Mysterious Case of Ohio's Voting Machines
• Diebold voting machine key copied from photo at company's own online store

Election fun

• Students Would Give Up Voting Rights for an iPod--We're fucked.
• 2008 Campaign Logos--How do the candidates' logos stack up? Salon
• Diebold Accidentally Leaks Results Of 2008 Election Early--The Onion strikes again

New stories: Muscle for Hire by Londonboy and How I Got Started by Peterbilt

New stories: Muscle for Hire by Londonboy and How I Got Started by Peterbilt

Parent things

• Why I Let My 9-Year-Old Ride the Subway Alone--"Half the people I've told this episode to now want to turn me in for child abuse. As if keeping kids under lock and key and helmet and cell phone and nanny and surveillance is the right way to rear kids. It's not. It's debilitating — for us and for them."
• Mother Goes Too Far For Hannah Montana Tix
• Alleged explicit sex discussion gets mom probation
• Can Medical Marijuana Cost You Your Kid? In California, It Can
• "I gave birth to a bad son and I rid society of him."
• Sperm donor liable for child support, judge rules--WTF?
• Father knows best: Dad cleared of assaulting rebellious teen daughter
• Mom faces trial for leaving toddler in car--"Treffly Coyne was out of her car for just minutes and no more than 10 yards away."

Happy Tax Day

New comic: It's still all set-up since I wanted to post a part of it today. Read The Taxman Cometh.

New stories:

• Sex in the Hayloft by Peterbilt
• A Better Man by Clarence591
• The Orphanage 8 by Jaypat
• Birthday Wishes by Londonboy
• I Want To Be Young Again by zulator

Sex Tech

• Woman Sleeps With 50 Men From Facebook "I Need Sex" Group
• PC stripper helps spam to spread
• German Invents 'Spray-On' Condom to Fit All Sizes
• Bad vibrations over car love toy
• Brit women prefer web to sex

You've been RickRoll'd

• Rick Astley interviewed--"I think it’s just one of those odd things where something gets picked up and people run with it."
• Taking the Rick
• YouTube RickRolls Users--One of the better April Fool's pranks
• The Real-Life RickRoll--Nice voice
• Rick Rolled to child porn = you're a pedophile, says FBI

Most unusual data disaster horror stories for 2007--Don't neglect to backup your stuff

New stories by stimle, O'Melissokomos, Peterbilt, xythan_shadow and

New stories:

• Outrageous Fortune 2 by stimle
• The Biker Bar by O'Melissokomos
• The Garage Mechanic by Peterbilt
• Yet Another Choice by xythan_shadow
• My Roommate's Body 15 by Londonboy

Stories I'm Reading: Virtual Insanity

• Mannie the Marine
• The Prick (tt oral anal hs)
• Summer of Change
• Trapping Travis
• Wade and Christian

Creation Museum Selling Mastodon Skull--Only 6,000 years old!

The shy, fragile face of ID

Bill promotes school religion at expense of education

Do You Teach Your Kids About Darwin?

Big Brain Theory: Have Cosmologists Lost Theirs?

Evolution Wins as Creationists (Accidentally) Switch Sides in Florida--However, the battle goes on.

Expel, expelling, expelled!--Will this movie sway lawmakers? Salon

New stories: High School Wrestler by Peterbilt and Fitting In zulator

New stories: High School Wrestler by Peterbilt and Fitting In by zulator

Stories I'm Reading: Justin Shorts

• Bulging Nylon Briefs Teen Orgy
• Juicy Young Bulges
• Nylon Bulges

Five Years of Iraq Lies--Was it worth it? Salon

• War advocates like Anne-Marie Slaughter demand that you forget the past
• What I Got Wrong About Iraq
• My Iraq War Retrospective

Lessons on the Surge from Economics 101

'NYT' Op-Ed Recalls Errors of 'Liberal Hawks' on Iraq

Bushwhacking

• The Economic Consequences of Mr. Bush
• The Illustrated President
• Bush's legacy

Moussaoui prosecutor kept CIA tapes secret

Waterboarding is legal, White House says

Employee's suit: Company used waterboarding to motivate workers

McCullagh's Law: When politicians invoke the do-this-or-Americans-will-die argument

New stories: Blind to Love by Iainlthr, Boy Without a Name by Peterbilt and Brian Gets What He Wants by derek phillips

New stories:

• Blind to Love by Iainlthr
• Boy Without a Name by Peterbilt
• Brian Gets What He Wants by derek phillips

Stories I'm Reading: xangel (inc)

• Bayberry Broken Hearts
• Blue Lights & Blue Balls
• Garage Sale Son

Education

• "The head of the Nazis was a killer named Hitler whose evil partner, Mussolini, was president of the USSR. Ultimately, the war ended with the bombing of Iwo Jima and Hitler's suicide."
• Churchill flew to the moon... right?
• Teens losing touch with historical references

Religion

• Wrath, Lust, and Littering? The New Seven Deadly Sins
• Indians blinded looking for vision of Mary
• Viagra ruled kosher for Passover

The Onion

• Pornography-Desensitized Populace Demands New Orifice To Look At
• 87 Killed In Violent Kerfuffle
• Wii Video Games Blamed For Rise In Effeminate Violence

New stories: Dakota and His Dad by Peterbilt and My Roommate's Body 14 by Londonboy

New stories: Dakota and His Dad by Peterbilt and My Roommate's Body 14 by Londonboy

Stories I'm Reading: karl williams

• Dad's Workmate
• Gym Buddy
• Scoring at the Pool

Why Apple fans hate tech reporters--Actually, it's more the question of why tech reporters seem to hate Apple, but yeah, some fans can be annoying. Salon

• Apple Death Knell Counter--Apple Has Been Declared Dead 52 Times Since April, 1995
• Sorry, Steve: Here's Why Apple Stores Won't Work--Six years later, here's why it does.
• How Leander Kahney Got Everything Wrong by Being a Fucking Jackass
• Roger Kay’s Wax Wings of Icarus vs the Flight of Apple
• Bampot of the Week: Alexander Wolfe

Apple and the value of design--More often than not, it just works.

Forget MTV - Apple's iPod ads are the new music-star makers

1960s Braun Products Hold the Secrets to Apple's Future--Coincidence? I think not.

The Apple Product Cycle

Mac Tricks And Tips: Top 100 Essential Mac Applications

New stories: Construction Worker by Peterbilt and Lost Needs by Iainlthr

New stories: Construction Worker by Peterbilt and Lost Needs by Iainlthr

A Brilliant Reply to Sally Kern

"Giving money to institutions that failed at their only job, which was to have money, may not be the best strategy."--Things aren't looking too good right now.

Privacy

• Whistle-Blower: Feds Have a High-Speed Backdoor Into Wireless Carrier
• Time magazine invents facts to claim that Americans support Bush's domestic spying abuses Salon
• Hoover-Era Spying on Father Motivated Anti-Wiretapping Plaintiff
• Wiretapping's true danger
• Montana Governor explains why Real ID sucks

Supreme Court may rethink broadcast indecency--Fuck yeah.

Put young children on DNA list, urge UK police--This is to target 'potential offenders'. Thoughtcrime, much?

You're racits!--What passes as intelligent discourse

New stories by Peterbilt, screamingmoist, Londonboy, Redkage and Jaypat

New stories:

• Brocker, Baseball Player by Peterbilt
• Academic Changes by screamingmoist
• Size Doesn't Have to Matter by Londonboy
• True Heroes 3 by Redkage
• The Orphanage 7 by Jaypat

Dear Sally Kern--Homophobia's always ugly [Thanks Wolfie!]

House Democrats reject telecom amnesty, warrantless surveillance--Dem's do good this time. Keep up the fight. Salon

Exhaustive review finds no link between Saddam and al Qaida--Good luck reading about it.

A Wave of the Watch List, and Speech Disappears

GoDaddy Silences Police-Watchdog Site RateMyCop.com

New stories by Peterbilt, derek phillips, Iainlthr, Jaypat and Londboy

New stories:

• County Fair by Peterbilt
• Mark's Birthday Present by derek phillips
• Continuity by Iainlthr
• The Orphanage 6 by Jaypat
• My Roommate's Body 13 by Londonboy

Afghan MPs oppose Prophet cartoon--Money quote: "Freedom of expression has its limits - it should not harm religious feeling and beliefs."

Retired Priest Sentenced for Bilking Two Churches

Catholic nuns and monks decline

Banned from church--"Reviving an ancient practice, churches are exposing sinners and shunning those who won't repent."

Preacher under investigation claims financial documents belong to God--"It’s not yours, it’s God’s and you’re not going to get it and that’s something I’ll go to prison over."

More new stories by Peterbilt, redkage, Naedre, Jaypat, and Londonboy

New stories:

• First Big Date by Peterbilt
• True Heroes 2 by redkage
• Sinners and Saints 4 by Naedre
• The Orphanage 5 by Jaypat
• Read My Lips 4 by Londonboy

Privacy and accountability, or the lack thereof

• House Democrats may move to split spy bill--Watch these losers cave in yet again.
• On Cusp of Senate Telecom Immunity Passage, White House Admits Phone Companies Spied--And they'll do everything to keep them in business.
• Sen. Rockefeller Lets Slip the Spying Truth: Drift Nets To Be Legalized
• FBI Wiretaps Dropped Due to Unpaid Bills
• Why does AT&T want to know what you're downloading?
• US drafting plan to allow government access to any email or Web search--They'll be monitoring everything.
• Court Rejects ACLU Challenge to Wiretaps
• White House guts Intelligence Oversight Board

New stories by Peterbilt, redkage, Naedre, Jaypat, Londonboy and muscl4life

New stories:

• The Architect's Son (inc) by Peterbilt
• True Heroes by redkage
• Sinners and Saints 3 by Naedre
• The Orphanage 4 by Jaypat
• Read My Lips 3 by Londonboy
• A (Very Peculiar) Civil Action 2 by muscl4life

Vegas chapels' unholy hustle--So much for the sanctity of matrimony.

Avoiding scientists' protests, pope cancels university speech

Wikipedia Islam Entry Is Criticized--But they're standing their ground.

Oxford to Study Faith in God

War Breaks Out Between Hackers and Scientology -- There Can Be Only One

Happy Leap Day!

New stories: Happy Leap Day!

• The Masturbation Chronicles, Tale No. 4b -- Security Guard Tony Bruno's Capture by Glaucon55
• Joaquin 2 by stimle
• Bobby Gets Pantsed in the Boiler Room 2 by derek phillips
• A Marine Called Justin by Peterbilt
• Sinners and Saints 2 by Naedre
• Only Skin Deep 14 by dymondbolt
• The Orphanage 3 by Jaypat
• Josh & Gabriel by MS_Alberta
• Take It Or Leave It by Iainlthr
• Read My Lips 2 by Londonboy

Choosing the lesser of two evils: Comcast or AT&T?

Is WikiLeaks Judge Having Second Thoughts?--Thanks to this censorship, WikiLeaks is more popular than ever. UPDATE: He has reversed his possibly unconstitutional order.

Professor Layton And The Perpetual Torment

1000th post! -- New stories by O'Melissokomos, Naedre, Peterbilt, derek phillips and others

New stories: According to Blogger, this is my 1000th post, and I thought I'd make it extra-special by putting up a slew of new stories including one from me and some from the site's newest contributors: Naedre, Peterbilt and one of my all-time favorite authors, derek phillips.

• Dominating Dominic by O'Melissokomos
• Sinners and Saints by Naedre
• The Horny Groom by Peterbilt
• Josh Makes His Move by derek phillips
• The Masturbation Chronicles, Tale No. 4a -- Security Guard Tony Bruno's Capture by Glaucon55
• Cigars in a Hotel Bar by mcgarguy
• Jim's Closet by Iainlthr
• BallBoys by FanTCMan
• Gym Encounter by John D.
• Dream a Little Dream by wbhulk
• What Happened on B____ Island by Magus
• A (Very Peculiar) Civil Action by muscl4life
• High School Bully 7 by BBMSN
• Read My Lips by Londonboy
• Anatomy of a Transformation by zulator
• Tow Truck by xythan_shadow
• The Orphanage 2 by Jaypat
• Full Moon Muscle: Final Chapter by Texzilla

As you can see, the site has grown quite a bit over the years, and so I'd like to thank my contributors for their wonderful works, PrideSites for their generous patronage, and, of course, you guys for being into the same shit I am. Makes the world a little more fun to live in.

New stories by Wrestlr: Encore, Family Secrets and Sockie Says

New stories: Wrestlr

• Encore
• Family Secrets: An Institute Story
• Sockie Says

Former creationist preaches gospel of evolution

Florida and Evolution

• Evolution Debate Heats Up In Florida
• Don't monkey with science in our schools
• Eden's apple falls far from evolution tree

  Allowing the word 'evolution' to creep into science class would be a terrible mistake. [...] You not only should maintain your ban on the 'E' word in science class but also should allow for further retooling of scientific lessons to palliate the justifiable grievances of the faith-based community in such an irritatingly non-faith-based area of study.

  Magnetism

  Old concept: magnetic attraction because of bipolarity of ferrous objects.

  New way to be taught: "filled with the spirit of the Creator's force field."

• It's time for Florida to evolve
• Flying spaghetti monster defeats anti-evolution FL school board--RAmen, I say unto you.

Christian YouTube Is the Fastest-Growing Site on the 'Net

More college students seeking spiritual answers

New stories: It All Began with Power Pills by wishboy, Brother, Have We Got Problems by MS_Alberta, The Orphanage by Jaypat

New stories:

• It All Began with Power Pills by wishboy
• Brother, Have We Got Problems: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 by MS_Alberta
• The Orphanage by Jaypat

Stories I'm reading: AP@CYOC

• Kyle and Matt Get Their Wish
• Punch and Rocky
• Purple Sticky
• Slashed
• The Sleeping Pill

Net rage

• The Internet Fuckwad Theory
• Mind your manners online Salon
• Don't Flame me Bro

Your rights online

• AT&T and Other ISPs May Be Getting Ready to Filter--And while the FCC plans to investigate Comcast for screwing its customers over it.
• If Your Hard Drive Could Testify...--Privacy is no longer a guarantee. Might as well eRaze the suckers.
• Network Solutions registers domain name searches and holds them hostage--They claim they aren't 'front-running', but they're backtracking after their cunning plan backfired.

Cell tech

• Shocker: People loathe cellphone carriers
• Devices Enforce Silence of Cellphones, Illegally
• 10 Reasons To Hate Cellphone Carriers

New stories: Like Father, Like Son, A Case of the Gotta Have Him's, I Can Wait and Center of Attention

New stories:

• Like Father, Like Son by wishboy
• A Case of the "Gotta Have Him"s and I Can Wait by MS_Alberta
• Center of Attention by screamingmoist

Stories I'm reading: AP@CYOC

• Don't Try This Online!
• Make It Stop?
• Farmer Man
• Playing with Chemicals
• The Speeding Ticket
• Young Friends

WWII Nazi's Tank Manuals - unexpectedly hilarious

Photo panache

• The Animal Kingdom in Ultra-Hi-Res--Photography by Andrew Zuckerman
• 25 Photographs Taken at the Exact Right Time
• Nick Tosches: Autumn and the Plot Against Me
• Human Statues of Liberty
• The Best License Plate Ever
• Photo taken With and Without Flash

The Infamy of Internet-Dater John Fitzgerald Page

New stories: The Pop-up, Best in the County, Darwin's Broken, Moving In; Second Puberty and Touched conclude

New stories:

• The Pop-up by wishboy
• Best in the County and Darwin's Broken by MS_Alberta
• Moving In by screamingmoist
• Second Puberty: 13 | 14 by Jaypat
• Touched 18 by Redkage

Stories I'm reading: AP@CYOC

• Extreme Makeover: Jock Edition - Jeff
• Extreme Makeover: Jock Edition - Blake
• We Change You: Baseball Player
• We Change You: Growing the Team
• We Change You: Football Player
• We Change You: Wrestler

Major ISP to Intercept and Modify Web Pages

Go, go, gadgets go

• Innovative Designs and Devices
• The Top 10 Most Brilliant Gadgets and Worst Gadgets of 2007
• Gadgets Now and Then: 1 | 2

Tens of Thousands of Porn Website Records Compromised

Are your e-mails hurting your career?

Wii grasses up cheating wife

New stories: High School Bully 6, Balance, Changing world, Remember Your Manngers; Second Puberty and Touched continue

New stories:

• High School Bully 6 by BBMSN
• Balance and Changing World by MS_Alberta
• Remember Your Manners by screamingmoist
• Second Puberty: 11 | 12 by Jaypat
• Touched: 15 | 16 | 17 by Redkage

Stories I'm reading: AP/AR@CYOC

• An Older man, A College Boy
• Dynamic Switch
• Possibility
• Temptation's Always Knocking
• You CAN have real friends online

Elections '08

• Can You Count on Voting Machines?
• Predicting the winner of the 2008 US Presidential Elections using a Sony PlayStation 3
• Reading Tea Leaves and Campaign Logos

Soldiers

• Andrew Olmstead: Final Post--Last words of a soldier-blogger killed in Iraq.
• The Marlboro Marine--Three Years After
• Reservist fighting his fifth war call-up

The Bomb

• HBO Airs A-Bomb Footage Kept from Media for Decades
• Daisy: The Complete History of an Infamous and Iconic Ad
• Atomic History

New stories: Hard Questions 3, What's Your Worth?, Tony's Bad Day; Second Puberty and Touched continue

New stories:

• Hard Questions 3 by dymondbolt
• What's Your Worth? by MS_Alberta
• Tony's Bad Day by screamingmoist
• Second Puberty: 9 | 10 by Jaypat
• Touched: 12 | 13 | 14 by Redkage

Stories I'm Reading: j575@CYOC

• Child Services
• Growing at Camp
• The New Wide Receiver
• Red Tide
• Twins No Longer

The controversy continues

• Is creationism museum good for kids?
• Creationist crooks pilfer Harvard's work
• Kentucky's Creation Museum expanding--Fantasyland gets an upgrade
• Your Creation Museum Report
• Evolution Debate Led to Ouster, Official Says
• The evolution of creationism Salon
• Evolution Book Sees No Science-Religion Gap

New stories: Another Choice, Summer Practice, Stuck in the Middle; Second Puberty and Touched continue

New stories:

• Another Choice by xythan_shadow
• Summer Practice by MS_Alberta
• Stuck in the Middle by screamingmoist
• Second Puberty: 7 | 8 by Jaypat
• Touched: 9 | 10 | 11 by Redkage

Stories I'm Reading: ClevguyinNYC@CYOC

• Can I Come In?
• Kevin's Wishes
• The Neighborhood Has Changed
• Rehearse a New Life
• Retail Queen Dethroned
• You Get What You Paid For

Who'll Age Worst?--What'll you look like in 20 years?

CIA Tape-gate

• CIA destroyed interrogation tapes--Guess I haven't gotten as cynical as I thought. This is just abhorrent behavior.
• CIA man defends 'water-boarding'--Thanks for confirming it.
• U.S. Special Counsel Says He Won't Provide Files
• Bush Lawyers Discussed Fate of C.I.A.Tapes
• Criminal Probe Opened over CIA Tapes--But Durham won't have the same autonomy Fitzegerald had with the Libby case.

Top 25 Censored news stories of 2007

New stories: Muscle Evolution, It Can All Work Out, If You Let it, Impatience; Second Puberty and Touched continue

New stories:

• Muscle Evolution by muscl4life
• It Can All Work Out, If You Let it by MS_Alberta
• Impatience by screamingmoist
• Second Puberty: 5 | 6 by Jaypat
• Touched: 6 | 7 | 8 by Redkage

Stories I'm Reading: AP/AR@CYOC

• B-Morpher 1.0
• Chemical Liquids
• The Natural
• The Waterfall
• The Grandson-in-Law

Johnson & Johnson sues American Red Cross over use of emblem--They're going after Switzerland next for an unauthorized derivative usage.

Music

• How the RIAA tasted victory: a perfect storm which might not be repeated
• RIAA Hits a Sour Note With Its File-Sharing Witch Hunt
• Kwik-Fit sued over staff radios
• Time for Luddite & Wanton Label Chiefs to go
• We're All Thieves to the RIAA

World's most dangerous comic

New stories: Playing GI Joe with Grandpa, It's Not For Everybody, But It's Important For Some, Surf's Up; Second Puberty and Touched continue

New stories:

• Playing GI Joe with Grandpa by zulator
• It's Not For Everybody, But It's Important For Some by MS_Alberta
• Surf's Up by screamingmoist
• Second Puberty: 3 | 4 by Jaypat
• Touched: 3 | 4 | 5 by Redkage

Stories I'm reading: AP@CYOC

• Fitness Beer
• From Weird to Great
• The Mist: 1 | 2 (tg ap)
• Something To Worry About Later
• Tasty Water

Planet Hiltron--A future look at celebrities

Scalper-hunters

• Fans sabotaging scalpers' auctions
• Missouri Sues Hannah Montana Scalpers
• In battle over resale rights, ticket site must reveal "scalpers'" identities

Top 15 Film Misquotes

New stories: Ultimate Fucker 2, Temwork is Underrated, Full Contact Football, and the first parts of Second Puberty and Touched

New stories:

• Ultimate Fucker 2 by Magus
• Teamwork is Underrated by MS_Alberta
• Full Contact Football by screamingmoist
• Second Puberty: 1 | 2 by Jaypat
• Touched: Prologue | 1 | 2 by Redkage

Stories I'm Reading: AP/AR@CYOC

• Advanced Computer Program
• Chemical Liquids
• Hit the Showers
• One More Time
• Tasty Water

SomeECards.com--A crazy card for any occasion

Cracked

• 5 of the Most Absurd Superhero Origins
• 8 Important Lessons Learned from '80s Cartoons
• 6 Movie Formulas That Must Be Stopped

the "blog" of "unnecessary" quotation marks--Here's one for apostrophes as well.

Happy 2008! New stories from O'Melissokomos, jockmorphr, MS_Alberta, screaming_moist, Jaypat and BBMSN.

Happy New Year!

New stories: I had planned of not letting 2007 pass without posting an original story from me like I did in 2006, but my modem flaked out on me just when I was about to upload it yesterday. I suppose it's for the best since now I can post it and usher in the New Year with AP/AR week and my three newest contributors: MS_Alberta (AKA Sill), screamingmoist and Jaypat.

• There's No Such Thing as a Free Lunch by O'Melissokomos and jockmorphr
• One More Time... by MS_Alberta
• Professor's Lesson by screamingmoist
• The Hike by Jaypat
• High School Bully 5 by BBMSN

Stories I'm Reading: AP/AR@CYOC

• An Ad & a Pop
• Summer Practice
• The Reward
• The Turnville Turnips
• You're Too Young!

The Life Store: Hot Cop--hulumulu adapted Aardvark's story into a fucking amazing muscle growth comic. Hope there's more to come!

New stories: The Shy Guy 4 by GoodFortune, High School Bully 4 by BBMSN and Walking Home by Magus

New stories:

• The Shy Guy 4: Justin by GoodFortune
• High School Bully 4 by BBMSN
• Walking Home by Magus

Lego...

• Ultimate Collector's Millennium Falcon--500 frickin' bucks!
• Millennium Falcon Stop Motion
• Dragon
• Endless
• Skyscrapers
• Nicorette
• Wii Zapper
• Guns and Catapults
• Iron Man

New story: The Barber Holiday Special: A War on Christmas Carol by Texzilla

New story: The Barber Holiday Special: A War on Christmas Carol by Texzilla

'Healthy' Santa spurns fat suit

Animal activists' anger after aquarium puts Santa hats on whales

Maury Christmas!--So evil.

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

New stories:

• High School Bully 3 by BBMSN
• Kingdom Come by dymondbolt
• The Office Boy by John D.

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.

New story: My Roommate's Body 12 by Londonboy

New story: My Roommate's Body 12 by Londonboy

Blog Readers Out Anonymous Adults that Newspaper Refused to Identify--These adults who were responsible for a girl's suicide won't be facing criminal charges, but a civil lawsuit is certainly likely.

Facebook

• Facebook's Beacon just the tip of the privacy iceberg
• A Well-Deserved Court Loss For Facebook
• Bank intern busted by Facebook

Your rights online

• Wikipedia wins landmark privacy lawsuit in France
• Blogger Fights for Free Speech in New Jersey
• In global precedent, Google to hand over blogger's IP address

Amazon's Kindle--Will this new e-Book usher in a reading revolution?

• The Good
• The Bad
• The Ugly

New stories by Londonboy

New stories: Londonboy

• Flip, This House!
• Meanwhile, Across Town
• My Roommate's Body 11

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

• 'More believe in devil than Darwin'
• Christians seek right to sue BBC for blasphemy
• 'Golden Compass' incenses both Christians and atheists--"Neither [William Donohue, head of the Catholic League nor Ellen Johnson, president of American Atheists] has yet seen the film, which opens Dec. 7." Whoop-fucking-doo.

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.