New stories: A Change Could Do You Good 2 by Flashpoint, The Sorcerer's Apprentice by in2other and Top Hat by DocOnHarly

New stories:

• A Change Could Do You Good 2 by Flashpoint
• The Sorcerer's Apprentice by in2other
• Top Hat by DocOnHarly

Yankee Stadium Going, Gone With a Win

• Sunblock ban at Yankee Stadium Causes Burning Problem
• Yankees will drag you out of the stadium if you try to go to the bathroom during "God Bless America"
• Signs of the times

Sued

• Teen sues choir teacher who called her 'ugly' and 'brat' during classroom altercation--This is what happens when a generation of self-entitled, overprotected kids grows up.
• 'Feminist' Columbia demonizes men, lawsuit claims
• Parents charged in starvation death sue city

FucksNews

• Fox News' Kelly asked whether Michelle Obama gave "her critics fodder" with word she didn't say
• Anti-War Protesters Meance Intrepid Fox News Reporter
• Fark.com sues over attempted hacking
• Fox TV news anchors enjoy plastic coffee--Guess news isn't the only thing they manufacture
• Best billboard ever

New story: Another Choice 7 by xythan_shadow

New story: Another Choice 7 by xythan_shadow

Creationism

• 'Creationism' biologist quits job--Because his comments were taken out of context.
• Who are the British creationists?
• Church of England makes 'ludicrous' apology to Charles Darwin - 126 years after his death

Caught on cam

• Camera Catches "Ding Dong" Caper
• Band "shoots" video by sending Data Protection Act requests to CCTVs that caught them performing
• Camera-Equipped Teddy Bear Catches Thief, Becomes Hero

Cool

• 3D Hologram
• Human Mirror
• Video of the Day: Behind Times Square

New story: Hunter: R.S.V.P. by Aardvark

New story: Hunter: R.S.V.P. by Aardvark

Online Identity

• When Google Owns You
• I.P. Address: Partially Personal Information
• How to Create the Perfect Fake Identity

Identity Theft

• US cracks 'biggest ID fraud case'
• The Man Who Lost His Name—and His Genetic Identity
• Mom accused of stealing daughter's identity to attend highschool and become a cheerleader
• ID theft by son leaves dad in lurch
• Fraud-prevention pitchman becomes ID theft victim
• TV star publishes bank details in anti-privacy editorial, gets ripped off

New story: True Heroes 5 by Redkage

New story: True Heroes 5 by Redkage

Kids

• Too Good to Pitch? 9-Year-Old Is Barred
• Is my kid a dick, or is he just 2? Salon
• The Wave shows how to turn children into Nazis
• Two-thirds of school-age children have an imaginary companion by age 7
• "Get me a robot arm that looks like the Terminator."--To replace the one bitten off by an alligator.

Hooligans

• Boy admits to starting Calif. blaze, police say
• Cops arrest boy, 9
• Boy, 8, hands out pile of $20 bills - all fake

Uniformity

• Boy, 13, bullied after losing his hair is banned from wearing a baseball cap to school
• Texas High School Student Told Rosary Is 'Gang Symbol'
• Long-haired Needville boy can start school, mom says

New story: Another Choice 6 by xythan_shadow

New story: Another Choice 6 by xythan_shadow

Race

• Barack Obama and White Privilege
• Fatimah Ali: 'Race war' in America
• Former state employee wins $150,000 in reverse discrimination case
• Southern racists adopt "Canadian" as a euphemism for "black"
• University says sorry to janitor over KKK book
• White Americans No Longer a Majority by 2042
• True colors: Mom protests Unified enrollment form, claims bias against biracial kids
• RushmoreDrive: We need a black Google--No, we don't.
• Racial slur 'buried' by US group

New story: Hunter: W.A.S.P. by Aardvark

New story: Hunter: W.A.S.P. by Aardvark

Gay Marriage

• How We Got Gay Married
• Court Backs Paterson Regarding Gay Unions--"Gov. David A. Paterson was acting within his powers when he issued an executive order requiring government agencies to recognize same-sex marriages performed outside the state, a court ruled on Tuesday."
• A Milestone for Gays, A Boon for Massachusetts
• California prisons prepare for gay weddings
• Man Dressed as Bride to Marry Boyfriend

Schools

• Many support ex-principal in gay rights case--Ah, Floridans.
• Killer Claims 'Gay Panic' in Murder of Louisiana High School Teacher
• Gay kids need anti-bullying protection--Someone like Lawrence King could have used it.
• Teach 'the pleasure of gay sex' to children as young as five, say researchers
• College Wrestlers Pinned for Gay Porn Pics

Issues

• Plan to exhume cardinal is 'homophobic'
• Florida's gay adoption ban ruled unconstitutional--Sad they even had one to begin with.
• Bizarre Anti-Gay Comic
• Subway Fires Former Gay Porn Star
• Gay attack swept under the shrug

New story: Addicted to STUDD 3 by Absman420

New story: Addicted to STUDD 3 by Absman420

Count the Lies--He might win the election, but he's already lost his integrity.

• The Ugly New McCain
• McCain Barbs Stirring Outcry as Distortions
• Rove: "McCain has... gone one step too far."
• Lies, Damned Lies, And John McCain
• Howard Kurtz: The Anger Factor

Tech Trouble

• Revealed: The Internet's Biggest Security Hole
• Number of Bot-Infected PCs Skyrockets--Make sure yours ain't one of 'em.
• Network Solutions Hijacking Unassigned Sub-Domains
• Va. Supreme Court Strikes Down State's Anti-Spam Law
• 10 ways you might be breaking the law with your computer

More Spore

• Did 'Spore' copy protections backfire on EA?
• Amazon temporarily gags Spore critics, deletes and restores all customer reviews--They said "the reviews disappeared due to a 'glitch' in the system." ORLY?
• Spore's Piracy Problem
• Spore DRM could kill PC gaming
• Spore's DRM: EA versus the used game market

New authors: DocOnHarly, Flashpoint and in2other

New stories: With the Gay Male Transformation Archive gone, I contacted some of the authors to ask them if I could archive their stories on my site. Of those whose e-mail addresses weren't defunct (quite a few, sadly), three authors responded, and so I'd like to welcome DocOnHarly, Flashpoint and in2other aboard.

• Hammer Time by DocOnHarly
• A Change Could Do You Good by Flashpoint
• My Life as a Pipe by in2other

Work, work, work, work, work

• Need to call in sick? Here are the Do's and Don'ts
• Ten Worst Things You Can Say at Work
• Ten things your boss hates about you
• 'Millions bullied' in workplaces
• Courageous E-mail To Boss In Drafts Folder Since December The Onion

Educamation

• High school journalism students graded on ad revenue
• Teacher takes revenge in yearbook page
• Miss South Carolina Teen USA Explains Her TV Meltdown
• Seniors suspended over T-shirts
• McKinley principal won't be disciplined over student's 7-week suspension

New story: Another Choice 5 by xythan_shadow

New story: Another Choice 5 by xythan_shadow

Ox's Blog--Obsession To Possible Lifestyle Change: Brainiac To Dumb Jock

Apple AppStore "policies" appalling--And worse are their apologists' pandering comments. If the company just came out with clear guidelines (like Apple "has complete discretion over whether to include your web applications in any iPhone GTM Program" and may "reject Your Application for distribution for any reason, even if Your Application meets the Documentation and Program Requirements" really helps developers on the onset), this wouldn't be as big an issue.

• Podcaster rejected because it duplicates iTunes functionality--He wasted 3 months of his life thanks to Apple's anticompetitive attitude.
• The App Store's Exclusionary Policies
• Apple to iPhone Developers: Don't Compete With Us?
• The Broken Record Keeps Playing: Why Apple's App Store Approval Process is Broken
• A Bridge Too Far

Patently absurd

• Channel Intelligence Sues Just About Everyone Who Offers Wishlists
• U.S. Patent Office Rejects All Ninety-Five NeoMedia Patent Claims
• Qualcomm and Nokia Settle Patent Dispute--Finally.
• The Death of Google's Patents?
• Patent Gridlock Suppresses Innovation
• Patent Failure: How Judges, Bureaucrats, and Lawyers Put Innovators at Risk
• EFF warns 'Patent Busting Project' in danger
• Patent Troll Tracker

New story: An American Muscleman in London 19 by Londonboy

New story: An American Muscleman in London 19 by Londonboy

Copyright

• Copyright, Fraud and Window Taxes (No, not that Windows)
• Harvard studes give coop a lesson in Copyright 101
• Being Stupid And Litigious Is No Way To Go Through Life
• Copyright crusaders to launch cyber campaign
• Why JK Rowling won the Harry Potter lexicon lawsuit--The guy behind the encyclopedia shouldn't have used so much of the original material.

Copy-wrong

• Massive Takedown of Anti-Scientology Videos on YouTube--Turns out the DMCA requests were bogus.
• Proposed Copyright Law a 'Gift' to Hollywood, Info Groups Say
• EU pays for, then ignores study on copyright extension
• Nonprofit Distributes File Sharing Propaganda to 50,000 U.S. Students
• Disney's rights to young Mickey Mouse may be wrong

New story: CAFE Blues 4 by Jaypat

New story: CAFE Blues 4 by Jaypat

The War on Terror

• Olbermann: Republicans hijacked 9/11
• What we sacrificed in the name of security
• On 7th Anniversary Of Attacks, White House Claims Bin Laden Was Not The 'Mastermind' of Sept. 11
• YouTube Draws Line on Vids 'Intended to Incite Violence or Encourage Dangerous, Illegal Activities'--Looks like Lieberman got his way.
• Police seize War on Terror board game because its ski-mask "could be used in a criminal act"

Laptops

• Chertoff Misleads on Laptop Searches, Feingold Charges
• Travelers' Laptops May Be Detained At Border--Indefinitely.
• FISA and Border Searches of Laptops--Why stop at laptops when the free flow of information can be suppressed?

TSA

• Feds Set to Take Over Airline Watch List Checking, Again
• Delayed by her bra, air passenger is indignant
• "Federal Agent" Arrested At GABP--Powertrippin'

New story: Working at the Gym by Peterbilt

New story: Working at the Gym by Peterbilt

9/11 collapse mystery solved: scientists

Fathers

• Mike's Hard Lemonade Yields Hard Time
• Daughter Fails GED, Dad Jailed
• Court overturns father's grounding of 12-year-old
• Father's Day cards banned in Scottish schools
• Ocala Dad accused of arranging sex for son
• Man Held On Domestic Violence Charges For Spanking Adult Daughter Over $5000 Cellphone Bill
• PO Man Faces Charges for Cooling Off Combative Boy — With a Hose

Mothers

• Mother thrown out of jobcentre for bottle feeding her baby
• Ohio mom spared death for microwaving baby
• Mom AWOL Over Child Custody To Surrender--She was honorably discharged in the end.
• Mum defends 10-year-old bodybuilder
• Winnipeg 'white pride' mother regrets redrawing swastika on child's arm
• Sales queen sacked for daring to have children in line for £200,000 compensation
• Boy's 911 call leads to mother's arrest--"He said his mother was forcing him to blow into her car's Interlock device..."

New story: Another Choice 4 by xythan_shadow

New story: Another Choice 4 by xythan_shadow

Bad-vertising?

• 'Wanted' ads are too trigger-happy for U.K.
• 'Stereotype' ads face Europe ban
• Metro Orlando Mommies say billboard too scary--"Metro Orlando Mommies"? Puh-leaze.

Missed spellings

• Spelling "truely atrosious," says academic
• Newspaper misspells its own name on front page
• 'Supersede' most often misspelled--Guilty.
• After 99 years, Smartsville gets 2nd 's' back
• YouTube Comment Snob

'Shopped

• Photoshop Disasters Hurt My Eyes Beyond Repair
• L'Oreal Beyonce Ad Probably Just Got Too Much Sun
• Black Guy Photoshopped In The Onion

New morph: Fat2Fit 7

New morph: Fat2Fit 7

Fat Tuesday

• The Internet makes me feel fat
• Television's Plus-Size Sideshow
• Extra pounds may be costly for Ala. workers
• Five Financial Costs of American Obesity
• Beer Gut

Apple

• One Bad Apple: Apple is looking like what Microsoft was 10 years ago—a Bigfoot that squeezes smaller competitors
• New York Neighborhood Group Complains About Bad 'Apple' Store
• Comparing Apple's MobileMe Contrition with Google and Netflix
• UK ads watchdog slams Apple over 'misleading' iPhone ad--Because "iPhone did not support Flash or Java, both integral to many web pages." Despite them being bandwidth- and battery-intensive, I'd like to have the choice to run them them when they're needed.
• Apple bans a comic book, firestorm ensues
• Apple’s rejection of fart-joke iPhone app highlights serious problem
• Apple clamps down on Google AdWords
• Apple Admits British Man Invented iPod in 1979, Uses Him to Win Patent Lawsuit

Spore

• Spore: Intelligently designed?
• Spore Servers Overloaded, Crash--Kinda like what happened to MobileMe but this shows that when, not if, Electronic Arts goes bye-bye, so does your game.
• Spore customers lash out at DRM, sabotage Amazon score--Hope this raises awareness of the problem even though there are those trying to suppress it.

New story: The Master Tribe by John D.

New story: The Master Tribe by John D.

Net Neutrality

• The Net Neutrality Debate All On One Page
• The Delusions of 'Net Neutrality--University of Minnesota's Andrew Odlyzko looks into why service providers want to kill it
• Wanted: Writers for D.C. tech lobby group, secrecy mandatory--Anti-Net Neutrality opponents caught astroturfing.
• Net Neutrality Debate Is Secretly All About Internet Television, Net Pioneers Say
• Deep Packet Inspection discussion highlights a Net Neutrality weak spot

Usage

• Get Ready for a crackdown on broadband use
• Is AT&T Hinting At Usage-Based Pricing This Fall?
• Reports Indicate Telus Cancelling "Unlimited" Contracts
• Orange owns up to download speed limit for all 3G devices
• Comcast to Cap Data Transfers at 250 GB in Oct.

Telco

• FCC Order scolds Comcast for changing story on P2P blocking
• Comcast sues FCC, wants P2P throttling order overturned--FCC Chairman says they have "many still-unanswered questions about its new management techniques".
• Phone companies can't ban class action in Wash.
• Bell, Telus face class action over text message fees--Money-grubbing move to make customers pay for incoming text messages, even the spam ones
• Public Safety: Community Organizes To Purchase A Pay Phone After AT&T Removed Their Only One

New story: Another Choice 3 by xythan_shadow; New link: The Gallery of Herodotus

New story: Another Choice 3 by xythan_shadow

The Gallery of Herodotus--Amazing artwork featuring submission scenes from various stories, a couple from Cicero and Wolfpek. Hosting generously provided by Telemachus.

Religion

• 101 Atheist Quotes
• Online beauty pageant... for nuns--Awww, it was cancelled.
• Sarah Michelle Gellar blamed for rise in paganism--Shouldn't that be Alysson Hannigan's fault?
• Lightning strikes as man takes oath
• Bible In a Minute

Curses!

• What the F***?--Why we curse
• George Carlin: Seven Words
• Ken Levine: Dropping the F-C-C Bomb
• Tit okay, but cock is out
• When your name gets turned against you--Verizon, at first, refused to allow Libshitzes to have an email address with their own name on it and even "suggested they try misspelling their last name."
• Profanity works
• History of the Predictive Text Swearing
• The Clbuttic Mistake: When obscenity filters go wrong--"President Abraham Lincoln was buttbuttinated by an armed buttailant after a life devoted to the reform of the US consbreastution."

New story: An American Muscleman in London 18 by Londonboy

New story: An American Muscleman in London 18 by Londonboy

Media

• World views on free press mixed
• Massing of the Media
• Mainstream media dilemma

Stewart

• Is Jon Stewart the Most Trusted Man in America?
• Breakfast with Jon Stewart: 1 | 2 | 3
• Fox News flack hides behind anonymity to attack Jon Stewart

Colbert

• The "Colbert Bump" is real—at least on one side of the aisle
• Stephen Colbert at the National Portrait Gallery--Truly, a one-of-a-kind, once-in-a-lifetime exhibition
• Colbert vs. Rain--Epic battle!

New story: Teacher's Pet 7 by Redkage

New story: Teacher's Pet 7 by Redkage

Republican Double-Talking Points--Oh the hypocrisy.

DMCA

• Corporate critics feel the stinging lash of DMCA misuse
• The Inexact Science Behind DMCA Takedown Notices
• Air Force cracks software, carpet bombs DMCA
• Universal Says DMCA Takedown Notices Can Ignore 'Fair Use'
• Judge: Copyright Owners Must Consider 'Fair Use' Before Sending Takedown Notice

RIAA

• RIAA has to pay $107,951 for court costs in failed suit against disabled single mom
• Recording Industry Now Making Up Facts To Support Having ISPs Police File Sharing
• EFF attacks foundation of entire RIAA lawsuit campaign
• Profs tell Thomas judge making available isn't distribution
• Dell Colludes with RIAA, Disables Stereo Mix without Forewarning

Infringement

• Teen Arrested for Recording 20 Second Movie Clip.
• Breaking the law: one-third of US residents rip DVDs
• A Ringtone Tragedy
• Microsoft in Flickr rights shockr
• MIT's YouTomb catalogs videos yanked from YouTube

New story: Stud Twins by Peterbilt

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New story: Another Choice 2 by xythan_shadow

New story: Another Choice 2 by xythan_shadow

In a world of movie trailers, Don LaFontaine was king--The voice-over actor will be missed.

Palin-teology

• John McCain Chooses a Running Mate
• McCain Chooses Palin As VP--"As a woman, I am flattered by this scattershot pandering gesture." The Onion
• Or just pray it doesn't happen to you--Hey, she brought it up.

Your Government at Work

• White House missing up to 225 days of e-mail--And in no such hurry to recover them.
• Mukasey Refuses To Prosecute Officials Who Politicized DOJ--Says "not every wrong, or even every violation of the law, is a crime." Hmm, pretty much explains how the Bush administration is getting away with murder.
• Appeals court upholds CIA leak lawsuit dismissal--So now that there are no pending investigations, will The White House finally comment on the Plame leak?
• Report: Gonzales mishandled classified wiretap docs
• Are they really going to gut the Endangered Species Act?
• Washington offers no relief for savers--Where's your bailout now?
• Court: Beef Exporters Can't Test for Mad Cow Disease

Vote machinations

• How Design Can Save Democracy--What will it take to design a better ballot.
• Ohio's voting machine glitch exposed--Premier Election Solutions nee Diebold: Incompetent or malicious?
• States shelve costly voting machines out of fears about accuracy, security

New story: The Interview 3 by Titan

New story: The Interview 3 by Titan

Unconventional

• DemocracyNow's Amy Goodman Arrested at RNC--More like DemocracyNot though the Dems had their own journalistic issues. Update: Follow-up here.
• Massive police raids on suspected protestors in Minneapolis--Wow, is this what it's come to?
• St. Paul Police Ready Temporary Holding Cells for RNC Protestors--This was a week before the convention.

Scrabulous

• Game Over: Scrabulous Shut Down on Facebook--"Facebook says the decision to block Scrabulous for U.S. and Canadian users was made by the Scrabulous developers, not Facebook."
• 'Scrabulous' gets a nip-tuck, returns as 'Wordscraper'
• Scrabble vs. Scrabulous: A lesson in copyright law
• The Bigger Questions Behind The Scrabulous Shutdown
• Facebook yanks international access to Scrabulous

Fans

• Friction over Fan Fiction
• Ford Slaps Brand Enthusiasts, Returns Love With Legal Punch
• BBC removes Doctor Who fan's knitting patterns from the Web
• WIPO orders Narnia domain transfer, makes 11-year-old cry
• Grateful Dead lyrics cannot be quoted in children's book

A tale of two Tetrises--Although the programmer believes he's in the right (as would the EFF, I'd gather), he took down his app.

New story: Little Red Riding Hoodlum and the Big Bodybuilding Wolf by dymondbolt

New story: Little Red Riding Hoodlum and the Big Bodybuilding Wolf by dymondbolt

Headphone, apply directly

• Stop, look, and don't listen to your iPod whilst crossing the street
• Death spurs headphone debate--"Isaiah Otieno, a 23-year-old student, was killed when he was struck and dragged by a helicopter that crashed to the ground as he was walking to the mailbox." [Emphasis mine.]
• iPod 'safety' ban proposed for London Marathon--"We think this is a shame. In fact, we think deaf people should be banned from marathons too."

Husbands and Wives

• 1939 marital rating scale for wives--And husbands
• Could you make love to your husband every day for a year?
• Woman kills husband with folding couch
• My wife left me because the dolphins at Sea World gave me an erection Salon
• Polygamy is the key to a long life
• Police: Intruder strangled by nurse was hit man--Allegedly hired by the husband

Poles

• Grandmothers Swing on Stripper Poles for Exercise--Do. Not. Want.
• Texas "Pole Tax" Declared Unconstitutional
• Subway pole dancers enrage MTA
• Pa. town sued after rejecting pole-dancing studio

New story: Max Biggermen 2: C.O.P.S. by Alyn Roze and O'Melissokomos

New story: Max Biggermen 2: C.O.P.S. by Alyn Roze and O'Melissokomos

Creationism

• McCain's VP Wants Creationism Taught in School
• 10 Questions, and Answers, About Evolution
• A Teacher on the Front Line as Faith and Science Clash
• Quality Education Wins Again in the California Creationist Case
• Richard Dawkins blames Muslims for 'importing creationism' into classrooms
• Darwin latest target of DUP as creationists challenge evolution
• Dinosaurs helped build the pyramids, school director says
• Sweden cracks down on religious influences in schools

Bad Cops

• Officer in trouble over motorist's video in South County--Caught on tape
• 50 DUI cases dropped over cop's improper procedure
• NYC Cop Stripped Of Badge After Cyclist Slam
• N. Braddock to pay $100,000 to man Tasered in his home
• Cop demands free coffee, but not at this Starbucks
• Tennessean' reporter has background check by THP
• NYPD: Former Detective Arrested as 'Bling Bandit'

Surveillance

• NYPD's 'Operation Sentinel' To Track EVERYTHING
• Police Turn to Secret Weapon: GPS Device--Uh, not so fast.
• Swedish radio cops caught in warrantless surveillance scandal
• Surveillance video shows illegal search

New story: An American Muscleman in London 17 by Londonboy

New story: An American Muscleman in London 17 by Londonboy

Nude

• Judge rejects case against carpenter, saying he has right to work nude
• Prisoner allowed to go nude
• Naked Man Only One Comfortable With His Body The Onion

Shirtless

• Wearing a bikini and a smile
• Matthew McConaughey CAN'T get his shirt off!!!
• Shirtless Anonymous

Alpha

• Charles Atlas was right: Brawny guys get the girls
• Mens' Looks: A 'Retrosexual' Comeback
• 9 Manliest Names in the World
• MANTage

The Six Beer Theory--The Difference Between Gay and Straight Men

New story: Teacher's Pet 6 by Redkage

New story: Teacher's Pet 6 by Redkage

Rape

• Rape charges dropped against former teacher--"At one point, Assistant Prosecutor Andrea Dean tried to argue that movies found in Perry's home, like 'Star Wars,' the 'Harry Potter' films and 'Little House on the Prairie,' constituted 'non-erotic pornography.'"
• Accused Impersonator Freed in Rape Case
• Rap for sex swap brothers
• Rape victim sets up alleged assailant's arrest
• Stagg wins £700,000 compensation--For being wrongfully accused of rape.
• Judge sets alleged rapist free after "one of the girls recanted and the other changed her story."

Death

• Steve Jobs's Obituary, As Run By Bloomberg
• Government Tells Woman She's Dead
• Dunning the Deceased: Institutions Can Be in Denial About Death
• Death Notice Sent To Man Who's Alive, Well

Self-defense

• New Self-Defense Laws Cause Confusion
• No action to be taken against householder over intruder fall
• Hit Attempt Survivor is Wisely Ready for Second Try

New story: Summer Growth Spurt 2 by F_R_Eaky

New story: Summer Growth Spurt 2 by F_R_Eaky

Double-plus un-good

• "What Orwell Didn't Know" Salon
• Congress' "anti-extremist" bill targets online thoughtcrime
• Is the government compiling a secret list of citizens to detain under martial law?
• Blacklisted by the Bush government Salon
• Fatal flaws found in terrorism database

Drugs

• Federal Court Rules U.S. Government May Not Deliberately Subvert California’s Medical Marijuana Laws
• Morro Bay pot dispensary owner found guilty of federal charges
• SWAT team raids mayor, shoots family dog because someone mailed them pot
• Medical Marijuana and Minors
• Drug-War Bulletins
• The Great Wired Drug Non-Controversy
• Drug prohibition – an untenable hypocrisy

Drinking

• Federal judge rules college alcohol-ad ban violates free speech
• College presidents want lower drinking age
• It took less than one drink to get Shannon Wilcutt busted for felony DUI

New story: Summer Growth Spurt by F_R_Eaky

New story: Summer Growth Spurt by F_R_Eaky

Online trouble

• Goodbye, Passwords. You Aren’t a Good Defense.
• Worst CAPTCHA Ever--There are several contenders.
• A List of Companies Working Hard to Screw Up My Web Experience
• For Those Who Think They're Password Protected
• Internet security breach tackled
• Eight crazy e-mail hoaxes millions have fallen for
• 29% of Internet Users Have Bought Things From Spam Email
• Adobe Flash ads launching clipboard hijack attack
• Virus may have infected Web ads

ACTA

• The real ACTA threat --It's not iPod-scanning border guards
• Secret ACTA treaty may include ISP filtering
• Fact Sheet: Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement

Net radio

• Judge: Big webcasters owe songwriters millions in royalties
• Perhaps Pandora Must Be Our Sacrificial Lamb
• Giant of Internet Radio Nears Its 'Last Stand'

New story: Rivals by Xyggurat

New story: Rivals by Xyggurat

Ego-me-nia

• Me, Myself and I
• Me: If It's All About You, You're in Trouble. Why a Sense of Entitlement Can Wreak Havoc on Happiness
• He's the greatest, says he

Geeky Proposals

• Man Uses Newspaper Crossword Puzzle To 'Pop The Question'
• Man Proposes Via 'Bejeweled' Video Game
• Google employee uses Google Street View to propose

How in deed

• How con-men make their faces look trustworthy
• How could a book from a first-time author — with no offline advertising or PR — hit #1 on the NYT's and WSJ's bestseller lists?
• How to solve the New York Times Crossword Puzzle

New morph: Jeans 5

New morph: Jeans 5

Religion

• Angry atheists don't like Spore--Idiots.
• Knights Templar to Vatican: Give us back our assets
• Toddler 'starved to death by religious cult because he wouldn't say amen'
• French Jewish group to sue YouTube
• How many atoms of Jesus you eat every day

Sports

• Out and golden, Mitcham dazzles Beijing--Openly gay Australian diver grabs gold
• Why we identify with Olympic athletes Salon
• World Records Seen From Above [c/o kottke.org]
• Great Olympic moments on YouTube
• Beijing Olym-Pics
• After Glory of a Lifetime, Asking ‘What Now?’
• How Modern Technology Ruined My Favorite Spectator Sport
• Court: Wrestler was right to protest--Hope things turn out well for Abrahamian, but this guy is pretty much screwed.

Animation

• Chad Paugh time lapse
• MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU
• Britain seen from above

New stories: B*tched: The Journey Continues by Cicero, Hunter: N.Y.P.D. by Aardvark and My Bully Father by John D.

New stories:

• B*tched: The Journey Continues by Cicero
• Hunter: N.Y.P.D. by Aardvark
• My Bully Father by John D.

New Guidelines Would Give F.B.I. Broader Powers--It's all right if you've got nothing to hide, right?

Good judgments

• Supreme Court strikes blow for detainees
• Ruling says federal courts can hear no-fly lawsuits
• A federal court rejects Bush's "executive privilege" claims Salon
• NY judge wants CIA to reveal 'torture' documents
• Judge: Man can't be forced to divulge encryption passphrase

Reining in excesses

• State court throws out part of Pa. hate-crimes law
• Georgia Sex Offender Law Ruled Unconstitutional
• Supreme Court Rejects Death Penalty for Child Rape

Immigration

• The Immigration Fight Gets Ugly
• AZ court: Immigrants subject to smuggling law--Because they smuggled themselves into the country
• Immigrants Deported, by U.S. Hospitals
• Ill and in Pain, Detainee Dies in U.S. Hands
• They Say They Were Born in the U.S.A., The State Department Says Prove It

New story: Reset by Richard Jasper

New story: Reset by Richard Jasper

Gay Marriage

• 11,000 couples later, gay marriage largely a nonevent in Massachusetts
• Gay Unions Shed Light on Gender in Marriage
• What's tougher to get than a same-sex marriage? A same-sex divorce
• 'Dear Abby' Says She's for Gay Marriage
• California majority backs gay marriage
• Judge refuses to order change in Prop. 8 title--Will retain the phrase "eliminates (the) right of same-sex couples to marry" and its opponents back down.
• Appeals court rebuffs challenge of Oregon's domestic partnership law

Politics is Local

• Gay Baiting '08
• Kansas lesbian loses Democratic primary after late, anti-gay politicking
• Boycott threatened over meeting site of Association of American Law Schools
• Calif. Court: Doctors Cannot Withhold Care To Gays
• Manhunt Chairman Jonathan Crutchley Steps Down from Board

It's a gay, gay, gay world

• Panama legalizes gay sex
• In Macho Argentina, a New Beacon for Gay Tourists
• Brits flee battle of the gays
• Don't ask, don't tell, Iranian style Salon
• Graffiti from Pompeii--"Weep, you girls. My penis has given you up. Now it penetrates men's behinds. Goodbye, wondrous femininity!"

New story: Bra-Ian and the Ancient Krill by Cicero

New story: Bra-Ian and the Ancient Krill by Cicero

Terror in the Skies

• Air Marshals: Uncivil Aviation
• ACLU Guest Post: "Trusted Traveler" Program Suspended After 33,000 Customers’ Records Went Missing--Laptop that went missing mysteriously reappears. No harm, no foul, right? Wrong.
• CNN reporter criticizes TSA, finds self on terror watch list
• Forgot your ID? You must be a terrorist
• Grounded pilot, wife sue over 'no-fly' list--A Muslim Gulf War Veteran pilot at that.
• Airline captain, lawyer, child on terror 'watch list'
• At JFK Airport, Denying Basic Rights Is Just Another Day at the Office

Just Plane Trouble

• American Flight to LaGuardia Cancelled Over Booing
• Delta Makes Woman With Muscular Dystrophy Crawl Off Plane
• Give flying families a break
• US airline 'broke safety rules'
• TSA inspector breaks airplanes by climbing on them using instruments as handholds--Ended up grounding nine planes

Economizing Class

• Soldiers pay bag fee on travel to war--American Airlines decides to waive the fee for the third bag once word got out.
• Airlines Adding Advertisements to Boarding Passes
• American Airlines to charge for checked baggage
• AirTran to increase fee for second bag
• Jet Blue charging passengers $7 for pillow, blanket
• Airline Plans To Cancel All Flights Booked Through 3rd Party Websites
• Airline passengers paying for pillows, snacks, even water

Southwest's 7 secrets for success--And here's one that's actually's making a profit

New story: CAFE Blues 3 by Jaypat

New story: CAFE Blues 3 by Jaypat

Think of the Children: Video Game edition--Some parents are just looking for a way to shift the blame away from themselves so they don't have to deal with their kids complaining about not being allowed to buy certain games. What they should be doing is teaching their kids and themselves some personal responsibility.

• Parents group: still too easy for kids to buy M-rated games--And apparently too hard to throw the games out.
• Mad at Mad World, group says Wii should be carnage-free--Wii consoles have parental lock. RTFM.
• Attorney General's office won't appeal ruling on violent video game sales
• Mario Kart Wii, more violent then GTA IV

Games

• Dance Dirty With Me--Get ready for the time of your life
• Rejected Wii Games
• Worst Movie Games Ever
• Chinese MMO bans in-game gender-bending
• Video Games (Finally) Grow Up

Piracy

• Game developer wants to learn from pirates, asks them "why"--They tell him, and here's his response.
• Ubisoft DRM snafu reminds us what's wrong with PC gaming
• The Plain Truth About Piracy

New stories: My Buddy's Arms 5 by BBMSN, The Shy Guy 5 by GoodFortune and Teacher's Pet 5 by Redkage

New stories:

• My Buddy's Arms 5 by BBMSN
• The Shy Guy 5 by GoodFortune
• Teacher's Pet 5 by Redkage

Phelps's Epic Journey Ends in Perfection--Congratulations to Michael Phelps for his winning his eighth gold medal.

Jeebus

• Jesus loves you -- and your orgasm Salon
• Was Jesus' Resurrection a Sequel?
• Talking Jesus Dolls Save Kids from Fire, Brimstone?

Dangerous to Your Health

• HIV 'False Positive' Test Stress
• Study: Blood substitute increases risk of death
• Pacemakers can be remotely pwned

How Neighborly

• Stupid Citation Dismissed--An off-duty cop complained after hearing his neighbor cursing.
• Peeping tom victims told to fix blinds
• Officer Suspended For Mailing 'Homewrecker' Flyers

New story: B*cthed by Cicero

New story: B*tched by Cicero

Big Brother

• UK Government proposes email and internet tracking
• Big Brother tightens his grip on the web
• Lessig Predicts Cyber 9/11 Event, Restrictive Laws

Censorship

• Governments step up blogger arrests
• Google Ordered to Unmask Mystery Blogger in India
• Bill would penalize companies for aiding Internet censorship
• Censorship: Yahoo, Microsoft, Google Agree on Code of Conduct
• YouTube stops account of Egypt anti-torture activist
• Rumor Control: Why I Can’t Put 'Tibet' in My Hotmail Address--"In this case Microsoft is blocking usernames containing 'tib'..." Riiiight...
• The IOC Projects Censorship on NYC Projection Video--They claimed the video violated the DMCA, but they backed down when the EFF and YouTube pushed back.

Web monitoring

• ISP Justifies, But Doesn't Explain Secret Customer Eavesdropping
• Congress goes after NebuAd... again
• Facebook Beacon Tracking Program Draws Privacy Lawsuit
• EU calls phoul over ad company Phorm's invasive snooping
• AT&T Mulls Watching You Surf

New story: The Man in the Big Muscle Suit 4 by dymondbolt

New story: The Man in the Big Muscle Suit 4 by dymondbolt

Forging ahead

• Suskind: Bush ordered fake letter linking Iraq to 9/11--And George Tenet responds
• Ron Suskind on the Daily Show
• New evidence suggests Ron Suskind is right Salon
• Congress to 'Review' Charges CIA Prepared Forged Iraq, 9/11 Letter--I'd be surprised if anything substantial happens.

Vote machinations

• Missing votes spark lawsuit
• Sequoia warns Princeton professors over e-voting analysis
• GOP cyber-security expert suggests Diebold tampered with 2002 election
• Minneapolis Teen Charged for Trying to Sell His Vote on eBay

Election '08

• It's a Class War, Stupid--"Election season will be packed with distractions, but the real issue is becoming a matter of life and death"
• It's official: The Bush era has made liberals so terrified of right-wing smears it has caused them to completely lose their sense of humor." Salon
• Is Mudslinging the Only Way John McCain Can Win?
• WSJ Backtracking From Sketchy 'Beanpole' Obama Story

New stories: Hunter: B.M.O.C. by Aardvark, The Interview 2 by Titan and Love Doll by purplebootsgywr

New stories:

• Hunter: B.M.O.C. by Aardvark
• The Interview 2 by Titan
• Love Doll by purplebootsgywr

Apple

• Apple's unforgivable DNS delay
• Steve Jobs: MobileMe "not up to Apple's standards"--They've bitten more than they could chew, took their time owning up to it and still ain't out of the woods yet.
• Apple just gave out my Apple ID password because someone asked
• Apple sued for indentured servitude
• The $1000 iPhone app--Talk about buyer's remorse
• iPhone NDA: Doing more harm than good--iPhone developers are complaining about Apple's secrecy (and their inability to cash in on the SDK), but there may be more to this than previously thought.
• The Mystery of the Disappearing iPhone Apps
• Calvin and Jobs

MySpace

• EFF: MySpace suicide charges a threat to free speech
• Experts Say MySpace Suicide Indictment Sets 'Scary' Legal Precedent
• The MySpace mom's prosecution threatens us all
• California lawmakers consider cyberbullying bill

Google v. Viacom

• Google says Viacom's suit 'threatens' Net--And that it's against fair use
• Judge Orders YouTube to Give All User Histories to Viacom
• Google/Viacom Agree To Preserve User Anonymity In Data Shakedown

New morph and stories: The Bulkery 2: Baguette by Redkage, Fortune Favors the Bold by jobberinnyc and The Man in the Big Muscle Suit 3 by dymondbolt

New stories:

• The Bulkery 2: Baguette by Redkage
• Fortune Favors the Bold by jobberinnyc
• The Man in the Big Muscle Suit 3 by dymondbolt

New morph: GusMuscle

Olympics '08

• Censorship in China targeted by RSF's new ad campaign
• As Olympics begin, China's open Internet nowhere to be seen
• Beijing Olympics: Government U-turn ends ban on human rights websites
• Olympics Journalists Urged To Use Crypto, to Thwart Chinese Spying
• Kansas Senator Blasts Chinese Government For Ordering Internet Surveillance
• Amnesty International: Olympic Games
• Amensty International: Shot
• Olympic Torch Used To Ignite Tibetan Protesters--Burn courtesy of The Onion

Sports

• Engineering athletes
• Chess boxers slug it out
• Top UK Olympic medal hopefuls pose naked for photos
• Participants strip off for nude Olympics
• The Trojan Games--"A sporting celebration of supreme sexual performance."

Health

• Link Is Seen Between Crime and Fitness
• Testosterone And Body Fat Are Controlled By The Same Genes
• Muscles get a coffee buzz too
• Origins of exercise equipment
• Why Aren't We Going To The Gym?

Translated comic: Luca e Leo, Justin and Jon translated into Italian by Ottovero

Translated comic: I thought I was out, but someone pulled me back in, at least for one day. Ottovero sent me last night his Italian translation of my comic Justin & Jon, and I just had to post it ASAP. Check out Luca & Leo.

Net Neutrality

• Lawmaker Cries Foul Ahead of FCC Net-Neutrality Decision--Not all regulation is bad especially when consumers are protected from the predatory practices telcos are too willing to engage in.
• Hammer drops at last: FCC opposes Comcast P2P throttling--Apparently they didn't fall for Comcast's "trick play".
• FCC spanks Comcast for P2P blocking: no fine, full disclosure
• Reactions to FCC's Comcast decision come fast and furious
• AT&T to bar P2P activity from its networks

The Trouble with Telcos

• Yo FCC! Are You Doing Anything About Metered Broadband?
• Sprint early termination fees are illegal, judge rules--But did he make a mistake?
• WiMAX phobia? AT&T tries to block Clearwire/Xohm merger
• Telco won't install fiber network, sues to prevent city from doing so
• What telecom immunity bought--Corporate sponsorship of a Democrat event!

Think of the Children

• Government strikes out on COPA—ruled unconstitutional again
• Cuomo strong-arms Comcast over Usenet images
• R.I.P Usenet: 1980-2008